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Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1899-07-14

The Southern Pacific road has at
last found a use for the new track
leading up to the unused coal tipple.
Owing to the washouts down in Texas
the freight business has been very
light, and 1t has been necessary to
lay of several freight crews, there be-
ing no work for them. The empty
cabooses used by these crews have
been run up on the track leading to
the coal tipple, and look like two
story houses.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1899-07-14

The Lordsburg crowd that went
over to Silver City for the Fourth,
taking along some horses, with the
hopes Of having a little spert and win
ming a few Of the prizes, came back
sadder and wiser men. They have
met the Silver City horse racer and
the Silver City judges on their own
track and they found TO be true what
was told them before they left, that
no outsider can win a dollar on that
track. In the FIRST heat Of the hrst
race the L%ordsburg horse came IN an
easy winner. In the second heat he
came in at the head of the bunch, in
which vas all the horses that had
entered. Before the race was award.
cd TO him one of the starters came up
and said 1t wasa dead heat, as the
wrong nan had given the word TO 90.
He had fooled not only the rider OF
the Lordsburg horse, but all the other
riders. On the third heat the Lords
burg horse Won by a good neck, but
that was close enough to give the
judges a chance to give the heat TO
another horse, which they did. Mayor
Fleming then announced that the
heat would be run of at six o'clock,
aud the Lordsburg horse was taken to
the corral. After he had got well
away from the track the owners of the
other horses said there was no use Of
waiting I'LL six O'clock to run the race
of, aud as the Lordsburg horse was
not there there was no trouble 10 CIV
ing the Silver City horse first money.
One of the Lordsburg horses was
doped so he could not get over the
track, and another had some "hot
drops" thrown on him and instead Of
running be just bucked over the
course. The owners OF the Lordsburg
horses were glad tU get home, and
after they did get home, they were
told the story Of another horse racer
who went to Silver City a few years
ago, won three hundred dollars with
his horses and did not get a cent. 1t
will be some time before any more
Lordsburg race horses go to Silver
City.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1899-07-14

Ernest Gintrey was arrested at
Keeswick, neal Redding, California,
last Friday, on the request of Sheriff
Blacklngton, of Socorro county. He
is supposed to be one OF the men who
held up the lumber company's office
at Alamogordo a few weeks ago and
got away with about nve thousand
dollars OF government script. None
Of the stuff was found on him. Sheriff
Blackington, is acquiring quite a rep
utation as a detective.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1899-07-14

The investigation of the accident
on the Arizona s. New Mexico road on
the morning OF July 9Th, when the
engine of an extra freight and IA hand
car had a collision, showed the fault
to have been with the crew Of the
handcar. The train was on the rGgu-
lar passenger trains time, the passen-
ger being late. The train was going
down hill and the handcar was on the
up grade. Engineer Hennessy sound
ed the whistle just before he came
around the curve, and as he rounded
the curve he saw the handcar and APP
piled the emergency brake. Most Of
the men on the handcar jumped and
were not much hurt. Section fore
ma Good was sitting on the front Of
the car with his feet hanging over
and II he had pulled his feet out OF
the way he would not have been hurt,
but he seemed paralyzed at the sight
of the engine, and made no effort to
get out OF the way, and was caught.
If the men on the car had put on the
brake and released it as sOOn as the
car stopped it would have got out OF
the way, as the grade was SC heavy ii
would have rolled back. AS it was
the engine hit the car so lightly it was
not thrown off the track, but ran
down hill to Guthrie. The Mexican
who was caught betwe e the engine
and car had five ribs broken. I'm.
mediately after he was taken to the
hospital a case OF pneumonia set up
probably induced by the injury to the
lungs caused by the broken ribs, anc
from the effects Of this pneumonia h'
| died.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1899-07-14

DeWitt's Little Early Risers expel
from the system all poisonous accu-
bowels and liver, and purify the blood.
They drive away disease, dlsslpate
melancholy. and give health and Wig
or for the daily routine. Do not grippe
or sicken. Roberts & Leahy Mercan-
tile Company.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1899-07-14

