Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1889-06-07

rBtnAyyJxE 7. 1889
Dance tonight.

y. IL. walker wants 70 De p0sgmaster at
Silver City.
Maurice Downey Wa down from H4-
ehita Monday.
Silver City is going 10 have a big cels-
brAlion the Fourth.
L. N. Comstock and family made an 81
Paso visit this week.
John A. Miller was in town Saturday
on bis way TO Clifton.
J.. Il. LonsmAid vas in the city Tuss-
day. hound for Tucson.
Col. N. J. Esln Of Clifton wan in the
city Tuesday on his way to Tucson.
We understsnd that Tom Woods has
authenticated ihs Gold Hill mail route.
The Hart Brothers are outing a steam
pump on the well at their slaughter house
below town.
The CA oatst is drisinR 2,O0O head Of
cattle from the Coronado ranch to the In
dian nation.
Mrs. G. s. Krllum and Der daughters,
Misses Minnie and Daisey, are rusticating
ut Gold Hill.
Master Braaible owuby has bloomed
out in all the glories of a bran new nickle
plated tricycle..
Nicol Brothers this week sold 500 bead
OF cattle to w. NJ. Lacey of Kansas. 1t a
satisfactory price.
The as% keeping wowen oat Of the So
looms is rigidly enforced in this section Of
the moral vineyard.
The Rev. H. J. FurneauS vail preach at
Shakespeare Sunday morning and at L rds-
burg in the evening.
E. Taylor Perry, the eT dude cowboy OF
The 8arro mountain and ella country, was
dn tbecity this week.
Thos. Foster staid in town but a couple
Of days, and then returned to Silver City
on important business.
Operator Gibson. formerly Of Separ il
now day operator here and Sloan is once
uore on the night desk.
Franh Proctor is nursing a sick hand.
caused by y silver Of steel becoming i'm
bedded in one of his fingers.
Mrs. Ralph FettsfEgas up from Lordsburg
on a visit to her sister in-law Mrs. Chas.
Fvtterly. -Piuos Altos Miner.
J. p. Ownby this week purchased the
houses owned by Lucy Washington. Lucy
lnteadr to remove to Silver CITY.
Ticket Agent Elliott of the Boston &
Maine road at Bangor, Name, was in thu
city Sunday on q trip for bis health.
Last FRIDAY this section was visited bs
an earthquake which wao felt from FL Pa-o
TO Benson. No damage is reported.
J. E, Hussey, who has been mining ia
Cow springs district tor some months past.
left thiS week for Ireland Enterprise.
On the Southern Pacific engines red
paint has been succeeded by black. Con-
sequently John Bruce's engine looks more
like a hearse than a band wagon.
In another column will be found the adj
yertisment of the Railroad saloon which
has been opened this week o. Harry Simp-
son. Harry Is a popular caterer aud Is
picking up n eoodbusiness.
County officers while IN the discharge Of
their duties often encounter serious diff
c%ulties. For instance. Last Saturday As
SCISSOR Classen. while en- route from Dem
ing to Lordsburg had to stop over at Spar
TO count a newly httehed brood Of chick
~na on a hen ranch bhsre, so ia to correct
his assessment roll. H. expected to have
10 stay there a couple OF heurs and then
catch a freight train for Lordsburg. The
freight train caue along, but it had no
business at srpar and SO went by al the
rate Of about 40 miles an hour and thu
assessor wa left. Separ hH no hotel, res
taurant nor lodging house and a supper
less bed on the prairie staged Ciassen in
lhe face. However, the station agent
took compassion on him and divided lunch
with him and allowed him to pick out a
soft plank in the freight shed 10 sleep on.
When he got home the next day he simpl,
CALCULATED: what a time"
Last Saturday evening Wm. Polk, the
we'll known Arizona & New Mexico en-
Rlneer, went down to Tucson and returned
Monday morning. While in the cheated
city" there was a spseial meeting Of the
lodge of the brotherhood Of locomotive
engineers and Billy was indicted into the
myatr1ss Of the order. After he had been
obligated and had received the password
and grip he war brought up on the carpet
before the superintendent who proceeded
IN jack him up. The superintendent also
gave him considerable good advice in re
gard TO running an engine and how to con-
duct himself on the life trip. Billy is not
much stpck on good advice anyway, but he
.stOod 4bis as long as he could ard then
broke 10 and said; "Your advice may bt
very good and just what u needed where a
pan il running a barber pole engine on a
broad gauge road. but il u man should try
10 work an engine that way on a slim
gauge road bis engine would leave the
right Of way and try 70 climb up a noun
tain" Just here the Hon. Jack 0'Brien