Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1896-02-21
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LoRDsBURG, FEBRUARY sli 1896.

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the Phoenix carnival.
Mrs. DR.. Croker came up from ella
Bend Monday, to visit her husband.
j. p. Kerr bought at auction the old
church building next to L. P. Harris
house.
r.. c. Brown OF the Phoenix Herald
was in the city Tuesday aud went up
to Clifton.
Hugh Williams was up from Dem
ing this week, taking in the sights Of
the metropolis.
Col. Egan came down from Clifton
Tuesday and went TO Phoenix 10 take
ia the carnival.
j. b. Jernigan came back from FL
Paso without seeing the fight, but he
saw lots of fighters.
A Santa Fe officers train, pulled by
u Santa Fe engine, passed through
town westbound Tuesday.
Mr.. r. Stuart and daughter OF Phoe-
nix have been 10 town visiting with
Ar. Stuart's sister, Mss. ]. W. Adams.
Jack Caster writes that he has re-
moved, from Howard, Kansas, and is
now located at Grenola, in the same
stale.
The men who bought tickets for the
prize fight are out Of luck. Twenty
dollar tickets arc being offered for Ave
dollars.
Lent began Wednesday, but it does
not seem to make any difference with
the meat orders in the Chinese res
l%taurants,
C. NJ. Shannon, returning from a
trip to Phoenix, was in town yester.
day and went up to Clifton to look at
his mines.
Deputy Marshal Hardin returned
from Ell Paso the first of the week and
reported no prize lighters this side of
the bridge.
The rcdoubtable John L. Sullivan
passed through on Wednesdays west
bound train, having got tired Of watt
ing in El PaSo TO see a hght.
r. P. Carson a we'll known Arizona
mining engineer, was in the city on
Tuesday and went up to Clifton TO
look at some mining properties.
The Blue Goose, Silver City's fancy
saloon, was closed by the sheriff last
week. Times are hard at the county
capital when Il saloon goes busted.
Rev. j. A. Meuaul, Presbyterian
missionary for New Mexico and Ari-
IONA, was in the city Wednesday for
The trst time for yearly a year, and
went up TO Clifton and Morenci.
L. FraiSsenet was in the city the
FIRST of the week, returning from a
trip 10 New York. Mr.. Fraissenet
says it only takes four days to go from
Clifton to New York, by using the
flyer.
The body OF ]. w. Hamilton's boy,
which died and was buried at Pyra-
mid several years ago, was taken up
and shipped this week to GAINESVILLE,
Ohio, where he viii be reinterred by
the side of his mother.
John Card was on last Fridays
east bound train, returning to Silver
City from the Pierce mine where he
had been to work. He had stepped ia
a hole and burt his leg SO badly that
he was obliged 10 lay Of.
]. A. Leahy's dog Spud snapped at
Master Jody, who vas playing with
him, and gave him a painful bite on
the head, The dog was subsequently
interviewed with a sixshooter and sol
Omnly promised neye TO bite any one
again.
Spence Brooks, long a rallroader on
this division, but who has lately been
working on the Atlantic s. Pacific,
was Ia the city this week. He came
down To Ell Paso to see the prize fight
and, like many others, got tired wait
ing for 1t.
P. b. Zeigler has temporarily re-
tired from %railroading aud is now en-.
gagged training the tretting horse he
purchased from Jas, Sterling. The
horse is said 10 strike a two-thirty
gate. Charlie Suter is now on the
passenger run.
One or two cases o. small pox are re
ported in Arizona aud with the mum
Der OF trsmps in the country it is verl
easily distributed. DR.. Croker hai
been called on to yaccinate quite
number of people the last week. 81
do not grab one Of your friends by tn,
left arm.
According to the report of the pro
ceeding of the United States court a
Silver City, as published in the Sentl
mel, the court had been engaged witt
an even dozen cases. One was a Chi
naman charged with forging a certih