A man who has practiced medicine
for 40 years, ought to know salt from
sugar, read what he says:
Toledo, o., Jan. 10, 1887.
Messrs. f. J. Cheney s. Co.-Gentle-
men:-I have been in the general
practice Of medicine for most 40 years,
and would say that in all my practice
and experience have never seen a
preparation that L could prescribe
With as much confidence of success as
1 can Halls Catarrh Cure, manu-
factured by you. Have prescribed it
a great many times and its effect Is
wonderful, and would say in conclu-
sion that l have yet to find a case Of
Catarrh that it wonld not cure, If they
would take it according to directions.
Yours Truly,
L. L. GoRsUCH, NJ. D.
Office, 225 SUBMITS St.
We will give 800 for any case Of
Catarrh that a not be cured with
Halls Catarrh Cure. Taken inter
nally.
f.. J. CHENEY & Co., Props, Toledo,
O. Sold by Druggists, 10.
If you want to buy a watch, clock or di-
amond. or if you want your watch re-
paired in first class shape send TO
GEO. w. HIcKox & HixsoN,
Bronson Block, FL Paso Texas.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1899-07-14

NOTICR FOR PUBLTCATION.-LAND Of
IN fee at Las Cruces New Mexico April
3rd. 1900 Notice is hereby given that the
following named settler has filed notice OF his
intention to make final proof in support OF his
claim. aud that said proof will be made before
United States Court Commissioner. at DEM
ing N. M. on May 20 1909, viz: John d. Weem's
who made homestead entry No, 236l. for the
Sci, Sec. 10, n. "a SIR. Is W. N, NJ. =. NJ.
He names the following witnesses 70 prove
his continuous residence upon aud cultivation
OF said land, viz: Thomas Marshall, Samuel
w. Brown. Louis ]. Marshall, John Phillips, all
Of DeminG N, M. Emil Solignac,
Register,
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1899-07-14

The eastern papers devote consider
able time and space to a description
OF the "kisslng bug" a new kind Of a
reptile 10 that section of the country
whose chief delight seems to be To
bite a persons lip. The bite causes
the lip to swell up and become quite
sore for several days. The bird is a
novelty in the eastern country, but
is what is known as a Chinese bedbug
10 this section of the world.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1899-07-14

II. W. Filbert, formerly agent at
this point for the Southern Pacific,
and more recently agent at Yuma,
has been appointed agent at Davis
junction, which is a few miles above
Sacramento, and is said to be a hotter
place than Yuma. e. E. Shrine, for
merly travelling agent for the com
pany, takes Mr.. Filbert's place at
Yuma.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1899-07-14

L. Fraissenet came down from Cliff
ton Tuesday, and took the delayed
eastern train for New York.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1899-07-14

Free. The Peoples Common Sense
Medical Adviser Is sent free by Dr..
Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y, on receipt of
stamps to defray expense of mailing
only. Send 81 one-cent stamps for paper
covered edition, or 81 stamps for same
edition in cloth binding.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1899-07-14

At the meeting Of the board of
county commissioners the tax rate for
this year was fixed as follows, the
AMOUNT being in mills on each dollars
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1899-07-14

