Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1902-01-31
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LoRDsBURe. JAN. 81, 1902.


Sunday, stopped'over a day and then
wen on to Silver City.
Mrs. ]. f. Aikson, OF Fresno, Cali.
fornia, while en- route to El Paso with
her children, stopped Of here Sunday,
for a visit with relatives.
On Che third page of this paper will
be found the statement Of the Silver
City savings bank, which shows that
it has over forty seven thousand dol
lars Of saving deposits.
Fred Shelton, a Silver City old timer
died last Friday. He was well known
TO most of the people who have visited
Silver City 10 recent years. He left
a wife, but no children.
1t is reported that the Hon. Emil
Solignac, who has been register OF the
Las Cruces land Office for four years,
TO which position Nicholas Gales has
been appointed, expects to return to
his native France, where he has fallen
heir to a large estate.
Americas brightest wits have con-
tributed their drolleries TO the sue
cess OF the Schubert Lady Quartett
Company Of CHICAGO, which appears
at the Knights Of Pythias hall and
our readers will have many a hearty
laugh between the musical nun bers
of their program.
The Rock Island road and the El
Paso s. Northeastern have met up in
northern New Mexico, and now e.
Paso has Another direct route to
Chicago. Passenger trains have not
yet been put on, but probably will be
in service by the fifteenth Of next
month.
Thos. A. Lister, of Albuquerque,
was in the city this week. Mr.. Lister
is largely engaged in mining opera
tions in Bernalillo county, and was
down here to look at some properties to
which his attention had been drawn,
and with which he was greatly
pleased.
The Bisbee road has announced that
it will have through trains from
Douglass to Ell Paso, via Deming and
the Santa Fe road by the fifteenth Of
next month. II will he more than a
month before the Lordshurg & Hachl
ia road is completed So that Lords
burg will have another route to Ri
Paso.
The Western Union, which c0ntem-
plated putting in an office separate
from the railroad telegraph office, has
not been able to secure a room and
has concluded to wait until the add
ton is built on to the depot, and rent
a room In it. This means that the
matter has been indefinitely post.
poned.
The Western Union has either alb
sorbed the ella Valley s. Globe tele
graph line, or formed a Community
OF interest" with it. The Incal West
ern Union office has received notice
that commencing tom0rrow the rat,
for a message to Sulomonville will b,
twenty-five cents, a cut Of RfteeI
cents, with corresponding cuts to al
other points Gu the line.
Yesterday morning when the gooC
. people OF L%ordsbnrg got out of be-
they found the ground covered will
snow, and the snow falling 10 larg,
fakes, This was probably the tail en-,
of the storm which the territorial
weather prophet had called for las
Sunday, and which swept over tn
northern country. The sky was clea
by eight O'Clock, and by noon ther
was scarcely a bit of the snow left.
Thos. O'Keeffe, the original oil el
pert of this section Of the country
was ia the city this week, and ha
blossomed out toto a genuine mlner'
p~rospector. He dropped into th
LIBERAL office Wednesday, wearing
black suit Of clothes, white shirt an
collar, stiff hat, aud carrying a DIRE
suit case. and all the aplomb OF a
oil expert. He asked permission
leave his suit case, and wanted
purchase some location notices. {
course he was accommodated. +
rolled up the location notices al
opened the suit case. Instead OF
dress suit appearing before the eyes
the b~ystanders there was a most col
plicated and mixed set Of stuff Il
reporter has seen 10 a year. NJ
O'Keefe made a few selections, al
did the quick change act and appear'
in hob nailed shoes, overalls, a bla'
yea and a wide brimmed hat,
p~rospector's pick 10 one hand, and
ore sack In the other. He left TOW
on foot, and returned the next da
having made, he said, three locatio
which undoubtedly Will prove 9
most valuable of all in the Virgin
district. The LIBERAL always app
ciated that Mr.. O'Keefe was