Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1900-11-02
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LoRDsBURe. royBABHR 2 1900.

W. II. Decker, republican candidate
Tor superintendent OF schuois, was 10
the city Saturday, calling on his hoped
to be constituents.
@. NJ. Shannon aud B. B. Adams
were ia town from. Clifton Monday,
escortiDg Mrs. Hurmeyer . T0ey re.
turned 90 the morning train TUESDAY.
Miss McGeeln and Miss Leahy, es-
corted by Mr.. G. P. Hull aud chaper.
oned by Mrs. Ask. Howell, went up
10 Clifton yesterday for a couple OF
days visit.
W. d. McKeehan, the popular agent
bf the Arizona s. New Mexico at Dun
can, has been rejoicing over the ar
rival at his station Of the most
precious piece Vt freight he ha, ham
died in his long career as a railroader.
It arrived last Friday morning aud
the nurse said IL was a by.
james Nicks died az More nci last
week from typhoid fever. He was
we'll known in Bordsburg, add all over
Graham county, having served as a
deputy sheriff in that county for sever
al years. He was about thirty FIVE
years old, and unmarried, He has a
brother living at Duncan.
@. c. Conrad. the efficient census
enumeration Of District No. SO OF this
territory, has again returned To his po-
sition as head bookkeeper for the ALI
son Mercantile company, and now the
store looks like the hu~ers that bloom
in the spring.-Dwyer Corresponds {
of the Independent. efficient" is a
good although sadly overworked word.
Wednesday night was Halloween,
and Mes-rS. Clapp, Hull ard Wilcox
celebrated the event away from home.
When they returned home, late in the
evening they found someone hal been
ceiebre ting the night at their house.
The doors we're all wired tight, and II
they had not been duly sober they
would have had to sleep out. AS it
was they 3rawle | in he wind and
spent the rest OF the night comfort
ably 10 bed.
The baseball club needs a little
money for expenses. 1T has no en-
closed grounds, and cannot charge ad
mission, so has to raise money 10
other ways. 1t gives a ball at the
Knights of PYthias hall tonight, the
proceeds to be used for the benefit Of
the club. The admission will be a
dollar for gentlemen, with icr cream
and other refreshments extra. If you
feel like helpinge the club and have
not time to Stten1the dance you a
buy a ti:ket ffobf any member Of the
club at the same price that would be
charged at the hall.
Tuesday Messrs. c. A. Ross and Rich
ard lIeckscher, of London, arrived
on the delayed west bound train, en
route to Clifton. Owing t. the delaY
on the Arizona g. New Mexico road
they lid not get Out II town until the
next afternoon. These gentlemen are
largely interested 10 the Meddler COM
pany at Clifton. Mr.. Ross informs the
Liberal that the smelter ordered by
the company TO reduce the ores so
abundantlY found Jh the Meddler
group is about ready, aud will soon be
shipped. The smelter was built by
Fraser s. Chalmers, at Chicago.
Joe Woods came near to death last
Friday from ptOmaiu poisoning. The
day before he had been out with his
team all day without a lunch. At
night when he got in he ate a very hear
tysupper, but ne was so exhausted that
his stomach did not work and the food
fermented, ptomains we're produced
and the poisoning occurred. He ex-
hibited many OF the symptoms ofstych-
nine poisoning, and at first it was
thought he might accidently have
been poisoned. The combined efforts
OF DR.. Croker and DR.. Swope pulled
him through, and he is now all right
The locating surveying party for the
Southwestern of Arizona railroad have
worked through Antelope pass, anC
are some eight miles east of the pass
This road is the one being built b.
Phelps Dodge & Co. to connect Naco
sarri with the Southern Pacific. Thu
surveying party is headed towards Sc
par. There is a possibility OF the roaC
being built to Separ, and IL may com,
to Lordsburg. The decision as Il
which point IL will come to will de
pend on various reasons, the main on
being the cost of building and the ex
pense Of maintaining, which will de
pend on the reports made by the SUI
veyors.
The LIBERAL learns from a recen
copy of the San Francisco Evening
Post, that its old friend j. NJ. Wright
has struck II rich 10 the oil country q
Kern county. He secured a dne plec
of oil land, organized a company I
work IT. He owns $1,000 OF the 100
0OC shares OF the stock of the COMPANY
aud as its president aud general mar