Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1900-04-20
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LoRDsBURe. APRIL 20, 1900.

O. w. Maxsun made a Clifton trip
this week, to see that everything is
working smoothly in the great copper
camp.
Mr.. J. G. Hopkins was in the city
Friday, en- ruute from Clifton to
Chicago on business, from there he
will go to his new home at Aiberene,
Virginia.
A party of Lordsburgers drove out
TO Shakespeare Wednesday evening
and made a surprise call on Mr.. and
Mrs. o. r. Smyth. They spent a very
pleasant evening.
W. f. Craze, OF New York, the
travelling auditor for Phelps Dodge g.
Co., was up at Morenci this week look
ing over the books in the Detroit cop
per compauy's ONCE.
It. Is reported that Adalph Rose
Grams, a Silver City young man who
was a member OF the 34th infantry, 10
the Philippines, has been killed by
some OF the natives.
John McCabe is in the city from the
Animas this week, taking medicine
for his regular attack Of spring fever.
He hopes To recover sufficiently IN a
week or so to enable him to return to
the ranch.
S. F. Mcguire made a trip over to
Solomonville this week, u sec If any
OF the train robbers in confinement in
the Graham county jail were likely to
get out and rob a train on the Moren-
Ct Southern.
Gutdon Biad'ey passed through
town last Friday, en- route for Cape
Nome, where he expects to gather "a
few bushels Of gold during the next
few months, and his friends all hope
he will be successful.
The Santa Fe road has put on train
guards between Silver City ard Rio.
on. An attempt was recently made
TO wreck a train on this run, and the
company thought a little protection
was u cheap investment.
G. NJ. Shannon was in the city Sat
urday, returning to Clifton from a trip
TO the northern part or the territory.
He passed through albuquerque u day
ahead of Mr. Bryan, bat did not have
time 20 stop and visit his old FREUD.
After several vain efforts it now
looks as though spring was with Us
for sure, and that we would continue
to have pleasant weather. (fhis item
was good up to last night. II it turns
cold again this morning the item oes
not go.)
NJ. V. b. Benson, special agent of
the INSURANCE company Of NoithI
America, and a deiegu te from Mrs.
5. W%arren's insurance agency, va
in the city between trains Monday.
sizing up the Iisa5 his compsny carries.
in the town.
The winftws IN McGrath B-o'hcrs'
store have suffered this week. A
swinging sc5eea d5or went through
one, aud a druuk pet bis shoulder
through another. IL is rather dis
couraging, but new glass has been
ordered for them.
On the Gr,t Of the month the post
Office at Murencl was advanced from
the fourth to the Third class, aud the
salary was fixed at Sll00 a year, Gu
the same date the p%osturice at Ala
mogUrdo, New Mexico, was also ad
vanced frum the fourth to the third
class, and the salary OF the postmaster
was fixed at $1,000 a rear. These are
the only advances ia class of post
Offices in either territory this year.
There have many rumors come
in from the posses which are following
the men who killed Scarborough, and
which are following Alvord and Stiles,
who escaped from the Tombstone Jail,
but no reliable news has been received
from them. This indicates that they
have not caught up with the men the,
are after. II one OF the men had been
Killed or captured, or il one Of the
posse had been killed it would have
been but a short tine before the news
would have reached the world at
large. 1t is to be hoped that the
posses will be successful, but IL is a
hard job trying to lnd men who are
hiding in the Chiricahuas.' A needle
in q haystack is comparatively easy.
The FL Paso Times railroad pipe
dreamer has made arrangements for
Phelps, Dodge & Co., TO give up its
line from Naco TO Nacosari. and con-
nect the mines with an overland route
that will lead from El PasO to the
Pacific ocean. He says the Mexican
government is very anxions TO have
railroad connections between the city
of Mexico and Sonora, entirely in
Mexican territory, that 10 order to
force Phelps, Dodge & Co. to do this
it has refused a concession TO them
TO build from Naco To NaCosarl. As
a matter of fact before this dream