Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1896-10-09
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LoRDsBURG, OCT. ., 1896.
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Hill.
DR.. Lyle and James r. Nix came
tn from El Paso on the delayed train
Saturday night.
Geo. Reeb lie building a couple Of
rooms 10 the rear Of the Arlington,
which will be used as sleeping rooms,
Prof. Ollie Charlton will give a con-
cert at the school house tonight. The
professor comes here highly recon-
mended.
E. G. Payne, who was elected asses.
scr of Grant county ten years ago this
fall, recently died at Sultan City,
Washington.
A copy OF the registration books
can be seer at the LIBERAL Office Of
McGrath's store. BE SURE your name
Is or the list.
l.. Fraissenet came down from Cliff
tOu Sunday to me Il his family who
came in from the east on the delayed
train that day.
Henry Myerof Gold Hill shipped a
too aud a half Of ane gold ore from
the Werney mine at Gold Hill to the
smelter at Pueblo this week.
John Brown, the agent for the Ari-
ona & New Mexico road at Duncan,
is acting as agent at Lordsburg while
II. K. Shine is enjoying a vacation.
Col. Jim Kee, one OF the celestial
merchants of Clifton, returned this
week from New York, where he had
beGH to purchase a stock Of dry goods.
Owing to the washout last week the
through freight got punched on this
division and engines from as far as
Los Angeles were sent over here to
help out.
The Arizona g. New Mexico trains
that left Lordsburg Tuesday could
not get into Clifton, as several wash
outs were found between Duncan and
Clifton. The company expected to
get a train through last night or this
morning.
The Roberts g. Leahy mercantile
company has brought a new float this
week, with which to handle their in
creasing Wholesale business. Unfor-
tu~nately from an esthetic point Of
view the running gear is not painted
red, but is ''yaller."
The Rev. E. f. Goodson returned
Tuesday from conference, accom-
panied by the Rev j. II. Angel, who
c preached here. Mr.. Goodson will
again have charge of the LordSburg
and ella river churches and MIR. An
gel will be located at Steeple Rock.
The night the circus was In Deming
Henry NordhauS's store vas burglar
lied and a large amount OF plumber
was taken. Constable Phillips got on
the trail of some tramps aud wired
Constable Hardin To arrest them here,
which he did. Phillips came up and
took six OF them back to Deming.
Some of them had on clothes which
we're stolen from Nord baus.
There was a heavy flood at Gold Hill
last Friday, about 7 p. ms IL was not
80 heavy as the cloud burst which
nearly destroyed the camp a few years
ago. 1t, however, was more of a food
than the people Of that water loving
camp wished for. The principal dam
age was TO the cchool house, which
was entirely wrecked and most of it
carried down the gulch, the floor be-
ing about all that was left 10 sight.
About twenty feet OF mud was depos-
tied In the Standard well and a por.
ton Of the embankment around the
Bragaw we'll was washed away.
Last Friday night an Atlantic *
Pacific train was held up by seven men
abOnt thirty miles west OF Albuquer-
que. They began operations by doing
considerable shooting. They took the
engineer back TO make him uncOuple
the express car, but he slipped away
In the darkness, They tried to make
the areman %uncOuple the cars, but he
told them he was no brakeman and II
was against the A. r.. u. rules for a
fireman to do a brakeman's work.
One Of the robbers tried to cut the
train In two but could not, so they
made the fireman run the train w
and stop where the dynamite was hid.
Now there was on the train Cade
Selvy, the Santa Fe'S detective and
lighting man, and Deputy U. S. Mar.
shall Loomis. History does not re
cord that the Sighting man did any
thing more than remain on the train.
but Mr.. LOOMS got off the train with
his shot gun and commenced shooting
He ran six OF the robbers into the
brush and chased them out OF sight
One robber did not run, he was dead
When LOOMS got back he picked vi
the dead robber and brought him In
He vas greatly pleased to find it wal
Cole Young, alias Cole Estes, one o