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MEN mTTD" A m w .1 . -J.li.iJJ 1U A- Volume XXIX No. 17 Lordsburg, New Mexico, Friday, March 10, 1916 BUMCBimoN. M m TtAU SINGLE COPIES, TKN CENT hi EASTER Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, this years falla on March 8. Easter Sunday falls on April 23, the latest in many, many decades. Such a late observance will not occur again until 1943, When the Easter date will be April 25. It .won't fall on April 23 again until the year 2000. Examples of late Easters are few. Records show that in 1728 Easter fell on April 28, and in 1739 on April 29 The most recent year in which Easter fell on the 23d of April was 1905. ANIMAS LAND ON THE OPEN MARKET On the 7th of this month (Tues day) all land in the Animas valley was put on the open market sub ject to homestead entries. The State of New Mexico had 90 days in which to complete all its selec tions and "squatters" to use their rights. This time is now up and Townships 24, 25, 26 and 27, in Range 20 west, are subject now to any entry, there being no priority from the 7th of March on. FEDERAL BUILDING FOR SILVER CITY U. S. Senator Thomas B. Catron of New Mexico has introduced in the Senate a bill for the purchase of a site and the erection of a fed eral building in Silver City at a cost not to exceed $100,000. The bill was introduced February 3 and was referred to the committee on public buildings and grounds. W. D. Murray has had the matter up for some time with New Mex ico's representatives in the federal congress and Senator Catron's bill ia the result. Is Made District Manager John B. Crowell will become the district manager for the Am erican National Life Insurance Company of Galveston, Texas, on the 1st of April, according to. advice just received here. Mr, Crowell has been in the employ of the Southern Pacific for some time past and has been putting in part time writing for the Am erican 'National. His work has been so successful that the com pany has put him in an official capacity in this territory. Mr Crowell's many friends wish him the best of luck in his new under taking. Bosmey Holds Meeting The annual meeting of the stock holders of the Bonney Mining Company was held at the com pany's offices in this city Monday morning. The following officers were elected: Mr. Van Wart, a prominent business man of Beloit, Wis., president; E. F. Laffin of this city, vice:president; J. B Foster, secretary and treasurer; J. F. Galster, Jackson, Michigan, and Thomas A. Lister of thi3 city, as directors. The routine com pany business was transacted at the meeting. The new officials, Messrs. VanWart, Galster and Lister are well known men, the two former being from the north and Mr. Lister a prominent min ing man of this city. Going to Las Cruces II. S. French of the Western Lrberal, and wife leave today for Las Cruces, and J. S. Thurman of the Eagle Drug Mercantile Co. , and wife will leave on Monday for the same city, They will join Mr. and Mrs. French's daughter Miss Cleo, who is head of the ladies' goods department of the Manasse Brothers store. Mr. French will join the staff of the Rio Grande Republic, while Mr, Thurman will assume manage ment'of the clothing department of Manasse Brothers store. Both the Frenchs and Thurmans have many- friends here who regret to hear of their departure. Will Operate Last Chance Robert F. Fitz, president of the El Centro Mining Company, owners of the Last Chance Mine arrived here Thursday afternoon in a new Ford Purchased in El Paso, to make arrangements for a resumption of operations of the Last Chance mine at Leidendotf, Mr. Fitz left Thursday night for Los Angeles but will return in a short time. COLUMBUS ATTACKED A message was received here as the Liberal went to press stating that Columbus, N. M., had been attacked by Villistas. Six American soldiers and eleven civilians killed, several houses burned and that the bandits had been driven back into Mexico by the United States soldiers. Com munications from Hachita late today re-affirmed this report. Villa and his band were within 15 miles of Columbus on Wednes day morning, looting the Palomas and and , Cattle Company s property. Over seventy. Mex icans are reported killed in the attack at Columbus. Friday morning accounts state Villa and his band are being pursued by both Carranza and U. S. troop. Reports that the band was moving toward Hachita and Arizona line are denied. J. R. Darcy, formerly of the 85 Mine office, was here Wednes day en route to Clifton where he has accepted a responsible position with the Shannon Copper Company. WE