Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1906-06-08
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LoRDsBURG. JUNE 5 1908.

Q. p. Fuller and family we're in from
the river the lrst Of the week.
McGrath Brothers ordered an Oliver
typewriter from the local agent this
week.
r. @. Ely, the Deming attorney, was
in the city tht arst OF the week, on
business.
Mrs. d. w. Brlel and son left
Wednesday for Pittsburg, Pennsyl-
vania, TO spend the summer.
J. w. Shelor, the travelling repres-
entatlye OF the Oliver Typewriter
company, was in the city this week.
DR.. and Mrs. Oassels left last week
for Los Angeles, where the doctor will
go into a hospital.
The Hon. John @. Cureton, of Los
Angeles, California, attended the
meeting Of the board Of county com
%mlssioners this week at Silver City.
II. A. Lister writes that he expected
to leave Williamsport Monday for
L%ordsburg, and expects to be here to-
day or tomorrow.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. E. Allen, who for.
meIly lived ia Lordsburg, but now live
in El Paso, visited Mrs. Aliens sister,
Mrs. e. E. Kyes, this week.
The postoGlce at ella, in the north
ern part Of this county, was discontin-
ued on the first Of this month, aud all
mail for that Office goes to Cliff.
A. S. Torrance, from Boston was in
the city the first of the week, on his
way to Granite Gap, where he will
help out with the United States s.
Mexico development company.
Notwithstanding all the trouble at
Cananea the Greene consolidated di-
rectors last Saturday declared the reg
ular bi.monthly dividend Of 40 cents
per share on the stock of the company,
payable on the second OF next month.
Lordsburg is not the only place
where the railroad company is slow in
rebuilding after a fire. Two years ago
this spring the depot and express Of
fee at Nogales were burned, aud it
was only last week that the express of.
fee got moved into the new building.
The annual school election passed
off quietly Monday. There were seven
ty.three votes cast. The only caudi-
dates were j. r. Ownby and l. A.
Wood. and they were elected without
opposition.
Robert Ross and family left for El
Paso, Wednesday. Mr.. Ross will visit
in Eel Paso for a week or so, and Mrs.
Ross and Miss Katherine will go to
Chicago, for a visit with relatives.
The postohice - department. has given
notice that the contract for carrying
the mail between Bedrock and Lords
burg has been let to- Thomas Johnson
for the four years commencing July 1,
at an annual rate OF s610.
]. q. Allen, who has had charge OF
the section work for the Arizona s.
New Mexico here has traded jobs with
George Hammer, who was at Brock
man. and now lives at B%rockman,
while Mr.. Hammer again lives 10 Lords
burg.
Under the law passed by the last
legislature Probate Clerk Walton re-
fused TO reissue a license in the place
of one expired, to Murray Brothers, at
Central. Murray Brothers applied to
Judge Parker for a mandamus com
polling the Issuing of the license, and
the mandamus was granted.
The trial of AL. Freeman and James
w. Wiley, for the killing of Victor
Queen, at Central, was finished at
Deming last week. Wiley was acquit-
ted and freeman was convicted of
murder 10 the second degree. Free
man has asked for q new trial, and
the matter will be considered by Judge
Parker next Saturday.
4nO sauna HO bldAu Oh OuC bAAFOl
City branch, struck a broken rail at
Mutt Saturday night, and the engine
turned over, but the rest Of the train
remained on the track. Chris Peter.
son, the engineer, had his peck brok-
en-. lie vas The only person injured.
Mr.. Peterson has been engineer on
this run for many years, aud lived in
Silver City. He was popular and well
liked. He leaves a family.
The record Of the weather for May,
as kept by Voluntary Observer J. t.
Mahoney, shows that the thermometer
registered eighty nearly every day and
that its highest mark for the month
was 93, on the goth. The lowest tenn
perature was 81, reached on the first
aud second Of the month. There was
no rain during the month. There were
seventeen clear days, eight partly
cloudy, and six cloudy.
The Golden State limited is no more,
it having dropped the limited feature
this week, but a train running on the
same time, carrying the same number,
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