Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1889-08-23
WESTERN LIBERAL.
D AUGUST %, 1889.

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DR.. Simpson has mounted a fine new
sign.
Jas. o~alguhoun of Clifton was in the
city Monday.
Only GAS voter we're cast in Grant coun-
ty.-Enterprise.
John Jeffords was up from Hachita this
week on business.
Mrs. b. S. Horton has about recovered
from her recent lines.
Thos R. Fox, the Mayor Of Stems Pass,
was in the city Tuesday.
W. K. Smith was up from Hachita yes
terday. He reports the Dugout as being
finer than ever.
r. p. Hart, assignee of Classen Bros,
has a very interesting communication in
another column.
There was an ice famine Sunday but
Cbarly App secured "a supply from FL Poso
on the evening train.
DR.. Simpson has received word that his
baby is very sick, in Los Angles, from an
attack of cholera morbus.
Genial Jc3 Leahy of Lordsburg paid
friends in Clifton and Longfellow a well
come visit last Saturday and Sunday #
Clifton Clarion.
There will be children's service at the
church this evening. The little ones are
making many preparations for it and 1t
probably will be very interesting.
Sheriff Whitehll captured Col. Mike
Crouin, the fugitive commissioner Of lin
coin county, and when he found there was
no rI%sard offered for him turned HIM
looseA
In bA secretary's Office at Santa Re a
charsr mas been Gled for the Southwestern
publAhiSg companyj incorporators, &. g..
Capital tock $4,000. Principal place of
business, Deming.
Uncle" John McCarty came into town
this week and the first thing be noticed
was a couple Of boys barefooted. Uncle
John don'tlike this, even in hot weather,
so he took the boys off and bought each
of them a pair Of new shoes.
A Lofdsburg contractor made an offer
the other day to dig a ditch afooL deep for
a cent ard a quarter a foot. He got the
contract. Yesterday he worked from 4 "a.
m. until dark and earned 65 cents. There
is nothing like being a contractor.
The chief of the fire department brought
it out for a p;actice run Friday night.
The boys did not anticipate the call, nev-
ertheless, from the time the alarm was
sounded until they had water through the
bose was less than three minutes.
The mary friends of j. NJ. Hawkins,
-formerly Of the Enterprise, will be pleased
to leara that he has become a father. You
nav brag about the New Mexico climate
bot J. NJ. insists that for business pug-
poses there is no climate like that produc-
ed n Iowa.
The Spiders have instituted a branch
lodge at Hudson's hot springs. The king
and chief organizer having gone down
there for the purpose of opening it. This
branch will, undoubtedly, prove very
handy for the regular members ard We
predict will be one of the most popular in
the county.
The laws passed by the last legislature
have been delivered to the justices of the
peace but as they are not accompanied by
diagrams or illustrations it is impossible
to tell wha, they are all about. For in
stance: There is a law which says that
any body found in a %''trippling shop is a
vagrant but neither Webster's dictionery
nor Judge Graves knows what Tripping
shop" is.
Does any one know what kind of water
is in the springs in the Black Range2 A
prominent citizen row located up there re-
Gently wrote to a gentleman at Separ and
enclosed his letter in an envelope directed
to a Lordsburg gentleman. The Lords
burg man who received the letter says the
mistake is natural one to be made when
a man has been drinking Black Range
spring water.
The other morning a couple of stran.
gers marched mp to a prominent bar in
the city and invited everybody in tbC
house to come up and drink. This unex.
pected generosity blinded the barkeepel
and he did not notice the seedynppearaucc
of his customers, and everybody drank
The barkeeper was greatly Disguised t.
be requested to ''mark it down. and turn
Sing to the men who had accepted the invi
tation said, ''you fellows ought to have
had more sense than to drink with sucl
old buns"
Mat. McCebe, of New Brunswick, ILL.,.
offers to pay five dollars to any person
troubled with bloody aux, who will TAX,
Chamberlain collie, colera and diarrhoe'
remedy according to directions and doe
not get well in the shortest possible time
One half of a 25 cent bottle Of this RENE
dy cured him of bloody fox, after he hq'
tried other medicines and the prescription
of physicians without benefit. Mr.. Me
Cabe is perfectly safe in making this offer