Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1906-11-02
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LoRDsBURa, NOVEMBER ?, 1905.

ing her sister, Mrs. j.. &. OYerman, at
Bisbee this week.
q Miss Carmita Belt, who has been in
California for some months with her
mother, returned Wednesday, glad to
get back.
The Rev. N. B. McGhee is going to
give a series Of lectures at the Chris
tian church, describing his trip
through the Holy Land.
Miss Margaret Wells, who has been
visiting with her uncle, J.. L. Wells,
left for her old home in Missouri last
Sunday.
The commissions Of j. N. Harper
as postmaster at Bedrock has been is
sued. Mr.. Harper succeeds Louis
Champie, who recently resigned, and
who intends leaving the territory.
There was a freight wreck near
Banning Monday, and eight oil tanks
were piled up in q heap. Trains were
delayed about eighteen hours, and
east bound trains due here Tuesday
arrived early Wednesday morning.
The twenty-ninth day Of thismonth.
has been set apart and aside by Pres
ident Roosevelt as Thanksgiving day,
at which time it win be legal to eat
turkey with cranberry sauce and fol-
low this with a pumpkin pie, If you
can get them
John G. Garland was up from Rodeo
Friday, and entered a contest on a
fine quarter section of land that was
homesteaded near that town a couple
of years ago, and on which the home
steader had made no Improvements,
but had abandoned.
Mrs. Jane Hughes, of Cananea, is
in the city this week, visiting rela-
tives and friends. Mrs. Hughes has
been in Cananea since shortly after it
was established, and has seen it grow
from almost nothing to one of the
most important cities in the south
west.
II. o. Mizzel, who was a long time
agent at Gage, and recently took
charge of the Southern Pacific office
at Separ, died at Hotel Dieu, El Paso,
last week, IS the result of an attack
Of typhoid fever. Mr.. Mizzel leaves a
wife and a young daughter to mourn
his untimely death.
B. f. Wheeler, republican candidate
for assessor, was in the city the first
of the week, returning from a siren
nous campaign trip. His prospects
for election are bright. He leaves
here for the northern part of the
county, and expects to be in Silver
City election day.
The Diamond A and the KIT cattle
companies shipped a train load of cat
tie from Separ yesterday for Califor-
mia. They shipped from Separ in
stead of Hachita because the fscil-
titles for watering the cattle at Separ
are better, and there is but little diff
ference in the drive.
DR.. Moran, the democratic candi-
date for the legislature from Grant
and Luna counties was in the city
Tuesday, calling on the voters. The
doctor carries his forceps, with him
on his electioneering tour, and offers
to pull a tooth free for any man who
will promise to vote for him.
e. L. Enloe, republican candidate
for superintendent Of schools, was in
the city Saturday, calling on the vo-
tiers. A strong sentiment is growing
up in favor of taking the school out
of politics, and electing a superin-
tendent on account of his fitness, and
not because he has a political pull.
Mr.. Enloe has made teaching his life
business, and it will be a fortunate
thing for the children of Grant coun-
ty If he is elected superintendent.
A recent issue of the Tucson Citi
zen explains that in that territory $50
is spent each year for each child of
school age in the territory. In the
same issue of the paper the editor
tells Of octupuses and Arizonians. 1t
is a wonder that the lamented o. Brien
Moore does not rise from his grave
and demand that the men who have
succeeded him take advantage of the
liberal school appropriations, and take
a short course in the study of the En-
glish language.
The people in Grant county have
got in the habit Of voting for w. b.
Walton, and it is a habit hard to
break. This year they expected TO
vote for him for a member Of the
constitutional convention. He was
nominated by the convention, but for
some unexplained reason his name
was taken from the ticket. Hotwith-
standing this the people will vote his
name this year. To rebuke the de-
mocratic committee for taking his
name OF the ticket the people have
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