WANT YOU For a Customer OUR house makes good on its promises on its sales in its every undertak ing is the one with which it pays the customer to do business. Such a house must keep "the goods that make good" orlóse its reputation and its customers. In all modesty we want to say that we are making good and holding our old customers, and making new ones from day to day steadily. If you see it in OUR ad, it is SÓ i We close at 6 o'clock p. m.! TIib Eaile Drui Mercantile Co. McCLURE LEAVES J. H. McClure, who for many years has been the efficient local agent of the Southern Pacific railway, left the last of the week for Tucson, Ariz., where he has accepted a position as freight agent. 1. Bnndly of Huachuca, Ariz., is temporarily in charge at the local office. Mr. McClure's family will remain here until after the present term of school. All Lordsburg and vicinity re grets to hear of Mr. McClure's de parture. He has given complete satisfaction in his management of local affairs for the company, and has been foremost in all public enterprises for the betterment of the community. He was a valued member of the local school board for some time and has always stood for progress in Lordsburg. It is with regret the Liberal bids him adios and extends to him the hand of goodfellowshipand wishes of success of the community. SCHOOL NOTES What promises to be the. best and most exciting game of the sea son will be played on the school grounds at half past one Saturday afternoon. The Silver City team, will contest for laurels with our team. The county-seaters will ar rive here Friday morning, taking the noon train to Clifton, where they will play that evening, return ing to Lordsburg Saturday morn ing. As usual we rely on the sup port of our townspeople, the spir it of the spectators being a great part of the game. On Friday evening a beneiit performance will be held at the Star theater, the receipts going to pay the expenses of the athletics at the high school. 'The tickets will only be twenty-five cents, and with each goes a coupon which pays admittance to the game Sat urday atternoon. uei a pargain when you have a chance. Be a booster. Jumping standards have been supplied at the school, also a good race course. The boys dragged swept and measured for several days in order to have a good track Before and after school and during recess, they may be seen preparing to be future Olympians. A new room has been added to the school at the 85 Mine, to- ac commodate the pupils of the high er irrades. Mrs. Nat Gammon has been teaching until the arrival of the new teacher. MAKING THE INCORPORATION CENSUS Constable Oscar Allen and Earle Kerr are taking, a census of the nronosed incorporated town of Lordsburg, following the comple tion of the survey by County Engl neer F. L. Cox. The census, to eether with the survey notes, will be filed with the board of county commissioners at their meeting the first Monday in April for final ac tion. PROPOSED STRIKE MEANS TIE UP A nation-wido movement for higher wages has been instituted by the four large organizations of of railway employes. The railways called upon for this advance in- lude all those in this country and some in Lanada, operating alto gether 280,000 miles of line. Three hundred thousand men are involv ed in the movement, and the in crease amounts to about 25 per cent in present wages and about 87 1-2 per cent in overtime pay over that fixed by arbitration and would add -one hundred million dollars a year to railway operating expenses. It is a matter of common know ledge that the railroads are pass- ag through one of the hardest fi nancial periods in their history," says Vice Presidént Scott, of the P. Company. "Something like forty-two thousand miles of line, or approximately one-f ith of the mile age of all the railroads in the coun try, are even now being operated under receivership. Officers of the brotherhoods have been quot ed as saying that unless the pres ent demands are granted, a strike rather than arbitration will be re sorted to. What effect this would have on the commerce of the coun try it is not difficult to imagine. The United States is now entering upon what has been predicted to be an unprecedented condition of propsperity, partly due to the up- torn conditions in kurope. Para lysis of the railroads would be par alysis of the country's commerce at most critical stage. MINES AND MINING 85 MINE SECOND LARGEST PRODUCER That the 85 mine of this district s the second largest copper pro- ucing mine in the state of New Mexico, was shown in the gross re turns as given by the State Tax