Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1895-03-08
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LoRDsBuna. MARoH 8. lsa5.
next Friday evening.

Danc6 ueAJ HlludJ evening.
Thos. Kennedy was in from Gold
Hill Monday.
W. H. Hart has sold out his saloon
to Dave Clark.
Ben Myers Of El Paso was in the
city the first Of the week.
There will be a public dance at the
hall next Friday evening in honor Of
st. Patrick.
II. O. Boone was here from Phoenix
this week talking life insurance IN his
usual convincing amer He talks
for the New York Life.
This is the time Of the year when
subscriptions are being renewed to the
periodicals. The LIBERAL is prepared
to forward the subscription money for
any periodical 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.
Nlghtwatch Keugla, who guards the
Southern Pacific. coal piles, says that
just before daylight Sunday morning
he found a couple Of NOR moving a
cart of coal. Hc ordered them to
throw up their hands and they ran.
lie took q shot at one OF them and
they kept running. DR.. Hagen reports
that NO enc came to him to have buck
shot picked out Of his anatomy and
the supposition is that Kengla missed
his mark.
Frank NJ. Brown and Prof. Geo. e.
Metz, OF New York, were in the city
the first Of the week on their way to
Clifton. They have been sent out
here by the people interested in the
Gold Bullion mine at Clifton to inves-
tigate the property, and if they think
it of sufficient value to pay off the in
%debtedness of the company and put
the property in a working condition.
1t is to be hoped they win be satisfied
with the condition they find affairs at
the mine.
The Southern Pacific has been ex-
p%erimentiug With a new and large en-
CINE on this division. 1t is oonsidera.
bly, larger and stronger than the
freight engines that are in use on this
division, and is calculated to draw
heavier trans over the mountains.
Theiordinary freight train consists Of
twenty cars. The;new engine handled
thirty cars with about the same ease
that the ordinary engine handles
twenty airs. 1t is stated that a mum
Der OF these engines will be put or
this division.
John w. Duncan, who has beer
superintendent Of the San Simon cat
tie company for several years, placed
his resignation in the hands of Presi
dent c. w. Merchant, Sbc was here
this week, and has gone to Abilinc
Texas. Mr.. Merchant has hired Jes:
Henly in Duncan's place. Mr.. Dun
can, who has long been well known il
Lordsburg, will be missed and hi
many friends are sorry to see him 60
His oldest son has been sent TO hi
mother in California, while his wife
and baby are at present in Lordsburg
he aud his wife having agreed to liv.
separate and apart, for reasons which
concern themselves
Jas. Dolan, of DOlan s. Sullivan, o
Gold Hill, hrs mysteriously disap
peared. He left the house at tn
mine on Tuesday OF last week, sayin.
he was going to catch his horse and G
10 Silver City. Since then be has no
been seen. At first nothing wa
thought OF the disappearance. as h
might have caught a ride with som
passing team and gone to Silver Cit
without returning to the house. Lat
in the week nothing having been hear
from him, his partner and other friend
began to worry. Sunday a Telegram
was sent to County Clerk Young, wit
whom nc had business 10 Silver City
asking if he had been there. MI
Young answered that he had not seei
him. Monday a search party was mad.
up to see if any trace of him could b
found. A short distance from th
house, where he was last seen, On
trail Of a man afoot, wearing naile
shoes similar 30 those that Dolan ha.
on, was found. This trail was 70
lowed. It led out onto the fiat, cor
tinued southwest, passing a little ives
OF the horse ranch well, crossed th
narrow gauge track and led up to I'd
Southern Pacific track, where it al
parently followed the track west bu
could not be traced by the trailer.
Whether this was Dolan's trail or no
cannot be said. Some OF the trailer
thought the steps were too long fC
polan, he being a short man. Whe
he left the camp he had no none,
and there is no reason known why b
should leave. He was owing none,
but had more than enough ore on Oh
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