Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1905-03-24
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LoRDsBURG, MARCH a, 1905.

r.. L. Powell, the surveyor, was IN
the city the drst Of the week, and
went out to j. Il. Muir's ranch to do
ONE surveying.
Page Windham, who has been living
on the Gladney ranch during the win
TER, has moved bis family back TO his
home on the river.
S. w Maltble, OF the Bouney min
ing company, left the arst OF the week
for a business trip to Chicago. He ex.
poets to be gone ten days or so.
General S. S. Birchaeld, who was
elected a county commissioner OF Luna
county, has resigned, and Governor
Otero has appointed B. Y. McKeyes to.
Oil the vacancy.
Sheriff James v. Parks, Of Graham
county, was in the city Monday be
tween trains. lie stopped to congrat.
ulate Deputy Sheriff McGrath on bis
good work at Separ.
A gentleman who came 10 Arizona
for his health observes that Ptovi
dence has been very kind to the
farmer and the stockmen with the
abundant rains that have visited this
section, but be thinks it is now tune
for Providence to even MP matters a
little, and give the railroad companies
and lungers a chance, with a little dry
weather.
Last Saturday morning there was a
bunch Of eastbouud Santa Fe passeu.
ger trains through town. The Santa
Fe was tied up With a big washout aud
landslide, and the trains were com.
PEELED to come around this way. They
got TO Albuquerque a few hours after
a train, which left Los Angeles after
they did, arrived in the Duke city over
the Santa Fe route. This train had a
shorter run, and happened to he able
TO get past the troublesome track
while the trains that passed here were
held up by a wreck west Of here.
Governor Otero has made the folowl
ing appointments of mounted police:
Captain, John S. Fullerton, Of Socorro;
lieutenant, Cipriana Baca, Of Albu
querQue; sergeant, r. w. Lewis, OF
Frisco; privates, George Elkins Of
Hachita, Julias Meyers OF Estancia, J
j. Brophy of Clayton, W. f. Dudley OF
Alamogordo, VIM. Taylor Of Demlng,
Herbert McGrath of Lordsburg. Fran
cisco ApOdaca of Cuchilln, ADD Octavi
ano Perea Of .Alamogordo. Messrs
Daca, Lewis, Elkins, Taylor and Nc
Gratb are all well known in this sec
ton OF the country, and are known as
good mcn. Captain Fullerton was
elected assessor OF SucOrro county last
year, md rcsilsuCd this position to
take charge Of the mounted police
Governor Otcro appointed A. b Baca
assessor 10 his place.
The Honorable Lamar Cobb was in
the city Muntay, returning to Clifton
from sixty days attendance as a mem
Der Of the Arizona legislature, Mr..
Cch5 was @ell pleased with his expert
ence at Phoenix. While there he.
made a study OF hydraulic engineer
ing, and had many examples Of prac
tical work to examine. Five times 10
sixty days he watched the railroad
company build a bridge across the
ella. He said that never In the his
tory of Arizona had a legislature at.
tended so closely to business. There
were so many roads washed ont that the
legislators did not think 1t safe to run
home and see their constituents. Mi.
Cobb did not make the attempt. Sen
ator Rice started to make one trip
home to MOrenci. He got as far as
Bowie, where he waited two days for a
traip. and tber returned to Phoenix,
anG remained for the rest of the ses-
sion. The one redeeming thing about
the high water the railroads have bad
TO contend with has been that the
members of the legislature could not
wear out the passes that had been
issued to them.
After a long stretch Of good luck as
regards %washouts the Southern Pacific
dnally got a hard jolt the arst OF the
week. During the long spell Of
rainy weather, which has at times put
most Of the western roads out OF com.
mission, the Southern Pacific had but
little trouble. A few small washouts
caused temporary delays, but they
we're soon repaired. However, trouble
finally came. The Colorado river got
out of its modern banks at Yuma, and
discovered an old river bed, west OF
the one that it had been using. The
railroad had a mile or so Of trestle
work across this old bed, and the
water soon took a large amount Of it
out. The company does not say when
its tracks will be In condition again,
but some Of the employees think it will
be at least a week before through traf-
he is resumed. Several times 10 recent
years. aud no longer ago than last Sat
urday, the Santa Fe has had to send