Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1905-08-25
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LoRDsBURe. AUGUST 3 IaO5.
Mrs. =. D. Weymouth returned Mon


superintendent George Kasemau, OF
the Pyramid Peak company was in the
city between trains last Friday.
M. g. Cloudt has moved his family
10 from Red Rock, to give his children
the privilege of our schools.
The posto1lce department has fol.
lowed the example set by the railroad
company, and changed the name Of
Stems Pass to Stems.
The Southern Pacific pay car made
its regular monthly appearance In
town Monday, and numerous checks
were distributed.
@. K. Dunagan, the Hachita merch-
ant and postmaster, spent Sunday in
L%ordsburg visiting his friends, and en-
ioying life 10 the metropolis.
Mr.. aud Mrs. E. S. Hunt, OF Hardin,
Missouri, stopped I'VE a train return
Ing from the Portland exposition,
Tuesday, to call on their nephew. @.
W. Noble.
Lordsburg was visited by a heavy
shower Monday afternoon. 1t lasted
about half an hour, aud the water came
down fast enough to drown a man II
he was out Ia It.
President Maltbie, of the Bonuey
company, made an El Paso trip this
week to talk with machinery men. Mr..
Maltbie is pushing work on the new
mill aud has much machinery on the
cars, coming this way.
There are no evidences OF a SUI
icide in Lordsburg at present. Three
boys born during the past week. The
happy fathers are Ira Conner, G. w.
Bailey and E. w. Webb. Mothers and
children are all doing well.
County Physician S. A. Milllken has
raised the smallpox quarantine at
Dwyer and Hanover. He reports that
the cases at Hachita are improving,
and hopes soon to raise the quarantine
there.
There was a freight wreck near
Beaumont, California, Saturday, eight
cars in the ditch. The east bound
passenger cars we're delayed nine
hours Sunday, and did not get here
until in the evening.
Mrs. Stella G. Allen, who has been
visiting her relatives, DR.. Crocker and
Mrs. Bullard, left Monday for her
home at Providence, Rhode Island.
DR.. and Mrs. Crocker accompanied her
as far as Ell Paso.
Miss Florence Noble, who is to
teach the primary department of our
school next term, is attending the
teachers institute at Santa Rosa this
week. Miss Swan. who will teach
the higher grades, HAYS been visiting
on the river.
James P. McCabe returned Sunday
on the delayed train from his trip to
California, where he had the usual
good time. He reports that the rest
of the family are enjoying themselves,
except they are suffering from severe
colds, but says that is not unusual this
year, as there is not a person 10 the
southern part of California who is not
suffering from a cold this season.
Judge Parker held a special session
OF district court Friday, when the
juries for the approaching regular
term were drawn, ". H. Jack, r. w.
Golding and J.. L. Burnside we're APP
pointed commissioners, aud drew the
Jury under the new law. The list OF
Jurors has not been made public, but
Sheriff FarnswOrth is out notifying
the men whose names we're drawn that
the honor had been conferred on them.
A small sized Indian scare was re-
ported from the western part Of Socor-
TO county last week. A buck and a
squaw raided the ranch Of A. Kiehne,
a stockman living near Frisco, killed
some horses and run off some more. A
posse was formed that took the trail
and re-captured the stock, but could
not catch the Indians. A posse Of the
territorial police has been ordered into
that section to look after the Indians.
Col. Ed. Huxley, one Of the old tim
ers who has lived Ia the shade Of Stee-
pie Rock eve since Grant county was
organized. and the next oldest in
habitant knows o how much longer,
was in the city Tuesday, en- route to
Silver City to consult a dentist. 1t is
suspected that the colonel is cutting
his second set of teeth, and the cut
ting gives him considerable pain, Of
which he wants the dentist to relieve
him.
A dispatch from Stamford, Con-
necticut, to the New York Sun, dated
last week Thursday, tells Of the ar
rival Of an automobile with steel tires.
The wheels were invented by John O..
Rutherford, who Is, the dispatch says,
a mining engineer from Mexico. They
are arranged TO give pneumatic service,
the same as the wheels Of the ordinary
mobile. Half way from the hub to
tho tire ara.a counla Of rims. and be-