Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1890-11-07
NEWS NUGGETS
varions Items Of News Gathered from Our
ExeAangss and other ssurce..

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/ oThe railway employees of the coun
try, represented by organizations Of
engineers flremen, conductors, switch
men and trainmen, have united in a
federation. This is the age of com.
binatlon and federation.
The rapid progress which is being
made in applying continuous ali
brakes TO freight cars indicated by the
fact that the Westinghouse automatic
brake is in use on 100000 freight cars,
which is about ten per cent Of the
entire freight car equipment of this
country.
The United States government was
never entirely out OF debt, but during
the closing years of Jackson's service
in the presidency its obligations
amounted to only about S37 900.
This was in 1885 and 1885, when the
national debt reached the lowest
figure it ever touched.
The United States express compony
has issued peremptory orders to all
agents not to receive money, tickets
or lists Of drawings from the Louisi.
ana lottery or in any way to assist
in the transportation Of the lottery
business.
El Paso Herald Professor r. T.
Hill, who recently made the examina-
tion of the mesa and other points
adjacent to this city to determine the
best point at which the city might
bore for artesian water ard who soon
thereafter resigned his position on the
state geological survey on Monday last
received from the agricultural depart
ment at Washington telegraphic in
formation of his appointment as geol-
ogist for Texas, the Indian Territory
and New Mexico. to investigate the
the subject Of artesan wells. The
salary is good one.
Rustler: For the last time. we ask
you, young man, arc YOU coming west?
If not-go to thunder. and We will
commence playing on tie imagination
of the young women If they can be
started you'll follow, and perhaps our
mistake was in not adopting this plan
before. Young woman, oh, young
woman, come west.
Ration Range: Last Monday even
ing Mr. William Nisch and his 1G year
old daughter Of Johnson's mesa, were
returning from Folsom. The daughter
was driving one team and the father
another. The daughter was in front
and was overtaken by blizzard. She
lost the road and her father managed
to get home and found his daughter
had not arrived. The blizzard violent
ly continued through the night and
but little Roadway could be made in
searching for the young lady. She
was found dead Tuesday, about twen-
ty miles east of here, frozen to death.
She had managed to unhitch the
horses and turn them loose before she
became exhausted.
Eddy Argus: Charles w. Greene,
who has been nearly all over the world
during the past two years and inspect
ed hundreds of irrigation works, de-
clares that the works of the Pecos
Irrigation and Improvement company
are the largest and most substantial
he has seen.
StOckman: J. Liberman s. Co. are
the largest forwarding house in Ari-
iona. They do nearly all of the
freighting business between Wilcox
and Globe. The shipment of coke to
the two mining companies alone, now
in operation at Globe, amount to
nearly 700 tons "A month. The freight
ing capacity is about $50 tons month.
The freighting capacity is being large
ly increased. j. Lieberman & Co. are
the forwarding agents for the COM
panies. They hayerecently purchased
100 Balm wagons and q number of
mules and horses which they will add
TO the 400 wagons already on the road.
This firm has been the forwarding
agents Of the Globe Copper Companies
since they first began operations and
they have handled millions Of dollars
in property for these concerns, which
fact speaks volumes for them.
+. w. Smsth has returned to Las
Cruces from the east. 1t is under
stood that he failed to raise money to
build the big canal owing to the un-
settled state of affairs in New Mexi- |
20 and its refusal 20 adopt statehood !
BY order Of the treasury department. |
-he first national bank of Santa Fe
was made a adepositOr for u ted states !
'unds.
Life is kIiseay
70 thousands Of people who have the
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