Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1900-10-05
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LoRDsBURG. OCTOBER 6. 1900.

ter carnival next January.
Bora, ~ Mr. and Mrs. o. A. Slmp-
son, a boy, Tuesday night.
Martin & Sloan shipped sixteen cars
OF cattle the arst Of the week,
The Ringling BrDthers circus Il to
be at DemIne on the. seventeenth Of
this month.
Mrs. f. S. Lusk went up TO Clifton
the first Of the week to visiG with Mrs.
Q. N. Shannon.
The Southern Pacific pay csr was 10
yesterday, and sas greeted with the
Usual formalltiea.
p. NJ. Chase is enjoying a short vaca-
ton down on the Chase & McCabe
ranch 10 the lower Anlmas.
S. f. Mcguire made an Fl Paso trip
this week to consult with Col. Wan.
bouRh, who was there with his family.
The Rev. T. L. Adams. the new
pastor OF the Methodist church here
has heen holding a series Of evening
meetings since his arrival last Satur-
day.
A. G. Windham was down from his
home at Pueblo, Colorado, this week,
He gathered ON OF his cattle on the
range north OF here and shipped them
to his northern pastures.
Alfred Briggs, a we'll known charac.
ter around town, died suddenly We'd
nesday night from heart failure. He
was about forty.fve years old, and
leaves no known relatives.
Jaky Spitz has been spending a few
days in town with a fine display of
Christmas goods, mourning because
w. II. Small had to attend the United
States couTt as a witness.
A large number Of Lordsburgers
have been down to Las Cruces this
week telling the grand jury in the
United States court some OF the
secrets they had hidden away in their
breasts.
It is very probable that the next
time e. NJ. Young wants TO be nomi-
mated to 40 Office he will so arrange
bis travelling schedule as TO be back
from his old Virginia home before the
democratic convention is held.
Noah Hayden left the 1rst of the
week for Rayner, Texas. Mr.. Hayden
and some friends have a bond on some
copper properties near Raynor, and
have organized a small company to
work these properties. His friends
hope he will make 4 success of the
plan.
Special Census Enumerator Lyons
expects to finish up the enumeration
OF this precinct today oil tomorrow.
II is not likely that he will get as
many names on his list asdid Enumer.
ator Conrad. as many OF tne people
Conrad enumerated have left town.
Still Lordsburg will be on the list.
Col. NJ. W. Wambaugh has moved
his family TO FL Paso, and will make
that city his home in the future. The
family was 10 the Galveston storm aud
although their lives were saved they
underwent an experience that Col.
Wambough does not wish them to
pass through again, and so has moved
them put Of the storm belt.
Last Sunday there was 4 hot game
of ball in town. The Ringtail Roar
ers we're playing against the Never
Sweats. For the first half OF the game
the Roarers had things their own way,
hut finally the pores OF the Never
Sweats were opened and they broke
loose and for the rest OF the game 1t
was a walkaway for them.
The republican territorial conven'
ton at Santa Fe Wednesday nominal
ed the Hon. Solomon Luna for dele
gate to congress. Nj. Luna positively
refused to accept the nomination,
whereupon the convention took a
recess until yesterday. Up to the
time of going to press no word has
been received from the convention.
Governor Murphey has granted 9
further respite to the Haldermar
brothers, ~postponing their hanging
until the sixteenth of November. HI
did this at the request Of their law
yers, who wish further time 10 which
70 secure and present further evidences
regarding what they claim to haV'
been a put up job on the Haldermans
Tuesday night a couple Of train rob
bers held up a Burlington train nea
Council Bluffs. AS the robbers wer
blowing open the express car door th
messenger slipped out OF the door OF
the opposite side, taking his shot gu
with him. He crept around the en-
CINE, got a shot at one OF the roober
killing him, and the other took TO
corn deld alongside the road.
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