Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-09-28
MINOR CITY TOPICS.

day II fine new instrument case.
The Santa Fe road will build new iron
bridges over the Rio Grande at Isleta
and Ell Paso.
The Albuquerque Democrat thinks
the Rough Riders are in danger of
being killed with kindness.
Judge Emery, of Lawrence, Kans., a
noted authority on irrigation. isto make
| an exhaustive examination of the PecOs
valley.
L. S. weather bureau forecast for New
Mexico: Generally fair tonight and
| Thursday; cooler in north portion
Thursday morning.
Extensive preparations for a big peace
jubilee are being completed ut Albn'
querque for tomorrow. There will be
paradeS. concert music by visiting bands
speeches. free lunches and the like.
The Citizen blazons one w. z. Moss
| claiming to come from Clerburne, Texas
| as a dead beat who has been beating
| the good people of Gallup by imposing
on the sympathies of Knights of Pythias
and the Odd Fellows.
Yesterday the thermometer at the
local weather bureau registered as fol.
lows: Maximum temperature rs de-
grees at 3. p. m minimum, IS degrees
at 6. a. m, The meal temperature fol
the "a hours was 66 degrees.
Mr.. George A. Johnson, has been APP
pointed commissioner of the court Of
claims to hear testimony in the Indian
| In,paInt lion cocoS in Whiah Snoajo
Agent Oldham is representing the
government. The hearing will com
mcnce tomorrow morning in Genera
Bartlett's Office.
Attorney Oldham, of Little Rock
special agent of the department o
justice, is engaged in the hearing of thu
claims by parties in this vicinity fol-
damages from Indian depredations
There are but seven claims, aggregat
ing $3.50, 900, and made it is understood
by one firm for stealing and s%laughterine
by the noble red man Of sheep and cattle
/ n the dim and misty past.
Corporal Hartman Wynkoop, of the
Rough Riders" has a just grievance
against Washington reporters. While
he was lying sick in. the Washington
barracks. a dapper young fellow passed
| by his cot one morning, asked his name
troop and regiment, and then wen
away. The next morning the Washing
ton Times had Il long interview witt
Corporal Wynkoop, in which dates ant
other important facts were all jnmblet
| up in confusion worse COMPOUNDED. Thi!
naturally made the gallant young sol
der hot, and as others of his cOmrade!
were treated in the same unceremOni0u:
fashion, there was 40 such thing as get
ting interviews out of them at any timt
after that.
Santa Fe people who went to southerl
California recently to spend the winter
are disgusted with the climate there, anC
prefer Santa Fe after all to winter in
They went out expecting to find a sec
ond edition of paradise, and found in
| stead a country all burnt up, and with
the dust so thick as to make 1t positively
unhealthy. There has hardly been an,
} rainfall in southern California for the
last three years, and the situation is get.
ting desperate.
Sheriff Kinsell returned last night
from Las Vegas, where'he arrested Ed.
tor Gould, of the Optic, on u charge OF
criminal libel. Gould was somewhat sur.
prised to see the sheriff walk in, and
gave bonds in $500 to appear in this
city Friday next, at Q o'clock in the
morning. Gould's sureties are Messrs.
Hayden and Allen. The sheriff say.
his visit oLcasioned considerable GOSSIP
as to how the affair would come out.
John NJ. Lacome, of Questa, N. M.
died in this city yesterday of dropsy
The remains were embalmed by Under
J taker Wagner and shipped north this
morning to Questa for interment. The
brother of the deceased, j. e. LacOme,
a well known resident of this city, and
family accompanied the body north ovei
the ID. & Il. G.
Local merchants are remarking that
Denver and Pueblo houses are making a
determined strike for New Mexico, and
are giving the eastern travelling men q
hard rub. There seems to be q general
move in Colorado to strengthen the
commercial ties between the two
commemorative.
The management Of the Denver Noun
tain and Plain fiesta has written to the
Rough Riders" in this territory, asking
them all to take part in the celebra-
ton.
An electro-cyanide outfit of Is tons
capacity arrived last night from Hope
well via the d. Il r. G. and was freight
ed this noon over to the Cochiti Mining
C%ompany's plant.
The Democrats Of Precinct IS will
meet tonight at 7 o'clock at the hall Of
Bernardo Saiz, to elect five delegates to
the county convention.
$40. IS to Denver and return, Santa Fe