Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1899-06-23
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LoRDsBURG. JUNE %, 1899.

the frst of the week, ENJOYING a but
terfly life In the metropolis.
p. r.. Smith came up from Deming
Wednesday night, aud yesterday went
up 20 clifton on a business trip.
Miss Eva Olden, who has been visit
ms at Stems Pass for some time, re-
turned TO L%ordsburg the first of the
week.
Judge Horemeyer returned from
the east the first of the week, aud
will 5000 have his new bank in work
ing order.
G. NJ Shannon returned from bis
Silver City trip Saturday night aud
spent Sunday in LOrdsburg, returning
TO Clifton Monday,
Mr.. John Leechman and Mr.. A. b..
Ford, president aud secretary Of the
Shakespeare mining company are ex-
pected in this morning to have a look
at the works of the company, which
they will tind in good shape, under the
management of Wni. Francis.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. G.. Hopkins re-
turned from their trip TO Scotland,
They report having had a most enjoy
able time during their short trip
abroad. Mrs. Hopkins was particu-
larly Jubilant because she WIS not sea-
sick while crossing either tlme.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. e. Hoffman took
the west bound train last week Thurs
day, hight for a round the circle trip.
They will visit California, Idaho,
Montana, aud Colorado, and then go
to their old home at Rochester, New
York, to visit friends. They expect
to be back ia Lordsburg in November.
j. A. Smith, editor of the El Paso
Herald, passed through town on the
east bound train Wednesday morning.
He has been down on the sea shore
for a few days, and left his family
there to spend the summer. lie says
he went fishing while at the coast,
and offers to view the back OF a badly
~sunburned hand as proof of the state
ment, and conhdentially informed the
LIBERAL that be had slowed away d
stock of fish stories that will make
some of the hardened liars of his toxin
turn greel with envy when they hear
them.
The Rough Riders commence hay
ing fun at Las Vegas tomorrow.
Judging from the repngts of the prep
arations the people Of Las Vegas haze
made, as reported IN the Optic the
Rough Riders will have d hOt time of
st at the Meadow City during their
Stayin that town. Well, the boys are
used to having d hot time in fact hot
times are their specially, and the!
will undoubtedly live UP to their rep
htatlous. The only Rough Riders In
Lordsburg at present. are Fred Bugbec
and Bruce Weathers, neither OF whom
could get away TO take in the cc!e
bration.
For SOME months a number Of the
men working ia tue depot have been
running u bachelors hall in j.. a.
Harrison's house, having employed a
colored cook. They have spent the
most of the time, when not eatlug, ia
Dragging about what good eating they
had. Mrs. Harrison and her children
have sent word that they are cunning
back early lex month"; and last week
MIR. Harrison notified the crowd thai
they must yacate the house, as he
wanted to air 1t thoroughly and put 1t
through a course of quarantine before
his family returned. Since the board
ing house broke up and the members
have gone back to eating at the China
house they have, on the average,
gained a pound in weight a day.
For the first time 10 the memory q
the oldest ~lnhabitant we have been
. visited with rains early in the last
half of June. AS a general thing we
have our first rain Of the rainy season
here on the fourth OF July, although
IT is not surprising to have 1t come
any time during the week previous to
the Fourth. Last Monday night.
June 10, we were visited with a nice
rain here in town and a heavy rain
fell to the east aud northeast Of town.
1t was accompanied by thunder and
lightning and all the peculiar COM
binations that are noticed with the
opening of the rainy season. The
ranges are badly in need Of rain, and
to suit the cattle men it cannot come
TO quickly, nor can too much Of it APP
pear.
The 18th Infantry, 10Y stationed at
Fort Bayard, win leave on tomorrow
for the Philippines. 1t is understood
that the fort will be made a s.citarium
by the government, and within a short
time two troops will be located there.
The 9th cavalry has already left Fort
Grant, Arizona, for Fort Bayard and
are expected TO arrive within the next
few days. General Sternberg, who was
- - f,enaot tho fort loOkfnO n