Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1898-01-14
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LoRDsBURG, JAN, IA, 1898.

IuOSudy.
The travel westward is very hoay,
just now.
Mrs. JAS. T. Tong and Mrs. Robin.
son OF Duncan were in the city Tues.
day en- route to Tucson, on a pleasure
trip.
Col. M. J. Egan of Clifton has been
10 Santa Fe this week attending The
meeting Of the territorial board OF
equalization.
A. @. Young was IN the city Tues.
day, en- route to Morencl, where he
has an engagement with the Detroit
copper company.
Richard Grey, who for a long time
was traffic manager of the Southern
Pacific, died at his home in San Fran.
cisco last Friday from an attack OF
paralysis.
Charlie Drake, the twenty year old
son OF Chas. Drake, president of the
Norton Drake company, accidentally
shot and killed himself Sunday, while
hunting near Los Angeles.
II. ID. Mercy, who has been in the
hospital at Tucson for some time re-
turned the first OF the week, much
improved in health, and resumed his
position in the Western Uuion office.
Thos. Simpson was called wei to
Pearce last Saturday by a telegram
which said his sister, Mrs. Cornelius,
was very sick. He returned the Grst
of the week, Mrs. Cornelius having
improved greatly.
The beautiful snow got in It's work
again Monday night, and when the
people got up Tuesday morning they
found the ground covered with the
white blanket. The beautiful is not
popular In Lordsburg.
A man named Ambrose Hernandez
was arrested in Ri Paso Monday. He
is the murderer OF Lulu Werney. He
was taken to Silver City Tuesday.
The officers are confident they have
~ iiShoi hAu WIS Jliilt.
A. j. Medbury has sold his interest
in the Clifton saloon to his partner, n.
Hughes, jr., and went up to Stecple
Rock, where he will do the assessment
work Oh some valuable mining proper
ties he has held for some years.
Mrs. Chas. NJ. Holt has taken charge
OF the postoflce at Clifton. Mrs.
Holt.has juggled the mails at Clifton
for many years, and the patrons of the
Office arc glad to see her smiling face
again when they go after their letters,
N. Hughes has sold a couple of his
ranches on the river, n to Mr.. G. e.
White, the other to O. L McGinnis.
Mr.. EhgheS mas held his place on the
river fog a long time and done n great
deal of work on it, and now intends to
take things easy for a while.
The sad news of the death Of Bob
Evans has reached Silver City from
Lexington, North Carolina. Every
man who has driven a horse into Sill
yer City during the past ten years
knew and liked genial Bob Evans, the
corral man, and all mourn his death.
Or. g. n. Woods was in from Gold
Hill Saturday, and says that the wave
OF prosperity has spattered all over
him. He recently leased the Werney
mine, and has sci a force of men to
work on it. They had not been work
ing long before they uncovered a seven
inch streak of ore that runs over 500
In gold to the ton.
Neither OF the crematOries in San
Francisco would incinerate Durrant's
body, and the owners OF none Of the
cemeteries wanted his body buried in
their cemeteries Durrant was anxious
to have his body cremated, so no grave
robber could get it. The body was
taken to Los Angeles Tuesday and
there cremated.
A Texas cowboy named Seth Burr
went over to Juarez Saturday night.
He got into a scrap with a Mexican
gambler about a woman and killed
the gambler. The police tried to ar
rest him, but he fought them killing
two policemen and woundiug another
so seriously that there is little hope Of
his recovery. The police, however,
succeeded in killing him.
Sheriff McAfee went up to Albuquer-
que to get the Mexican who was ar
rested and was supposed to be the
murderer of Lulu Werney. AS soon
as the sheriff saw the prisoner he said
a mistake had been made. He knew
the murderer personally, and the
prisoner was not the man who com
mitted the brutal crime. He was
turned loose.
@Oomptroler Of the Currency Dawes
has made an abstract of reports of the
condition December IS of the six ma
tional banks in New Mexico. Itshows