Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-09-04
CITY NEWS ITEMS.

U. s. weather bureau forecast for New
Mexico: Fair tonight and Sunday.
The cavalry troop will have mounted
drill tomorrow morning on the race track,
at O'Clock.
The probate court, county commits
sioners and city council are billed for i'm
portant sessions on Monday.
Henry Krick, the rnstling local agent
for Lemp's beer, appeared on the streets
today with brand new wagon. It's a
beauty.
Luciano Capaynoli was fined SIS and
costs this morning by Justice Bruno Ro-
nero for the offense of being drunk and
disorderly.
Secretary Ourran of the Horticultural
society, has arranged for orchestral and
piano music every day during the Horti-
ticultural fair next week.
Mr.. Frederick Grace, an old and re-
spected citizen of Santa Fe, is very ill at
his home on Manhattan street, and his re-
covery is despaired of.
Surveyor General Easley has ordered
surveys made on the First Chance and
Last Chance mining claims, in the Rio
Hondo mining district of Taos county.
The executive committee of the Hor-
tcultural society requests that the mer-
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the streets on Tuesday, for the opening
of the horticultural fair.
The funeral of the late Pleasant H. Hill,
whose obituary appeared in these col
umns yesterday, was very largely attend
ed from the cathedral this morning. A
detachment of company B, First infantry,
New Mexico National GUARDS, under COM
mand of Captain Matthews, headed the
procession to the grave in Maestro Sc
nora del Rosario cemetery.
Washouts at the Needles, in Arizona,
reported in the New MExIoAN's dis
patches yesterday, interrupted the move
ment of trains on the far western division
of the Santa Fe system for few hours.
Hence the train from the south and west,
due here last night, did not reach Santa
Fe until l O'Clock this afternoon.
Our merchants are daily receiving con-
signments of luscious fruit from Colfax
county as we'll re southern points in the
territory.-Las Vegas Examiner. The
NEW MEXICAN ventures the assertion that
the finest New Mexico fruit so far this
season offered for sale in the Meadow
City market was produced in the orchards
of Santa Fe.
Captain J. R. Hudson, the capable and
hardworking assessor of Santa Fe county,
completed the assessment rolls for 1897
yesterday, one copy for the collector, one
for the county clerk, and one for the
territorial auditor. He will make ten
der of the latter copy to the auditor this
afternoon with the explanation that the
approval of the county commissioners
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Monday afternoon. The rolls were ex
hibited to NEW MEXICAN representative
this morning. They are free from blot
or blur, written beautifully and the fig
ures all verified by tests that insure them
absolute accuracy.
Timely editorial paragraph in Las We
gas Optic: Exhibit something at the
Horticultural fair in Santa Fe next week.
Last season was an unfortunate one for
the fruitgrowers of New Mexico, but this
year they have more fruit than they know
what to do with. Even Denver is igno-
rant of what New Mexico is producing in
the way Of fruits. Our fruitgrowing in
terest is constantly increasing and mar
kets for our products can be obtained in
NO other manner 80 easily as by such ex-
hibits as will be made at the Santa Fe
horticultural fair. II will be held week
before the Territorial fair, to which many
OF the exhibits will be taken.