Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1891-09-11
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LoRDsBURG, SEPTEMBER Il, 1891

Conductor Ruffner is enjoying a va
cation.
]. P. Ownby made a Deming trip
this week.
Harry Classen left for San Francisco
Wednesday night.
L. B. DOrnil took in the sights Of
Deming Wednesday.
The round up starts from Duncan
OF fifteenth and works down tne river.
Engineer Kent is enjoying a layof
and Lew Comstock has charge of his.
machine.
The school began last Monday with
a-good attendance. It is a pleasing
sight to see the flag flying every day,
W. II. Marble was over in Silver
City the first OF the week and placed
his two daughters in the Silver City
schools,
g. N. Chase ana his son Yes were in
town Wednesday. Yes left Wednes-
day night for Weatherford, Texas to
attend school.
Charlie Shannon, having tired of
leading a bachelor ~existance in Cliff
ton, last week went after his wife and
on Saturday took herup there.
J. II. Lacy received word Saturday
from the river that he was the father
of a bouncing baby boy and since then
has been correspondlnglY elated.
Charles Fetterly's baby died Monday
night after being sick but a few days
with summer complaint. Mr.. and
Mrs. Fetterly have the sympathy of
their many friends.
The Clifton base ball club had made
extensive arrangements for a visit
from the Solomonville club on the six
teenth, but owing to the Clifton hotel
burning the visit is abandoned.
Howard c. Boon Of Duncan and ].
A. Deemer of Georgetown are nogoti-
ating for a partnership arrangement
which will keep both of them busy at
Duncan in the mercantile business.
W. H. Small left Monday night for
the east intending to be gone about
six weeks. He will take in the Hot
Springs, st. Louis, Chicago, and his
old home down in Posey county, In
diana.
Saturday G. Grenier, who has been
working on the new well for some
time, received word that his wife was
very sicSat their home in Los Ange-
les and took the train for home that
night.
Tuesday night about eleven o'clock
Sam Abraham's hotel at Clifton
caught fire from an overturned lamp
in the room occupied by Mr.. and Mrs.
Al Brewer. The house being wood
and very dry it was impossible to con-
troll the fire and the building was en-
tirely consumed. Most OF the furni-
turs was saved. The contents of
some of the adjacent buildings wee
hurriedly moved out although no 9TH
er building was burned. The con-
tents of the drug store aud p~ostofice
were pretty badly wrecked BY the re-
moyal.
The Southern Pacific and Wells
Fargo Played in hard luck last week
with the train robbers. Tuesday
night a train was held up at Samuels,
near Sanderson, Texas. The robbers
told WlndySmlth to open up the door Of
The express car. Smith is the man who
killed a couple of train robbers near Ell
Paso about four years ago, and not
wanting to lose the prestige of that oc-
curance, refused. The robbers began
shooting through the car, but as
Smith was well protected the shooting
did not worry him much. The robbers
then touched off a dynamite cartridge
at the car window andSmith concluded
he could not stand that kind Of war
fare and so opened the door, on the
robbers promising him that he would
not be harmed. The robbers cleaned
theacar out and then proceeded to the
mail car and took what they wanted.
Smiths friends were surprised to hear
day or so after the robbery that he had
= resigned. 1t was subsequently learn
4 ed that Smith had the combination Of
the through safe which the messenger
was not expected to know and had
been forced to open the safe. Wells
Fargo are reported to have lost sl5,
900 by this robbery. On Thursday
night when the east bound passenger
train from San Francisco near Mo
desto couple of men climbed on the
tender from the baggage carand made
the engineer stop the train. They
tried to force the express a and ex-
ploded some dynamite under it, but
before the express messenger opened
the door Len Harris, the Southern
Pacific detective, who happened TO be
on the train, opened Are on them with
a thirty two caliber Smith s. Wessen