Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1902-02-28
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LoRDsBURe. FEB. Is, 1902.

SN'N NhbihC uNib loI bOulb Liulc,
has Changed of with @, Padelford,
who has had charge OF the yard en-.
giae az Yuma.
Col. L. A. Durham was down from
Clifton Sunday, en- route to Ri Paso,
and probably will make a trip to Den.
yer, to ind a little cool weather be-
fore he returns.
Music Lessons-On Piano, an expert
teacher has decided TO locate here
permanently. ANY one desiring les
sons enquire at the Lordsburg Assay
ONCE for particulars.
Charlie Lee intends TO build a brick
or adobe store hpuse. 1t will be about
twenty-five feet wide and sixty long,
and on the ground nuw occupied by
his present store house.
h, ]. Simmons, superintendent Of
the Arizona s. New Mexico road, has
entirely recovered from his recent
sickness, and is now attending to the
duties of his ONCE. He was 10 the
city Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. g. M. Shannon we're in
The city Saturday, returning to Clifton
from their BUstUn trip, glad again to
be 10 the delightful climate OF south.
ern New Mexico and Arizona, and
away from the east winds Vt Boston.
The Emperor o. Germany's new
yacht vas safely launched Tuesday,
Miss Roosevelt, the presidents daugh.
ter, christened IL Meteor. The EN-.
peror sent Miss Roosevelt a beauti-
ful Pold bracelet, 0n which was his
picture set with diamonds, as a me-
mento Of the occasion
Alice Hamlll Handbook, Of Guthrie,
will give a dramatic reading at the
Knights OF Pythias hall tonight. Mrs.
Handbook comes highly recommended
as a dramatic reader and instructor ia
the Delsarte system of physical cul
ture, and her entertainment will, un
dopbtly, be very Interesting,
The other day the Lordshurg post
ONCE sold a money order for afty dol
lars which was senJ back elst to pay a
doctors bill contracted more than
thirty years ago. II the doctor who
gets that money order, after all these
many years; dues not fall dead IL will
be because he has a wonderful consti-
tuition.
W. e. Allen, the we'll known train
man on the Arizona s. New Mexico
railway, made a flying trip TO Albu-
querque, where he met Miss May NJ.
Kyes, Of Ovid, Michigan. Without
any unnecessary DELAY the couple we're
married. They will make their future
home 10 L0rdshurR, and a, soon as
they can rent a house will go to house-
keeping.
The smelter trust has changed its
scheme'of paying for copper ores, and
Instead Of deferihg final payments un-
Til the ore can be smelted and mar
keted it now pays spot cash for copper
ore, as IL had done up to the time the
furry 10 the copper market last fail.
This indicates that the trust con-
siders the copper market settled,
and is OF the opinion that copper will
20 no lower.
The Morenci Standard has been try.
ing TO explain how the name MOrenci
originated. It's first attempt was de.
clariug IL came from the Spanish word
morenOi meaning brown, aud the town
took this name because the hills were
brown. The next week 1t said this
was a mistake, the name MOrenci was
given the camp in honor Of d popular
actress, who was a favorite with Mr..
Rockwell. a b~rother.in law OF VIM.
Church. II the Standard a get at
the records of the Detroit copper com
pany It will find that before Nj
Church was interested In the com
pany at all the company had been
named the Detroit, and the town
MOrenci. In Those days the heaviest
interest 10 the company was Owned by
Captain Eber B. Ward, of Detroit,
Michigan. Captain Ward was largely
Interested In the lake shipping and
the pine timber. He wasa millionaire
several times over. He was familiar
with the great fortunes made 10 the
copper business In the lake region,
and wanted some OF that kind OF
money, and so invested IN copper
mines 10 Arizona. The company was
named DetrniC, In honor of the city
10 which be lived, the town IA
named MOrenci, 10 honor OF a little
village down 10 Lenawee county,
MICHIGAN, the town from which the
Ward family came, and in which, II
the LIBERAL ls'not mistaken, Captain
Ward was born. The Detroit com
,psny did not become a glittering
anancial success under Captain Ward.
The captain 6oally Interested Wm
Church aud after Mr. Church took
bold the company proved a great sue
GEES. Captain B. B. Ward was the