Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-12-20
A fine line of fresh candies Just
received nj Fischer Co.'S.
MINOR CITY TOPICS.

The balmy weather continues, anG
the snow in town is melting very fast.
L. s. weather bureau forecast for New
Mexico: Fair tonight and Wednesday
A kodak is the incest Nmas present tt
buy. Fischer q Co. have Il complete
line.
Don Antonio Aneta. a prominent Sar
Pedro merchant. is in town today or
business.
The Methodist Sunday school will
held It's Christmas celebration on New
Years eve.
The warden of the pcnitentiary is
very busy preparing his biennial report
to the legislature.
Instead of eating dinner now at
Espanola, passengers by the north
bound d. & r. g., eat Mt Embudo.
Regular meeting of Coronado camp,
Woodmen of the World, will be held to-
morrow evening at 8 o'clock. Election
of officers,
Regular meeting of Santa Fo lodge
No. ?. X. of p. this evening. Work in
degrees. Visiting knights given a
fraternal welcome.
The Mary Mining and Smelling Com
pany held its annual meeting yesterday
afternoon and reelected its old directors.
viz: Messrs. Wisner, Vaughn. Manley,
Dunn and Balch. These directors
choose officers today.
There will be no more bread famines
in town. The Cartwrights have their
big bake oven in fine working order, and
there is now all the bread on hand thai
people will be likely to call for.
Antonio Tanus, the young MAJ who
was shot in the face five months ago,
and carried the bullet in his jaw until
recently, has had the bullet cut out,
and is now much relieved.
An intoxicated mar named Francisco
Vigil, stumbled and fell through one of
Salmon & Abousleman's show windows
last night, destroying $3.50 worth OF
glass. Vigil was arrested. He will pay
for the damage done.
Mr.. Dudrow has word from the mines
that 25 cars of coal will be along this
week. and one car of anthracite came
last night. So there will be no com
plant of any coal shortage for some
time to come.
Yesterday the thermometer at the local
weather bureau registered as follows:
Maximum temperature, 81 degrees, at
4:15 p. NJ: minimum, IS degrees, at mid
night. The mean temperature for the
"a hours was % degrees: mean daily rela-
tive humidity, So per cent.
Territorial Superintendent of Instruc-
ton Baca is in town from Las Vegas. lie
has prepared a very elaborate and com
plcte report. but as there is no appro-
priation for the expense, the report can
not be printed until the legislature has
convened and the necessary %appropria-
ton made.
Thecity council tried awfully hard to
meet last night. but there was not a
quorum. and the clerk did not have the
pleasure of reading to the aldermen.
lively selections from that blood curdl-
ing tale of adventure, "The minutes of
the previous meeting"
Word was received in Santa Fe today
that Mrs. Whitford, mother of Mrs.
Edgar L. Hewitt, died at Mr.. Hewitt's
home in Las Vegas Sunday, from the
effects Of an amputation of a limb. The
remains were taken to Denver for bur
ial. Mrs. Whitford was a resident of
Santa Fe for nearly a year before going
to Las Vegas, and made many warm
friends in the city who will hear of her
death with deep sorrow.
General Manager Day, of the water
company, says Captain Cobb must have
misunderstood the spirit, at least, of his
short talk with him N a water supply
for the proposed marine hospital service
in this city. Captain Day says he dis
tinctly stated that he invited the officer
to bring his hospital to Santa Fe, and
the service would be given water for
what they were able to pay. There is
no occasion whatever for any apprehen-
sion that the cost of water will stand in
the way of the hospital being located in
Santa Fe.
The Sunday school of the Church of
the Holy Faith will have their Christ
mas tree at 8 o'clock on Saturday after
noon, December "a, in the church. Mem
bers of the congregation and friends of
the children are cordially invited to
come and see the children's festival.
Governor Otero has received notifica-
ton from the department of the inte-
rior that Dr.. James A. Massie has been
appointed a member of the board of
examining physicians for the bureau of
pensions at Santa Fe, and that the doc
for has bean sent his appOintment