Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1900-03-02
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LoRDsBURG. MARCH. 2, 1900.

A locomotive for the use Of the Mo.
renci Southern arrived this week.
Mr.. aud Mrs. w. P. Hill leave next
week for their old home In Loulsiana,
where they intend TO make their home
10 the future.
The spriug dust storms have com
menced. One or Two have visited the
city, not at all to the delight OF the
careful housewives.
The regular statement of the c0ndl-
tIon OF the First National bank OF FL
Paso will be found in this issue.
Judging by the statement prosperity
is 10 hi Paso.
Yesterday a boz car and a nat car 10
the Southern Pacific yard got ON a
high lonesome, Jumped the track aud
turned upside down. No one was
hurt.
Mrs. ]. G. Hopkins, aud Master John
Guthrie, jr., leave Clifton this week,
and will make their future home at
Alberene, Virginia. The people at
Clifton will miss the Hopkins family
very much.
J. @. Keen came here from Phoenix
the 6rst OF the week and relieved J..
a. Harrison from his duties at the ex-
press ofice, so he could go over TO
Fairbanks and sec II he could identify
anv OF the train robbers.
There was a Jail escape last week
from the county Jail, at Silver City.
There were several boys 10 the jail,
and they managed to cut q hole
throuh a window casing and crawled
OFT. Must Of them we're In for cattle
rustling.
The republican caucus for this pre-
cinct is called to meet At the j.. 1. G.
hall tomorrow at 1880 o. M, for
selecting three adelegates to attend
the republican county convention,
which will be held at Silver City
March 9Th.
q. K. Chester. a civil engineer who
has recently located at Silver City,
was 10 the city yesterday, en- route to
Steeplerock, where he has u contract
for surveying the Wasserman claims
for patent. Dir. Chester has a profess
siOnal card Ia the LIBERAL.
Saturday night a freight train
jumped the track sWhen about half
way down Strauss hill, this side OF FL
Psso. No one was hurt, but it made
a nasty wreck. IL was after noon
Sunday before the wreck was
sufficiently cleared up so the regular
passenger train could get by.
The LiHdauer Mercantile company,
OF Deming, have opened a new dry
goods establishment at Lordsburg,
with Russell Agee as manager. Mr..
Agee is deserving Of the promotion
aud may a full measure OF success
Overtske him.-Mixing Bowl
Richard Kane, who lost his leg, by
an accident 10 the Arizona & New
Mexico yards on the 9th OF January,
has recovered sufficiently so that he
went TO Clifton this week. He now
travels on a pair Of crutches. He was
a member OF the Brotherhood OF
Railway traInmen. and this member
ship:lnsures him sl2o0.for the loss Of
his leg.
Monday while a gang Of men were
unloading rails for the Morenci South
erh, Jose Rios picked up one end Of a
rail TO carry 1t, but stumbled and the
rail went back on the pile. This hap
pened so quickly that Jose could not
let go, aud one OF his fingers was
caught between the rail aud another
one. The rail performed as slick an
amputation as any doctor could, and
now Jose carries his stump OF a finger
In his pocket.
+. S. Lusk, one Of the firm Of Street-
er and Lusk. who have the contract
for building the Morenci Southern
road, wal In FL Paso last week and
purchased the construction outfit Of
Good s. Co., who built the CloudcrOft
extension OF the ri Paso b Northern,
road, which outfit they will use in
constructing the Morencl Southern.
Mr.. Lusk is rushing the prepa rations
for this construction 10 good shape
aud DOR will have a large body OF men
at work on the road.
James A. Harrison, who has had
charge OF the local Ofice for the Wells
Fargo express company for several
years, has rendered his resignation u
take place on the first of this month,
Mr.. Harrison has an interest In a herd
Of cattle III Southern Arizona, and
thinks he 4 make more money look
ing out for his cattle than he can b.
working for the express company
His>many friends here will be sorry Il
have him leave town, and Mrs. Harri
o will be greatly missed.
Deputy Sheriff Phillips arrested
Mexi:an named Pablo Perez, on sus
piction Of being a counterfeiter. HI
answered both Ia name and descrip
fion IN a man much Wantad hu fh.