Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-03-23
MINOR CITY TOPICS.
Keep the streets sprinkled.

Keep the streets Spflnkleu.
The military band concerts will be re-
Sumed on the plaza next Sunday after
noon at 3 p. M, the smallpox scare hav-
ing subsidized.
The weather bureau at Santa Fe sell
dom misses a prediction. The trick is
easy, for the fair weather flag will strike
it right 90 times out of 100.
The d. & R. G. continues to do a large
business, and had another double header
last night. The train brought down six
car loads of -four from Monte Vista for
points south on the Santa Fe.
Reports from the construction outfits
on the Denver & Rio Grande road be-
tween La Veta and Alamosa state that
the work is progressing very favorably.
Immense quantities of timber are being
brought oven from the country south
west and west of Antonito for the con
tractors.
Rev. w. II. Moore, of the Presbyterian
church, will deviate from the regular
routine of prayer meeting next We'd
nesday night, as he announced last
evening. Instead of the usual midweek
lecture, he will present the Sunday
school lesson of the coming Sabbath,
and discuss the same with the congre-
cation.
Precautions are being taken along
the Rio Grande river against floods this
spring, and at El Paso 40 teams are at
work cutting a new channel for the
river, % feet wide and five feet deep for
one mile east of the city, with an eight
feet fall, thus assuring Ell Paso and Juarez
against a repetition of the May flood of
1887. Warnings from Engineer Har-
roun, of this city, sent out by wire
through local correspondent of the
tain News some time ago, was what
started up the people of that part of
the country to q sense of their danger.
U. S. weather bureau forecast for New
Mexico: Fair tonight and Friday.
Yesterday the thermometer at the
local weather bureau registered as fol-
lows: Maximum temperature, 50 de-
at $40 a. m. The mean temperature
for the "a hours was A degrees; mean
daily humidity 36 per cent.
Local college men will be interested
in learning that the 55Jh annual boat
race between Oxford and Cambridge
comes off next Saturday over the usual
Thames course between Putney and
Mortlake, four and one-eighth miles.
Oxford has, up to date, won 80 races
and Cambridge 30, n contest, 1887, be-
ing a dead heat.
f. B. Delgado is laying a new plank
walk in front of his San Francisco street
store.
There will be an Important meeting
of Paradise lodge No. 2, l. O. 0. f., this
evening at Z o'clock.
There will be an Indian dance at Te-
suque on the evening of Saturday, April
..
Practicing for Easter has begun in
the Cathedral choir.
The city election is less than two
weeks away. Time that the ward meet
ings were being called and the Repub-
leans We're agreeing upon the very best
men in the city for candidates. The new
council must contain competent bust
ness men, the mayor one of the leading
citizens, and the clerk competent for the
position.
There is to be an important meeting
tonight of the city council, when the
financial budget for the ensuing munich
pal year will be agreed upon. A full at
tendance of the aldermen is desired.
District Attorney Gortner is notifying
the seven professional gamblers in Ger
rillos and Madrid that 1t will be healthy
for them to take out licenses If they
wish to continue in business.
There will be the usual Friday after
noon services at 4 o'clock at the Church
Of the Holy Faith. And the usual Sun
day services will certainly go on as
usual.
Voters should remember that If they |
desire to vote at the coming election
they must be registered in the wards in
which they live.
The city election takes place on Tues
lay, April 4. The mayor should issue
he election proclamation at once.