Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1891-03-13
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LoRDsBURG, MARCH 10, 1891.

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The nrst through train from the
west arrived Monday.
Mrs. A. Woods went up to Duncan
Tuesday to visit Mrs. Boon.
James Carr has been in town this
week looking ove his horses.
DR., Woods was down from Duncan
the first OF the FIRST of the week.
Sheriff Lockhart turned 90, 900 over
to the territorial treasurer last week.
The Southern Pacific pay car got
through the washout and greeted the
boys Tuesday.
In another column will be found the
card Of Reckhart & Heckelman, the
FL paso assayers.
NJ. w. McGrath has purchased the
corral and the building occupied by
the express office.
]. W. Edwards of Ell Paso was in the
city The first of the week looking at
several ore dumps.
Barney Scion and W. L. Cheney
spent most Of last in Deming helping
out the a repairers.
Lord Hussey is over from Silver
City to adjust the loss occasioned by
the fire last Sunday night.
The McGrath brothers returned to
Las Cruces Saturday after spending a
pleasant weeks vacation at home.
r. P. Hart writes that he has dis
pensed with his crutches and Is now
figuring on a fourth Of July dance.
VIM. Church was down from
Morenci Friday looking for lumber, Of
which he had run short since the wash
out.
A. Gallardo of Deming has been
suffering from the grip and came up
30 Lordsburg to visit his brother
Ramon while convalescing.
On Friday and and Saturday of last
week we had a sample Of as severe
weather as had been enjoyed during
the winter. There were several snow
squalls.
Cashier Siebold of the Deming bank
has been very sick and came near
passing in instead of paying checks.
THE LIBERAL is glad to know he is on
the road to recovery.
To-day is the day Of the great
Kelley-Devine prize fight, and il moth
ing happens it is probable they are
fthumping each other at the time this
paper is being printed.
Last Sunday night fire caught in the
wooden row on the north side Of the
railroad and burned up six frame
houses which were occupied byvarious
people engaged in divers occupations.
The loss was about seven hundred
dollars.
Herb McGrath was in FL Paso Satur-
day night en- route to the Agricultural
college at Las Cruces Herb had his dog
Sport with him and went to the Grand
Centralt to putup. The clerk told Herb
that the dog would have to stay out
side. Herb would not listen to it and
made a vigorous talk for Sport, the
clerk tried TO argue with him that it
was impossible to let a dog go into a
in a first class hotel and he could not
permit it, Herb said the dog was a
we'll behaved one, an ornament to any
parlor and that if the dog had
to stay out doors he would stay
out also. The clerk, rather than see
Herb sleep in the park finally gave his
consent to having the dog occupy the
the room with his master.
During the recent floods Lum Hall
the popular Albuquerque broker was
caught at Prescott with a number Of
other travelling men and had to stay
there nearly a week. Some of the
travellers got tired of staying there and
made arrangements to get out.
Teams were hired, trunks were pack
ed, provisions secured and the gang
started for the Atlantic & Pacific
road, about eighty mile away. After
travelling all day they had only made
25 miles and discovering a building
concluded to stay all night. After
getting something to eat they pro-
ceeded to make arrangements for sleep
ing. The house had been built some
time and the joints. were rather large,
consequently the wind, which was
sharp blew through the travelling
mems whiskers. They went to work
TO chink up the holes and got the
place reasonably tight except one big
crack, and for IL they had no chink.
Paul Wielandy = st. Louis pilgrim
picked Lum up and carefully tucked
him into the crack, and the house was
as tight as a drum, Lum protested
and said his back was getting cold.
The other pilgrims told him 1t was a
case of the greatest good to the
greatest number and his cold back
kept all the rest Of them warm.
When taken out in the morning he
was a little stiff, and, metaphorically