Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-08-25
MINOR CITY TOPICS.

Apparently the headquarters Of the
rain belt have been moved to Santa Fe.
Regular meeting of Paradise lodge No.
2, |. o. 0. F., this evening at 8 o'clock.
The territorial Supreme court will
take a recess on Saturday next for some
weeks.
The work of laying new steel rails be-
tween Santa Fee and Lamy Junction is
in progress.
L. S. weather bureau forecast for New
Mexico: Thunder showers tonight:
probably fair Friday.
The cleaner the city the better for the
health of all concerned. Pointer re-
specially furnished his honor, the
mayor.
The territorial board of equalization
will meet in this city on the second Mon
day in September for the transaction of
official business.
The New Mexico board of dental ex-
aminers meets in Silver City next week.
DR.. D. W. Manley, secretary, will at
tend the meeting.
Among the Republican candidates for
the Shrievalty nomination in the coming
election are G. M. Conklin, John w.
Conway and Antonio Alarid.
The street has it, that 7. P. Gable is
figuring on the Democratic nomination
for sheriff, especially should Sheriff
Kinsell not be renominated by the
Republicans.
The board of county commissioners
will meet ON the first Monday in Septem-
Der to appoint registration boards in
the several precincts of this county for
the coming election.
Large shipments of peaches. apricots,
nectarines and pears are being made
daily from Santa Fe. The people up in
Colorado Springs are buying a good deal
of Santa Fe fruit this year.
c. M. Dreamer, for many years the
leading druggist of Santa Fe, is now
employed as a prescription clerk, at
Cripple Creek, Colo. His wife and
children continue to reside in this city.
The business men ana property own
ers of Santa Fe should do all in their
power to promote the success of the APP
| preaching New Mexico Horticultural
fair in the Capital city. Tho orchard
lists can be depended upon TO do their
full share.
Yesterday the thermometer at the
local weather bureau registered as fol-
lows: Maximum temperature, IS de-
grees at 100 p. M; minimum, 81 de-
grees at 2:l0 a. m. The mean tempera-
ture for the "a hours vas 66 degrees.
Total rainfall 0. 30 inch.
The railroad companies running to
this city have made special rates for the
Horticultural fair to be held in this city
on the 18th, sth and 9th of next month.
Orchardists and people interested in
fruit growing and horticulture should
make a note of this and attend the fair.
Deputy Sheriff Huber yesterday effect
ed the arrest of Higinio Lujan, up above
the brewery, the charge being assault
with intent to kill. The alleged deadly
| assault is said to have been made on
Felipe Vigil, on Tuesday. Lujan's pre-
liminary hearing will take place before
Justice Miguel German tomorrow morn
ing at 10 o'clock.
Preparations for the second annual
fair of the New Mexico Horticultural
Society, scheduled to take place in Santa
Fe on September 7, 8 and 9, are in rapid
progress under the direction of the cap
able committee on arrangements, and
no doubt is entertained that the coming
fair will far exceed in extent and variety
the fine exhibition of last autumn.
The sad news reaches Santa Fe that
Thomas H. Lowthian, at one time a
half owner in the Lone Star and Able
marie groups of gold mines over in the
Cochiti mining district, and who some
time ago sold these valuable interests
for q comfortable fortune, died in Den
yer Sunday night, as the result of a
| surgical operation. When Mr.. Low
| ago, his health was evidently not good,
| and his friends here feared that he was
not destined to live long.
The Albemarle nine and mill,
owned and operated by the COchiti Gold
Mining Company, Of Boston, are now
giving employment to 200 miners and
skilled millmen and the company is daily
increasing its force of operatives. The
Washington, Lone Star, Iron King.
| Crown Point, No Name and Little Mollie
mines will also soon be giving constant
| work to hundreds of miners. The mer-
chants of Santa Fe will make a serious
mistake if they fail Immediately to begin
cultivating friendly relations with the
mine operators over in the Golden Co
chit.
Good work is being done on the streets
of Santa Fe these bright August days,
much to the credit of Mayor Hudson
and his associates on the city council.
The New MEXICAN hopes soon to DO
able truthfully to nnoun that the
open sewer nuisance on Water street
has been permanently abated.
The board of education will hold a
meeting in a day or so for the purpose
of completing arrangements for the
opening of the city schools. 1t is hoped
that there will be sufficient funds avail
able to enable the board to hold at least
eight months of school during the year.
1t is reported that some would-be
politicians, who hold out principally in
bar rooms, carry deadly weapons con-
cealed about their persons. The sher-
ifs force and the city marshal and po-
lice should keep a special lookout for
men violating the law in this particular.
The records do not show that any
pawnbrokers licenses have been taken
out in Santa Fe, although it is well
known that two or three pawnbroking
establishments are in full blast on San
Francisco street. The authorities should
look into this matter.
The ladies are invited to the college
grounds tomorrow afternoon to witness
one of the finest exhibitions of base ball