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The border vidette., 1897-07-17
Avenged His Little Girl.

Further details have been obtained
OF the drowning of the little Greene
girl In the San Pedro. 1t was sup
posed that she and another child were
drowned owing to their own careless
ness. This, it transpires, was not the
case. They were overtaken by a
break in the dam up the river. The
dam was blown out by parties then
unknown, and the rush of waters over
fook the children, sweeping them away
to their destruction. William Greene,
father of ore of the children, offered
reward of 81, 900 for information as to
the identity of the destroyer of the
dam. The reward awaited, and brought
out the fact that it was done by one
Jim Burnett, for reasons known only
to himself Greene found Burnett at
Tombstone, in front of the o. X. eqf-
raj, and after explaining that his errand
was to avense the death of his little
girl, he shot and instantly kille Bur-
nett. Public sympathy is all with
Greene No Arizona jury would con-
vict him, and he will doubtless be
cleared Los Angeles Times.
The border vidette., 1897-07-17
SONORA NEWS.
Mining and Other items from Our
Sister State.

Mining and Other items from Our
Sister State.
The mining interests of Sonora never
looked better
The steamship Orizaba arrived at
Guaymas from San Francisco last Mon
day.
The Cero Blanco country in Sonora
is coming to the front as a mineral pro-
ducer.
Last Wednesday was the first rainfall
experienced by southern Sonora for
this season
McWood & Breckenridge have taken
a bond on the Mulatos mine in Sahua-
ripa district. This mine is fine prop
erty.
The schoolship Zaragoza, which left
Guaymas a year ago last May to go
around the world, arrived at Vera Cruz
on the 3rd inst.
The state secretary of Sonora has an
nulled the concession of Jas. Motfett to
build a smelter in Sonora on account of
nonfulfilment of contract.
The Trinidad mine in the Sahuaripa
district has closed down. This is one
of the biggest mines in Sonora We
did not learn the cause of its closing
down.
FL Sol has been enlarged to six
column paper and is now neat and
newsy. Valencia and FigueIoa, the
editors, are to be congratulated for
their enterprise.
The new company which recently
purchased the Las Amarillas and Grand
Central mines in Minas Prietas district,
are now taking out $50, 600 month in
gold clear of all expenses.
Now that the rainy season has COM
menced in Sonora mining matters will
iven up, and mills that have had to
shut down on account of shortage in
water will again steam up.
Captain Teofilo Genesta has taken
command of the gunboat Democratic,
and Don Manuel Hijar, formerly COM
mander of the same, leaves for Vera
cruz to take charge of the naval train
ing school there.
Jose Abundio Salas, Pascual Her
nandez and others who were recently
arrested ut Altar on a charge of having
bogus coins, have been released from
custody as there was not sufficient evi-
dence to convict.
Eighty Yaquis who belonged to the
oath battalion of the Mexican army
formerly stationed at the Yaqui river.
have been mustered out at the City of
Mexico and are on their way back 10
the YaCui country.
The Twelfth Battalion of the Me-
lean army under command of Colonel
Garcia Hernandez will shortly leave
/ Torin on the Rio Yaqui, where they
The border vidette., 1897-07-17
MEXICAN MATTERS.

General Martinez, governor of Pue-
bla has returned to his post.
The recent earthquakes in Tehuante-
pee damaged the light house at Salina
Cruz.
Heavy rains have fallen in the vici-
nifty OF Jimenez and good crops are
assured.
The squadron of auxiliary cavalry
stationed at San Luis Potosi have been
ordered to Queretaro.
The mint at Culiacan has received
forty cases of copper to be coined into
a half million cents to be put in circu-
lation.
The prisoners in Belem to date num-
Der 2653 men 80 women, n total of 3099.
Among those there are 30 who are con-
demned co death.
A Monterey barber has disco vered a
preparation in the form of Il soap that
will shave the stiffest beard by apply
ing the soap and wiping the face with a
towel.
The legislature of Yucatan has una
mously approved the treaty arranged
by Secretary Mariecal with Belize and
confirmed the action of the Mexican
senate.
The suit to Gust Dan Burns from the
control of the famous Candelaria mines
in the state of Durango, has been re-
vived again. The suit is for the mines
proper and all connections. They are
valued ut s1S, 100000 and some millions
have already been spent by Burns in
defending similar suits.
The border vidette., 1897-07-17