Total tax. 27.00.
In addition to this there is a tax Oh
all cattle of two and one.half mills for
the idemnlty fund and one-half a mill
for wild animal bounty; a tax on all
sheep Of two mills per head for the
sheep sanitary fund; a special school
tax in precinct No. IL, Deming, of
three mills on the dollar, and a special
school tax in precinct No. IS, Hanover,
Of five mills on the dollar. The tax
rate Of twenty-seven mills is two mills
less than last year. 1t will be noticed
that the commissioners do not levy
any taxes this year to pay Judgments.
The dispute between Jacob Martin
ez aud L. A. Lindsey over the owner
ship of a horse was settled by giving
the horse to little Jody Leahy and
MBrtinez paying all the expenses.
Mrs. Jessie Bryant is visiting her
son 1. II. Bryant.
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S79, 006, 307, there being an increase of
1877, 300,361. The number of tons OF
freight carried one mile was 1l40II,-
576.305, which, compared with the
previous year, shows the large increase
of IS. 1898. 554, OSO. The number of tons
of line was 1910, which is 9s,131
greater than the corresponding item
for the year preceding.
Locomotives and Cars.
On June 30, 1898, there were 1924 To-
comotives in the service of the rail-
ways. This number is larger by 24S
than the previous year. OF the total
number of locomotives reported, 1856
are classed as passenger locomotives,
20,627 as freight locomotives and 1924
as switching locomotives, a small num-
Der being unclassfied The total num-
Der of cars of all classes reported as
in the service of railways on the date
named was 1,326,174, being an increase
of 2S,694 as compared with June 30, 1897.
OF the total number, SO, 595 were as
signed to the passenger service and
1,24S,s26 to the freight service, 43,753
being assigned to the service of the
cars owned by private companies and
individuals that are used by railways
in transportation Is not covered by re-
ports filed with the commission.
Railway Accidents.
The total number of casualties to per-
sons on account of railway accidents
during the year ending June 30, 1898,
was 47,741. The aggregate number of
persons killed as result of railway ac-
cidents during the year was $685. and
the number injured was 40SS2. Of rail-
way employees. 1858 We're killed and
1,761 We're injured during the year COW
cred by this report. The number of pas
sengers killed during the year was 221
and the number injured was 2945. Cor
responding figures for the previous year
were 222 killed and 2.795 injured. In
consequence of collisions and derail-
ments Y passengers We're killed and
1874 passengers were injured during
total number of persons. other than en-
ployes and passengers, killed was 1850;
injured, GIG. These figures include
casualties to persons classed as tres
passers. of whom 4,063 were killed and
4,T49 We're injured. The summaries con-
tanning the ratio of casualties show
that one out of every 447 employees was
killed and one out of every 2S employees
was injured. With reference to train
men-ncluding in the term enginemen,
firemen, conductors and other trainmen
1T is shown that one was killed for
every $50 employed and one was in
jured for every II employed. One pas
senger was killed for every 2,267.270 car
ried and one injured for every 1901
carried. Ratios based upon the number
of miles Travelled, however, show that
6O,542670 passenger miles We're accom-
plished for each passenger killed and
4543,27o passenger miles accomplished
for each passenger injured.
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On Its Defense.

~ VENTS of recent occurrence
make it clear that the admins
tration has concluded that its
Philippine policy needs a defense, and
that work has begun in earnest. The
retirement of Mr. Alger can be viewed
in no other light than as a desire on
the presidents part to strengthen him
self with the people by getting rid of
an unpopular, inefficient cabinet officer.
Whether his exit from the public ser
vice will have the desired effect, or
whether the people, on further thought,
reach the conclusion that in some cases,
at least, Alger was blamed for errors
the responsibility for which really lay
one step higher, remains to be seen.
Along with Ayers retirement came
two statements, of semi official charac-
ter and of considerable importance IN
their bearing upon the question under
consideration. The first is a statement
said to have been prepared at army
headquarters and given out for publica-
tion four days ago. Its purpose Is to
explain why the administration was
caught with an insufficient force in the
Philippines when the fighting with the
natives began In brief it amounts to
Just this: Miles first advised a force of
five thousand men, and Dewey did the
same. Then, in a second recommended
| ton. Miles advised the sending of about
fifteen thousand men, which was fol-
! lowed by Merritt's advice that a force
numbering a little more than fourteen
thousand men ought to be sent
Here We have a palpable attempt to
shift the responsibility from the ad-
mlnistration to the shoulders of Dewey,
Miles and Merrtt-three of the most
popular officers of the army and navy
in the United States 1t is a shrewd
move, but it will blind those only who
want to be blinded. AS lawyers put it.
the evidence is not responsive to the
issue.
The opinions of these officers were
based upon the idea that the Spaniards
We're our only foes in the islands and
that in dealing with them, we would
have the active aid of Aguinaldo whose
force, as stated by Dewey. was sup
posed TO be thirty thousand men, the
Spanish army being estimated at ten
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TO ADVERTISERS,
FRIDAY, JULY q, 1899.
TWELVE PAGES.


