Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1902-12-19
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LoRDsBURG. DEC. 10, 1902.

Clyde Smith, deputy collector and
treasurer, was 10 town this week, on a
tax collecting trip
Postmaster Dunnegan came an from
hachita Saturday, and returned Sun
day. He reports business lively at the
southern metropolis.
The LIBERAL has received the an.
nouncement OF the wedding OF Mr..
Fred Bush aud Miss Ruby Argen-
bright, which was celebrated ia Sill.
yer City on the tenth Of this mouth.
A. W. Clifford and r. Franchot came
up from 81 Paso Wednesday, over the
Southwestern, aud put 10 a day at the
Dundee. Mr.. Franchot is a resident
OF Niagara Falls, and Is a mining
chemist.
DR.. Luton left Tuesday. on the limi
ted for a hurried trip TO Michigan, on
business connected with the mining
company, Of which he is superinten-
dent. He will probably be back be-
fore Christmas.
In running his tunnel Christ Jaeger
struck a ave the first Of the week.
This is something unusual in the
Shakespeare district. The cave is
some two feet wide. aud contained
some excellent ore.
Mr.. VIM. Garvin aud Miss Blanche
are visiting with Mrs. w. II. Small
Mr.. Garvin expects to do some en-.
cheering for the El Paso & South.
western, and will again make his
headquarters in this western country.
The Diamond A and the KIT cattle
companies have been trying to make a
shipment of cattle from Hachita to
California this week, with poor sue
cess, The weather has been so cold
and stormy that the cowboys have not
been able to herd in the cattle as early
nor as easily as expected.
Mrs. Teel came down from Clifton
Monday to meet her grandmother,
Mrs. f. J. Huckins, of Boston, who
was coming In on the Rock. Island
limited that evening. Unluckily the
limited was about ten hours late that
day, and Mrs. Teel had to set up near
ly all night to meet the train.
The men who were arrested here for
stealing cigars from a train east Of
Deming, were tried before Judge Par
ker, last week, and sentenced to three
years each in the ~penitentiary. One
OF the men arrested was turned loose,
as he had nothing to do with the
stealing, and had only met the men
after the robbery.
Invitations have been issued to the
wedding of Miss Selma Backstein to
Simon Hagenauer which will be
solomouized in Clifton Sunday even
ing, January 4, 1908, at the residence
of Mr.. and Mrs, j, Backstein. Mr..
Hagenauer is a prominent merchant
Of LordsburR, and has many friends Ia
this section. where he spent several
years. The bride recently arrived
from New York on a visit to her
brother and family. The Era extends
its congratulations to the contracting
parties.-Clifton Era.
For a year or more Deming has lost
no occasion to boast of the Ell PasO 81
Southwestern railroad, which built in
to that place, because, the Deming-
ties say, it is the most important place
in the world a railroad can build into.
The Southwestern al trains Ia to
Deming for a time. Recently it issued
a new time table so IL could abandon
its Deming business. No passenger
trains now run into Deming ove the
Southwestern, although an occasional
freight train is run into the town,
probably in order to keep alive the
title to the right Of way. The glory
of the town has departed.
Col. A. g. Head, after a six months
sickness, died at his home in San
Francisco Saturday. Col. Head was a
prominent operator in the early days
on the Comstock. He was we'll known
In this section of the country as sup
e%rintendent OF the various Diamond
A interests. The cattle then we're
owned by a firm composed OF Col,
Head, j. R. Haggin, and Senator
Hearst. While he had charge OF the
interests of the company he made his
home at the Depot hotel in Deming,
He was extremely popular among all
classes of people, aud was especially
loved by the cowboys who worked for
him. 1t was his especial delight
when his cowboys were 10 town with a
shipment Vt cattle, to entertain them
at the hotel, at which time he would
make arrangements with the manager
and the viotuals fed these men was as
unlike the grub they we're used to on
the ranch as was possible. An express
sion made one time by a cowboy at the
sight Of some strange looking grub,
greatly tickled the colonel, and he