Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-12-17
MINOR CITY TOPICS.
City council will meet this evening.

Square Chickering piano for sale. In
quire at the New Mexican office. tin
The Nashville Students will be at tile
opera house on the evening of JAM
airy 2.
Local merchants are decorating their
show windows very attractiveiy for
Christmas.
Train No. 2 from the west or the
Santa Fe railroad was two hours late
this afternoon.
The Santa Fe railroad has granted a
one-fare %round-trip rate for the holt
days for all points in New Mexico.
Pay your taxes before January / next
and benefit by the rebate of 5 per cent
allowed by law or all taxes now due
paid before that date.
The Charles Wagner Furniture Com
pany has ordered a car load of hart
ware, and will put in a complete iinc nf
hardware in their furniture store.
Don Gaspar avenue, between San
Francisco and Water streets, needs the
attention Of the city council tonight. A
Souh SlNtN ain dlll CIOSSlIlSS SIlOull III
laid.
At the Exchange: E. Edwards, Tel
luride; e. H. Van Gundy, Macon, H.;
John Van Gundy and wife, Decatur: G.
Denver, Colo.
The funeral of the infant daughter of
T. B. A. Ward took place this after
noon. Interment was made in Fairview
cemetery. Charles Wagner was the flu
neral director.
1t is street talk that financial trans
actions are to help to unseat Mr.. Eas-
ley. However, this coming year may
prove rather disastrous to such at
tempted transactions"
Probate Clerk Atanasio Romero to-
day recorded a lis pendens against M.
chael O'Neill for $7S5.5 on the Tom
Paine and Golden Eagle mine proper
ties in the Cerrillos district.
A local barber last week gave a
stranger a hair cut and a shave and
$3.50 in change for a 50 bill. BY the IN G
the barber caught on to his mistake the
stranger had gambled away the money.
Deputy Sheriff c. r. Huber returned
last evening from Las Vegas, vince
he placed Edward Davis and Juan pios
de Montana, both of Cerrillos, in the in
sane asylum.
w. J. Slaughter's horse ran away last
evening on Johnson street. Mr.. Slalgh-
ter's family had just left church, and
was getting ready to get into the cur
riage when the horse started. It was
caught soon afterward, but had man
aged to break the shafts and otherwise
damage the carriage.
The sidewalk on Washington avenue
to the Palace hotel and to Mrs. BuscE's
boarding house needs repairing, anc
that greatly. So does the sidewalk
around the Griffin orn These repairs
should be made for the good of all con-
cerned, and persons who rent property
and offices there should demand these
repairs from the property owners.
AT the Palace: E. s. Waddles, -. Jc-
seph; L. Blumenthal, New York; Mar
ron Gaylord, Washington, D. c.; 8. Kir-
by, Denver, Colo; Cloyd M. Chapman,
Dolores; r. V. Chapman, Chicago, 7.
G. Saxon, G. s. STEERS. Antonito: Ross
Mcmillan, Santa Fe; c. Il. Doll, Santa
Fe; A. S. Wheeler, Las Vegas; 7. G.
Wing, st. Joseph, Mo-; f. H. M:tiee,
Denver; H. H. Kessler, Denver.
There are some very funny, phases III
the election contests that were recently
brought. In Cerrillos precinct, Sheriff
Kinsefl and Antonio j. Ortiz, contest
ants, charge grave and serious frards;
in Madrid precinct, which gave Kinsell
a majority, he charges no such frauds.
but his running mate, who "a beaten
in that precinct, charges such. When
the Kinsell OK is not gored, frauds are
not charged. Sabe.
The fact that the New Mexican Print-
ing Company did not receive the con-.
tract for the Legislative printing, al
though its bid al absolutely at cost
simply toskeep the work here, employ
printers and help business, will knock
the printers here out Of about $500
worth of wages and merchants out uf
that much trade. And still there arc
jackals in human form here who rejoice
at this and do everything they can TO
hurt the town. its trade, it's advance
ment and it's progress.
Deputy Sheriff w. E. Griffin on Sat-
urday arrested Jose Nazario Garcia for
indecent behavior on the streets, lie
having annoyed pupils Of the Lor IT'D
en-. Judge Garcia to-day sentenced lin
to pay a fine of SIS and costs, in default
of which he will have to serve ninety
days in the county jail.
Population Of New Mexico Towns.