Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-08-13
MINOR CITY TOPICS.

L. s. weather bureau forecast for
New Mexico: Fair tonight, and Sun
day.
Chas. Putnam, a miner from Pueblo,
is here on his way to Bland. He stops
at the Bon-Ton.
David NJ. Quintana. an old resident OF
Lamy, is in the city on business. He
stops at the Bon-Ton.
War bulletins may hereafter be CLASH
fed among the back numbers OF the dis
tinctly musty variety.
Thomas j. Curran and H. j. Emerson,
of Albuquerque, returned last night
from a business trip to Chama.
Mrs. Thomas Moore. Jr., leaves to-
morrow afternoon for Albuquerque,
where she will join her husband.
George Worley, a farmer and an old
resident of the Pecos valley. is in the
city a guest of Mr.. and Mrs. J.. w. Con-
way.
j. j. Common and George j. Macarthur
will leave next week for about ten days
outing on the Pecos. They will go on
the burro train.
Victoriano Dominguez brought in
some fine specimens of the rock found
in his claim, in the Cochiti district. He
registered at the Bon-Ton.
Joseph Zuel, president of the Albu-
Querque Typographical Union, a former
employee of the New MEXICAN, is in the
city on a visit with friends.
The contract for furnishing the sup
plies needed at the National cemetery
for the coming year has been let to W.
H. Goebel, the hardware
Colonel George H. Pradt, deputy U.
S. rveyo who has been in the city
during the past week, left for his home
at Laguna last night, expecting to re-
turn to Santa Fe in a few days.
The grand lodge of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows meets this year at
Gallup, on October II, and the railroads
| have granted a rate of n and One-fifth
fare for all those attending anne
Since Secretaries Alger and Long have
| officially and formally declared the cruel
wal off, suppose we all unite in an cner-
getic campaign in the interest of i'm
| proved carriage ways and better side
walks.
Surveyor General Vance has received
a supply of blanks for filing on small
holdings claims under the FERGUSON act
approved June 20, 1898, and they may
be procured by applying in person or by
letter at his Office.
Yesterday the thermometer at the
local weather bureau registered as fol-
lows: Maximum temperature. 70 de-
grccs ut 4 p. M: minimum SO degrees
at 4:30 q. m. The mea temperature for
the "a hours was SO degrees.
Professor Perez band will render the
following musical program in the plaza
tomorrow evening at T o'clock:
March-sousa's T%rimmphal F.P. Harlow
Mazurka-Hebe Polka.;;. P; L~aurendeau
Mexican Butterfly Dance. j.. .,..... Tom Clark
Waltz-Oyer the Waves ......... .Rosas
Galop--Hip Hi Circus .......,..D L. Ferrazzi
Mayor Hudson, so soon as the rainy
'~season is over, will have every street in
the city thoroughly cleaned, drains re-
paired and the city put in a condition to
ward off disease, should any appear.
Teams are at work hauling the filth
from the Water street open sewer, and
that t%horoughfare will soon be in first
class shape.
Frank Dcttlebach writes his father
from Whipple Barracks that he and his
fellows of Company c have finally re,
ceived their equipment. 1t consists OF
a pair of blankets, a pair of galluses and
a pair of spurs per man. AS soon as the
promised cake is received from the
tender-hearted ladies of Santa Fe, Frank
is persuaded that the life of the soldier
in Arizona will be more or less anchor
ated, even without pie.
The various committees, assigned tG
the responsible duty of making arrange
ments for the coming Territorial Horti.
cultural fair in Santa Fe, are already
industriously at work, and the prospects
are that the exhibition will eclipse in
extent and beauty even the radiant sue
cess of last autumn. The fruit growers
of Santa Fe can be depended upon to dc
all in their power to make the fair a
poem in colors and fragrance.
The fruit shipments from Santa Fe
are something really immense these
bright and blushing August days. The
shipments include peaches. apricots,
plums, nectarines, cherries, pears and
early apples, and they go to southern
Colorado points, Las Vegas, Albuquer-
que, Las Cruces, FL Paso, Kansas City,
st. Louis, Chicago and elsewhere. The
Wells-Fargo Express Company took ont
three big wagon loads of fruit from
Santa Fe last night.
On yesterday the evaporation ordered
by the Santa Fe Fruit Company reached
Lamy from the east, and the Santa Fe
Railroad Company sent the car on which
it was loaded to Santa Fe by q special
engine. This afternoon work began on
the building or the property owned by
the company near the depot, and the
structure will be rushed to completion
as fast as possible. The company hopes