Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1895-09-06

Uunc Was broken. lie worked over
the shoulder and did il up in a plaster
cast. The young nan thought he had
better be at home and so started for
Illinois. The family physician took
off the cast to put on a new one and
found the collar bone was not broken
and never had been. The Optic is of
the opinion that such a doctor does
not reflect much credit on the hotel
management. This young mar got
easily to what a resident of Lordsburg
did at that hotel a few years ago.
The L%ordsburger stopped at the hotel
on his return from shipping some cat
tie to Kansas. He woke up in the
morning with a severe pain in his leg.
The hotel doctor was called in. He
afterwards discovered that the doctor
was given his board to stay at the ho.
tel, and allowed to prey on the guests.
The doctor pronounced it a case Of
rheumatism and proceeded to fll him
up with salicylates and dose him with
morphine, to relieve the pain. This
treatment was continued but the pa
tlent got no better. One day the pa
tiont probably got a little cranky, al
though he is one Of the most even
tempered men in the world, and quar-
relied with the doctor and fired him.
A,physician from Las Vegas was then
called in. lie examined the patient,
said he had no rheumatism, but was
suffering from a severe inflammation
OF the knee. The Inflammation was
aggravated by the ~salicylates and the
neglect. The Las Vegas doctor soon
had the patient so he could travel on
c%rutches, and he went to New York
city for expert medical advice. Since
then he had a terrible fight to keep
from being a morphine fiend and has
spent thousands of dollars on that
knee, but it will alwas be stiff. The
doctors tell him If he had had the
proper treatment be would have been
we'll in ten days. At one time the pa
tient contemplated a suit for dam
ages, but the doctor had no property
and the hotel people disclaimed any
responsibility for his malpractice.
S. Mansell, better known as cred"
Thought his sacred person needed bet
ter protection than nature had given
him aud so he paraded around with a
big six-shooter poked into the waist
band of his trousers. This came to
Constable Hardin's attention and he
gathered in Red, six-shooter and all.
Red did not want to sleep in the jug
so IL. A: Fuller and w. II. Rotten went
his hail, verbally. When the court
met Red failed TO appear. The balls
men thought verbal bail would not
hold them responsible, but the court
held otherwise, and so they rustled
out and brought in their man, who
was tincd $50. Red did not have the
cash so the bondsmen stood good for
its payment before September 10 and
he was turned loose. Constable Har-
din says that Messrs. Fuller and Ro-
ten were on his bond as deputy Unit
ed States marshal, and they were so
eXasperated with him because he ar
rested Red that they threatened to
withdraw from his bond. Before they
could do so Hardin made a new bond
and bad the old one cancelled.
Monday afternoon j. A. Leahy re-
celyed a telegram announcing his
fathers death, which occurred that
afternoon at his home ut Kingston,
Canada. cir. Leahy was sixty years
old. his health had always been ex-
cellent up to about a year ago when
he was so sick il was feared he would
die. While he was conyalescing his
wife died. lie resigned the position
he had held for thirty,lye years Of
instructor Of trades in the penilen-
tiary. Since then he has been gradu-
ally falling, and his death was not un-
expected. Mr.. Leahy was the father
of nine children, eight Of whom live
To mourn his death. The late Mrs, L.
V. MeCourt was his daughter and the
ouly one Of his children who is dead.
Four Of his sons are in the southwest,
Messrs. J. A. and VIII Leahy OF Lords
burg, and NJ. A. and Ed Lcahy Of
Fort Thomas, his other children live
in the east.
Collector Davis rules that while the
quarantine against Mexican cattle
lasts, and that will be Till December
Is, X American cattle stray across the
liue into Mexico they become Mexican
cattle and cannot be returned. This
puts a stop to roundups going down
into Mexico after cat lie, but as there
is no fence along the border there is
nothing to Prevent these cattle stray
ing back into the United States.
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Tomorrow is the nrst Of the great
races for the America cup between
the English yacht Yalkyrie III and
the American yacht the Defender.