Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1912-02-23

"Trip.
There we're forty cars Of ore ship
ped from Lordsburg last week. The
shipments are picking up.
An eight pound daughter was born
to Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Bauck, OF
Stems, on st. Valentine day.
j. o Phillips was down from Cliff
ton this week, telling the people here
that the finest shirts in the world
were made in Kansas.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Small vent
down TO El Paso Sunday to hear Gyp-
sey Smith, the noted evangelist They
enjoyed the meetings very much, and
think that the gypsey is a wonderful
talker.
d. Fl. Lowell and J. T. O'Hara have
taken a bond and lease on a group Of
eight claims lying between the Su-
perior and the Bonney, from Kill
Hebrew b Farley for eighteen months,
consideration $50, 900.
j. S.. Brown has given a bond and
lease for a year to A. Solomon and w.
e. McWhirt to the Osceola group, in
the Virginia district, for a year, con-
sideration $4,000. The leasers COM
menced work on the property Wednes-
day with a force of seven men.
A parole has been granted Duncan
Mcdonald, who killed B. W. Clair, at
Paradise, and who was sentenced to
twenty years in the Arizona peniten-
tiary. Two hundred citizens of Co.
chise county asked for a pardon.
Col. Kosterlitzky, long the chief of
the rurales in Sonora, and who has
kept what order there has been in that
state, has resigned. The Colonel has
been in the military service since 1873,
and thinks he is entitled to take it
easy the rest Of his life.
According to the call of the chair
man of the republican county COM
mittee there should be a.caucus here
tomorrow, to elect delegates to the
county convention. No call has been
posted, SO far as the LIBERAL can
learn.
Wednesday was Ash Wednesday,
the beginning OF Lent In what way
are you denying Yourself this year,
and do you think you can keep it up
for the usual forty days? Have you
commenced to figure on that Easter
bonnet yet? 1t is necessary to get It
done on time.
Congressman Hayden Of Arizona
was sworn in Monday, and Immediate
" connected with the payroll. II he
had been in Washington last Wednes-
day he could have been sworn in that
day, and been four days longer in the
payroll. What does a democratic Of
lice holder care about a payroll?
There vase more snow in Kansas
the first Of the week, and again the
Rock Island went out of commission
The mail train due here Wednesday
morning was an annulled, and the
mail car was put on the Southern
Pacific train at Ell Paso, with nc
through mail, but made the TRIP
through, handling the local mails.
The Eagle drug company is making
many changes with the interior Of the
store, and 1t is getting so that a man
has to have a guide to find the de.
partment he is looking for. The new
furniture is expected next week, and
when it is in position, and all the
other changes completed the place
will be very handily arranged.
Sheriff McGrath has found that his
auto while a pretty good machine
did not have the power he wanted. i
was rated rs a 20 horse power
machine. He has bought a new
machine, of the same kind, with a A
horse power engine, and the man HI
goes after now will either have to geI
an aeroplane, take to the brush o.
suffer capture.
Monday night, about half past sever
two men appeared at the MogolloI
company's store, at Mogollon, ant
asked for the cash. G. A. Freeman
the manager, and VIM. Clark, a clerk
resisted, and both we're killed. 1t wa
payday and there was a large amour
of money In the store, and the mel
got away with about 1880, escaping
with their horses, which were bitches
near the store.
Monday night the timbers In tn
shaft Of the Yankie mine, at Morenci
one of the big mines owned by tn
Detroit copper company, caught OF
fire. By heroic work all the mel
were got out Of the mine, and no lf
was lost, All attempts to e~xtinguisI
the FIRE we're unsuccessful, and tn
shaft from the 500 foot level to til
surface was burned. The loss wi
be very heavy, and 1t will cost niue
money to rehabilitate the mine, an