Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1891-08-28

lulo Mtths
The city was visited with a fine dust
storm Wednesday.
G. S. Kellum made a Deuing trip
the first OF the week.
C.F. Gafaner is the name of tL new
operator at Che Southern Pacific
depot.
Jas. Sterling is making some needed
repairs on the pink house to make it
ready for rent.
There is to bea dance at Gold IIill
this evening and the indications are
It will be well attended by Lords
burgers.
j.. @. Bartlett's family moved to.
Clifton Wednesday, to be with NIr.
Bartlett, WHO'S working on the Cop
per King works.
j. Moore's family arrived in town
Wednesday night. They have moved
into ono OF the houses rear Col. Nc
WARTS old place.
Some Of the posters for the Albu-
querdue fair have been posted in town
and are handsome specimens Of the
photographers art.
The post Office at Ricolite is to be dis
continued on the 3Ist Of this month.
The trip out to day is the last n the
mail carrier win make.
The Fort Cummings cattle COM
pany, formerly the Carpenter-Stauley
company, is selling off its cattle and
intends going out Of business.
Judge Bennett wishes to have all
mineral specimens for the Fair in his
hands by September lst as he viii
ship them to Albuquerque on the 5th.
An effort was made last week to
close up the Red blight saloon in El
Paso, hut w. S. Barnum was a little
too much for the officers and SO con
tinues t. run it.
Or. Wright who was the company
physician at Morenci until about a
year ago and who is now proprietor Of
adrug store in southern California,
was in the city this week shaking
hands with old friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace were down
from Clifton Tuesday, Mrs. Wallace
took the evening train for the cast to
visit friends in Canada, with whom
she viii stay about six weeks. 5Ir.
Wallce returned to Clifton Wtdues-
day.
Few children q be Induced to
take physlc without a struggle, and nc
wondcr-most drugs are extremely
n~auseatlng Ayers Pills, on tae con-
trary, being s~ugar-coated, are easily
swallowed by the little ones, and are.
thetato-e, the ~fayorite family medi-
cine.
1t win be remembered by some Of
the-older Inhabitants that a few years
ago there was a stop and bottom
gang in Lordsburg that was in the
habit of gathering in the emigrants
of the second class coaches, inyeiglc
them into throwing california dice
with the result that they managed to
drop all their surplus cash. The
shining lights Of the gang were the
Ashton brothers, Harry Williams and
ed Sullivan. They would relieve a
man of his surplus cash on a SURF thing
bet without any conjunction Of CON
science and gave Lordsburg such a
hard name that the railroad company
found it necessary to put placards in
the second class cars warning the peo-
pie not to get Off the cars at Lords
burg, for If they did they would surely
be robbed. Finally the railroad com
pany put the second class passengers
on the regular passenger train which
did not stop here long enough for the
sure thing gang to get IN its work and
the members gradually drifted away
and Lordsburg again was a safe place
for a man to get off a train without
Keeping his hands in his pockets.
Rumors Of the gang have come back
to Lordsburg at intervals since they
left and It vas only a few months ago
that Sullivan was in town selling
shirts for a San Francisco manufac-
turer. 1t has recently transpired
that there isan accomplished bunco
gang in El Paso which seems to be
under the protection Of the police OF
that town, atleast it is never molested.
The gang have side workers out on all
the roads and before a train arrives
they receive kilograms informing
them who are on the trains that prob.
ably can be worked. The buncO gapg
appear when the train arrives at the
depot and ifthofeis a sucker aboard
they are liable to bump his head. II
was only last week they took a man
across the river aud worked the panel
game on him to tie extent OF Twelve
hundred dollars. Two Of the gang
are e~x-Lordsburg dealers, Harry
Williams and Sullivan. El Paso is a