Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1899-12-22
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LoRDsBURG. DEC. %, 1899.
Merry Christmas to all.

Judge HoremeYer was down from
Clifton Tuesday, en- route TO Solomon
Vile on probate business.
j. ID. Lea, OF the Clifton Era, was ia
the city Monday, en- route to his old
home at Roswell TO spend the holi-
days.
Mrs. f. NJ. Witherspoon, accom-
panied BY her daughter and her sister,
Miss NJ. r. williamson, came ia from
the east Saturday, to the great delight
Of Mr.. Witherspoon.
The regular statement Of the First
national bank OF Ell Paso appears in
this weeks paper, and the showing
made indicates that a great deal OF
business is being done In FL Paso.
Monday night at the residence OF
the groom's sister, Mrs. George Trim
. bic, Hardie Fuller and Miss jamie
Harrison were married by Judge Nc
Grath. Many congratulations have
been extended to the young couple.
Some eleven hundred dollars were
sent from Lordsburg this week to
New York TO be invested 10 the stock
Of the Shannon copper company.
This property is known 10 Lordsbur1
tosbe a big thing, aud uany Lords
burgers have been waiting for the
company TO be organized to get 10 on
the ground floor.
Miss Mary f. Hull came down from
San Francisco TO visit her brother Guy
p. Full. Miss Hull spent a few days
In town, made a trip With her brother
down to FL Paso. and returned to San
Francisco on Wednesdays delayed
TAIN. She said she had a very pleas
AIT visit and found Lordsburg q much
better place than she had anticipated.
Prof. L. Balbach came down from
Clifton and spent a couple OF days in
the hills south OF town, and Monday
went east to spend the holidays. He
tlok with him a power Of attorney,
authorizing him to sell a large num-
Der OF mining claims located In the
Virginia mining district. II the
Professor is successful in his negotia.
tions, and everybody hopes he will be,
1t will be a great boom to this section
OF the country. Some OF the most en-
thusiaStic people who are familiar
With the district claim that Shake
spears will Jet be a second United
Verde.
The new gasoline engine and the
new hoist Oh the Superior mine is do
ing most excellent work. 1t ruI Q
without any trouble and every eco
nomically, rcQuiriDs, little attention.
There seems TO be a great difference
between IL and the one on the Shake-
speare company's property. j. j.
Shimmel, who put In the Superlor's
engine says that all the trouble With
the Shakespeare engine is that it was
bought at the wrong place, that If the
Shakespeare company had bought an
ensiae Of the Weber company there
would have.been no trouble ia run
ming it.
II. E. Hoffman tells the LIBERAL
that the Pyramid company has made
arrangements to do the necessary as
sessment work on the company's
mines at Pyramid this year. Early
next year the company will patent
its properties at Pyramid, and then
will sink a shaft in the Viola mine for
two hundred or three hundred feet,
an thoroughly explore the ore body
which Is now exposed in the bottom OF
tae workings. The fuel question has
become an important one at Pyramid
and Mr.. Hoffman is now investigating
the varions sources of power, with the
probability OF putting in gasoline
power.
The president has appointed Frank
II. Hudson as postmaster at Clifton,
in the place of Mrs. c. Kate Holt, re-
signed. Mr.. Hudson has been en-
ployed for some time in the company
store and Is very popular in Clifton, be-
ing the choice of all the people who had
anything to say about the appoint
ment. Mrs. Holt made Z most popu-
lar postmistress, but owing to the
great increase 10 the work in the office
she found that the work was too hard
for her. AS soon as Mr., Hudson's
bond is arranged and the commission
comes Mrs. Holt will leave fer Cali
fornia, where she will make her home,
with her husband, probably at San
Jose.
The Southern Pacific men who have
been making excuses for the passen-
ger trains being late have all said that
owing to the large passenger trade
the trains were so heavy they could
not be put through on time by the en-.
gines now in Use, and il the heavy
freight engines we're used they would
get "hot" when run fast enough to
make passenger time. They have all