Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-02-07
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MINOR CITY TOPICS.

U. S. weather bureau forecast for New
Mexico; Fair tonight and Wednesday;
not so cold Wednesday.
Special meeting of the w. B. of 4.
Wednesday morning at 1920. All mem
bers requested to be present.
The Santa Fe-Pacific train, due here
last night, failed to reach here until
7 this morning. Snow and adverse cir
cumstances were the cause for the de-
lay.
Yesterday the thermometer at the
local weather bureau registered as
follows: Maximum temperature, ~
degrees at 4:3O p. m; minimum,
zero at midnight. The mean tenn
perature for the "a hours was 6
degrees: mean daily relative humidity,
~ per cent. Total precipitation, o.0s
inches.
There is a general belief that the ter
ritorial infantry boys will not be mus
tered out as expected on the 18th inst,
on account of the fighting al Manila,
though there is as yet. nothing to sug-
gest that they will be sent to the Philip
pine islands.
The mercury went down, this morn
ing, in this city, and at the government
Office registered 5 4-1O degrees below
zero. Water froze in houses, and there
was a steady and unfluctuating demand
for plumbers. People all over town
wore a semi-frozen look as business
hours opened, and Ryse Williams, of
Cerrillos, froze his ears. However, the
weather was worse over in the main
line. At Las Vegas, the mercury was
Is below zero, and it was so cold ON the
the range to the north, that in several
places the Postal C%ompany's wires
snapped, and for a few hours business
was l%mpeeded, but by 10 u. m. the dam
age was repaired.
The last that was heard from the
situation at Tres Piedras was that it was
still showing and blowing all through
that part of the country, so that as fast
as the section men shoveled out a cut,
the wind and the snow filled it up again,
which was just a trifle disheartening.
However, the engine, train crew and
section men will remain up there buck
ing the beautiful, until the line is
opened, and in the mean while there
will be no trains out over the narrow
gauge from this city. The mercury up
on the Colorado line has been ranging
from 10 to % degrees below zero for
most of the winter.
The d. & r. G. construction train
went north this morning. and carried a
passenger for Espanola and n for
Tres Piedras. As all the bridge ma
terial wanted is now at Antonito, the
construction hands will be pressed into
service shoveling snow.
A civil service examination was held
today in the Federal building for a
Spanish clerk in the land office. The
examination was seven hours long, and
the subjects included were spelling,
arithmetic, penmanship, copying from
plain copy, copying from rough draft,
translating Spanish into English, and
English into Spanish, etc. The salary
is 81. 200. The candidates were Mrs.
Anita j. Chapman, Mariana f. Sena,
J. f. Ortiz, Il. f. Otero of Santa Fe,
and M. e. de Baca of Albuquerque,
A. L. Morrison, Jr., conducted the ex-
animation.
Sister Eulalia, manager of the sani-
tarium, had a narrow escape at the time
Of yesterdays shooting scrape. She
CHANGED to be not over two feet from
Slaughter when he fired, and the close
proximity of the three first reports to
her head, deafened and stunned her.
However, she did not lose her presence
of mind, but with the little girl in her
charge walked over to the bank building
out Of harms way, and then called on a
physician, who explained that her
stunned condition was only temporary.
She is all right today.
Quirina MARQUEE, aged 65, was buried
in San Miguel cemetery this morning
from the Cathedral.