Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1896-05-08
WESTERN LIBERAL.
BoRDsBURe, MAY 8, 1893.

Q. Sharp and p. b. Smith were in
from Gold HIl Monday.
A. I. Pearson and Lon Moore were
ia from the river this week.
HJ Fisher and Bob williams were
In from STEMS Pass this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. G. Hopkins Of Cliff
Ton, have gone east to spend tire sum-
mer.
Willard Coggln has returned from
his visit to his old home 1t Merkel,
Texas.
The Southern Pacific pay car played
an engagement in LordsburE Satur-
day evening.
Brown LeghOrn chickens two
strains. Eggs ont dollar per afteen.
e. H. Matthews, box 26, Derilng, NM.
The latest quotations are: Silver,
smelter price, 67f; copper 1854; lead,
smelter price, $50, New York open
market, sos.
Mr.. George Casey and his brother
Col. r.. b. Casey, were in the city this
wsek and shipped a couple Of train
loads of steers to Montana.
DIR. Davis's mother is very sick It
his home at Morenci. The doc
tors sister arrived in town Tuesday
on her way to her mothers sick-bed.
D. G, Hobart is doing better in his
Job Of making weather. or else he has
quit work. fhis week we had three
days all alike, and they were all fhs
ones.
The series Of meetings that have
been held by the Revs. GOodson and
Clayton have been quite successful.
The series are expected to close with
the meeting last evening.
At the district conference Of the
Methodist Episcopal church held on
Monday the usual business was trans
acted, aud In addition thereto Mr.. w.
D.. Griffith was licensed as a lay ex-
horter.
p. IL. McDermott and +. r. Reade,
NJ. e., came down from Carlisle Tues
day and went west. They expect to
meet II. w. Child at Winslow. Mr..
Child is en- route from London To San
Francisco.
At the Arizona republican
tlun the boys had a monkey and a par
rot Of a time. One section 1nally
swarmed and Two delegations were
elected to the national convention at
81. Louis.
Lloyd Payne came down from Cliff
ton Friday and wen TO Silver City for
a visit. lie has quit his job iu the
msat market and takes a better one
in the new concentrators, which will
be in operation about the first of next
month.
Married. on Wednesday, May 9th,
by Presiding Elder Clayton, Mr.. G.. F.
bangs and Mrs. X. NJ. Wells. MI.
Bangs is the we'll known manager Of
the Western Union ONCE here. The
newly married couple have the best
wishes of their numerous friends.
The Silver City public schools will
turn out their first graduating class
this year. The commencement day
has not been definitely settled upOn,
but arrangements are being made for
appropriately observing the occasion.
There will be seven graduates in the
class.-Sentinel.
Last Friday night an apparently
badly scared individual rushed into
Wilcox with the news that the Indl-
ans had killed Hand, Reed and STAFF
ford, at Cave creek. Lieut.. Bullock
made a wild ride to Cave creek with
his troop and found the men alive and
we'll and no sign of an Indian since
Alfred Hand was killed. The soldiers
are now hunting for the man who
started the story.
Col. Joe Young started for San
Francisco yesterday. The colonel
says he is going to close up a mining
deal, but friends who have been watch
ing him lately, have noticed he has
spent a great deal Of time over some
aelicately scented letters, which he
carries in his breast pocket along with
a beautiful photograph, and they all
think the deal is a matrimonial not
a mining one. In either case the LIB
ERAL wishes him good luck.
John Hays Hammond and his Eng
llsh friends, who raised such a row in
the Transvasl, have got themselves
into a tight place. The sentence OF
death has been comaauted but the
Anal sentence has not been fixed.
When President Kreuger comnuted
the sentence he gave out the evidence
ne had against the men, and It showed
eoDclusively that the men were all
guilty Of treason. They may be thank.
full Ia escape with their lives.
Fifty years ago this week a colony