Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1899-03-03
WESTERN Liberal.
L~oRDsBURe. MARCH ., 1879.

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tea In honor OF Mrs. Ellen Daily.
Lieutenant Nell Bailey OF the terri
toriai regiment has returned from
the Georgia campaign and is said TO
be wearing the sweetest blue uniform
that ever graced the martial form Of Il
United States soldier.
Elsewhere ia this issue Is the reg.
ular statement Of the First national
bank OF El Paso. For the iirst time
In the history OF the bank the total OF
the statement amounts to over a mill
lion dollars. The banks statements
have been increasing Ia size right
along for the past few years, showing
.how. we'll managed it- is and what q
confidence the business world has In IL.
Today ls the last day Of school ia
Lordsburg this year. The reasOn the
school Is closed IL because the school
fund is exhausted. II the legislature
had not robbed the children Of this
district by taking away from them the
license funds that the original school
Law provided should belong to them
theY would have bad . fun school year.
Ms Mexico kRislatyres Wnt have
many sins to answer for, and this will
Shet be the least Of them.
The Ell Paso papers report that the
celebrated Dos CabeEas nilne In Mex.
leo was sold last week, the purchase
price being $4,000 Mexican money.
They also report that the expert who
examined the mines say there is ore
blocked out which is valued at 49,
$4,000. After comparing the figures
OF The selling price aud the ore Ia sight
y mining man gravcly asked the
Liberal "who- ls the Harp" and the
LIBERAL could not answer.
Captain A. b. FAN, OF the territorial
Regiment, who had been on detached
service, aetIng as health onicer 10 one
OF the Cuban cities, resigned when his
regiment was mustered out and re-
turned tothls couptrys Captain Fall
viii locate ia H Paso aud there prac-
lice his profession. The Liberal
met the captain and Felix Martinez,
another we'll known New Mexico
politician, 10 FL Paso the. other day.
andSboth informed him that they had
fUresworn politics forever, and In
order to break away from their politi
cal connections had :moved from the
the territory to Ell Paso- THIS will be
good news 70 many republicans Ia the
territory.
Among the bills Introduced 10 the
legislature Is n which provides that
the manufactures Of every patent
medicine sold in the territory shall
print on the label on the bottle the
-Rctuai ingredients and proportions
FUSED 10 making the medicine. ~ this
Becomes a law 1t will bat out the
lprinciple patent medicines now sold
an the territory, for the manufacturers
Sof the medicines would rather forego
New Mexico's trade thaa u tell their
trade secrets. tsihis Is done there
arc thousands OF people In the terri
tory whoJAye tOofarf nnm a doctor 70.
call one whenever slightly sick. who
will suffer because they can pot get a
reliable medicine.
Fred Peel, we'll know In this section
sof the country as dutch Fred" who
was sent to the penitentIary from
Graut county some timoago for steal
ing cattle, escaped one day last week.
lie aud two other cOnvicts climbed
over the wall and took to the hills.
In a short tim .;hey separated. One
of the conyicts returned TO the penl'
Tertiary, and his appearace at the
front gate w4S the first intimAtlon the
autorities had that aa escape had
been made. The returned convict
claimed the other two had made him
SO with them, and a sOon as he gob
away from them be came hack.
Searching parties were sent ont aud
Fred was soon located. He had
spraIned his ankle 10 going over the
wall, and so could not travel very far.
He said that one Of the guards had
helped them make the escape, and the
guard was promptly fred. Fred's
time would have expired next Novem.
der.
Thesmal pOE'at Clifton is getting
much worse, and Is likely TO become
&Qsasmie, but little actual informa-
ton is being received as TO the actual
situation. Tuesday the quarantine
against Clifton was made absolute,
and sInce then no passengers have
been allowed 70 come down, and the
crews OF the trains are not allowed 70
leave the yard. IL is impossible for
any person TO get out OF Clifton 10 any
direction, th9 quarantine between
Clifton and S0lomcnville being tight
er, II possible than the 10 established
between LOrdsbuFg and Clifton. The
Eolom0nvilllans are trying 70 figure
out some way OF preventing the wind
from blowing from Clifton towards