Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-12-03

physician, DR.. Knapp, the school board
has closed the schools until the first
week in January. While there is no
immediate danger of contagion from
smallpox, it is thought best to close the
schools for a time and thus remove all
cerned. While at the present time
there is no smallpox in the city, there
are cases in the surrounding country,
n the better part of wisdom dictates
that no chances should be taken by
opening the schools until the country
districts are we'll rid of the disease. The
school board has acted wisely in the
matter eyer since the city has been
threatened with the disease, and the
determination to keep the schools clos
ed until after the holidays, at least,
will meet with the approval of every
one in the city.
Grant Rivenburg has purchased the
| Preston property on Palace avenue now
occupied by Captain S. H. Day. The
purchase price is reported to be "a, 500,
and Mr.. Rivenburg is to be congratu-
lated upon securing for a home one of
the finest residence properties in the
city at so low a price. 1t is fortunate
that the place should pass into his
hands, since under his management the
property will be placed in thorough re-
pair and made one of the show places of
Santa Fee.
The scare of the Denver Times over
Engineer Harroun's mission to Colorado
| proves a veritable mares nest. Mr..
Harroun laughs at his doing what the
Times reportorial mind figured out he
was intending to do with his data, and
says nothing was further from his in
tentions than to institute suits in the
United States courts against the state
of Colorado for using so much of the
| waters of the Rio Grande.
The funeral of the late Henry Ostran-
der, of the list California volunteers,
was held at 1:30 today from Wagner.s
undertaking parlors. There was a good
attendance, and quite Il procession fol-
lowed the remains to the national ceme-
terry. The funeral of Jesus Herrera, an
other veteran, was held this morning
from the cathedral and inferred by Di-
rector Wagner in the national ceme-
terry.
j. A. Gallagher, the Kansas City drug
man, vent up the narrow gauge this
morning on his tour through Colorado
and the immediate eastern states. He
says business through the Middle West
ern states particularly is improving,
and there are few complaints in New
Mexico. The general commercial outl
look is vastly improved over the situa-
ton a veal ago
The board of county commissioners
will be in session next Thursday for the
purpose of appointing judges for the
election of justices of the peace and con-
stables, which will be held the second
Monday in January, and to attend to
such other business as may be brought
to the attention of the board.
The Louise Brehany Ballad and OPP
era Company of seven people a, r.. 1cd
last night from Las Vegas, and regis
tered at the Palace hotel. They left
this afternoon for Albuquerque, where
they appear in concert this evening.
Gus Johnson and Chas. McIlvain, two
Ell Paso sheep dealers, returned last
evening from the north. where they
have been contracting for sheep. They
stopped at the Bon Ton, and left for
home on this afternoons train.
The advent of the Santa Fe into San
Francisco is being received with gen
eral rejoicings, as it is apparent now
that California's servitude to the South
ern Pacific is nearing the end. Califor-
MIA has nc love for Coils P.
DR.. Williams, of Philadelphia, one of
the proprietors of the Baldwin locomo-
tive works, and family have just passed
through the territory in a handsome pri-
vate car en- route to the doctors fine
residence at Santa Barbara.
Mrs. Mcdonald, of Richmond, Mo-,
who spent three months in this city
this last summer and fall trying to re-
gain her health, died at her home on
Thanksgiving day.
J. B. Crowdus, the st. Louis pickle
man, came up from the south last night,
where he has been doing good business,
and is registered at the Palace hotel.
Attorney o. A. Larrazola, of Las We
Paso, is in town for the day, and is reg
istered at the Claire.
Daniel Carter, a civil war veteran,
and an old timer in New Mexico, is in
the city from his home in Glorieta. He
stops at the Bon Ton.