Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1898-05-27
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LoRDsBURG, MAY q, ises.

the first OF the week
Mrs. Dollie Duncan has gone to
Pearce, where she will open a hotel.
Sanford Robinson has received his
commission as postmaster at Steeple-
rock.
Ex-Governor Franklin Of Arizona
died suddenly at his home in Phoenix
last week.
j.. w. Earnhart aud family have re-
turned from their vacation visit in
California.
G. K. w. Schmidle has sold the rem
nant of his cattle and his ranches TO
j. b. HaggIn.
w. S. Hagan and family were In the
city Monday, returning to their home
in Clifton, after a trip to Eel Paso.
The LIBERAL is glad to be able to
announce that Mrs. Gurdon Bradley
is muca better and is considered out
of danger.
Lonls Nancy, who was arrested for
robblng N. Hughes, was indicted by
the grand jury. There is said to be
plenty evidence OF his guilt.
The Deming high school holds its
annual commencement exercises at
the Deming opera house this evening.
There are six graduates this year.
There are some things that are
worse than war, and one of these is
listening to some Of the wise ones
when they are explaining all about it.
A carload of men labeled "the
REAL Arizoua toughs" passed
through on yesterdays east bound
train. They were packers Gu route to
Cuba.
Lieutenant Bcrtsch, recruiting Of
ficer at Fort Bayard, has posted in
the postof1ce a bill asking for people
who want to join the army TO call on
him at Fort Bayard and enlist.
The eighteenth and twenty-thtrd
regiments of regulars are en- route TO
San Francisco on their way to the
Philippines. If they have good luck
they will all have passed through
town today.
Tom Tucker, who was under arrest
at Santa Fc, charged with the murder
of viii, one of the Borrego gang, was
held to await the action OF the grand
jury, and was permitted to have his
liberty by putting up ii twenty-five
hundred dollar bond.
Next Monday is Decoration day.
There is but one man buried here who
vas IA soldier in the late war, p. b.
Graves, although the late Horace
Amber was a soldier in the army for a
long time his first enlistment came
after the war was over.
A. b. Laird is foreman of the grand
jury at this term of court. During
his residence ia Grant county Andy
has herded many a grand jury, but
this is the first time he has been
among the herded. Re thinks there
is more money in being herder than IN
being herdee.
Owing to the censorship on news
from Key West the war news in the
bulletins have been very uuinterest-
lately. AS a consequence the people
who have been putting up good money
for them have scwed up their pockets,
and this part of the country has been
without bulletins this week.
Monday night a southbound Santa
Fe train was held up at Belen, which
is about thirty miles south of Albu-
duerque, and robbed. The robbers, it
is supposed. got plenty of cash. They
escaped. No one was hurt and no
passengers robbed. The sheriff of
Valencia county is on the trail.
The chemical department of the
Southern Pacific road says the water
in the well that has been SUM near
the s%tockyards is the best water that
is used by the company at any place
between San Francisco and El Paso.
J. II. Murfy has put a pump on the
we'll to test its capacity. Even the
D6oU WdbCl JUGS uOO dllpNhS w ~
to the railroad unless there is plenty
OF it.
The Knights of Pythias of Lords
burg are again figuring on building a
hall for the use of the lodge. This Is
the third time the lodge has figured
on building, and it looks more Ike
succeeding this time than ever before.
1t is to be hoped that it will succeed,
for the lodge is likely to die If it can
not move its lodge room nearer to It's
members than it now is, at Snake
speare.
The report in the LIBERAL last
week OF e. E. Toney being killed by
the cars at Tempe was a mistake. III
was his son Bert Toney, who was
killed. The mistake was caused oyan
error in telegraphing. Bert Ioney
was a young man about twenty-one
years old. Some time ago be worked
in this part Of the country and was
quite well known here. He was un'