Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1906-04-06
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LoRDsBURe, APRIL, 6 1906.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Dick Shanklin last Saturday.

Judge Egan was in the city Satur-
day. en- route to Solomonville, to in.
terview the county supervisors.
DR.. Cassels, who was In the hospital
at Tucson, returned to Lordsburg aud
is still a very sick man.
Mrs. VIM. Erickson, who has been
at the Myrtle hotel for some months,
left Monday for her home In Duncan.
Mrs, w. d. Grlmth's incubator
caught FIRE from the lamp last Satur-
day afternoon, and her expected crop
OF chickens we're all baked.
IT. r. Fry, who has made L~ordsburg
his headquarters for some months. has
moved to Gage, where be will work
on his new prospects there.
J. @. Schow, with his wife and her
sister, Miss Eva Lowe, left Monday for
their old home at Arroyo Grande, Cal
ifornia.
Southern Pacific Agent Bosworth, of
Deming, was in the city Tuesday,
shaking hands with his many friends
here.
Jack Rutland was in the city the
first Of the week, after blank location
notices, Jack has discovered a copper
stain near Bedrock, and intends to
locate it.
Henry Gates, organizer for the Uuit-
ed WOrkmen, was 10 the city this
week, and as a result Of his work there
were six applications for membership
to the lodge.
Homer Judson, Of Santa Ana, Cal
ifornia, was here this week, looking
after the interests OF the Yankee Hill
mining company, which bought Jas.
Sterling's mines in the Virginia dis
trict.
President T. A. Lister OF the North
American company went down TO FL
Paso Tuesday, on company business.
The North American company shipped
a cal Of high grade ore to FL Paso
smelter this week.
Oswald Rybeck, superintendent Of
the Bonney mining company, has gone
TO Chicago. When he left he did not
say how long he would be gone, nor
whether he would return again. The
property is left in charge OF G. L. Har
rison.
We had our first lot of April show
ers Wednesday, commencing about
Ave O'Clock in the morning. There
we're several between then and noon,
and after each one stopped the sky
cleared of and the sun shone brightly,
10 the regulation April shower man
ner.
Fred Fornhof has been appointed
captain OF the mounted police, or, as
they are commonly called, the rangers.
Fornhof is one of the most experienced
thief catchers in the territory, and
with Ciprlano Baca as l~iutenant they
will make a strong team.
A. S. Goodell, county tax collector
and mayor Of Silver City, who was re-
elected to the latter Office last Tues
day, was in the city yesterdays en- route
to Clifton, where his daughter is dan
gerOusly sick.
Mrs. Albert Schramm received word
Saturday that her mother In Tucson
was very sick, and that II she wanted
TO see her alive she must come i'm
medlately. She left with her child
rem that afternoon. She has written
that her mother is much better, and
there are good prospects Of her recov-
ering.
James Sterling has sold a half in
terest 10 the Rawhide aud Sunset
mines in the Virginia district to the
Yankee Hill mining company, Of Or
ange, California. The Yankee Hill
company expects to Immediately COM
mence work on these properties and
develop them.
Both the hard aud the soft coal min
ers struck on the 1rst Of the month,
aud the operators and the miners are
trying to nx things up so that work
can be resumed. Since the strike 10
the New Mexico coal fields a few years
ago, wnen the operators won, these
mines have been run without the aid
OF the miners union, aud as a conse'
quence there is no strike In these
fields.
The county commissioner have been
in session this week at the court house
at Silver City. This is a regular quart.
erly meeting, and the regular business
that comes before it is the allowing Of
bills. The commissioners found some
small CRAFTS, such as charging for
guards that the law allowed, but
which were not supplied, and bills for
goods furnished the latter part OF last
year, when there was no money to pay,
and brought into this quarters ac-
counts, all OF which was cut out.
Tuesday night a long trestle on the
Southwestern road between Hachlta
ROdeo was burned, and for a couple OF
douo all na-aaonuoro hod 20 tw,.ce,.