Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1911-01-20
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LoRDsBURel JAN. %, lell.
Election tomorrow.

T. A. Lister left the later part Of
last week for Los Angeles.
James NJ. Harper was in from the
Redrock country last week, and made
a desert land entry.
The constitution is pronounced by
experts to be as good as that Of any
state, and no n need to be afraid to
vote for 1t.
Miss Grace Johnson, who has been
teaching the Rodeo school, and VIM.
Corrigan, a mining engineer, we're
married last week.
NJ. w. McGrath had to make an
other trip to Portland, Oregon as a
witness in a government case before
the United States court.
At the election last week G. L. Cas-
sadly was elected justice at Rodeo, j.
p. Mansfield at Stems, L. ? Deming
at Bedrock, and w. II. Newcomb at
Silver City.
Any Lordsburg nan who would
vote against statehood would vote
against the formation of Pyramid
county. There are the same objec-
tions to both.
The tickets to be used tomorrow ar
rived the middle Of the week, and
there are more of both kinds, for and
against the constitution, than can be
voted in this precinct.
Mr.. and Mrs, Esby Wright came in
from the ranch with their four
months old baby Tuesday, to secure
medical treatment. 1t is supposed
the little n has pneumonia.
H. w. Balch, who has been the
Wells-Fargo agent here for some time,
has boon promoted to the agency at
Nogales, Arizona, and will leave for
that town a. Dol as he is relieved
here.
Chas. A. Dinsmore, editor of the FL
Paso Mining Journal, was in the city
the latter part OF last week, and went
up to Clifton. He intends to look
over and write up the various camps
in G%reenlee county.
All hands and the cook have been
busy at the So camp this week in
stalling the new machinery. 1t is not
likely the company will have any
more trouble with the power question
for some time.
Frank A. Harper and Miss Evia
Hill intended to be married yesterday.
Owing to delays in getting the license
from the county clerk the ceremony
could not be performed yesterday, and
the wedding was postponed till today.
Charley Telles was down from the
river last Friday, and made final proof
on his homestead entry. lie was &C
companied by his brother Zach and
nephew, Augustine, who testified that
he had lived on his place the required
time, and had made the necessary i'm
provements.
Irene Reardon and +. G. Leland
were married at the residence or the
brides parents in Clifton last week.
The fair bride is the daughter of Mr.,
and Mrs. Mike Reardon, the groom is
chief assayer and metallurgist for the
Shannon copper company. After the
ceremony the bridal couple left for
southern California on a wedding trip,
Monday a train of five express cars
loaded with raw silk passed through
town as the second section of the east
bound limited. The silk was from
Korea and was billed Il various silk
mills in the eastern part Of the coun-
try. The owners were in a hurry for
It, and there were snow banks on some
of the other roads, so it was run over
the southern route, and on the fastest
train.
The Roberts g Leahy mercantile
company has built a store out at Bar
clayyille, the new town that has
sprung up at the IS inine. There are
about a dozen houses there, and Mr.,
Barclay, the owner { the oS
poets to build ahoat twenty more for
renting purposes The Roberts 90
Leahy store is bailt of 'lumber and
is 2Ox5O feet in aze. Fred L. Smyth
is "a ~cfarge-of the store which is do
ing q & business.
Frt1 Harper made a desert land
emit Hhe Bedrock country a year
or SO ago Intended to sink wells, and
thus develop the necessary water for
irEigation. He sunk a well, but in
stead Of striking water, as some of his
near neighbors had done, struck con-
crete thai was as dry as a bone, with
no showing of water. He was forced
to 8band5ne his entry. He was in
town this week and made a home
stead entry, on some land near the
plaeslh he bad to abandon,
Married, at the residence Of the
brides parents, in Lcrdsburg, on Sun
day, January 10, by the Rev. A. Il.
Ford, George Q. Bogk and Treasy