Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-07-02
NEWS
~standing Of weatern League Clubn.

About $4,000 witnessed the Derby
classic at Overland park in Denver
Saturday.
The well matched horses entered
for the racing events at Overland
park in Denver are attracting large
crowds.
Gov. Ferris put al end to boxing
in Michigan when he seEt letters to
eighty-three sheriffs telling them to
enforce the law against glove con.
tests.
Jimmy Reagan, the Frisco light
weight, was disqualified in the twelfth
round of a scheduled fifteen-round
bout with Joe Flynn at Denver at the
National Athletic Club. Holding
around the neck and hitting caused
him to lose the verdict.
Players salaries in the Western
League are not to be cut this year,
and the league will go through with
its schedule as adopted before the
opening of the season. This was de-
cided at a meeting of the league mag
mates at st. Joseph, Mo.
The home run made by Hans
Wagner, the Pittsburg Nationals vet
eran shortstop, in the second inning
of the thirteen-inning contest with
Philadelphia at Forbes field in Pitts
burg, was the Tooth of his career. 1t
brought the number of hits to 3,131.
GENERAL
The Thaw sanity case was started
before a jury in New York on Tues
day.
Yale conferred 752 degrees in
course n ten honorary at its 215th
commencement, at New Haven, Conn.
Chicken Joe" Campbell, negro
trusty, was held to the grand jury by
the coroner's jury that investigated
the murder of Mrs. Odette P. Allen,
wife of the penitentiary warden, in
her apartment at the prison at Joliet,
Ill.
Continued electrical storms, accom-
panied by heavy rains, were reported
in western Arkansas and in eastern
Oklahoma, visited by a terrific wind
storm a few days ago. Fruit sections
are said to have suffered heavy losses.
At Cans, Okla, Mrs. Lige Gipson was
killed.
Persistent rumors that persons In
censed against Governor Slaton be-
Of his Communication Of Leo NJ.
Franks death sentence to life impris-
onment, contemplated acts of violence
against the governor caused officials
at Atlanta, Ga, to take extensive pre-
cautIonary measures.
Bishop Cadena. aged IS, Of the Col
lege of Nuestra Sonora de Ocatlan at
Tlaxcala, and three priests, were
killed June 1 by Carranza troops COM
handed by General Francisco Cos, ac-
cording to a private letter received at
El Paso, Tex. Three priests killed we're
Father Quiroz, Father Bazan and
Father Lara.
Harry X. Thaw. sitting beside his
lawyers at the jury trial to test his
sanity, at New York, heard sixteen
more witnesses-nearly all OF them
friends he made during his s%ojourn in
Canada and New Hampshire-testify
that they believed he was a rational
man.
japanese workers will be represent
ed by two fraternal delegates in the
convention OF the American Fedora
ton Of Labor toNbe held in San Fran
cisco in November-Bunji Suzuki and
Hoshi Matsu-both Of Toxic, Japan.
Friday, the ninth anniversary OF the
killing Of Stanford White, his slayer,
Harry X. Thaw, was described at the
trial in New York to est his sanity as
a man not only perfectly rational. but
kind, generous and charitable, a man
OF broad INTELLECT. and m worthy Of
being introduced in the best social
circles.
The Georgia Legislature convened
and organized for It's annual fifty-day
session. Nathaniel &c. Harris. the new
governor, was indicted into office,
succeeding John M. slaton.