Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-03-04
MINOR CITY TOPICS.

E. s. weather bureau forecast for
New Mexico: Fair tonight and Satur-
day: slowly rising temperature.
The presence of numerous blue birds
in the plaza this morning testified in the
most pleasing and satisfactory manner
to the fact that spring has come to stay.
Spanish protracted services are in
progress at the St. Johns M. E, church
meeting tonight at 1870 o'clock. The
cooperation of all Christians is earnest
ly solicited.
The garbage wagon should put in an
appearance oftener and stay later. There
are many unsightly piles Of dirt on the
streets and people are loud in their COM
plants.
John Nagel, freighter for Andy Horne
& Co., will hereafter make two round
trips a week between Bland and Santa
Fe after supplies for Bland merchants
and miners.
Merchant Cartwright reports that
Santa Fe business houses have sold
more provisions at Bland during the
past six weeks than for any previous
six months in the history of the Cochiti
mining district.
County Clerk Romero smokes a beau
tifnl m%eerschaum pipe these bright
March days. 1t was presented to him
by Mr.. J. Il. Mayo, of New Jersey, and
formerly chairman of the board of coun-
ty commissioners of Santa Fee county.
In the poker games over at Bland
these booming days common ivory chips
are no longer used. Only stacks of gold
and silver go there now. This may not
be strictly a moral item, but it signifies
in the strongest manner possible that
something is going on at the metropolis
of the Golden Cochiti.
There is quite q hubbub among some
people and business men as to the ac-
ton of the board of penitentiary COM
missioners in ordering certain accounts
paid in the next fiscal year. There does
not seem to be much cause for this cOm-
motion and excitement except sclf-in-
tereSt.
The Albemarle people will undertake
to lay in 10000 pounds of potates at the
boarding houses located at the mine,
Bland, before the wagon road is
crowded with Trimble's big freight
wagons laden with machinery for the
mammoth steel reduction plant of the
Cochiti Gold Mining company.
Mayor Spiess says that there will GER
tainly be a quorum at the regular meet
ing of the city council on the coming
Monday evening, as that is the time for
the annual appropriation bill,
ordering the annual election proclama-
ton and appointing boards of registra-
ton. In view of the Importance of the
business to be transacted the attend
ance of every member will be required.
Hon. Fl. b. Cartwright, the efficient
and honest county treasurer, informs
this paper that his business interests
will not allow him to be q candidate for
mayor at the coming election. The New
regret this exceedingly, al it
would be for the best interests of the
city were a good level-headed business
in charge of city affairs.
United States Collector Morrison is
naturally very much gratified to learn
from Washington that Special Agent
Wheeler, of the Treasury department,
who recently made a tour of inspection
of the internal revenue district COM
posed of New Mexico and Arizona, re-
ported that both in clerical and field
work Collector Morrison's Office rates
No. 1.
Otto Peterson, the well known carpen-
ter who left this city about three years
ago. writes to w. H. Goebel, the plaza
merchant, that he is In San
Francisco, getting ready to go to the