Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1914-05-15

hOduSbeF tnlS week. ana JnlukS IL IS
the great thing.
Mrs. Sallie Smith left Wednesday
for Los Angeles, to visit her children
and grandchildren.
@. #. Dutton, a p~ostof1ce inspector
Is up in the Clifton country this week.
giving the various p~ostofices the once
over.
Mrs. H. D. Wright and family
moved to her ranch in the Animas
last week, and will put In the sum-
mer farming.
r. X. Minson, of the Arizona g.
New Mexico road was in town Satur-
day, on his way to San francisco, on
railroad business.
Stanley Coon hitched up his new
Buick last Saturday afternoon, took
Mrs. Coon, his sister Helen, Mrs. Rit-
ter and Master John, and went to
Silver City to spend Sunday.
The postofice is keeping track of
the parcel post business, In accord
anc with instructions Of the depart
ment. For the first week it kept the
count it received 122 packages and
sent out "a.
The Orion company held its annual
meeting last week and G. H. Warner
was elected president and w. F. Rit-
ter was elected secretary and treas
urer. The owners of the So company
have secured a majority Of the out
standing stock of the Orion company.
Miss Mary McGrath wants the
LIBERAL to announce that she has
lost a gold cross somewhere between
the knights of Pythias hall and the
garage, and she asks the finder to
please returnit to the Vendome hotel.
1t is a plain gold cross, marked with
the letter M and a tooth mark.
School close for the year last Fri
day, a scant eight months Of school.
The district has enough money to run
a nine months school. and it would
be better for the children to be in
school instead playing on the streets.
Our new school board will probably
make a change in the school year.
The soldiers up in Colorado disarm-
ed the people, no n being excepted,
even taking the guns from the stores.
They discovered a shipment of guns
coming in by freight, addressed to the
miners union and confscated 300
guns With 200 rounds Of ammunition
for each gun.
Estanislao Loera, who shot Cons
tancio Terrazas between the eyebrows,
which shot would have been fatal If
Terrazas's head had not been solid
ivory, vas brought before the justice,
and showed the shot to have been &C
cidental, and was fined $50 to discour-
age future accidents.
Jaky Spitz, the well known travel
ing man, was in town this week, and
reports business fair. Last week
Charlie Herman, who has been ira
Yelling in this section for a St. Louis
hat factory for the last half century,
was in town, and told the Liberal
that in all his life he never saw such
bad business as it is now.
The parade of the troops in Ell Paso
last Friday was n big thing. All
the soldiers were out in line and
made a fine appearance. The parade
was about two miles long. 1t gave
the Mexican visitors an idea about
the military resources of this coun-
try. The parade ended at Washing
ton Park, where a dinner had been
prepared for the soldiers. There was
a big barbecue. The ladies of Ell
Paso had been invited to make pies
and cakes for the soldiers, and they
fairly gorged them.
Last week Thursday night, about
midnight there was an alarm of fire.
1t proved to be in the Roberts g.
Leahy mercantile company's store,
nea the front of the store, where the
cigar counter stood. There was a
pretty lively blaze before the fire
fighters could get water on it. When
the water came the blaze was easily
subdued. No one knows how the
blaze started for the store had been
closed for several hours. The loss will
amount to several thousand dollars,
much Of 1t caused by smoke in the
drygoods department, but fully CO.
vered by insurance.
The mines at Cananea, Nacosari
and Ell Tigre, in Mexico, which re-
Gently shut down, have resumed oper-
ations. The trouble at Cananea was
mostly with the workmen. The l..
w. W. had sent men in there who
had worked up an anarchial senti-
ment among the Mexican workers,
and this had made most of the