Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1902-08-15
WESTERN LIBERAL.
1oRDsBURe. AUGUST IS, 1902.

rer fent;--Small house apply at
this Office.
Misses Kate and Julia Mccormick,
arrived In town Sunday, 10 visit their
brother, Superintendent Mccormick
OF the Aberdeen company.
IL. E. Watkins, who has been clerk.
ing at the Eagle drug mercantile COM
'pany's store left for Illinois, where he
has got a Job threshing wheat, his old
trade.
Saturday night, and again Sunday
night this section OF the country was
visited by One soaking rains. The
water came down slowly and easily,
soaking into the ground where it will
do some good, not running away.
Mrs. Baylor Shannon and her sister,
Miss Gaddis, came 10 from Silver City.
Sunday, and went up to Clifton for a
short stay. Miss Gaddis has just re-
turned from New York, where she put
in about a year at the Columbia
university.
The only cohsoling things about the
racket the riviters make in building
the big oil tank is that they only work
nine hours a day, so that the noise
lets up after Eve O'Clock, and that the.
riviting will be stopped when the tank
is completed.
Mrs. Roberts Of Bisbee, who was so.
well known here a few years ago as
Miss Clara Salkeld, was in town over
Sunday, visiting her aunt, Mrs, B. B.
OWhbY. Mrs. Roberts has three girls,
all of whom she was taking east to
visit her old home.
W. e. Allen has secured a job as
messenger for the new express COM
pany which has been organized to do
the business on the El Paso & South.
western road, and has a run between
Deming and Bisbee. He has moved
his family to Deming.
DR.. and Mrs. Crocker and Mr.. and
Mrs. Overman left Tuesday for a
camping trip into the C%hiricahua
mountains. 1t is rather a moist time
Cf the year to go camping. A leaky
tent and d midnight rain is not cOn-
ducive to restful slumber.
The Arizona s. New Mexico railroad
will give one Of the popular pionics at
Coronado park next Sunday. Dane
Ing pavilion will be free to all. A
beef will be barbecued for the benefit
of the picnicers, and refreshments
will be sold Oh the ground.
A special from the Ell Paso s. South
western anne up from Hachita Fri
day and took a party of the officials of
that road from Lordsburg to Guthrie,
from which place they went to Moren-
ci. On returning they went through
to Hachita, and then TO Bisbee.
The new time table on the FL Paso
So Southwestern went into operation
Sunday, and now the road is running
regular passenger trains from Deming
to Bisbee, one train each way daily.
The road expects to get its El Paso
branch into operation In October.
Tae,brick work on the houses the
Lordsburg s. Hachita road has built
for its section hands at various places
on the road, has been completed and
the carpenters are now finishing them
up. A brick house will be a novelty
to the average section man, but the
road thinks it will be a matter Of
econohy to build good housee.
The jury commission last week
selected the jurors for the coming
term of court. The list will not be
made public, and you will not know
that you are one Of the lucky ones
until the sheriff taps you on the
shoulder and tells you about 1t. If
you do not want to attend court In
this honorable position watch out and
dodge Sheriff Goodell and his deputies
for the next few weeks.
Sunday Mrs. L. NJ. Mcdonald who
lives up the river above Duncan was
accideutlY shot by her husband, but
fortunately was not fatally injured.
The accident occurred as follows:
Mrs. Mcdonald saw a chicken hawk,
and her husband got out his rifle, one
Of the A caIible, sixteen shot win
chesters, and took a shot at the hawk,
missing him. He sat down on the
veranda to wait for the hawks return,
or the approach Of another n Mrs.
Mcdonald went into the house, and
then concluded to take a walk, which
she did without telling her husband
she was going. She walked around
for some time, add came up on the
opposite side of a knoll Of ground from
her husband. He saw her sunbonnet,
thought it was another hawk, and
took a shot at it, although it was sew
eral hundred yards away. The ball
hit Mrs. Mcdonald in the back, below
the kidneys. 1t had reached the top