Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-09-17
CITY NEWS ITEMS.

S. s. Beatty has received carload of
Colorado potatoes.
U. s. weather bureau forecast for New
Mexico; fair and warmer Saturday.
The public schools of the city seem to
be tlourishing under the present capable
corps of teachers.
There will be the regular meeting of
Aztlan lodge No. 8, I. 0. O. F., this even
ing at O'Clock. Work in the degrees.
The postoffice at Maldonado, in
Mora county, has been discontinued, and
hereafter mail for the residents of that
community will be sent to Wagon Mound.
Mr.. W. O. Bruton, the well known stock
man of Sooorro, died at his home in that
city Tuesday night, from blood poisoning.
He had been seriously ill for three weeks
past, and his death was not unexpected.
Judge John l.. jerks, Justice of the
peace at Cerrillos and postmaster of the
town named during the Harrison admin
stration, passed away at his home in
Cerrillos about O'Clock yesterday after
noon after lingering illness.
The compositors in the NEW MEx1oAN's
extensive and finely equipped job print
ing department. will probably begin set
ting type on the new compilation of the
territorial statutes about the LIST of Octo
Der. All the material used in this i'm
portant work will be of the newest and
handsomest designs.
The probabilities are that the terri
torla board of equalization, now in SEES
sion in Santa Fe, will lot be able to COM
plete its work before next Tuesday after
noon. Full particulars will be given in
the New MEXICAN as soon as they are
procurable. The board has decided not
to give out results until its work is COM
pleted.
Few doctors like to take their own
medicines. Even Dennis, the famous
hangman in Barnaby Rudge, after "work-
ing off, many victims, piteously pleaded
that he ought not to be hanged because
the hanging of other people had always
been his business. The New MEXICAN
violates no confidence in adding that
even some newspaper writer's relish roast
ing their neigbbors more than they relish
a pointed pleasantly respecting them
selves.
Remarks the Albuquerque Citizen
"Ssnta Fe county exhibit carried of
first prize of 5000 for the best and larg.
est collection of fruit grown in any one
| county of Arizona or New Mexico The
exhibit is an exceedingly fine one, and il
beautifully arranged, under the skillfu
the points the committee decided that thu
exhibit was perfect. OF course Mr. Cur
ran is the happiest man at the fair, ant
we'll may he be, but W. E. Baker, manager
of the Dona Ana county exhibit, has rea
son to be proud of his exhibit also, hav
ing received the second prlze-$1OO fol
the best and largest collection of fruit
raised in any one county Bernalillo
county taking third prize, $50"
Captain John I. Forsha, mine host o
the Exchange hotel, connected with thu
Barlow & Sanderson stage and express
line some years after 1912, insists thai
Charley Dudrow's Russian thistle discov
cry is strictly back number. He in
sists that he saw the noxious plant grow
ing along the stage roads in New Mexico
and Colorado go years ago, more or less
and boldly defies the alligator, who is also
chairman of the board of county com
missioners.
More complaints than ever before have
been filed before the territorial board Of
equalization at this meeting, doubtless
because Colonel Tom Hughes, editor Of
the Albuquerque Citizen, is a memb el
thereof. 1t is even alleged that Colonel
Hughes has gone so far as to insist that
newspapers should be marked "compli.
mentarY" on the assessment rolls, and al
last accounts he was seriously threatening
"headend collision" with his associates
on the board aforesaid unless they Joined
him in this righteous demand.