Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1898-05-13
WESTERN LIBERAL.
BoRDsBURG, MAY Is, 1905

Inc GfanJ county district court
meets at Silver City next Monday.
j. p. %Goodlander, the st, Louis drug
man, was in town this week, talking
business.
Chas. A. Leland, OF Ohio, has been
appointed associate justice Of New
Mexico.
Jack Rutland was Ia from the river
the first of the week. He intends to
locate at Alhambra.
The house owned by w. II. Small,
and occupied by DR.. Crocker is under
going extensive reOairs.
Mrs. A. A. Collins, accompanied by
her grandson, Master Eddie Leahy. is
visiting Fort Thomas.
W. B. Connor's water wagon came in
collision with the hydraut in front of
the drug store Saturday evening.
breaking it so that the water had to
be shut off the pipes.
E. c. Belt has placed a new bottllnp
table in his soda water works and is
now able te turn out soda water in or
binary bottles and Is not forced to use
the patent variety.
Silver City is going to have a scaven-
ger, and will not wait for the annual
floods to clear the streets. The
scavenger may do the work more
frequently, but the food does it more
thoroughly.
Mrs. A. B. Allen passed through on
the east bound train Tuesday morn
ing, en- route from Solomonville,
where she had been to attend the
trial Of w. b. Foster fol murdering
her husband, to her home at Roswell.
E.. w. Clapp went to Tucson this
week to investigate the mysteries OF
the Knights OF Khorassen. Mr..
Clapp always was of an investigating
nature, aud it is probable that he will
know more when be gets home than
he did when he started.
VIM. Foster, who has been working
ia the Office Of the Arizona copper
c0mpanY's store for a long time, re-
signed and has accepted a position as
bOokkeeper in the Hermosillo brewery,
owned by Grunig & Hoefer. He left
for his new home in Mexico last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. f. Leonard came
down from Clifton Tuesday. Mr..
Leonard went to Tucson TO attend
the meeting OF the Arizona grand
lodge, knights Of PythiaS, aud to i'll
VeStigate the dramatic order OF the
Knights Of Khorassen. Mrs. Leonard
visited with Mrs. j. y. Harrison white
her husband was ia Tucson.
This week e. w. Clapp, the South
ern Pacific agent, purchased Il f1e
bunting flag, raised u mast on top Of
the depot.and threw Old Glory to the
breeze. The flag is directly in frcnt
Of the LIBERAL Office, and the LIB
ERAL takes a good deal Of comfort In
seeing il every time - looks out the
window.
Redford Jobe was tried at Hillsboro
last week for murder. The jury
brought in a verdict OF murder in the
second degree and he was sentenced
To ten years in the "peuiteDtiary. New
Mexico juries are improving. 1t is
much better to convict a cold blOoded
murderer of murder in the second
degree than it is to turn him loose, as
many juries do.
The Wells-FargO company has noti'
fed its employees that If any of them
desire to go to Cuba and fight that
they will draw half pay all the time
they are gone, and on their return will
be given their old places at the same
wages they received before going. In
honor of this action of the company
Agent Harrison has raised on top of
the express Office an American flag,
and under it the flag of Cuba libre.
The trials of the Fosters Of Duncan
at Solomonville, took place last week.
w. B. Foster was tried first. He was
convicted of murder In the second
degree, and it says feels very put out
because he is the first white mar ever
convicted Of murder IN Graham
county. He was sentenced to twenty
five years in the %penitentlary. Mer-
win Foster, who started the fight
which resulted in Aliens death, but
who run away and left his brother to
do the killing, was acquitted Of the
charge of murder. The Graham
county jurors are to be complimeuted
for their work at this term Of court,
The Grant county district court had
better draft some of them for use in
Silver City next week.
In the Graham county court last
week Casimiro Rodella was convicted
of murder in the second degree. II
will be remembered that Rodella was
acting as a constable at Morencl some
time ago, and attempted TO disarm
Frank Elwood, a cowboy who persist.
ed in "toting a gun" and killed Ell