Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-08-21

gained too much headway by the time
the department arrived and the struct
ure was totally destroyed. Inc loss
was estimated at 5000.
w. d. McFerran, route agent
for the Wells Fargo Express company,
left this mornirg for Denver to attend
the funeral of his friend Superintend-
ent C. II. Young. which Will occur to-
morrow afternoon.
w. e. Durlavy. Of the Dunlavy Mer-
camille compa, operating stores
along The line o. ne Santa Fe Cen
trail. returned TO santa Fe this morn
ing, after spending saturday and Sun
day in the city on business.
Gregory page, the Gallup hotel man,
accompanied by Mrs. Page, arrived in
the citv las night from an extended
visit to the pacific coast. They spent
the day here visiting friends and will
return to their home tonight.
Rev. ]. N. Sollie, pastor of the
Highland Methodist church, left last
night for Gallup. where he was called
to o%ficiate at a Wedding. He will also
attend the quarterly conference of the
church, now in session at Gallup.
Captain A. W. Kimball returned last
night from a short business trip to
Chicago. Captain Kimball has been
connected with the quartermaster's
department. U. S. A., at Manila, for
the past three years, and is enjoying
a furlough of several months.
Miss Della j. Sisler, of Emporia,
has arrived in the city and will fill
the position of librarian at the New
Mexico university during the coming
school year. Miss Sisler was formerly
Librarian at the Illinois state uni
versity, and therefore, has had thor
ough training in her work.
Hon. Solomon Luna. who attended
the national reciprocity convention at
Chicago las week as a delegate from
New Mexico. returned to Albuquerque
last night. Mr.. Luna reports that the
convention was largely attended and
very successful. He will look after
business here for several days and
then proceed to his home at Los
Lunas.
r. w. Seery, commissary agent for
the Lantry-ShaIp Construction COM
pany, at Belen on the Santa Fe cutoff,
was in Albuquerque yesterday and wit
messed the ball game at Traction
park. Mr.. Seery says that Belen has
a very good team, but it is awful hard
to get them out together, which makes
practice and playing tedious and un-
successful.
Street Commissioner Martin Tier
ney today let the contract for his new
two-story residence to be erected on
his lots at The corner of Fifth street
and Fruit avenue. Contractor A. w.
Hayden secured the contract for the
house, ]. l.. Bell & company the
plumbing and NJ. Nash the electrical
wiring. The residence will cost in
the neighborhood of $4,000.
II. Fletcher Neighbors, of Washing
ton, d. c., private secretary to Elfnu
Root, the nations new secretary of
state, and Frank Foraker, a leading
attorney of New York, are spending
a few days in the' city the guests of
United States Marshal G. M. Foraker.
The gentlemen are enjoying their an
nual vacation and will visit the upper
Pecos country and the Grand Canyon
before returning east.
Hon. Alfred Grunsfeld, chairman of
the Bernalillo board of county COM
missioners, returned Saturday night
from a business trip east. Mr.. Gruns-
field said today that the commission
ers would hold a meeting on the first
Monday in september for the regular
transaction Of business. While in the
east Mr.. Grunsfeid visited the dry
goods markets of New York and Bos-
ton and purchased goods for the
Wholesale house of Grunsfeld Broth
ers, of which he is a member.