Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-05-06
CITY NEWS ITEMS.

U. s. weather bureau forecast for New
Mexico. Fair; warmer weather.
The next term of the q. s. court will
convene in this city the last Monday in
May.
The court of private land claims is en-
gagged today in the hearing of the Santa
Cruz grant case.
There will be the regular meeting Of
Paradise lodge No. 9, 10. o. F., this even
log at s O'Clock.
DR.. Harroun has been appointed physi-
cian and DR.. Crosson as surgeon to st.
Vinoent's santarium.
As soon as Judge Laughlin returns
home, Mr.. Gildersleeve will make up the
jury list for the term of court to open
the latter part of this month.
There will be Guild meeting at the
residence of Mrs. j. H. Gerdes, on Friday,
May Z, at 2:30 p. m. A full attendance is
expected. Election of officers.
The condition of M. Kaufman who
has been quite ill at st. Vincent hospital
is steadily improving and his physician
poets he will be about again in the
course of week.
j. L. Van Arsdel chief of the Santa Fe
fire department, announces a special
meeting of the department for this even
ing at 1880 O'Clock. He desires the at
tendance of as many citizens as can con-
veniently attend.
| Edward Fenstermacher who died last
Tuesday morning in this city, was buried
yesterday in the Odd Fellows cemetery
after services at the Exchange hotel under
the auspices of the Knights of Pythias
order.
! Between SO and 60 tons of iron will be
needed in the construction of the new
dollhouse of the territorial penitentiary.
Colonel Bergman expects to procure
this amount from the Pueblo Steel &
Iron works.
In awarding the contracts for furnish
ing penitentiary supplies, in the matter
of coal, Colonel Bergman informed the
commissioners that from test of three
months duration of Monero coal, he con-
sidered it 25 per cent better than any other
brand offered. He said that he felt con-
WINGED that it gave less ashes, dirt, etc.,
and that it was in every particular more
desirable than anything offered in COM
patition. Upon this showing the con-
tract was awarded to the Rio Arriba Coal
company.
The 14th annual encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic for the de-
partment of New Mexico, oonvenes at
Las Vegas tomorrow. The delegates
from Carleton post of this city are Fran.
els Downs, post commander; Smith H.
Simpson, council of administration; W.
s. Fletcher, Valentine Herbert, delegates;
j. R. Hudson, j. P. Victory, alternates'
and Edward Miller senior vice command.
er. These representatives of the post
will leave for Las Vegas tonight accom-
panied by several other old veterans.
The NEW MEXICAN has the finest facili-
ties for doing job work in the territory.
Businessmen, lawyers and all others de-
string letter heads envelopes. and other
job work can have such done at low rates
and in irst-class style at this Office. Peo-
pie are, of course, at liberty to send east
for their job work, but it is practice
that does not build up home industries
and in the long run reacts like boom
ersng.
1t is understood that the Biggs Lumber
company and the New Mexico Lumber
company, operating in the vicinity of
Chama in Rio Arriba county, will be con-
solidated and that active and extensive
operations of the consolidated companies