Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1895-03-22
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LoRDsRURa. MARoH 2. lsas.

Mrs. John Duncan left for Big
Springs, Texas, Wednesday to join her
husband.
DR.. Hagen returned from San Fran
cisco Monday. Mrs. Hagen and the
children will remain there for some
time visiting.
Rev. j. H.. Angel writes that he will
preach at the Lordsburg church next
Sunday at II q. m. and 1880 p. m. All
are invited to attend.
Last week Mrs. w. b. Conner sold
her cattle and brand, Bill, to N. A.
Daniel. The cattle are estimated to
number one hundred.
There was a lively little race on the
fiat Sunday afternoon between T.. J..
Coggin's bUckskin horse and John
%Johnson's grey The buckskin was a
little too fast for the grey.
j. II. O'Conner, who has been tele-
graph operator at the depot for some
time, went 10 to the hospital at Tue
son Saturday, to recover from a case
Of the grip. Mr.. Bangs is doing his
work.
The Southern Pacific business at
this point has picked up to such an
extent that ]. r.. Ownby could not at
tend to all the work in the yard, so he
was given win Shine as a helper. Mr..
Porter is now working 10 the depot 10
Mr.. Shines place.
This is the time Of the year when
subscriptions are being renewed to the
periodicals. The LIBERALis prepared
to forward the subscription money for
any p%eriodisal in the United States or
Europe, and save the subscriber the
trouble and expense of forwarding the
money himself. Subscriptions re-
ceived at publishers prices.
p. ]. Bolan died at Rodonda, Cali
f%ornia, last week. His death was
caused by falling down stairs. Mr..
Bolan was formerly a we'll known aud
popular Arizonan, living at Solomon
vile, where for a time he was district
attorney. He was very popular among
his acquaintance, all Of whom will be
sorry to hear Of his death.
Monday night about nine O'Clock an
alarm Of Ore was sounded, and it was
soon found that Matt Dullahan's resi-
dence, in the rear of Clark's saloon,
was in flames. The building was a
small board affair and burned like tin
der. There was quite a wind, blowing
from the south, but it was net strong
enough to carry the sparks to any OF
the neighboriug buildings. In a few
minutes the building was consumed.
AS to how the lre started is a mys-
terry. Dullahan had not been in the
building for some time, and had not
had a fire all day. He said the build
ing was not locked, and IL may be that
2 tramp had gone In and accidentally
set hre to the structure.
Last Saturday evening Mrs. B. w.
Clair was out visiting. on her return
home she found that some one had at
tempted TO enter the house at the
back door. The screen door was cut
and broken open, there we're marks Of
blood on it, aud a large pocket knife
was found on the ground. About niue
o'clock Mr.. Clair had gone to the house
on an errand, and the suppusition is
that the burglar was trying to get in
when he heard Mr.. Clair come in and
was scared away. The would be burg
lar was probably a tramp who had
gone TO the house to try and get some
thing to eat, and finding no one at
home, had tried to break in. Mr..
Clair is now swearing death to tramps.
Monday Ramon Gallardo was killed
by a load of logs rolling on him out
beyond ThomDson's canyon. Gallardo,
who has for years. been working as
foremTn Of the coal beavers gang for
the Southern Pacific company here,
had taken a months layoff and was
driving a team for Paul Doran, who
had a contract for furnishing mining
timbers to the Arizona Copper com
pany. They we're coming 10 with logs,
Doran was ahead with his team, while
Gallardo came next driving a four
horse team, which was hauling two
wagons, and he was accompanied by a
man named Martinez. They came to a
bad hill and Martinez wanted to drive
the team down the bill, but Gallardc
would not let him. The rear wheels
Of both wagons were locked. Galiardo,
when they started down the hill,
threw a stone at his horses to urge
them on and they got The start Of him
and went down the hill at a pretty
good rate. Martinez called out to him
to jump but he would not leave the
horses. At the bottom Of the hill was
a little rise and when the FIRST wagon
struck this It stopped, the second ran
into it and turned 1t over. Gallardo's
foot had caught In the binding chain
and he was turnAd undor tha Ioos