Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-11-30

Irelands.
1t is announced that there will be no
prayer meeting at the Presbyterian
church tonight.
Nicanor Tafoya, aged so, of this city,
is dead Of general debility. He leaves a
SOL at Cerrillos.
Z. S. weather bureau forecast for New
Mexico; Fair tonight and Thursday;
colder tonight.
Secure seats at Irelands. One hundred
and fifteen seats already taken for
Louise Brehany.
The cattlemen will ask the next legis-
lature to wipe out all dead brands. This
is made necessary by the famine in
brands.
Santa Fee brakemen are said to be
making I'VE 500 per month through
overtime on account of the big freight
rush.
The electric headlights which have
proven such a success on the Texas q
Pacific and other roads are to be adopt
ed on the Santa Fe.
Members of the school board think
that at the next meeting it will be de-
cided to continue the closing of the
schools until after the holidays.
Civil Engineer p. L. Harroun is navi-
eating the raging Rio Grand from White
Rock canon just north of Albuquerque
to Ell PaSo, to estimate the underfow of
the river.
The sale of Mrs. w. Il. Thornton'S
| household effects will be continued the
rest of the week, at the residence on
upper San Francisco street. Hours of
sale from Q a. m. to 4 p. N.
The Santa Fe has begun It's new
bridge across the Rio Grande river at
Ell Paso. 1t will take the place of the
wooden structure that has done good
service there for the last Is years, and
will be of iron.
Yesterday the thermometer at the local
weather bureau registered as follows:
Maximum temperature, 4S degrees, at
$50 p. M; minimum, &c degrees, at 600
a. IN. The mean temperature for the "a
hours was 81 degrees; mean daily rela-
tive humidity, 81 per cent.
The d. & R. G. has shipped this
month nearly $50 cars of sheep and rs
cars OF. cattle from Chama, and there are
yet to be shipped from that point 5000
head of cattle and 10000 head of sheep.
Chama is becoming a great shipping
point. w. W. Means, of Chama, has
just shipped ten cars of sheep to the
Armour Packing Company of Chicago.
The election returns from San Miguel
county did not arrive this morning, and
there is a rod in pickle for the county
commissioners. Every county in the
territory has made the proper returns
except San Miguel, and as the time
allowed by law for reporting the vote
by precincts to the secretary Of the
territory has long since expired, meas
ures will be taken to compel a compliance
wi tn the law.
Police Inspector Walter L. Thompson,
of New York City, and wife were recent
ly guests at the Palace hotel on their
way to the Pacific coast. When they
left Santa Fe, they were intending to
stop at the Baldwin on reaching San
Francisco. But on the train they made
the acquaintance of a lady who persuad-
ed them that the Occidental was a better
| place than the Baldwin, and to the Oc-
cidental they went. Had Mr.. and Mrs.
Thompson gone as they originally in
tended, they would probably not have
been alive today. Mr.. Thompson was
awakened at $3.50 in the morning by the
fire alarm, and hurried out to find the
Baldwin on fire. Returning to his rooms
later, he turned to the hotel register
where his name appeared and wrote
under it, "Thanks to Jehovah!" Mr..
Thompson is firmly convinced that the
hand of Providence prevented his going
to the Baldwin and sent him to the Oc-
cidental. The inspector speaks highly
of the way in which that terrible fire
was handled and kept from spreading.
The D. & R. G. due here 1t Z D.. M,
yesterday, did not arrive until 6:10 this
morning. The train was stuck in the
snow in a cut 10 miles south of Antoni-
to, where it was some time before the
engine could be dug out. AS it was inn
possible to get further at the time, the
train backed to Antonito where it wait
ed until after the arrival Of the north
bound train which cleared the way, and
then it continued south. The passen-
l SCIS ulu III ulleI any, do Tic CdIS WE'RE
warm, and sleeping was comfortable
enough, to say nothing of hotel lodging
bills saved.
The D. & r. G. has a rotary snow
pillow now running south of Antonito, SO
that there is no more danger of delays
from snow. The passenger engines al
so have been equipped with pilot plows.
Henry Essinger, the we'll known Las
Vegas salesman, arrived from the east
last night and registered at the Claire.
| He continued north this morning over
the narrow gauge. He says that he has
been comino into Santa Fe for % years,
| and he verify believes that 20 of these
have been put in waiting for trains at
Lamy junction. Last night there were
half a dozen passengers for Santa Fe,
but the branch train pulled out ten min
utes before the main line train arrived,
and the passengers had to sit around
for three long hours counting their
fingers and thinking on their past deeds,
good, bad and Indifferent before the
branch train showed up again. The rail-
road people a that had the branch
train not left whensit did, and waited
for the passengers for Santa Fe on the
south bound train, the branch train
could not have got back to Santa Fe
and returned to Lamy with passengers
for the fier in time. So, no matter how
| you take it, there would have been dis.
content at one end or at the other of the
branch line.
Fresh vaccine at Fischer's.