Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-11-18
MINOR CITY TOPICS.

This morning opened so beautiful
that it seemed like a morning in spring
U. S. weather bureau forecast fol
New Mexico: Fair tonight and
Saturday.
Jacob Stein expects to open q store on
| the south side within the next few
weeks. He will handle groceries and
general merchandise.
Less policemen and fixing the side
walks instead would be a very good and
beneficial policy to be pursued by Mayor
Hudson and by the city council.
Better step up to the collectors office
and pay your delinquent taxes. Col
lector Muller is preparing the delinquent
tax list. You will save expense and
trouble by paying your taxes.
The Gulf road, now the Colorado
| Southern, has already a branch into
Vasquez, in ColfaX county. on the
western slope of the range, so that eX-
tension westward or southwark is not a
very great task.
George Anton, the well known Coyote
merchant, shipped a car load of mer-
chandise yesterday over the narrow
gauge to his store at Coyote, Rio Arriba
county. Business is good these Repub-
lican days in his section.
Yesterday, the thermometer at the
local weather bureau registered as fol
lows: Maximum temperature, "A de-
grees, at $3.50 p. M; minimum, %, at
400 a. m. The mean temperature for
+l,o "a hopr,, xtnc % lorranS. mann 6niIv
relative humidity, 81 per cent.
Agent Lutz, of the Santa Fe, has re-
ceived a letter from General Passenger
Agent W. j. Black, requesting him to
carefully send the general passenger
Office clippings from newspapers refer
| ring to the Santa Fe. Every agent
| along the line has been sent a similar
letter.
The council chamber in the new
capitol building is ready for plastering.
There is a delay on the portico owing to
the difficulty in getting stone of sufficient
dimensions for pillars in this part of the
country. The local formation was
very much broken in the upheaval so
that getting a large stone is problem
atical. However, the work is being
pushed ahead as fast Us possible.
The Louise Brehaney Ballad and Oper-
attic company, of six persons, will be in
Santa Fe on Friday, December 2. The
company comes under the auspices of
the w. B. IT,, a certain guaranty hav-
ing been made by the ladies, who do
not expect to make any money out Of
the venture. The object of securing
the company is to provide the people Of
Santa Fe with a first-class entertain
ment.
James Harris says his conversion
in prison was due as far as earthly
agents we're concerned to the Christian
Endeavor society there, to Mr.. and Mrs.
j. e. Wood, of this city and the Faith
Missionary society of Shenandoah, la.
OF the latter organization Mr.. Harris
| speaks with especial praise for the in
terest they take in the regeneration of
prisoners.
1t is reported that only 20 applications
for discharge from the territorial regi-
ment have been made since its organi-
zation, and hat General Wilson re-
Gently declared that it was the finest
regiment in the service. OF the 1920
men, 1,1O7 are reporting daily for duty,
and the sick list averages only five men
to a company. This command promises
to be to the infantry arm of the volun-
teer service what R%oosevelt's command
was to the cavalry arm.
The good people down the Rio Grande
valley are anxiously awaiting the decis-
ion of the United States supreme court
in the Elephant Butte dam case.