Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-10-11
WESTERN LIBERAL.
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Jerry Wine vas in the CIV thIs

WNchs
r. b, Jones was down from Clifton
Friday, shaking hands with his old
friends.
r. Fl. Bachelor, OF the Aberdeen
company, is expected III L%ordsburg
next week.
e. @. Blfdsall arrived this week
from New Jersey. aud has gone to
work for the Aberdeen company.
Professor Carrera, Of the Lena min
ing company, made an Ell Pasu trip,
returning the drst Of the week.
A.. W. Clifford was up from FL Paso
Friday aud stopped a day or SO, and
looked after the affairs of the Orion
company.
The Arizona s. New Mexico has
ordered sumo new and heavier en-
Rlnes. The trafic on that road is
constantly increasing.
The Southern Pacific pay car was 10
the city last Friday. No Southern
Pacific employe thinks it unlucky
to visit the pay car OF Friday.
The Cauthen building is fast APP
preaching completion. The plasterer
is at work on the interior, and 1t soon
will be ready for occupancy.
The school house walls are going up
as fast as the masons can get the
brick ln place. 1t is going to be a Gne
building, an ornament to the town.
Christian BaumRarten, Of Schulen-
berg, Texas, who is largely interested
In mining, was in the city the arst of
the week, visiting Professor Carrera.
DR.. Crocker was over to Silver City
Monday, attending the regular quater.
ly meeting Of the board of county
commissioners, of which he is a mem
Der.
]. r. OwnbY has completed the
census Of school children in the dis.
trict and enrolled two hundred and
one. This Is an increase of f~orty-seven
over last year whom the enumeration
was n hundred and afty.fOur.
The Independent reports that the
Eighty Five mine, the EIghty-six,
Emerald, Nevada, and Buck, were
sold at sherif's sale, and bid in by the
Roberts s. Leahy mercantile company
last Saturday, for the amount OF the
Judgment aud costs.
Negotiations are now pending be
tween the Southern Pacific aud the
El Paso s. Southwestern to use the
Southern Pacific track from Strauss
to Ell PasO. The negotiations are not
completed, aud of course it is impossi-
BILE to say whether they will be COM
pleted. If they are it will save build
ing a very expensive piece Of track for
the FL Paso s. Southwestern, and IL is
probable the Southern Pacific will
have to make a double track for this
distance.
After negotiating between the rail
roads interested Lordshurg has a
union depot. The train from the
Arizona & New Mexico railway comes
down to the Southern Pacific depot
with passengers, mail and express, and
leaves from the same depot. This is a
great accommodation to the people
who travel ove the Arizona s. New
Mexico road, but is not appreciated by
the transfer men. However, it Is sell
dom that railroad trains are run for
the accommodation of transfer e
Z. w. Clspp, Southern Pacific agent
at this point, has been working on
this scheme for some time, and is to
to be congratulated 90 his success.
Dell Potter was 10 town Monday.
He was asked II he had bear meat for
sale, and then be commenced to cuss.
He says he never saw a bear. On be.
ing questioned about the story recent
ly published in the Clifton Era de-
scrlbing his encounter with a bear
and other wild animals he declared
the story was several kinds OF a lie.
He had tried TO run IL down and Pink
Leonard had sworn 1t onto Ben Craw-
ford. When he went to Crawford
with a club 10 his hand Ben had sworn
IL onto Pink Leonard, and there he
was. He could not plead self defense
II he killed them both. He said they
were a pair TO draw to, and the hand
could 0 be filled 10 Arizona.
T. L. Stockton, who shipped about a
thousand head Of cattle from here last
week, expects to ship about I've hun
dred more next week. He complains
a good deal about the stock yards
here. He says they are poorly
arranged, too small and too near town,
and that there is an insufficient water
supply. He thinks that In the future
there will be many more cattle ship
ped TO California than there have
been in the past, and that Lordsburp
Will be the most convenient shipping
point, but that unless other arrange
ments are made ii will be impossible
TO ship from this point. He claimed