Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1902-03-14
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LoRDsBuRo. MARca a. loO2.

hls new house aud moved in.
The new banks OF the ella Valley
Trust COMPANY have opened for bust.
ness at Goth Clifton and MUreuci.
A. w. Clifford, manager OF the Orion
mining company, was up from Ei Paso
the irst Of the week, and stopped
several DAYS.
Mrs. Indiana NJ. Brooks was down
FROM Duncan Saturday and made
proof on her homestead entry, OF a
nice piece OF river bottom.
Frank J. Buck, the assayer, made a
"trip to Cerrillos this week with a car
load Of Arizona ore which is being
sent there as a trial shipment.
Wiley Jones, who for many years
was district attorney Of Graham
county, was in the city Saturday, en
route to Duncan on business. lie in-
tends to attend the present term Of
court in Silver City.
There is considerable diphtheria re-
ported at Clifton. and several deaths
have been caused by this disease.
The doctors are lighting it with anti
toxin aud quarantine, and hope to
soon have 10 under control.
The Western Union office is to he
moved from the Southern Pacific
depot TO the Arizona s. New Mexico
depot, where IL will have rooms on the
upper floor, and will not be socrowded
asdt is in the present location.
Baylor Shannon was down from Cliff
ton Saturday, en- route to Phoenix on
business. Mr.. Shannon seems to have
entirely recovered from the sickness
with which he suffered last summer,
and now looks as hearty and well as
ever.
The regular statement of the First
national bank of Ell Paso appears this
this week, showing a balance Of a
million and three-quarters OF dollars.
This is an increase of about a million
dollars in the past three or four years,
indicating that there has been a great
increase 10 the business OF that town.
The statements Of the other national
banks 10 ri PdSo show a nearly az
large percentage of increase.
Mrs. Alice Hamlll Handbook, who
has been teaching a class in physical
culture, will, assisted by the entire
class, give an entertainment at the
Knights OF Pythias hall this evening,
consisting OF representations, mono
logues, humorous character studies.
living picturers, %tableaux, and 0
hume parades. The members Of the
class have become quite accomplished
in their various lines, and from what
the LIBERAL hears Of their accom-
plishments, the entertainment will be
worthy OF attendance.
Some new evidence regarding the
mysterious disease about which the
doctors disagree, some calling it small
pox, and other declaring IL is not, has
made its appearace. Bart McKin-
hey is just recovering from an at
tack OF the disease. 10 1887 he
suffered from an attack Ut the genuine
small pox, and came near dying.
Many deaths occurred during that cpl
demic. He could hardly have had
a second attack. He also SAYS, after a
personal experience with both diseases
that they are entirely dissimilar.
For years the Southern Pacific has
been accepting and paving orders is
sued by employees against the payroll
for such necessities OF life as meal
tickets. The company has concluded
that its employees ought To take care
of their own money, and pay their W
way, and so Superintendent Shrouf
has issued an order notifying employees
and Others interested that orders
against the pay roll will no longer he
accepted by the company. Appreciat-
ing that men who are broke NAV go to
work for the company, and that in
order to do good work they must eat,
this order does not cover the drst sixty
days a mau works for the company,
during this time orders from him will
be accepted, hut after be has had a
pay day he will have TO pay his e@n
bills.
1t will be remembered that in the
latter part of August George Grannon,
one OF Lyons s. Campbell's fighting
men, killed Felix Burrls, who was
cooking for the Stockton round up, al
q camp about twenty miles above Clif-
ton. Grannou was arrested and the
evidence went to show II was a case Of
cold blOoded murder, and so GrannOn
has spent his time 10 tie Graham
county Jail. The story cnmes from
SolumOuville that James V. Parks re
ceived a letter from G%rann0n's EN-.
ployers, saying that the man had pot
iDto a little trouble, and asking Parks,
a. a fellow cowboy, who had consider.