Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1891-01-30
WESTERN LIBERAL.
FRIDAY, U 30. 1891.
slravberrIea and rIpe lomatuea thIs

week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chase, from the
Anlmas were in town the first Of the
week.
Miss Allie Keesee suffered quite
serious injuries from a fall, at Ger
rillos.
Deemers store at Georgetown burn
ed last week. Loss $4,000, Insurance,
$1,000.
Lordsburg missed the p%roverbial
January thaw, it had a January freeze
instead.
President Sherman and his brother,
DR.. Sherman, were down from Clifton
Wednesday.
Charley WILCOX has purchased a
Columbia bicycle and Jim Gibson is
breaking il in.
d. c. Roberts made IN FL Paso trip
this week for the purpose Of inter
viewing the smeltcr men.
Steve Donegan got of a broncho
while down in the Animas this week.
DR.. Simpson set the dislocated
shoulder.
The new time table of The Arizona
g. New Mexico road, which takes eff
feet next Monday, appears in this
weeks paper.
Fred Smith, the d~efaulting receiver
Of public money at Tucson has been
located at Windsor Canada, and will
be e~xtradited.
The dance at the Arlington last Sat
urday evening was the most enjoyable
one yet. The dancing was not inter
rupted by singing.
Dominic Furneaux writes that the
Apaches have not got him yet and
that ne will be here in the flesh Sun
day and preach as usual.
Harry Rapp, a former resident Of
Lordsburg, and a fayorite where ever
known, was married to a Los Angeles
belle on the 18th Of this month.
Dr.. King, the dentist, writes the
LIBERAL that he win be in town in a
few days prepared to put all kinds Of
fancy touches on rebellious teeth.
Col. Huling stopped drilling on his
well when il was oyer four hundred
feet deep and contained about TWO
hundred feet OF water. Piping has
been put down and pumping COM
menced, but the well has not run dry.
Cab Conway is almost ready for
housekeeping, but he will not tell
when he intends to start after the
housekeeper. The reason is obvious.
As soon as lie commences housekeep-
ing, a half dozen determined men will
resolutcly set out from Silver City to
chiyerie him. Years ago they swore
that they would got even with him if
they had TO follow him TO the end or
the earth.-Eddy Argus.
Last Saturday D.. II. Bonner, who
was working for Col. Huliag at Shak-
speare, started from Tie min for the
boarding house horseback, AS he was
going down the hill the horse fell and
threw Bonner who landed square On
the top Of his head. The skull was
broken and he suffered from concus-
sion Of the brain. Or. Simpson at
tended him and reports that ne is
much improved, but is still far from
being out OF danger.
J. NJ. Harper, the post master at
Riccolite, was in town Saturday. Mr..
Harper says they have a post Office
out at Rlccolite but have no regular
mail. 1t is sent whenever and how
over it happens. He has laid out a
new road to Lordsburg which is
shorter and better than the roads
from his camp to silver City or Car
Isle, and trusts that a mail route win
soon be established to connect the
two places, Riccolite is becoming one
Of the most Important camps in the
county.
l.. b. Durnil returned from his east
ern trip this week. He is greatly
enamored with the lead mines In Mis-
souri, and has bought lGOacres OF mine.
In that country the mining is very
simple. Wherever there is a draw or
valley the miners dig down and find
the lead in nuggets ranging In size
from a bullet to big ones Weighing a
ton or more and all the miner has to
do is dig it out and sell it. The mines
are not deep and none Of them have
as yet gone below bed rock. What
deep work will produce is still a mys-
terry, although they will soon find out.
1t is no country for a laboring man as
wages are only SIPS per day.
There is running ia the Sentinel an
advertisement of the delinquent taxes
Of Grant county, signed by ex-sheriff
Whitehill. When Sheriff Lockhart
took possession of the sherlf's Office
he did not appear to be suited with
the advertisement in the Sentinel and
so wrote out one to suit himself. The
0ov hoodloccH ~ Hro,t Cunt,