Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1890-01-24
WESTERN LIBERAL.
FRIDAY. JANUARY "a. 1880.


Syringe. Arkansas to recuperate.
DR.. ". H. Vance. Tss IN the city Fri
day, en- route to OHIO TO visit bis wife.
The Shakespeare ladies are making ex-
ten'ive preparation for the basket social
The next legal holiday is the one sacred
To- tie mepory Of st. Valentine, bless bis
memory.
Coz Ryan. who mas been working at Ha
enita for SOme uqntks. has returned to
Lordsburg.
Governor Prince has appointed W. C..
TontiRa notary public with h%eadquarters
a, Gold Hill.
Tommy Darkin. wellknown to many 8,
1eaaxille Tommy, died in the Silver City
hospital last week.
Silver City has been entertaining pain
less dentists, rop-, walkers aud a Mexican
circus che past week.
The Socorro smelter people have started
q company store and u tewnsite. much to
the disgust Of the denizens Of that lively
town.
Two lunches oF,sstGe have been driven
through town this week.. from Arizona
! yeinls bound .or the Santa Fe road at
fleming.
indge CHM and DR.. Warner have return
ed trou Washington but brosxht neither
statehood nor the Silver City posto flee
with them.
InAbs lineof news as wella as Of business.
Obi, section Of the moral vineyard lRfs been
for the past week what might be called
"mighty quiet"
r. P. Hart and Thos. Woods made a
trip to the Buiro mountains this week and
teport the weather about twenty degrees
colder there than in Lordsburg.
Col. Il. c.. Boon expects to move into his
/, new store tins week. The store is said to
he one Of the 6nsst in the Gila valley and
the colonel is very proud of the new edi-
fee.
The railroad boys 1t Benson are pretty
well knocked out with Ia grippe aud J. L.
puuley has gone up to help them out.
During his absence J. W. Corners does
bis work here. :
Col. Bowman, the special land agent
who wa here last week. informs the LIE
RAL that when the land for the Lords
burg townEite WAS paid for the price was
only ST % per acre instead Of $3.50 which
was the amount paid. The colonel thinks
that the trustees can secure the return OF.
the amount over-paid.
". A. Leonard of the Enterprise has.
Aoen nuted az an enthusiastic boomer for
statehood. The ouly argument against it
vhich he would not easily refute was the
claim that there were not enough inhabi-
tauts. Now b. has got an irrefutabie ar.
gument in that direction Ten days ago
his fanhly consisted Of bat two mentors.
Lass Friday his @ite presented hun with a
iounciag baby boy. The Gmily now com
sists OF three. I'm Increase Of City per cent
in Il short time. Pink CLAIMS thut with
this increase IN the the population tue ter
ritory is prepared to be a SLATE. The
nurse states that the young Enterprise Is
like lis dad-"pink.'
Col. D. A. EawoAsn Of Tucson. special
agent IF the hand department in the place
OF the uulanIehted Slater, was 10 the city
Friday, having been to Duncan 10 %inyrsti-
gate Word & Courtney's land entries.
Slater held these entries for cancellation,
claiming that Ward T. Courtney had not
fnlllled the requirements OF the law. Col.
bowman made a careful i%nvrsiigation and
came to the conclusion that they had done
all the law required in regard co lhelr en-
tries and in fact a great deal more. Ooi.
Bowman will recomMtnd that all charges
against Ward & Courtney be dismissed.
The colonel was the first person to discover
the crookedness Of Receiver Smith o. the
Tucson land osice and Of Receiver Browne
of the Las Cruces Office. he says that
8rowae is not 10 very deep and hat he
viii probably be able to pay out before
proceedings are commenced against him.
Last Friday night Engineer Ed Allis
wis pulling a freight tram east. When
at Separ he had to get under the engine
aud pack a bot box on one of the trucks.
This is a pretty tight place to get into, a.
man having little room to move and Is
right under the end OF the boiler. The
engines noW in use are supplied with spark
.arresters and smoke consumers and every
few miles the accumulation has to be
dumped. This trip Allis had a green FIRE
man. known as Bottsrord. the soldier.
The fireman concluded to dump bis sparks
End never locked around to see where Allis
was. Unfortunately he was right under
the trap door and two or three bushels Of
cihders, live Goals ana hot ashes came
down on him. burning him terribly. lie
managed to get out more dead Than alive.
The principal burns were on his hands
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