Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1893-07-28
WESTERN LIBERAL.
L%oRpsBURa. July Is. 1893.

this week.
The post Office has received a fine
coat Of white paint.
Alex. Medbury made a Deming trip
the first Of the week.
Miss Daisy Kellum is visiting her
grandparents at Gold Hill.
Charlie Stevens has been sick this
week, but he did not like being sick
he got well.
Earl Kellum has been quite sick
with a fever the past week, butts now
convalescing rapidly.
Collector shannon has appointed J..
W. Schoaeld as deputy at Santa Fe
and Q. L. Betterton chief clerk.
J.. f. Fisher has returned rom a
California trip. Mrs. Fisher and the
little ones will stay some weeks
longer.
Postmaster Snyder Of Gold Hill has
appointed Mrs. williams as deputy
and she now attends to the business
Of the Office.
Col. N. A. Leahy Of Fort Thomas
arrived in town Wednesday, returning
from his trip to the Columbian Ex-
position and his old home in Canada.
1t keens him busy trying to tell all he
saw in Chicago.
One Of the horses driven by y. B:
Schultz the day he was murdered and
taken by his murderers turned up on
his old range between town and Pyra-
mid this week. The horse was in
good condition, looking fully as well
as it did the last time seen in tewn.
The value of a good name was well
exempli6ed the other day, when a
man asked M of our druggists for a
bottle Of Sarsaparilla. "Whose?" in
quired the CLERK. "Whose? why.
Ayers, of course We don't suppose
I'm going to run any risks with Han
nah, do yes"
The tax levy for the coming year is
s22.25 on the thousand dollars, nearly
what is was last year and all guarau-
teed to be legal. The territorial levy
is 81, which is much larger than dur
Ding previous years, although the terri
tory does not have to pay the court
expenses a~sformerly.
Elsewhere in thisjssue will be fouud
the statement Of the Silver City Ma
tional bank When it comes to banks
where the money OF the depositers is
actually safe there are no banks that
take the lead of the Silver City Ma
tional. The deposits amount TO S52,-
627.43, while the cash on hand and
with reserve banks amount to 81, 2l9.-
4S. The depositors cannot get a run
that will have any effect on the insti-
tuition, while President Brockman
and Cashier Carter have charge of it,
1t is rs safe as a safety deposit vault.
THERE are a great many people in
the world who have d different
measure for honesty for different oc-
casiohs and different people. There
are mauy men in this county, and the
LIBERAL counts the editor of the
Headlight as one of them, who would
scorn to rob a mar Of a cent, by mis-
stating his account, making change or
in any other way. If by any mistake
they had caused a person to pay out
TOO much money they would immedl-
ately return it, apologize for the mis-
take ahd promise to use every endcay-
or to prevent its recurrence. But
these men, and the Liberal is sorry
to see that the editor of the Headlight
is one eff them, look on money paid in
to the hands of county officials by a
mistake made by the territorial and
county tax leyying officers, in an en-
tirely different light. The Headlight
argues that u county commissioners
made a great mistake in bringing the
matter into court, where it was prop
erly decided that a mistake had been
made, and that the money should be
returned to the people who had paid
too much money for taxes. The
Headlight further argues that the
commissioners made a mistake be-
cause in the same case the Judge deei-
ded that for many years this county
and other counties had been leyying
too great a rate. In other words it
was a mistake for the county commits
sioners to find out what the law was
and obey it. The Liberal hardly
thinks the editor of the Headlight re-
ally appreciates the stand he took. 1t
looks more as though he wanted to
take a fall out Of the commissioners
and thought this was his best chance.
II the editor really wanted to have
the money turned into the county
treasury and used for county expenses
he should have used his influence
with Col. Lockhart and had him turn
the money vel to the county treasur-
or according to law instead Of buying
cattle to feed in Kansas. II Col.
Lockhart had never held the money
out the suit would have been unneces.
A.. "