Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1899-02-24
WESTERN liberal.
LoRDsnuRG. FEB. "a. 1890

]. P. Ownby has returned from hll
trip TO Demlng, where. he stayed
abouta week.
p. NJ. Chase was Id from the Anlmal
the first Of the week, laying 10 a stock
OF garden seeds.
The Kisses Wakefield aud Cain
mdder tuip up to. Clifton last Satur.
day re drning on she evening train.
,Cdr were glad to Get back before the
qr fantlne WA declsred.
The Hon. E. w. Williams, represen-
taliye 10 the Arizons legislature from
Metcalf, 1ae In the city Saturday, en-
route nome TO spend Sunday. lie re-
tLrped to Phoenix Monday.
Mrs.JeG, Hopkins, accompanied by
her son and nurse, came down from
Clifton Tuesday aud went to Los
Angeles, where there is said to be as
much.sl4au pQx as there IS ia Clifton.
DunGan.d does not want any small RoS
and asa preSeutatlse ii has estab:
lished a rigorous shot gun quarantine.
When the Arizona IS New Mexico
trai6 arrives 10 own IL is held under
guard and no one is allowed to get on
or Of,
James E0sper, son. Of James e. Cos
per, a well;knOwn and promtpentfarm
or living on the riTcr, WAS ia the city
Monday. He Joined one OF the Arlza-
ma companies which made up the ter
ritoriat re gimentlast spring, and has
been soldering every since. The
territorial regiment was mustered out
last week. and Mr.. Casper immediate-
ly started for the home ranch or the
river. Lon Moore, son, Of Alonzo
Moore, who also lives on The river,
has been With him in the same com
pany, aud is expected home every day. |
Owing to the small por scare IN
Clifton the. authorities 10 Lordsburg
concluded that 10 the way
of protection was needed. Az "A pub
lie meeting held Monday night it wa
decided to quarantine against Clifton.
At present the quarantine extend
only agaiost Mexicans. II the
disease does not become. cpl
demlc there 1t is probable this will
not be extended, but IL IL becomes
very bad there a strict shot gun quar-
antlnc will'De made.
Las Cruces has long lad a reouta
tion for harbDring some pretty hard
characters. but the LIBERAL has
always Thought the reputation was
undescrved, However, 4 transaction
c cured there recently which showed
that The residents uL-that town are
Spretiy well acquainted with eaci
othec, ana hat they are not gfyen~tp1
taking chances. a man, call lin
Jones for short, had OCCASION TO go t.
that town To make 4 settlement
OF a business transaction which
involve the payment to Il mar in
that tuwn the suin OF s2lo0.
The person who was TO receive
the money was Only an agent
in the transaction, ais principal livinr
elsewhere. The agent simply had L.
sign the receipt, receive the money
and forward il to his principal by ex-
press. Mr.. Jones had the money scn'
to him at Las Cruces by express t.
await his arrival. When he got to
Las Cruces he went to the expires.
office and asked II there was a package
for Jones. The express agent said
there was, and was glad he had come
for he did not like TO keep such a
package OF money in his office. Jones
did not have to be Identified, the
agent was glad to hand oyerthe pack
age to any man whd would say his
name was Jones and. would sigu for
the package. Jones took the. money,
went To bis room In the hotel, counted
1t, and arranged it in t%wenty-oDe
packages, each containing an hundred
dollars. He then went out and found
the man to whom he was to pay IL.
The man did not seem to be in any
hurry about %transacting business and
talked about the wonderful cllmute OF
southern New Mexico. At last Jones
brought him around to business whcr
the agent announced that it was after
four o'clock, banking hours were over
and he could not receive the money
that day. Jones suggested that hc
might take IL and turn it over to the
express agent. The express agent re-
fused to accept a money shipment
at that time OF the day, as there was
no train leaving town on which he
could ship the money till the next
day. Jones began to get suspicious OF
the town and the people, and won
dered II he would last over night. A
great deal OF the money was In small
bills and the bundle was SO large that
he could not carry it in bis pocket.
There was no safe 10 the hotel. Final
" he found a drug store that had d
safe and he prevailed on the druggist
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