Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1914-12-11
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LORDsBURGl Dec. ll. leI4.

Stems Tuesday on business.
r. P. Mahan has been engaged as a
general utility man the Vendome
Hotel.
Wallace Baird was In town this
week, visiting his biother-in-law, H.
J. McGrath.
Copper has got up close to thirteen
cents, and there seems to be a good
market for 1t.
White pine aud yellow pine are the
woods most used for boxes, and each
contributes more than a billion feet
TO the box industry annually.
The annual cut OF British Columbia
timber is approximately ? billion feet
There are APO mills and 100 logging
camps in the province, employing
about $4,000 men.
r. II. Rinehart, who had charge Of
the 81 Paso end Of the Eel Psso-Phoe-
nix automobile race, was In town this
week, and with W. II. Patterson drove
to El Paso Tuesday.
Boxmakers in the United States
use more than four and half billion
board feet of lumber each year or
more than one-tenth OF the entire
lumber cut of the country.
A. T. Thompson, manager of the
Detroit Copper Company, VAS in the
city Wednesday en- route to Morenci
after a visit at the New York head
quarters of Phelps, Dodge and Com
pany.
OF two million sheep annually graz
ed in the state of Utah, more than a
million are on the national forests, or,
including lambs which are fattening
for market on the forest ranges, over
a million and three-quarters.
Messrs, Olney, M%orningstar, B. B,
Ownby and Stevens we're in Silver
City Saturday on court business,
making the trip in n day in Mr..
Olney's Overland. F. V. Bush ac-
companied them to Silver City.
In addition to his own fire detec-
tion system, the supervisor Of the
Palisade national forest, Idaho, vas
notified of each fire by from five to
ten different local settlers, who thus
showed their cooperation In working
for fire suppression.
The attorney general has made a
ruling than instruments executed
since the first of December, which re-
quire internal revenue stamps, must
not be recorded by the county record
+, ers unless they have the stamps on
them.
High grade late photo-dramas are
being shown at the Odd Fellows hall
and some. excellent films are booked
for Lordsburg. The local picture
show management is to be compli-
mented on It's good selection.
John Mclaughlin, a we'll known
mill man from Clifton, was in the
city Thursday returning from a hasty
trip to Europe where he lodged the
war zones and succeeded In returning
without any bullet hole ventilation.
He was accompanied on the trip by.
his wife and children.
In the United States court at AL
buquerque last week Faustino Hol-
gum and Philip Estes we're convicted
of smuggling ia cows from Mexico
into this country, They crossed the
cattle at Columbus, and 1t is supposed
the cattle were stolen in Mexico.
The Arizona and New Mexico road
will put on sale excursion tickets, &C
count Of the holidays, from December
10 to January l, good till January A.,
at the rate of one and one-third first
class rate for a round trip ticket, al
lowing $50 pounds Of baggage for a
full ticket, and 70 for a half fare
ticket.
Governor Mcdonald and the State
Record have been having a contro-
versy over state history, In regard TO
the Board of immigration. The gov
ernor quotes from official publica-
tions, such as the compiled laws and
the printed Journal Of the state SEN
ate, and seems to have a little the
best of the controversy.
Last spring a congressional investi-
eating committee discovered that
David Lamar had telephoned to j. p.
Morgan & Co., telling them he was
Congressman A. Mitchell Palmer, of
Pennsylvania, and tried to get them
to pay for the defeat Of some bill be
fore congress. He was tried last week
in New York for impersonating an
officer, convicted and sentenced TO
two years in the penitentiary.
+. The New Mexico Educational AS
ISOLATION, at its recent annual conven-
ton, unanimously adopted the fol-