Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1896-03-13
LoEDsBURG, MARCH Is, 1885,

Price Simpson madea trip up to Car.
isle this week.
GOVERNOR Hughes was in the city
Wednesday and went up to Clifton on
a special train.
W. B. Kelly Of the SOiomeuvlIle
Bulletln, was ia the city last Tuesday
and went up to Clifton.
Jas. 4. Tong has purchased Frank
B!llingsly's stock Of merchandise and
is nov the only merchant at Duncan.
James Sterling bonded the Compo-
sition mine this week to W. b. witch
ell, who represents an eastern capital
ist.
DIR. +. L. Bartlett OF the Robert e.
Lee mine came ia from Canyon City
the FIRST Of the week and went out to
the mine.
The latest quotations are: Silver,
smelter price, 6st; London, 81 sic d.,
copper, HOO; lead, snTeiter price, 800;
New York open market S.15 to a.25.
A. b. Talbot, who is said to be a
mining expert in the employ of D.. H.
Motfat, the Denver banker, was in
the city thla week aud went up to
Carlisle.
w. b. TWltchell was up to Clifton
this week inspecting some copper
properties in which Gov. Thornton
and II. L. Newman, the FL Paso
banker are Interested.
Silver Citizens will hold a caucus
next Thursday for the purpose Of nom
mating = candidate for mayor. The
chances are ;. w. Fleming will be
nominated for the tenth time.
Elsewhere in this paper are several
forfeiture notices which indicate that
the miners are anxious to get rid Of
partners who do not put up their pro-
portion Of the assessment work.
Mrs. McPOake, widow Of the brake
mao who was killed az Alton a couple
OF weeks ago, will receive $1,000 insur-
Ance on her husbands life from the To-
connective 1remen brotherhood at Salt
Lake.
DR.. Crocker went down to ella Bend
last week to nOye his family TO Lords
burg. He writes that he found his
wife sick with the measles, aud it is
uncertain when she will be able to
travel.
1t is reported that p. B. Zelgler has
sold his locomotive to the Southern
Racidc company aud notified Master
Mechanic Grey that he must hire a
new man to attend to the hauling OF
passenger trains,
At the republican caucus held on
Wednesday evening to elect delegs ties
to the republican county convention
to. be held at Silver City next Wednes-
day MessrS. J. A. Leahy, b. w. Clair
and o. Il. Smyth we're chosen.
L. L. Sweeny, superintendent of the
Detroit copper company at Morenci,
died Sunday night from the effects OF
the surgical operation described last
week. The body was taken 70 Pough-
keepsie, New York, for burial.
Mrs. H. E. Hoffman, Mrs. W. II.
Small, Mrs. S. P. Si@pson, Miss Mar
shall and Ii. B%rockingtOn got away on
their Silver City trip Sunday morning,
just two days late. Nothing has been
heard of them since they started, but
it is supposed they pulled through all
right.
News reached this city Sunday that
Howard G. Boone, agent at this place
fer the Covlngt0n mutual life insur-
hhee company while running TO catch
his train at Midland, Saturday, caught
his foot and fell with such violence as
70 break Que OF his legs, He was taken
to Dallas.-El Paso Times.
Judge Bantz has decided the long
drawn out contested election case in
Dona Ana county ia favor Of the re-
publicans. This decision 6res Asc2r-
ate from the office Of sheriff and puts
Numa Raymond in his place. 1t is re-
ported that Sheriff Raymond has ap'
pointed Pat Garrett chief deputy and
put him at work on the Fountain
case.
Tue astronomers tell uE that the
Genet is coming our way at the rate
Of eleven hundred miles a minure and
If it does not shy of is due 10 hit the
earth tomorrow. They have not yeI
figured cut where it will hit. II the
readers of the LIBERAL never get an
other copy OF the paper they will know
that the once got smashed By thiI
cOnet.
H. E. Hoffman was going dOwI
a shaft at Pyramid the first OF thu
week. When near the bottom thu
handle of the wlndlasS brOke and h'
went down with q run. On landing
he felt something squash and noticed