Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-08-02
WESTERN LIBERAL.
1oRpsBuRe. AUGUST 2, 1901.

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on the ranch.
Mrs. William Garylu, who has been
spending a few weeks at Clifton, re.
turned this week.
The Rev. T. L. Adams left the FIRST
OF the week for Waco, Texas, where a
church meeting is IN progress.
w. II. Greer came up from Deming
last Friday to meet Mrs. Greer, who
returned from California that day.
]. II. Cook made a trip up to Stems
Pass yesterday to visit an old friend
who went through on the train, and
could not stop,
VIII Kelly, the successful editor Of
the Bisbee Review, was in the city be.
tween trains Saturday, returning from
a trip to Clifton.
Jas. T. Tong, the successful miner
of Steepleeock, has purchased an
eighty acre farm on the ella near
Duncan, where he will proceed to dig
alfalfa instead of gold.
A consignment of four Philippine
buffalo went through town on a spe-
Cial car, as express, last Friday. They
were billed for Buffalo, and will become
a part OF the Par. Americau exhibition.
On his trip down TO El Paso last
week John McCabe bought a new COW
cred spring wagon. In the future he
will do the cowboy act in the shade of
this cover, instead of from the hurri-
a deck of a GOV pony.
Work commenced this week on the
second story which the Eagle drug
mercantile company is putting on its
brick building. The company has be-
come so crowded for room that the
second story was found necessary.
The walls for Tom longs new res
taurant are going up at a good rate,
and Tom expects to move back into
the building the last of this month or
the first of next. He cannot move too
soon to suit his customers who have
been wearing out good shoe leather in
walking over the clnder piles to his
present place of business.
No one can complain of the drouth
10 this section of the country this year.
THE rains have been plentious, and
distributed over a wide section of
country. Luckily there have been no
washouts on either the Southern
Pacific nor the Arizona & New Mexi-
co. The ground is getting pretty well
soaked, and it is probable that it the
rains continue they will find the
ground in good condition to wash, and
then the delays will come.
R-R Clapp, who has been relieving
; G. L. Bugbee, agent at Benson, while
ne has been taking a vacation, re-
turned Tuesday, and is again in
charge of the Southern Pacific affairs
here. He reports that both the Bis
bee road and the Nogales road are
washed out for miles south Of Benson.
How many miles no one knows, for
there had not been even a track walk
er 10 from below the wash. He thinks
it will be at least a week before trains
are able to get through.
Reports from the Nacosari road tell
of a general quitting of work by many
of the employees OF the road. 1t was
not exactly a strike, although it had
nearly the same effect. There was a
cut in wages, which the employees did
not like. Instead of striking for the
resumption of the old pay and appoint
ing arbitration committees, boycott
committees, preparing for a fight,
and going through the usual program
which usually accompanies a strike,
they just quit, leaving the company to
hire men to do the work at the price
it saw ct to pay, If l6 could dnd such
men.
Charles Gardner died at his home at
San Simon, on the 25th, of heart
failure. For many years he was an
engineer on this division Of the South
ern Pacific. Some years ago he left
the road and gave his entire at
tention to the cattle business making
his headquarters at San Simon. At
the time of his death he had a 1ne
bunch of cattle, and was comfortably
fixed. He was unmarried, and the
support Of his aged mother, who is
left to mourn him. He was always
popular mao among his acquaintances
and his untimely death is mourned by
a large circle Of friends.
Saturday night some unknown per
son held up aud beat Robert Rem
frow, doing a very good job of it. Il
was early in the evening when Johnny
Holman heard something back Of hi
house, and went out to investigate
He saw a man, whom he could no
recognize, running away, and fount
Renfrow. lie guided him down town
where he was taken care of and pu
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