Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1898-06-10
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LoRDsBURG, JUNE 10, 1898.

The ladies Of the Christian church
served ice cream Monday evening.
Professor Douglass, of the Detroit
copper company, was 10 the city and
vent west Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. T.. Hoffman and
Mrs. p. M. Chase are visiting in the
Aulmas valley this week.
B. G. Strow, who has had charge OF
the affairs Of the Chicago s. Gold Hill
mining company, left on Tuesday
morning for a three months witt at
mis- Chicago home.
Three train loads of soldiers passed
through town Wednesday en- route 10
California, from where they will 20 TO
the Philippines. They are recruits
for the 18th and 23rd regulars.
Mrs. S. Owens, who has been staying
on the ranch on the lower ella since
her husband moved into Lordsburg,
came in last Sunday and will here
after make her home 70 town.
The days OF nint julcp are at hand,
and many Of the steady drinkers and
many more of the occasionals are now
drinking grass in their whiskey." 1t
Is said to be "A very pleasant drink.
We had the first rain of the season
Tuesday afternoon. 1t was not much
of a rain, just enough to call it a rain,
but not enough to settle the dust.
On "Wednesday there was a fine rain.
Mr.. Walter Douglass, the new super
'intendent of the Detroit copper COM
pany, who took the place of Mr.. Mills,
who joiued the Roosevelt regiment;
was in the city Monday, en- route to
MOrenci.
w. G. TenEyck, who has been at the
telegraph desk in the Southern Pa
cifc office, left Wednesday for Cali
Yfornia, and f. V. Gordon. who has
been telegraphing nights, expects to
leave in a day or so for California.
Both intend to enlist in tue telegraph
corps that is going to Manila.
C. w. Weber, who pat in so much
time at Gold Hill for the past year or
so, attending to the affairs Of the
Chicago & Gold Hill mining company,
is in Cuba or Porto Rico, or some
other place down in that section Of
the world, trying to beat the press
censor aud get news to the Chicago
Record.
]. L. written, ex-cdltar of the
Demlng Headlight and the Silver
City Eagle, was arrested in III Pasu
last week, charged with stealing a
watch and Il railroad ticket from his
f1om 3ete. Whitten i~ndarranty de-
MED the guilt, hut the people to
WHOM, he had sold the stolen articles
identified him.
Before court adjourned Louis
Nancy, who was convicted Of robbing
Nicholas Hughes, was sentenced to
three years in~the peniteuttetg. Fred
Peel, better known as Dutch Fred
who was convicted Of killing a COW
that did not belong to him, was also
sentenced to three years In the peni-
Tertiary. The suit OF the County
commissioners against the Santa Fe
railroad company was argued and
taken under ADJUSTMENT by the court,
which will give a decision later.
This suit is to collect some back taxes,
The railroad claims that the tax tC
pay judgments is not a legal tax under
the Bateman law. The decision OF
this case will have an important effect
90 the tax paying business.
One Of the mail contracts taken by
thefmen who make a business of do.
log that class of work will not prove a
bonanza to him for the next four years
j. e. Franklin, OF Sedalia, Missouri
took the contract between Lordsbure
andiRedrock at the rate Of $3.50 pei
anndm. His agent was here last weel
tosnb-let the contract. He could dnt
no one who was willing to touch the
contract for a price that would give
him a profit, or even for the price tina
he gct il at. Finally be made a con
tract with Henry Fuller to carry 1t fol
$3.50 per anRum, Mr. FTanklin makes
a loss OF SOL per year on this contract
besides being out his agents salary ant
expenses. This is some little salts
faction to the people 10 this section
of the country who have often mad
bids at what they consider reasonable
figures for carrying mail or star routes
The recent test of the railroad wei
at the s%tockyards proved that it dlt
not contain enough water to suppl
the town, and drilling was resumed
1t is now about an hundred feet deep
er than it was when the test wa
made. 1t does not make any dineI
ence to the citizens Of Lordsbur
whether this we'll proves a success o
not, rs the wells a couple OF miles cas-
of town will furnish enough water I
supply the town. The LIBERAL is II