Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1898-02-11
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LoRDsBURG, FEB. II, 1898.
Monday is St. Valentines day.

1872 i"hSh euC hAob VI but
week.
X. e. Reinhart was 10 the city the
arst of the week, talking groceries
with our merchants.
Mrs. VIM. Tierney and daughter Of
Colorado are visiting with Mrs Tier.
ney's sister, Mrs. NJ. A. Leahy.
Ed Ely returned the first Of the
week from his visit to the hospital in
Ell Paso, looking much improved in
health.
The first dust storm of the spring
appeared Tuesday forenoon, and was
followed by a shower. The shower
was more enjoyable than the dust.
DR.. Wood commenced pounding ore
Ia his Gold Hill mill last Monday,
He will be n OF the large bullion
shippers from this county this year.
]. Henry Walls, who is teaching
school at Riehmondscane down Sat.
urday and ,aled on Apiece of land on
the river, near the Arizona line. lie
Is putting a ditch on the property, and
figures on having a ranch of his own.
1t is announced that as soon as a
new clerk is appointed to take charge
of affairs OF the district court the Hon.
WIN. Bryan Walton will admit S. NJ.
Ashentelter into partnership and the
two will run a double headed law
office, one head in Silver City. and the
other in Deming. Mr. AShenfelter is
a new arrival from Colorado, and is to
be congratulated on making business
connection with so gifted aud well
known a lawyer as Mr.. Walton.
The Beck mine at Stems Pass is
likely to get into court. Early on the
morning of the first of January it was
relocated by parties who claim the
assessment work was not done on it
last year. The relocators say there
was some crooked work done in
relation TO that property One OF
the owners is in the Klondike
country and they claim the other
owners did not do the assessment
work, with the intention of locating
out their partner, and that they got
ahead Of them. The owners say the
assessment work was properly done,
and was done on time. 1t is likely a
jury will have to decide the matter.
The Beck is a valuable property, and
is worth Fighting for.
The El Paso papers are wasting a
great deal of sympathy over a man
named ]. Porter Bender. who claims
20 be a ne%spaper artist, and who
AYERS he was knocked Off a freight
train by a burly% braKemin, who used
a six shooter for a club, that he laid
by the side Of the track for many hours
and ndarly persisted. The Liberal
does NIT approve of the action of a
brakeman in knocking a mar off a car,
but IL must be remembered it is a
regular warfare between the brake
men and the tramps, and il the brake
man is not able to knock the tramp of
the train arst he is very liable to be
knocked off himself. If this man
Bender is the nan he pretends to be
he had no business travelling on the
brakes, and should not grumble at the
treatment he receives. When he
passed through Lordsburg he was
arrested for petty larceny, and
escaped "A term in jail owing to the
fact that he had eaten the stolen
articles, and as the justice was not
provided with a stomach pump it wa:
not possible to prove the theft on him
The Ell Pasc papers are wasting time
and sympathy when they exhibit the
doings of any brakebeam tourist.
Several years ago Faustin Ortez, q
Santa Fe politician, disappeared. A
month later his dead body was found
near town. He had been murdered
The murder was a mystery for a Ions
time, but finally "a grand jury investi
gated the ease and indicted a promi
nent democratic politician, who was
Justice of the peace. He was trieC
and acquitted. Recently a man con
fessed that he helped dispose OF th'
body, doing the work at the point o
a slxshooter, that the justice. whit
since has died, was one of the murder
ers and another prominent Santa Fe
an was another. On this confession
Eustaquio Padilla was arrested ant
tried. Owing to the time which haC
elapsed since the murder but llttlI
condrmatOry testimony could be pro
duced and he was acquitted. Their
is little doubt in the minds Of tn
people who heard the testimon
of the guilt of the man, and hi
acquittal is considered a miscarTlag
OF Justice. OF the three men VIII
murdered poor Orteg two are dea
and the third has just been acquitted
District Attorney Crlst did bette
work when he prosecuted the Borreg
gang than he did prosecuting the mu