Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1906-12-14
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LoRDsBURG, DECEMBER IA, 1905


LoRDsBURG. DECEMBER IA, 1905
N. A. Amster, the new president Of
the Shannon copper company, is in
Clifton, looking the plant over,
Tom Tong was due to arrive in San
Francisco this week, and probably
will soon be greeting his old friends
in Lordsburg.
Jack Mahara's MINISTRIES, which were
billed to appear In Lordsburg last
week, were tied up in Globe by the
washout. They got out and passed
through here Monday, stopping only
long enough to get their mail.
Marion Wright, who lived here sew
eral years ago, and moved to Mason,
Texas, has returned, with his family,
to visi6 his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
d. H. Wright. He expects to make
this section of the country his home
again.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. II. Belts were in
town Friday. Mr.. Belts came over
to inspect a car load of gasoline, which
had just arrived, and Mrs. Belts, who
was just returning rom j three
ths1tripteAeEn hane4nAoa
ton, accompanied him, to call on Mrs.
D A. Leahy.
A. w. Clifford stopped off between
trains Sunday, on his way home from
a trip to Arizona, to Shake hands
with his many friends, and see if the
ore was still in the Dundee tunnel.
He found as much ore there as ever,
and hopes in the near future to begin
taking it out.
e. X. Davis has a force of ten men
at work sinking the shaft on the
McGinty, and sinking and cross cut
ting on the Ontario. The shaft on
the McGinty was being sunk as a
working shaft in the country rock,
but last week it cut into o lead of
fine sulphide lead ore.
Mrs. Clara J. Salkeld died the even
ing of the sixth, aged eighty-five years,
ten months and ten days. Mrs. Sal
keld had long been an invalid, living
with her daughter, Mrs. b. B. Ownby.
She was a most charming old lady,
and her friends were numbered only
by her acquaintance.
At the city election in Tucson last
Monday the republicans carried every
thing except clerk and assessor. They
have the mayor, and a majority in the
common council, and will manage the
city for the next year. Charlie Hutch
inson, formerly of Lordsburg, was
elected alderman from the second
ward by a majority of 100.
Mrs. James Colquhoun and son came
out of Clifton Monday and started for
the coast. Mrs. Colquhoun arrived in
Clifton just before the flood. When
the high water came it was twenty
W inches deep i'm her house, and Mr..
CoIquhouD thought it would be con-
ducive to the health of his wife and
son to send them to California until
Clifton got thoroughly dried out.
]. G. Hopkins, of the Arizona cop
per company, was in Clifton during
the big flood, and was taken seriously
i'll. He was brought out Saturday,
with the first mail that came out of
Clifton, but had to be transferred
around a washout on the trip. He
was accompanied by n of the COM
pany's doctors, and took the limited
Sunday morning for his home in
Greenwich, Connecticut.
Mrs. McGovern, wife of Superin-
tendent McGovern, of this division,
died at her home in Tucson last Fri
day. Mr.. McGovern vas in El Paso
Thursday, on company business, and
was notified that his wife had taken
a sudden turn for the worse. Helm
mediately started on a special for
Tucson, but his wife died just before
he reached Benson. The body was
taken to Los Angeles, the former
home of the McGovern family, for
cremation.
Fong Sing, the laundryman, has
been having trouble with thieves and
hoboes, who have stolen clothes from
his line, and chickens from his coop.
Monday night he found them at work
auasu and cotn nanead shoOtinO The
thieves were scared, and skipped out.
Fong was asked If he had killed any
of them, and he said he had not, that
he was not a very good shooter, and
did not hit them. The thieves should
not depend on this, for a poor shooter
may make an accidental shot, and get
his man.