Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1902-09-19

MTo, s. S. Adams and children, who
have been spending three months in
Los AngeIeb and!Phoenix, returned tC
Lordsburg Wednesday.
r. M. Kedzie and family returned
from Silver City Monday. They had
been spending a week at the Haywood
hotsprings, and took a run up to Silver
City to see how the court was being
managed.
Henry Ross was down from Clifton
this week, shaking hands with his old
friends and looking after some goats
for The Arizona copper company, in
whose employ he has been since NOV
ing to Clifton.
W. B. Thompson came down from
Clifton on a special a few days ago
caught the east.bound train and left
for his home in Boston. He had re-
a telegram announcing the serious i'll
ness OF MS vile.
B. L. Berkey has been in town this
and expects to start up the reduction
works today. The successful opera
ton Of these works means a great deal
TO Lordsburg, and to the mining dis
trict s5uth of here.
The~Meficans III town celebrated
the sixteenth of September this week
with a parade and a ball. OF course
many Of them had a private good time
with a private bottle, all the same
some Americans on the Fourth of
July.
M. @. Beard, who was working as a
clerk in the Southern Pacific office,
was attacked with a hemorrhage of
the lungs Saturday evening, and died
from its effects Monday morning. He
had been here but a short time, and
was in the last stages of consumption
when he came here. He had relatives
in Oregon.
Tuesday w. f. Hagen came down
from Clifton with his pocket full of
proxies, and accompanied by Charlie
Rosencranz, en- route to the republi-
territorial convention at Phoenix.
Mr.. Hagen is one of the republican
wheel horses in Graham county, and
has been attending conventions since
the memory Of man runneth not to
the contrary. Mr.. Hagen makes a
practice Of converting one democrat
every campaign, and says he never
was prouder of a conversion than
when he got Charlie Rosencranz to
travel with him. Mr.. Rosencranz
does not like to admit that he is con-
verified, but he does not see how a
good democrat can swallow the plat
form adopted at Tucson, o vote for
the candidate nominated the day the
platform was adopted. He has an
idea, as he expressed it, that it will
not be much trouble to choose be-
tween the man nominated at Phoenix,
and the one nominated at Tucson,
and Mr.. Hagen grinned.
J. A. Leahy was up from Hachita
Saturday, to get a bath and a shave
and watch the people go to church
Sunday. He says that just before he
left the lumber for the new store ar
rived, and that he will have men at
work this week putting up his build
ing. Re will put in most Of his time
at Hachita until his family returns,
and then his partner, @. f. Dunnegan,
will attend to the Hachita end of the
business. He says the town is grow
ing rapidly and bids fair to be a place
Of importance in the southern part OF
the county. The town has grown up
30 rapidly that the rattlesnakes which
inhabitated the country there have
not had time to move away, and the
men put in their spare time killing
them off. The other night Mr.. Leahy
stepped out doors and walked right on
a snake. He thinks it was not coiled,
and that he stepped on it near It's
head, for it did not rattle, and al
though he felt it flop about his leg it
did not strike him. He says he made
the lump of his life when he found
where he was. He found the snake,
and saw some sticks lying near, but he
did not dare pick n up to hit the
snake, for fear the stick might be a
snake, and so yelled for help. The
only poker in town was brought and
Mr.. snake was dispatched. 1t had
bieht %rattles!