Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1896-07-17
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LoRDsBURG, JULY II, 1896.

AClllCoOCJs
J. b. Jernigan moved his family to
Tucson last Friday.
The grass on the plains is starting
up nicely since the rains came.
The Knights Of Pythias will hold a
meeting at their castle hall tomorrow
evening.
B. W. Clair is reported to be getting
rich in the laundry business at Bisbee,
Arizona.
j. A. Leahy made one Of his regular
business trips to Clifton and Duncan
this week.
Herbert Brown, editor of the Tucson
Citizen, was in the city yesterday and
wen. TO Clifton.
Mrs. ]. S. Baldwin left Sunday for a
fe7 weeks visit at her old home, at
Cotton, California.
A new ceiling has been put up in
the Bank Exchange which greatly i'm
proves its appearance.
Col. James Beresford Gregory was
in from Gold Hill Tuesday, lnquirlng
about the silver question.
II. G. Crawford Of Topeka, Kansas,
has taken a position as bookkeeper
with the Roberts s. Leahy Co.
Mrs. w. p. Murdoch OF Phoenix was
in the city yesterday en- route to Stee-
pie Rock to visit her brother, Arthur
w. Hand.
The county commissioners have sent
David Cabot, better known in Lords
burg as ''old Dave" to the territorial
insane asylum.
James T. Tong, the Duncan mer-
chant, ia addition to his other duties
now represents Uncle Sam and han
dies the mails.
The county commissioners have APP
pointed II. NJ. Goliath as road super
visor at Gold Hill in the place of w.
j. Neal, resigned.
Mrs. James Patterson and sons were
in from Gold Hill Wednesday. Mrs.
Patterson will put men at work OH
the Western Belle mine at once.
Charlie Hogsett. foreman of the Ar
iona copper company's machine shop
at Clifton, returned from his northern
trip Friday, glad to get back into a
country where he could cool of and
dry off.
President James Colquhoun of the
Arizona u New Mexico railroad and
of the ARIZONA copper company, passed
through town Thursday en- route from
Clifton to his old home in Scotland to
spend the summer.
At Steeple Rock the school board
was organized by electing p. H. Nc
Dermott chairman and Geo. B. Child
secretary. The third member Of the
board is Richard S. Knight. They
have engaged Miss Casey of Silver City
al teacher.
The engine on the west bound pass
enger train broke an axle on one of
the forward trucks last Friday when
about four miles east of town. En-
g'neer Gum chained up the truck
and brought the train into town some
two hours late. Charlie Hogsett, fore
man of the Arizona copper company's
machine shop at Clifton, happened to
be on board the train and gave valua-
BILE assistance in making the Temporal
ry repairs.
There was a serious shooting affair
at Steeple Rock, formerly Carlisle,
Monday evening. 1t seems that Dep.
uty Sheriff Charles NJ. Gavin and Ar
thur w. Hand, an assayer, gOJ loaded
with liquor and proceeded to shoot up
the camp. James V. Parks, formerly
a deputy sheriff at Clifton, who had
been employed by the Steeple Rock
Development company to keep the
camp quiet and act as deputy sheriff,
disarmed Gavin and attempted to do
the same to Hand who refused to give
up his gun, but mounted his horse and
rode out Of town. He soon came back
and was met by Gavin, who urged him
to surrender. He refused and rode
back into town with his gun in his
hand where Parks, armed with a shot
gun, met him and ordered him to
throw up his hands. He refused to
obey and Parks shot him in the right
elbow. Hand then surrendered. DR..
Lyle was at Robert Swans ranch on
the middle -Gila. He was sem for
and arrived early the next morning.
He found amputation necessary and
took the arm of above the elbow. J..
v. Parks has the reputation of being
a fearless and conservative eficer. In
disabling instead of killing Hand, as
he could easily have done, he showed
this reputation was we'll deserved. 1t
is the general opinion in Carlisle that
Parks was perfectly justified. This
incident IS a general notification to
all would be bad men that they can
not run Steeple Rock while Parks is
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