Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-12-16
MINOR CITY TOPICS.

Huyler's celebrated candies just re
ceived at Seligman- Bros.
Christmas sale atypnblic library to
morrow beginning. at $3.50 p. m.
Buy your Christmas presents of til,
Woman's board of trade Saturday after
noon.
A Christmas thaw is on, and tn
weather office reports a Likelihood o
rain.
Five Dickson and ten Baldwin engine
will be received by the Santa Fe Jan
uary I.
U. s. weather bureau forecast for New
Mexico: Light snow or rain tonigh
and Saturday.
II. B. Cartwright q Bro. will hav,
their fine new bake over ready for MS,
early in the week.
For home made bread and doughnut!
patronize the Woman's board of trade
Saturday afternoon.
Aprons. fancy articles, brown an(
white bread and %doughnuts for sale b,
the Woman's board of trade tomorrow
afternoon.
The ladies of the w. B. r. request
that all fancy articles furnished for the
Christmas sale be sent to the librar,
rooms on Saturday morning at 10 o'clock
The sale will begin at $3.50 that after
noon.
According to the Ell Paso Times. DR.
Hoyt, late of Richmond, Mo-. whom hfs
home papers accuse of clipping with the
hired girl, and who with the woman
were recently in this city, is in Ell Paso
where he was expecting to remain per.
manently.
Yesterday the thermometer at the Local
weather bureau registered as follows,
Maximum temperature, SO degrees. at
200 p. M: minimum, 20 degrees. al
6:3O p. m. The mean temperature for the
"a hours was 2S degrees; mean daily rcla,
tive humidity, 6S per cent.
Cards making the following wedding
announcement, have been received in
this city; "Charles Francis Towne and
Bessie Alberta Beatty, married Wedncs-
day. December seventh, eighteen hun
dred and ninety-oight. At home after
December fifteenth, 975 West Adams
street, Chicago"
Rev. r. P. Pope, a Baptist missionary
for this territory from Weed. is a guest
at the Exchange. He is here to admin
lister baptism to a member of the Christ
ian Endeavor Society at the peniten-
tiary, named Huyler, who was convert
ed some time ago and has been promi-
nent in the work of EMANCIPATION.
nent in the work of evangelization
among his fellow prisoners. Huyler led
the gospel meeting last Sunday after
noon. The ceremony will take place in
the prison at $3.50 a.. m. Sunday next,
and there will also be preaching services
connected with it, so that the occasion
is sure to be n of much interest. There
is a marked interest in religious matters
at the p~enitentiary, and the Endeavor
society there is the largest in the terri
tory.
Yesterday morning at II o'clock, con-
tract bids for the printing for the 33d
legislative assembly were opened in
Secretary Wallace's office. The bid
ders We're Ell independents and the OPP
tic, of Las Vegas; the Democrat, of
and the New Mexican, of
Santa Re. The contract was not let UNI
til this morning as the figures submit
were very close, and then the New
Mexican Printing Company was decid-
to be the lowest bidder. There was
only a few dollars difference between
the two lowest bids, those of the DEM
Dcrat and of the New Mexican.
There is at the p%ostoffice what is call |
I'd the morgue, where insufficiently di- |
'ected or improperly stamped letters are
The morgue is a window, and |
here is at present quite a collection of |
etters with revenue stamps thereon,
etters without stamps at all, and mail
directed so hat an expert could not
People of absent mind or liable to make
mistakes would do we'll to take a look
occasionally at hat window.
Some time last night an entrance was |
OiCtu lIiLo IIdIIy NnOIlty > IeSlduIduC |
N San Francisco street, through the
Jack door, and the money drawer
obbed. Whoever the marauder was, he
lid not secure enough to pay himself for
lis trouble and work. There was $1.65
n the drawer, which was taken, but
else in the building was modest
d.
Some business men are calling for a
ecall of the high pawnbroker license
f $3.50 so that the business, which has
allen into a state of innocuous desue-
ude, may be revived.
There will be a Raymond excursion in
he city at 1870 p. m. tomorrow to re-
lain over until 8 p. m. Sunday, when
he special will continue towards Los
ngeles.
The territorial supreme court will be
session tomorrow, Chief Justice Mills
'esiding. 1t is expected that a number
important decisions will be handed
at the time.
The passenger department of the San c
Fe road is preparing to publish inter- a