90 EFoRE the news of Ayers resig-
, nation was an hour old, gossip
regarding the succession was
; running the official gauntlet The press
! dispatches included in the list of the
probable Governor Roosevelt, General
Harrison Gray Otis, General Horace
Porter, Assistant Secretary Meikle-
| john and even Corbn himself.
| few days ago Governor Roosevelt
/ was a guest at the white house. At
once his name was linked with the Cos
sip about the secretaryship. The gov
ernor met this by saying that the ad-
ministration doesn't want him and
that he certainly does not want the war
secretaryship. Indeed, he added that
he would perfer his Office of governor
of New York to all the portfolios in the
cabinet-and that is not q manifesto
ton of either poor judgment or bad
taste.
In the same way, General Otis, the
editor Of a fiourishing newspaper in
Los Angeles. recently crossed the con-
tinent and put in an appearance at TIL
White House. They have it that he
may be Ayers successor. When the
Mckinley cabinet was made up, there
was occasional mention of the name of
Otis. Nobody knew why. The demand
was that the Pacific coast have official
recognition by the president, and he
chose McKenna for the attorney gener-
alship. Otis went with the California
volunteers Brigadier generals were a
Manila-enough of them for an army
of a quarter of a million. Otis didn't
tarry; he returned to California months
ago.
General Miles was named in yester-
days list. That he will be chosen is
not at all probable That would be
rubbing it in. The general is the man
who laid bare much of the Alger in
iquity. AS the head of the army he
will be tolerated because the admins
stration doesn't wish to invite more
public denunciation. Miles may even
be sent to Manila. but his advent in
the cabinet would be, on the admins
tration's part, confession too abject.
As for Corbn, Meklejohn ct al,
they seem not to merit serious Consid-
Grafton. The coming man may be a
soldier yet more probable it is that he
will be a politician with a pull
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one way t's'esS y" H nS's of than 'ne
department of state has been
the hero of incidents that are mildly
sensational. Recently he appeared at a
morning wedding dressed in white fan
nels.
Everybody knows that Mr. Hay is
up" on all that custom and the guide
books ordain with reference to what's
what in the way of clothes suited to
social functions. When he appeared as
a guest at marriage ceremony, at an
hour earlier than 6 o'clock p. m, with
out the wedding garment in the shape
of a Prince Albert coat, he took the
whole bridal party by surprise and his
reputation in his hands. Washlngtons
circles are strained over this matter
The question is seriously discussed
whether this surrender of the code to
the exigencies of a hundred degrees in
the shade will impair Mr.. Hays use
fulness in the realm of statecraft and
diplomacy. One newspaper has it that
the secretary, as the sequel of his pres
ciitt at ii NeuulHS Ill straw MAJ anu
insisting tiannels, will cast into a
new version Little Brooches" so as
to make them his way of escape.
OF far greater significance is the in
cident in Mr.. Hays career that is re-
lated to the larger public. 1t is an
open secret that he is one of the cabi
net officers who pressed Alger for a
resignation. Apparently, what most
offended Alger was, not the fact that
Secretary Hay crowded him, but the
fact that Hay let others know that the
pressure of the state department had
been brought to bear. Evidently, Mr..
Hay was not making a desperate eff
fort to keep still about it, nor was Sec
rotary Gage-it was current gossip,
days prior to the resignation, that both
men had urged Alger. For that mat
ter, other cabinet officers knew what
was going on: the Standards Wash
ington bureau, in note received here
day before yesterday, calls attention to
the fact that Postmaster General Smith
was quoted in a Philadelphia newspa-
per, last week, as having said that
Alger would retire early in the autumn
--Alger simply anticipated the time for
the falling of the rest of the leaves.
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Corbin's for Him.

