Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-08-23

The property owners on Water street
unanimously approve of any plan to
the open sewer nuisance on their
street.
The city council will soon move from
is present quarters in Fireman's hall
10 rooms in the basement of the Catron
block.
Santa FEES summer colony is rapidly
decreasing and being filled up with
lealthseekers who come to spend the
Arrangements are on for a game of
,all Friday afternoon between the San
"a Fe's and the team that went to Albu-
luerque Sunday.
The street cleaning brigade, under
he capable supervision of Street Com
missioner Gallegos, is doing some good
work on College street.
Cruz Morales, who was wont to go
masked at night, paid her fine and was
released. She will have another (cruz)
TO carry if she does not mend her ways.
Professor E. A.. Vets will take charge
of the U. S. government Indian school
in this city about September /, as
superintendent, relieving Colonel T. M.
Jones.
Bias Sandoval brought in two wagon
loads of green chilli from Pena Blanca.
He disposed of the same to j. w. Con-
way & Son, p%roprietors Of the Bon Ton
restaurant.
Twenty-four persons were vaccinated
by INT doctor Yesterday, the majority
being native born. As a general thing
the compulsory vaccination ordinance
is being observed.
The mar who wrote "on the sidewalks
of New York" had evidently not heard
of the Sena sidewalk in this city, or his
tune would have been a tragic instead
of a comic one.
Regular meeting of Santa Fe lodge
No. }, X. of p, this evening at 8 o'clock
at Castle hall. Work in second degree.
Visiting knights fraternally welcomed.
Professor Haggerty, of the Agricul.
tural college, was around visiting par
ents yesterday with a view to increas-
ing the attendance at his college this
year.
Yesterday the thermometer at the
local weather bureau registered as fol-
Maximum temperature, 80 de-
grees at 1890 p. M; minimum, so de-
grees at 6 a. IN. The mean temperature
for the "a hours was 70 degrees.
Arrangements for holding the Horti-
cultural fair in this city on September
7, s and 9 next are going on satisfac-
torily and the fair will be a success.
Liberal railroad rates have been secured
by the fair management and the attend
ance promises to be large.
The restoration of the capitol build
ing in the historic capital of New Mex
leo, in much more imposing and attrac-
tive style than the fine building that
was destroyed by the fire fiend in the
spring of 1892, will materially add to the
value of real estate in Santa Fe.
Deputy County Tax Collector Ortiz y
Salazar is at the collectors Office at the
court house ready and willing and anx-
ious to receive payments of taxes for
past years and for the present year. If
you have not paid your taxes, now is
the time so to do.
With a large force of workmen at the
rebuilding of the capitol the building
be completed for occupation by
January 1, 80. AS it is, it is not be-
lieved that the building will be fit for
occupation and use until about the LIST
Of March next or later.
Associate Justice McFie received the
following dispatch from Governor Otero,
at New York today: ''Saw Ralph
md all the boys at Montauk. Hersey,
Luna and Curry here with me. LEV
quite sick. l leave for the west
The Delgado portal on the south side
If the plaza should be taken down; it is
lbout the only n of the unsightly 14th
century monuments left on San Fran
cisco street and the city council should
order it taken down, as it is an obstruc-
ion of the street.
There is entirely too much "war
paint whisky being sold in this city. A
Is cent bottle of whisky usually leads
up to a shooting or cutting scrape. If
The city aficers will arrest all persons
found drunk and disorderly and make
them pay a fine or work on the, street
these nightly bacchanalian revels will
stop.
The city council, at its special meet
ing, on Saturday night, instructed the
city marshal to go to all property own
ers, or persons in charge of property
owned by non%-residents, and order them
10 repair their sidewalks. If the own
ers of such property fail promptly to
with the order Of the marshal,
the city attorney will be directed to
commence suit at once.
Every express train that pulls u of
Santa Fe carries a load of fragrance
and beauty in the form Of choice
peaches, apricots, plums, pears and
nectarines, all attributable to the peer
less climate and fertile soil of the his
toric Capital City of New Mexico.
Since the recent flood, a number of
defunct hogs, dogs and cats decorate
the im%provised bed of the Rio Santa Fe.
Some of these decaying are
filing the atmosphere Of the 1st and
Ind wards with an odor Of anything but
sanctity. The city marshal should see
that they are promptly removed to some
suitable burying ground.
Miss Minnie Mabel Mesenkop, one
of the most intelligent and charm
ing young ladies who ever sought
restored health in the peerless climate
of Santa Fe, died at her home in Prince
ton, ILL.,. on last Wednesday afternoon.
Miss Mesenkop ZANE to Santa Fe last
October and remained here until June,
but unhappily came too late to avert
the merciless ravages OF consumption.
The fact that many of the streets of
the Ancient Capital City of New Mexico
are narrow is not q sufficient reason
why they should not be kept clean and
tidy. The streets of Boston are rs
and narrow as those Of Santa
Fe. but it is a criminal offense to ex-
pectorate on the streets of Boston.
Bronco Bill, or William Walters,
charged with robbery, was operated on
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