sIOO in default of which he went to
Tucson. Deputy U. S. Marshal Scott
White came over from Tombstone Mon
day and took him in.
The Dos Naeiones cigar factory is
turning out lot of fine cigars now q.
Following are the names OF the leaders:
Celestiales, Imperiales, Regalia del CO.
mercio, Wells Fargo, MiDeros, Victo-
rias de Colon, Regalias de Mexico and
Orgullo de Ricardo. This is the only
cigar factory in Arizona and the cigars
are all made of genuine imported to-
bocco.
There has been a new superintendent
appointed at Rollin. Mr.. Richard
Eames, Jr. is now in charge and is
getting ready to increase the working
force The now parts of the smelter
have been received and it will start up
between now and the first of the month.
DR.. Eames and Chas J. Eames, Jr.,
have gone east to remain. Rollin is
destined to be one of the heavy produ
GERS of Pima couyty.
j. Z. furlonS, man well known IN
this part of the country. as wide ex-
perienced mining man and who is doing
business now at La Colorado, Sonora,
as news and stationery agent, and who
lived in Bisbee for five years. It is
claimed he was married year and a
half ago. If there is anyone here or
anywhere else who will prove the fact
they will receive a reward of $1,000 by
calling on J. G. Pritchard,, the post
master at Bisbee.
Henry Douglass, who has been pas
senger conductor on the Sonora rail-
road for the past two years, left Monday
night for San Francisco. Dug" as
his friends (of whom he has host
called him, is one of the most thorough
railroad men who ever came to No
gales and withal a perfect gentleman.
Few railroad men have run out of No
gales who will be missed as much as
Mr.. Douglass We join ''Dug's" many
warm friends in wishing him the
abundant success such men are sure to
meet with in any country.
The border vidette., 1897-07-17

INNING NEWS.

The Copper King mines of San Xa-
vier district are taking out some rich
copper carbonates.
The Corda Brothers were in town
yesterday from Olive camp, rs was
Charlie Dougherty also. They all look
prosperous and report the well known
chloriding camp as still holdidgits own.
Star.
Jos. Goldtree yesterday shipped a
carload of high grade silver-lead ore
from the New Colorado mine in the
Sierritas. He says he will use the pro-
ceeds in paying the expenses of himself
and family on on summer outing
to the coast. Unless the returns
fall below that from former shipments
from this property he can extend his
trip to Paris if he cares to do so.-Star
General Manning is shipping a car
load of silver-lean ore daily from the
San Xavier property, more especially
for the purpose of ascertaining the true
method of economically treating the
ore before adding machinery for treat
ing tine ore on the ground. This prop
erty now promises to soon become an
important feeder to Tucson's business.
Star.
Charles Dickson brought in some
very ordinary looking samples from
the Red Wing claim, in Gold gulch,
yesterday, which when broken showed
free gold in abundance. The Red Wing
and Red Jacket claims, situated in
Gold gulch sixteen miles west of Globe,
owned by Jas. H. Pascoe, VIM. ii.
Stewart and Chas. Dickson. The lead
is X by 19 feet in width and assays
have been obtained running from SI4
to $50 IN gold. The Red Wing is
opened by a shaft so feet in depth and
and by drifts and cross-cuts showing up
considerable ore. On the Red Jacket
there is a 25-foot shaft. They are
among the most promising claims in
the Pinto Creek region--Globe silver
Belt
The border vidette., 1897-07-17
Absolutely Pure.
body of Burnett he paused, and raising