= 7 NKINDEST cut of all was the
part of yesterdays press serv-
ice that singled out Corbin as
the person who should pronounce the
newspaper eulogy over the retiring sec
rotary of war COrbin's reputation is
that of an official hanger-on; to say
the least, the war business of the past
year has had no incident which brings
credit to Corbin.
Yesterdays news service paused
briefly, that Corbin might shed a few
tears in public over Ayers official de-
mise. mo man" testif1es Corbin, lever
had more at heart the comfort and the
welfare of the soldiers. Time and again
he insisted that everything must yield
before the requirements of the men in
the field, and he said that if the funds
were lacking he would pay for 1T him
self"
Thoughtful secretary; generous Al
ger! When you add to the millions
poured out by congress like water the
private estate Alser was willing to
subscribe, what luxury in modern war
fare could the men who fought at San
tiago or who died in Alger camps have
been in need of?
Yet it is history that this Cuban
army was about as iIl-equipped an ag-
gregatiOn as modern time campaigning
tells about. Indeed, it is confessed that
but for the remarkable providence that
started Cpvera out of Santiago at an
hour utterly fatal for Sn9in Alepr'S nm
fortunately-se commander, Shat
ter, with his badly provisioned SOL
diers, would have been fioundering in
the sea in early July of last year, try
ing TO swim out to our warships.
It was a little bit Of a war; in its
land operations it was of smaller pro-
portions than a dozen wars now quite
forgotten, that have involved several
frst-class powers within a decade. but
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| thousand. 1t is ridiculous to suppose
| that Admiral Dewey believed a force of
| five thousand Americans sufficient to
overcome ten thousand Spaniards and
| thirty thousand Filipinos. Manifestly
| he had no such thought, for in his dis
! patches he had frequently spoken Of
| Aguinaldo and his troops as friends. 1t
| will be remembered that when Aguin-
aldo complai ned that the Germans
would not allow him to take the SPAN
ish garrison at Isla Grande, Dewey at
once sent the Raleigh and Concord to
make the capture. In the dispatch de-
scribing the affair Dewey also said:
Shall send Boston to help Aguinaldo.'
| 1t was also stated without contradic-
ton that, before the arrival of the land
troops, Dewey, being unprepared to
guard the Spanish prisoners, turned
them over to Aguinaldo. Everything,
in short, indicated that he regarded
Aguinaldo as "a friend and, virtually,
as an ally.
The second statement of the two we
have referred to is that of Senator
Thomas Plat of New York. 1t bears
every ear mark of having been directly
inspired by the president. The senator
speaks with positive assurance of the
presidents advices," and how 'the
president is advised" and tells us that
the possibility of his being misled
about the facts in the case is scarcely
to be considered" Mr.. Plat winds UP
the statement by declaring that the
only work expected of our troops was
the defeat of the Spaniards. Just so.
That is what Dewey thought. But ali
this has little If anything to do with
the case. The complaint is that, after
the war with the Filipinos began, it
was permitted to drag along with an
insufficient force. If there was no pos
sibility of Mckinley being misled as to
the facts, how comes 1t that it took him
six months to discover that more men
were needed?
Mr.. Plat hardly improves the posi-
ton of the president by the defense
which he offers. If the failure to have
a larger force at Manila when the
treaty was signed was exeusable.-
which has not been made clear-cer-
tainly no good reason has been offered
for the failure to send reinforcements
after the fighting with the Fflipinos be-
gan, and this is the nub of the charge
against the administration. The de-
Tense starts off badly.
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Michigan's Quartette.

yHEN 1t comes to cabinet hon
wv ors, Michigan has Jared gen.
erously. The state has been
four times honored, and Michigans
quartette presents a striking contrast
two nervy, aggressive influential men,
Lewis Cass and zach" Chandler, as
against two latter-day nondescripts,
Don NJ. Dickinson and Russell A. AL
ger
Lewis Cass is one of the few men
whom, after his time. his countrymen
remember. A mighty man he was. A
native of New England, a soldier a
pioneer, statesman, a man of good
scholarship, of spotless integrity, of
high social quality, of distinguished
was that he did not win the presidency,
but that is a sort of common grief in
this country: even Alger has tried for
that Office. Cass was democrat, but
when Buchanan, mumbling about what
he had a right to do, or not to
do, let rebellion go ahead I'M
checked with its scheming. Cas-,
secretary of state. denounced the
presidents policy, quit the cabinet and
earnestly supported the war for the
Union.
Like Cass, Zachariah Chandler was
a native of New Hampshire; he was
the successor of Cass in the federal SEN
ate. Chambers aggressive style gave
him fame. When he was lad, his
father offered him his choice between
a college education and one thousand
dollars in cash. Chandler took the
cash; he was a. Westerner at the age of
twenty and soon a successful mer-
chant in Detroit. He was in the sem
ate when the civil war started, a warm
supporter of Lincoln, but a man Of
type so radical that he was well in ad-
vance of his party in many essential
matters relating to the war.
Later, Mr.. Chandler was a manager
of republican politics, boss who came
in for a heavy measure of denuncia-
ton by the opposition. But he was a
good fighter and a man who was not
afraid to face his foes. He was in
the Grant cabinet. OF course Chandler
went through the usual run of presiden-
tial fever. He hoped to get the nomi-
nation that was to be made in 1880. He
was in Chicago late in 1879 and was
announced for a political speech there;
he was found dead in his bed.
Faults these men had. But how
marked the contrast between them and
the f1abby, insipid, insignificant, carpet
knight quality of Michigan's represen
tation, through Dickinson, in the Cleve-
land cabinet and through Alger. in Nc
Kinley's.