commission under the Springer Hawkins law, whereby the net val ue of the output of each producing mine is taxed as other property. The 85 Mining Company is ass essed with $762,921.78 as their re turns and $183,689.00 as demined by the Commission. The Grant county levy amounts to 6 mills and the state levy to 3.95 mills, a total of 9.95. The total gross output of the New Mexico metal and coal mines combined in 1915 was approximate ly $22,000,000. The metal output alone was $15,000,000. THIS COUNTRY SOON MUST FINANCE ITSELF Paopls Should Realize Thrift fit Home Is Necessary. TOWN IS JUDGED BY NEWSPAPER "Show me some copies of the pa per published in your town and I will tell you some facts about it and your people." The man who said that was an active business man, who was con sidering an expensive proposition, and the information he wanted was all in the columns of a weekly npwsnaner. He wanted to Know aooui me stocks of iroods carried by the merchants, to judge their business capacity by the style and amount of advertising they employed the paper would show him. : He wanted to know something of the social activities of the town, which the paper would show hiptt. He wanted to know something of the pursuits of the people of the town and the condition of the sur rounding country. The paper would show him. ' He would scan those papers very carefully, and then he would be able to give the information as he had stated. . One hundred years ago the first sar- lags bauk In the United States was es ttbllshed. The advent of this institu tion came with the era of commercial nd industrial expansion. It came when tho population of the United States -was only 0,500,000, and there were but 240 banks In the country. By 1820 ten of these savings banks hnd been established with 8.C33 depositors and aggregate deposits of $1,1.18,570. Prosperity came, the people saved and the deposits In these great reser rolrs of capital, which now number 2,100, by leaps and bounds increased to enormous proportions. To-day, wltn our national wealth approximating $187,000,000,000 and almost one bun dred millions of people In the country we have a"jout $4,700,000,000 In the savings banks belonging to ten and a half million depositors. This may seem an amazing sum of capital and number of depositors, but when a com parlson Is made with other countries and a balance is struck It Is found the United States Is dear the end of the list lu the perceutoge of suvers to pop ulutlon. The possibilities for the greater pro motion of habits of thrift and saving among people are Indeed extraor dinary. With remarkable opportuul ties in the United States for Increas ing foreign trade; with bumper crops la every section of the country; wkli eold nourlniz Into the colters of the barks; with every appearance of un precedo ted future prosperity, the fact is ant to be disregarded that tlie otnei errant rnmnilTI'lttl nations Of the WOl'lll are involved In a war of frightful de struction and economic waste; that art er tho wnr these nations will need funds for reconstruction and the Unl ed States will bo called upon to sup ply them; that for some time t come this country will not be able to secure capital, as In the pust. from ! rnm-e and Great Brltulu, (or the purpose of carrying on new enterprises. The United States must finance Itseir. No fear need be hud for the liunie dlate future, but It Is Inevitable that the time Is coming when this country must meet tho test of financing prac tically the entire world. Preparations are being made for defense in the event of war; preparations should also be made for peace. Adequate credit machinery cau be developed and per fected, but it will assuredly require a sufficient amooiit of capital to main tain properly and keep in good running condition this credit machinery. How Is this capital going to De se cured? Through education; by calling the attention of the people to the lack of thrift in the country, and the beuer flclal results of practicing thrift; I through a systematic nation wide cam paign to promote thrift and saving. It urely la to the interest of all citizens, whether banker or business man. edi tor or professional man. employer or employe, to be a party to such a move ment I Thla is the object of the nation wide campaign Instituted the first of the year by the American Bankers' Association. NATIONAL MAKES STRIKE Steins, N. M. According to ad vice just received here from Chi cago, 111., the National Gold and Silver Mining Company has gotten nto a foot wide vein of $250 ore, assaying 466.94 oz. silver and .84 oz. gold. THREE COPPER CONCERNS EARN $11,000,000 NET Net earnings of more than $11,- 000,000 for the last three months are shown by the quarterly reports of the Utah Copper Company, the Chino Copper Company and the Ray Consolidated Copper Com pany. The Utah Copper Company earned a net total of $6,919,203, and paid dividends amounting to $2,436,725; the Chino Copper Com pany, net revenue, $2,461,716: dividends, .