Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-01-04
ROUND ABOUT TOWN.

The city council and board of educa
ton are scheduled for regular meetings
tonight.
The new county officials take hold with
business.
U. s. weather bureau forecast for New
Mexico Tonight and Tuesday generally
fair; continuing cold.
There will be regular meeting OF
Montezuma lodge No. i, A. F. and A. NJ,
this evening at 1880, at Masonic hall.
The mercury touched zero at o'clock
yesterday morning and did it again, 60
ing below, about the same hour this
morning-but the sun still shines.
Billy Price now boasts the "star" place
in town. He has been papering, painting
and cleaning up generally and has made
his resort more attractive than ever.
John Henderson and Henry Schulz have
resumed work on the O'Mara coal pits at
Ortiz station. The property is owned by
Capt. Muller, of the firm of Muller &
Walker.
Passengers from the south say the re-
cent snow storm left mantle of white
along the Rio Grande valley as far as Ell
Paso and extending south to chihuahua.
The public schools of the city reopened
after the holiday vacation this bright
January morning with all the teachers
and full quota of pupils in attendance.
A dozen sleighs made their appearance
on the streets yesterday and the jingle
OF the bells is still heard to-day. Three
days of continuous sleighing is an extra
ordinary thing for Santa Fe.
There'll be no more venison on the
market this winter. The law reads: "No
person shall kill or wound, ensnare or
trap, any deer, elk, fawn, m mountain sheep,
or antelope, within this territory, be-
tween the 1st day of January and the LIST
day of October in each year"
There was quite too much frost in the
air yesterday afternoon to Justify Prof.
Perez in bringing his band to the plaza
pagoda. The brass instruments can not |
be- used in chilly weather. On Wednes-
day, weather permitting, the band will
render the program prepared for yester-
day.
The A., T. & s. F. mail train from the
east, due at 1890 last night, and the
California limited, due at $3.50 this morn
ing, we're snow bound at Kinsley, Kas.,
yesterday and passed Lamy junction, one
following the other closely, at 2:3O this
afternoon.
Mr.. W. 7. Oliver, land agent for the A.,
L. e. s. F. road, is here from Albuquef.
lue to confer with the territorial board
If equalization. He represents the lands {
If the Seligmans, of New York, John E.
Frost, of Topeka, and the A. & P. road in
Ian Juan county, which he says have not I
'een fairly assessed. 8
Some days ago native Citizen found
wo or three Peruvian silver dollars of '
he vintage of 1889 in an arroyo near the
I. j. Nagel ranch southwest of Santa
@. Don Epifanio Vigil Is in possession I
one Of these coins and it's perfect state
+ preservation indicates that it has seen {
tile usage. Stories of buried treas
res in this vicinity have been rife for
'any years. Possibly other coins may
9 found near the spot where these were
,und.
General Agent Helms interest in sugar
Get culture as applied to Santa Fe and
spanola valleys was last week noted in
lese columns. This morning Mr.. Helm
ceived letter inolosipg the article from
10 NEW MEXICAN and wherein the writer
ates that he is DESTROYS OF coming here