Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1899-10-13
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LoRDsBURe. OCT. 10, 1899.


business.
Sam Gillespie, long a we'll known
passenger conductor on this division,
is now running a livery and feed stable
In El Paso.
Mrs. Jack Pruitt left for Los
Angeles Friday where she will make a
short visit, and then join her husband
at Oakland, where he is employed as
switchman.
Mr.. L. Balbach came down from
Clifton Thursday and spent several
days ia the hills south Of town. He is
greatly pleased with the prospects he
found there,
II George Nataniel Tompkins, a
native of the Isle of Wight, who left
England Octot er A., 1888, will call at
this office he will hear something to
his advantage.
Burt Dunlap shipped sos head Of
cattle Friday and sos Saturday, that
he had purchased in the neighborhood
of Duncan. The cattle were shipped
to Ogallal1, Nebraska.
W. Moore Clayton, representing the
Bradstreets agency, was in the city
the FIRST Of the week, interviewing the
business men in the town regarding
their assets aud liabilities.
w. A. Driscoll, manager Of the
Blinn lumber company, has been 10
the city this week inspecting the local
Office, aud made a trip up to Clifton to
observe the state Of trade at that
point.
j. N. Harper returned Friday from
Las Cruces, where he had been sum
moned to act as a juror in the United
States cUuft. When the court learned
that Mr.. Harper was more than sixty
years old it excused him.
H. G. Ross, who is connected with
the Superior mining company, came
up ftom El Paso, bringing several fine
mule teams, which are busy hauling
ore from the Superior mine to the
depot for Shipment to El Paso.
The McGrath Brothers have moved
The building occupied by Or. Ciockcr
as an Office across The lot and up
against the Eagle drug mercantile
conpsny'S building. They have
moved the building directly behind
the Office across the street. They will
soon commence building On the site Of
the IemOved buildings.
james Sterling has sold to o. NJ.
hcWhorter the Hoboken mine at
Gold Hin. Mr.. McWhorter is not 60
log into The the minirg business, but
will continue in the cattle business.
The HnbOken is more famed as a
water producer than as an ore produc-
er, and Il is for tie water that it is
valuable TO its purchaser.
The articles OF the neg railroad
that the Detroit copper company is
going to build frUm SorcGci 10 Guth-
RE, have been alcd Will the secretary
of toe territory at Phoenix. The road
is to be called the Morenci Southern,
1t is capitalized at $500, 900. 1t will
be about twenty miles long, and will
contain some as fancy civil engineer
ing as any road 10 the country. G. z.
Mills is the attorney and agent Of the
road.
G. e. Bull, editor Of the Clifton Era,
was in the city Tuesday, returning
from Las Cruces, where he had been
attending court. Mr.. Bull was under
Indictment for libel in bona Ana
county, but Judge Leland decided
there was no libel law in the territory.
and so dismissed the indictments
Mr.. Bull was accompanied by his
wife's sister, Miss Grace Pearce, o.
San Antonio, Texas, who will make
her home in Clifton.
1t is reported that n Of the Mexi
cans under arrest for smuggling anC
stealing cattle, some of which wer'
sold to r. II. Sreed, has confessed tina
he had a contract with Speed TO fur
hlsh him cattle. A COW and calf, tn
COW wearing a burned brand, which
was in the herd held by the Mexican
was identified by Johh Robson as on
OF his. -Four men from Mexico are a
work rounding up Speeds range look
ing for cattle they have lost.
r. L. Powell has stopped work o.
the Standard properties at Gold Hill
The ore was all right, and the mil
had been put into good shape, but tn
company's we'll was not in good enoug
condition to furnish the water neces
sary for the mill, and the mill coul
not be run without water, so M
Powell had to shut down. The well
former years furnished enough waite
for a mill, and it is probable that If
was put in proper shape would do s
again.
The girls in Kansas are said to haV
formed a society the members
which are pledged to marry no one e
cept members OF Funston's regimen