Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1913-04-25

MIS-. klnnOn, VINO Oeen WISHING
with her son In Lordsburg, has re-
turned to her home in South Dakota.
Calculator Payne, of the El Paso
Herald wa in the city this week, in
te~rviewing Herald readers,
Fred Jack, immigration Inspector,
was ia the city the first of the week,
looking for stray females.
Mrs. j. II. Morehead, of Bedrock,
was in town Friday, returning from
Deming, where she had been to In
terview a dentist.
Mrs. Amasa Feathers has made a
desert land entry Of l2O acres of land
I'm the valley northeast of town, adj
joining her husbands desert entry.
The two plots will be worked as one.
e. G. Belt came up from El Paso
the latter part of last week to see old
friends. and help manipulate a min
ing deal that is now in process of in
cubation.
A special meeting of the county
commissioners has been called for to-
day, to consider the reports Of the as
SCISSOR, on what property he has dis
covered.
Next Thursday the people OF Silver
City will~ commence getting their
mail by the aid of carriers, which
makes the people Of that town swell
up considerably.
Map and notices were posted on the
Cobre Negra and the Nellie BY
groups of mines this week, giving no.
tice that the ~Susquehanna company
is applaying for patent for these
groups of mines.
Miss Maude Wright. the popular
clerk in the post office, leaves at the
end Of this week, and Miss Velma
Bailey will take her place. Miss
Wright says she is going for a visit
with her sister, on her farm at An
imas.
W. II. Kinnon and Harry Wallace
went down to Deming Wednesday
morning on the cars, and returned in
the afternoon in a Ford car, which
Mr.. Kinnon has purchased. This
makes the fifteenth car in town, not
counting J.. r. Ownby's old Rambler,
more than a car for every hundred
people.
Mrs. Ophelia Ray, and Miss Josie
Lee, from Texas, have been invest
igatlng the possibilities of this sec
ton Of the country, and concluded
there was a good thing here for prac-
tical farmers. They have made home
stead entries Of adjoining quarter sec
tions Of land northeast of town, on
which they expect to locate, and make
their homes.
VIM. M. Belt and Florence Martin
were married at San Diego, Califor-
mia on April 18th. Mr.. Belt was born
and raised in Lordsburg, while the
fair bride is a native Californian. Mr..
Belt is in the employ of the Pacific
Electric company in the electrical
department of the shops, and the
newly married couple will make their
home in Los Angeles.
The town was as full of county Of
ficers the latter part Of last week as
though there was a campaign on.
Assessor Shipley, accompanied by De-
putty Assessor Wiley, were here in
t%erviewing the people with property,
and County Surveyor Cox was here to
get some kinks in his Buick car
Strengthened out after having spent a
week inspecting the roads in the
southern part of the county.
j. B. Wiggers, Of B%erclair, Texas,
has been in town, looking the country
over, and concluded there was a good
thing in irrigated land in this sec
ton. He found some land in the
Animas that looked good, and under
which he thought there was plenty Of
water, and he has made a desert
entry of half a section. He returned
to Berclair to settle up his business,
and expects soon to be back and go to
work developing his place.
DR.. DeMoss went out to the river
Saturday with his motor car and made
the trip without any trouble. While
there he met G, e. Head, who had
just had an experience which showed
that in some particulars a horse is
more uncertain than a auto. Mr..
Head was riding the range, looking
for cattle when his horse put a foot
In a hole and fell. When Mr.. Head
got up he found the horse had broken
his neck, and was dead. He had to
walk eight miles, packing his saddle,
to Harper's ranch, before he could
get a horse. The doctor says that