Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1891-10-30
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LoRDsBURe, OCTOBER 80, 1891


Cow Inspector Williams was IN
Lordsburg yesterday inspecting.
Mrs. b. s. Roberts is not GONZALES
cling as rapidly as he rfriends expected
Jas. McCabe was in from the Animas
Tuesday hunting for the LA roundup.
]. p. Ownby has extended the bond
on the well to the railroad company
to December 31st.
Mrs. H. NJ. b. Goliath presented
her husband with a handsome and
lusty girl Tuesday night.
Work on the railroad well was sus-
pended for a few days this week
owing to lack of powder.
The boys, some of them Bcod sized
ones to, have been having lots of fun
the past week flying kites,
Tomorrow is the last day to pay the
pol tax, on Monday suits will be be-
gun against everyone who has not
paid.
Tomorrow night is halloween and
the ghosts of various kinds are expect
ed to walk with the usual yigor on that
occasion.
r. P. Hart came in from the round
up on the ella and reports the range
in fair condition ana the calf crop a
good one.
VIM. Beall and Guerdon Bradley
were over from Silver City this week.
Beall was looking for mines and
Bradley for wood.
Col. Donegan shipped about 10000
pounds of wool this week the clip
from 2, 400 sheep and ], 0 Olambs. This
is a pretty fair six months fleece.
Mrs. Lacy Of Clifton and her cousin,
Mrs. Mclaughlin of San Pedro, New
Mexico, were in the city Saturday, en-
route from Clifton to San Pedro for a
visit.
Lordsbnrg pungled between SLIGO
and $1,000 for = taxes this week.
Collector Baca says his receipts, on
Wednesday were the largest Of the
season.
e. Swayne, who is a civil engineer
connected with superintendent
Hawgood's office, was in the city the
first of the week, and went out and in
spected the work on the well.
m MS Beck, the well known pass
enger conductor and Miss Mary Paul
of El Paso were married 10 that city
last week, TOMS many bachelor
friends IL 81 Plso are m1urHing his
loss.
Harry Classen returned from his
California trip Tuesday niEht, looking
fatter and stronger than he has foT
years. California; climate seems to
have a beneficial effect OF ccrtall de-
icate organisms.
Nrs. J. w. Hamilton, Miss J.. Herd
man and Miss Alice Tidball left on
Monday evening for the Gst. They
will visit in several places and finally
bring up at GAINESVILLE, Ohio. They in
tend being gone several months.
District court meets at Silver City
on the 9th, q week fromuext Monday.
The fund for the payment Of jurors
and witnesses is said to be very short
and the term Of court viii probably be
equally short and denoted m1stlysto
jail cases.
THE RELAXING of about forty miles
OF trick east Of YumaHis in fine pro
gress. Several hundred men are at
the work, in small crews. Some are
grading and others laying ties. Rails
are being uuloaded at Yuma for the
new track.
Joe Leahy and Miss Minnie McGinn
were married at Portsmouth, Ontario
last Wednesday morning at three
o'clock and took the morning train for
the west. 1t is expected that they
will show up in Lordsburg about next
Th6rsaay or Friday.
The drill of the Pyramid company is
sinking is now down nearly four
hundred feet. AT eighty feet water was
struck which kept the shaft full but
did not rise onu At nhout Three
- rect mere water wa struci
which raised the water to within forty
feet Of the surface and all the efforts
of the sand pump cannot lower IL any.
superintendent Hamilton has had
considerable trouble with the drill ana
with the professional well borers he
has had at work on the we'll. One of
them lost the stem in the we'll and he
had TO send to Pennsylvania for fish
ing tools, another lost the whole string
Of tools in the well, the third one lost
the bit off the end Of the stem
and pounded away On il
with the end of the stem long
enough to batter,it all out Of shape.
Whenever any OF these experts made a
blotch Of the work John James was
called away from RUNNING tho Midland