Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-08-04
SPORTING NEWS

oEOhAAN0 sW0
standing OF Western League Clubs.
Clubs Won. Lost. Pet.
Omaha ............... So 30 .636
Lincoln ............... 81 80 1913
Des MONIES ......,..... 40 43 oil
Sioux city ............. 46 IS 800
DehNer .............. - .4S4
wichita .....''.. a. AZ .46d
Iopeka .............. 30 90 1873
81. Joseph ............. "a 5S .39l
City Draughtsman Charles James
is completing plans for the military
disappearing targets TO be installed
at the Pueblo Rifle Range six blocks
east of the Pueblo Golf Club.
Barney Oldtield will try his hand
at racing up into the clouds at Colo
RADIO Springs. He has agreed to ride
for the Delage car folks, foreigners
who are interested in the Pixies Peak
climb.
"Bill' Wright, Cheyenne speed king
again showed up. in the lead at From
tier Park at Cheyenne when he won
first honors in the fifty-mile motor.
cycle race of the Capital City Motor.
cycle Club.
Mabel Trask, owned and driven by
Walter Cox of Dover, N. NJ, had lit.
tie trouble winning the historic Mer-
chants and Manufacturers 10000
stake for 2:OS trotters at the Grand
circuit meeting at Detroit.
Twice within five minutes the
worlds steer-roping record was
broken at Frontier Park, at Chey.
enne, Wyo., first by Bert Weir OF
Monument, n. NJ, who reduced it
from 30 seconds to q seconds; then
by Fred Lowery of Oklahoma, who
cut it to "a seconds.
Yellow Fever. champion bucking
horse, made good his reputation at
Frontier Park at Cheyenne, when he
threw Eddie McCarty j n the cham
pionship rough riding contest, t the
uproariously expressed delight of 49,
600 people. McCarty rode well, but
Yellow Fever is in a class by him.
self and the cowboy from Bear Greek
could not keep the saddle. In the
cowgirls' rough riding contest Maude
Tarr tainted in the saddle, but her
horse was caught before she fell.
GENERAL
The widow of Lieut.. Col. NJ. c. But
Ter, slain by Harry SPANIEL, in Al
pine, Tex, will receive a pension.
The bodies of six persons drowned
in a flood resulting from a cloudburst
near Sunrise, Wyo., were recovered.
Meat cutters employed at the pack.
ing houses at East st. Louis, ILL.,, OF
Swift & Co., Armour & Co. and Nor
ris & Co., struck.
The death toll in the Middle West
ern states, as a result of the most
terrific heat wave in its history
mounted to sixty at noon Friday.
Permanent organization of the Ma.
tional Parks Highway Association
stands perfected at Cody with the
election of Gus Holms of Cody, Wyo.,
as president, and L. L. Newton, also
of Cody, as secretary.
Three men were fatally injured
when a street car crashed into an
elevated railroad pillar in the Bronx
in New York. One of them was a
policeman serving as guard. The ac.
cident was the most serious which
had occurred since the beginning of
the strike of motormen and conduc-
tors on the surface car lines in the
Bronx and Westchester county.
villa. with about thirty men. is in
the Canon de las Huertas, near El
Paso re Penoles, Durango, according
to dispatches from Gen. Ramos sent
by courier to Ma9ami and tele-
graphed to Gen. Trevino at Chihuahua
City. Calexito Contreras. his chief
lieutenant, whose death recently was
reported from Mexico City. deserted
Immediately after Parral and made
his way southeast with one-half of
the men who attacked that city &C.
cording to the dispatches.
Second Lieut.. S. H. Wheeler Of the
Army Aviation School at North Is.
land lost control of his aeroplane at
Ontario, Cal, and crashed into a line
of automobiles, oyerturning four, kill
ing Harold Stoebe, 4 years cid, and
seriously injuring Mrs. C. A. Stoebe,
the boys mother. Lieutenant Wheel,
er was not injured although his ma
chine was wrecked.
Thomas J.. Mooney. a labor agitatoT
sought by the police in connection
with the preparedness parade bomb
explosion case, was in custody at
San Francisco, as was also his wife.