Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1895-10-04
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LoRDsBURG, OCTOBER 4, 1895.

SDu bulS week.
General Miles has been appointed to
the command OF the army.
II. w. Filbert's family returned
from their summcr ia California Sat
urday.
Mr.. and Mrs. S Stevenson's baby,
which has been sick for some time,
died Sunday.
Tbe weather from Sunday until
Thursday was decidedly wintery. Con.
siderable rain fell.
Hart Brothers shipped a train load
OF cattle on their Casey s. Tower CON
tract Wednesday.
Passenger Conductors Parker and
Rich are enjoying what is said to be
an enforced vacation.
The Hart Brothers round up will
start from the LC ranch on The lower
ella next Monday, October I.
There will be an examination Of APP
p~licants for teachers certificates at
the Silver City school house on Satur-
day, October II.
The latest quotations are: Silver,
smelter price, 81; London, 30 SIG d.,
copper, 1900; lead, smelter price, 3.15;
New York open market, $3.50 to 3.35.
The open season for game has COM
menced, aud The game warden Of pre-
cinct No. 20 announces that he is pre-
pared to accept invitations to game
dinners.
Mrs. p. Terrence died at her home
in Clifton last Thursday. The body
was embalmed and sent to her old
home at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for
interrment.
Deputy U. S. Marshal Hardin round
ed up Il maverick Chinaman and put
him in the Silver City Jail to stay I'M
Til he could explain to Judge Bantz
why he bad no certificate.
Mrs. G. b. Stevens and son left for
Silver City Monday to attend the
Neff- Moore wedding. She will visit
in Ell paso with Mr.. II. b Stevens
family for a couple of weeks before re-
turning.
j. Kruttschnitt, the newly appoint
ed general manager of the Southern
Pacific road, passed through town on
Tuesday, en- route for San Francisco,
there to the duties of his new
position.
The new Southern Pacific time ia
BILE which goes into effect tomorrow
makes no change in the west bound
passenger train, but brings the east
bound into Lordsburg at 1ye o'clock
in the afternoon, local time. 4
At the conference Of the Methodist
Episcopal church South, held in Dem
ing last week, the Rev. j.. II. Angel
who has had charge of this circuit,
transferred to White Oaks, and
the Bev. Mr.. Meunlfce was sent here. :
Mrs. LATE Thompson, who was ar
rested last week for killing Hattie
Baker, was admitted to bail in the,
sum Of $3.50 to await the action OF the
grand jury. The grand jury is in SEES
sion this week, and the chances are no
INDICTMENT will lie returned against /
her. !
Married, at the residence of the
brides mother, in Silver City, Wednes-
day evening, October End, Miss Dee
Moore and Mr.. Decatur G. Nef. Mrs. {
Neff was at one time a resident Of {
Lordshurg, where she was very popu- {
lar. Her many friends here wish the
newly married couple unbounded JOY {
aud happiness. |
G. NJ. Shannon who went up to Cliff
ton last week, expected to stay at his ,
mines several weeks. When the cold :
wave struck him Sunday he changed i.
mind and took the first train for +,
Santa Fe, where he intended TO put
away his straw hat and negotiate for /
last winters o%yercoat. Mrs. Shan ,
non remained in Clifton for visit. :
> There was a |cloudhurst between {
and San Simon Saturday night d
that spoiled a couple of miles OF the
Southern Pacific track. A freight i,
train, with Engineer Jas. Leayitt and T
Fireman Schultz on the locomotive, 4,
coming down the hill just as the
struck them, aud their expert q
ence, according to Schutz's descrip- ,
ton, was a thrilling one. They were I
down a steep grade when the r
struck the track. They could ,
not back the train up the hill. If +
they stopped the water would soon :
undermine the track and let the train +
settle in the mud. Their only hope ,
to keep going and run out OF the y
temporary river. IL was a terrible Q
run, the water covering the track =
from one to four feet deep, so it was
impossible to see the track and look
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