Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1893-01-20
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LoRDsBURa, JANUARY 20, 1898.


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Charlie App went down to El Faso
yesterday on business intent.
1t is expected that the Pyramid
school will open up next Monday.
w. r. Beall was over from Silver
City yesterday to call on his old friend
r. p. Hart.
Charlie Hogset was in town the first
of the week, returning to Clifton from
an eastern visit.
Taxes are due and must be paid by
the last Of this month. If they are
not the sheriff will have to seize and
sell personal property and advertise all
real estate.
Captain Thomas, the Worlds Fair
commissioner of Arizona, passed
through town the first Of the week on
his way to Clifton, to make arrange
ments for collecting specimens of the
minerals Of that section to exhibit at
Chicago.
Receiver Smith, of the defunct FIRST
national banks of Deming and Silver
City, is expected back from the east
about the first of February. 1t is
thought that the affairs Of the insti-
buttons will be settled finally, shortly
after his arrival.
W. A. Leonard, the religious editor,
not the bi-chlorlde of gold editor, of
the Silver City Enterprise, has been
down to Velasco the past week eating
oysters and fish. He finds it beneh-
cial to recuperate his brain with a fish
diet about once a year.
To preserve a youthful appearance
as long as possible, it is indispensable
that the hair should retain its natural
color and %fullness. There is no prepa-
ration so effective as Ayers Hair Wig
or. 1t prevents badness and keeps
the scalp clean, cool and healthy.
Superintendent of Schools Thiel-
man writes the clerk of the Lords
burg school district that he has placed
STOPS to the credit of this district,
the sum coming from the general tax
fund. There were seventy-flve chill
dren returned from this district and
the rate was 1927.
The Silver City Ente rprlse states
that it is reported that President
Charles II. Dane, of the defunct First
national banks of Silver City and Dem
ing, now in jail at Las Cruces, will
shortly be released on bail, awaiting
trial at the coming session of the
United States court.
There is a haunted house in town.
The ghost comes around at four O'Clock
in the morning and pounds the side
of the house with a club and scares
the occupants. The LIBERAL has
made arrangements to have the ghosl
caught and will have it on exhibition
in this Office in a few days.
The many readers of the Liberal
know that the editor had his left Les
cut off about three weeks ago. Thi,
was quite an expensive job, besides
the expense of this operation he haC
spent considerable money trying t
save the leg. Consequently he is hare
up. While in the hospital he mad,
out bills to all the subscribers VIII
were owing the LIBERAL. These bill
will be sent by the same mail as thi
paper. Any subscriber receiving
bill will confer a particular favor to
man who is hard up by rsmitting. /
is seldom that the LIBERAL feel
called on TO dun its subscribers, bu
this is a particular time. Please pun
gle.
By reference to u late telegraph
report, printed on the first page of tC
days issue of the Citizen, it will b
seen that Chicago capitalists are i
session there to-day, for the purpos
of commencing at an early day to in
prove and irrigate ten thousand acre
of land in this territory. A. c
Spaulding, the wealthy base ball mag
nate, is at the head Of the schem,
and this news yerifes the article IL
Citizen printed the other day in refe.
once to the matter. This paper wa
the first to inform the public that NJ
S%paulding was the head Of a syndicat
who made m offer for and finally pu.
chased the Hudson's hot springs, il
Guiding surrounding ground, locate
in Grant county. This purchase Wa
virtually made in the early days {
1891, when Mr.. Spauldlng was advise
through the Citizen that New MexiC
would be a good place for the sprin
practice Of his celebrated Chicago has
ball club, but it takes time to fix U
papers and grant matters in the pu
chase of lands in the southwest an
the final acceptance Of the spring
therefore, was delayed for some tim
Everything is now satisfactory to Il
old and new owners of the propert
and in a very short time the Chical
gentlemen, through Mr. Spauldin