$869,980; Ray Consoli dated Copper Company, net earn ings, $1,778,567; dividends, $777,- 482. THE PASSING OF MRS. MARIA LUNDGREN Mrs Maria Lundgren died of old age in JJeming rriday, having reached the advanced age of 85 years. Before coming here Mrs. Lundgren resided for many years at Steins Pass, N. M., and San Si mon, Ariz. Funeral -services were held in the Rawson Undertaking Parlors on Silver avenue Saturday after noon, and were conducted by Rev. Theodore Piatt, pastor of the Dem- lng Baptist church. Messrs. Jos eph Stump, Prof. J. F. Doderer, A. M. Kelly and R. L. Miller acted as pallbearers. Interment was made in Mountainview cemetery. The deceased is survived by one daugh ter, Mrs. William Hilt of this city, with whom she made her home. A REAL ARTIST There is a talented musician in work for the past many years has been the real foundation of this the Schubert Company, whose noted organization's success. Qui etly, unassumingly, artistically, she has served her art earnestly from a great love of it. Other as pirants for fame, with but a small portion of her great ability, have made desperate efforts to advertise themselves into renown by the cir cus methods so obnoxious to all true artists, the while that Lavinia Zendt has been serving the divine muse modestly, loyally and royally. While she is an accomplished in strumentalist, it is the rare depth and rich quality of her phenom enal contralto voice that has en deared her to a multitude of Amer ican and Canadian music lovers ANIMAS ITEMS J. N. Isaack's left Friday eve ning: for the county scat to serve on the grand jury. Mr. Thompson and sons have gone to Silver City to investigate a croat proposition. Judge O. G. King made a fly ing trip to the Upper Valley in his Ford last week. The Woodmen held their regu lar meeting at the school house on the 26th of last month. Rufus Wamel, after an absence of two weeks at Hachita and Deming, returned to his ranch in the Valley on the fifth inst. Bill Burchman was transact ing business at the station last Saturday. He was accompanied by Mr. Netherland of the Upper Valley. Mr. R. S. Burns and son La Fayettee, made a trip to Lords burg Mor.'lay, and expect to se cure a band of goals. P. M. Erving and family of China Pond were in town last Wednesday on a shopping trip. Mr. Erving reports the crop prospects in his locality as very favorable. , Mr. Dupuy of Playas Valley was here last week, having pur chased a small number of goats from Mr. B. H. Pague. The goats have been taken to the Playas Valley. Mr. H. E. Dupuy, on returning from his mountain goat ranch to his valley homestead, discovered that a bunch of old residenter goats had turned up missing, leaving no trace of their where abouts. Mr. Dupuy is anxiously hunting the lost flock. Mr. J. F. Burns returned from a business trip to Silver City on Feb. 20. While there Mr. Burns contracted for a thousand head of goats, and left for them on the 5th inst. He was accompanied by his daughters Carrie and Net tie, and by Mr. Bush Wade. Since the crass began to show. cattle have' left the more nourish ing winter growth for the tender shoots, and as a result are not as fat as they were a month ago. However, under normal con ditions, all except the old decre pit cows will come through in good shape. Owing to the heavy snowstorm of last winter and the consequent soaking of the ground, farmers report conditions excellent for a good crop this season, as the re cent warm spell has caused many of the fruit trees to bloom, fears are felt that the late frosts may ruin the fruit crop. In the event there being no heavy freezes there will doubtless be a bumper crop of fruit. New Machine Shop A new machine shop and black smith shop at the west end of the Jones & Burns corral , r.orth of the Espee tracks, is nearing com pletion. John Paulus is having the building erected, and when finished it will embody a very complete machine welding shop and blacksmith shop, with all the latest equipment. Shoes Shoes Beautiful new spring line of Womens, Shoes just received. Call and inspect our line. New line of Hats just in. Car load of Furniture - now en route, shipped ; from factory March 3 T1IE ROBERTS & LEAHY MERCANTILE -CO' KC.