Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1900-07-20
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LonDsBURe. JULY 20, 1900.

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cattle.
w had a fnc rain here aud north
west Of town yesterday, and more is
in sight,
The %semi-annual statement OF the
Bank OF Demipg shows a total OF S30S.
23l 30. It's loans aud discounts are
s72,5OS. 65, and its deposits are s237,-
I60.6S.
The regular statement Of the First
national bank OF Eel Paso appears
this week. The statement shows a
balance Of more than a million and a
quarter of dollars.
The Eagle drug mercantile company
has secured another booklseeper. He
is not from Missouri, and probably
will not get nomesick before he has
been here a couple of days.
j. P. Kerr sold his house and lot to
NJ. @. Hardin, consideration $3.50.
Mr.. Kerr expects TO take a trip back
TO his old home for a visit this sum
mer, aud on his return intends to
build a home 10 the western part OF
town.
Mrs. S. S. Adams and children, who
have been in Phoenix for some weeks,
visiting Mrs. Adams father and sister,
returned home Tuesday. Her father
had been quite sick, but we are glad
to know she left him much improved
in health.
The Detroit copper company is get
ting ia a hurry to get to work again.
1t has been shipping 10 machinery by
express. A motor Weighing some 1900
pounds CAME in Monday, aud even
heavier machinery is reported on the
road by express.
The LIBERAL has received from
Sanford Robinson. who is now in
Paris, taking in the exposition, a copy
of a supplement to the Petit Journal,
which seems to be u Paris newspaper,
which is devoted to colored pictures
of the various exposition buildings.
G. G. Conrad, the census enumera-
tor, recovered sufficiently to resume
his work Monday. His returns may
be a little late, bat he will get all the
people in his district counted before
he quits work. He has Gold Hill
aud the Lower ella to work yet be-
fore be is flushed.
w. T. McOreight, president OF the
Albuquerque fair association, writes
the LIBERAL as follows regarding the
fair which will be held in September;
The Twentieth Annual Fair Of the
New Mexico Territorial Fair Associa-
ton will be held in the City Of Albu-
qaerque from September Is 10 %, 1900,
and like the exhibition given last fall,
will be a grand street fair and carni-
val. Thereswill be a baseball touTna-
ment, open to amateur clubs Of New
Mexico, Alizoua and El Paso, Texas,
professionals barred, aud nrat, second
and third money prizes will be offered.
Besides this tournament which ought
to stir The baseball players and fans of
the southwest into active practice,
the Executive Committee has decided
to give liberal money prizes for tug-of'
war contests, rock drilling contests,
foot racing, and numerous other
athletic sports. Arrangements have
been made with a 1rst-class amuSe-
ment company, who will handle the
midway nPlaisance" features; while
contracts will be mailed TO a first
class aeronaut, who with his lady
partners, will give, balloon %ascensions
every afternoon and evening during
the fair. The asceusions at night will
be with electrical effects, and on the
race order, and while in the air the
aeronauts will lombard each other
with Roman candles and other firing
devices. One OF the most interesting
features of last falls successful fair
was the splendid fireworks, given un'
der Che skilful management Of w. IL.
Wilson, a pyrotechnist of Los An
geles, California. He has been re-
engaged for the forthcoming fair,
and he writes that his designs will be
entirely new and some of them will
represent some of the great political
questions now pending before the
American people. The platform fea-
lures will be numerous, consisting 10
part of May. pole dances, %serpentine
dances, ~acrobatic and trapeze perform
ances, and, If possible, the committee
will produce the american Flag"
which was successfully given at the
National encampment of the G. A. II,
several years ago. During the week a
grand trades display and parade, with
numerous attractive and costly floats,
will be given, and this feature has al
ready been assured a success by the
manifest interest of the merchants,
the Elks, the Woodmen OF the World,
the @. Colombo Society, and other or
%ganizations, who will be represented
by appropriate floats. Each and every
division of the prade will be headed