body of Burnett he paused, and raising
his hand, said:
Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord,
1 will repay. That man caused the
death of two innocent children and
broke my wife's heart. The Lord
giveth and the Lord Jaketh away.
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Mrs. Hart teftifed that Burnett had
told her that he would kill Green on
signt, or the first chance he had, and
on hearing of Burnett s death she said
Burnett said he would kill Greene,
but it has turned out the other way"
''B. A. Packard testified that Bur-
nett had told him ''Greene and can't
both live, and L am going to live" He
had said the words in very emphatic
manner, and that he, Packard, had
told Greene to be on his guard, as Bur-
nett was bad man.
''Court Commissioner johnson ad-
mitted Mr.. Greene to bail IN the sum of
thirty thousand dollars, which was at
once furnished and Mr.. Gre en- was re-
leased.''
The border vidette., 1897-07-17

have been stationed for several years
and go to the City of Mexico.
George Grunic. of HermosillO, Son..
is at the Jardin. and expects to remain
here about three weeks. Mr.. Grunic
was in Mexico a year ago and was so
impressed with the country that he has
returned. Associated with DR.. II.
Hoefer and Jacob Schuele of ST. Louis
and New York, he has started a large
brewery at Hermosillo. The last gen.
tleman is inventor and patentee of
American ice machinery Mexican
Herald.
The border vidette., 1897-07-17
NEWS OF THE RANGE.
Things That Are Happening
Among the CattIemen.

Mr.. J. G. Hall, who has made his
headquarters at Deming the past
season, was in town Sunday on his
way to Sierra Bonita ranch to look at
some OF Col. Hooker's fine bull calves.
On his return Mr.. Hall will 60 to
Geronimo to receive and ship a drive
of the Pringle cattle from Gila
county. During the season he has
shipped from New Mexico and Ari
zoRa about 10000 head of cattle
Arizona Range News.
Mr.. a. A. Spaugh of Cheyenne,
well known to many of our stockmen
as heavy buyer, the past season, of
Arizona cattle, was recently in Kan
sas City, en- route to Texas. Arizona
Range News.
The border vidette., 1897-07-17
BURNETT WAS ARMED.
Additional Facts in Reference to the
Burnett Killing.

From the Bisbee Lyre we CLEAN a few
facts about the Greene-Burnett trageny
which will interest Mr.. Greene's many
friends as follows:
The defense Immediately COM
menced habeas corpus proceedings be-
fore Court Commissioner Johnson,
which was heard yesterday. Burnett's
pistol, with one empty chamber, and
Green's with four empty chambers
were identified and placed in evidence.
Chief of Police Weiser stated that after
Green surrendered and on passing the
The border vidette., 1897-07-17

Don't Tobacco Spit AID Smoke Your Life Away.
To quit tobacco easily and forever. he mag
netic. full of life. nerve and vigor, take No-To
Bac. the wonder worker, that makes weak men
strong. All druggists, soc or 81. Cure guaran
teed Booklet and sample free Address
Sterling Remedy Co, Chicago or New York
The border vidette., 1897-07-17
Fine toilet soap at the Line CT

Fine toilet soap at the Line City
Store.
Orders taken at the Line City Store
for fine summer suits, shirts and fine
ties.
Typewriter supplies at the Line City
store.
The Press., 1897-05-20
THE PLAYFUL SEAL.

Lots of Fun In Juggling Things In the
 Water With Its Whiskers.
 Seals have on either side of the nose little scattering bunch of whiskers or bristles something like cat s whiskers The bristles of the hair scal-the species at the aquarium at Battery park-are not so long as those of the fur seal, but they are three or four inches in length, and they are white and slender and fiex- ible. The older of the aquarium seals, which has been there about 215 years, gets lot of fun out of its whiskers. It juggles things in the water with them for hours at time.
 There may be floating in the pool a fragment of fish skin, for instance, left from the last feeding The seal will swim under this and raise it on the tips of it's slender bending whiskers. The fragment floats away or dodges off with the agitation of the water caused by the seals motions, and the seal swings it's head under it and raises it again on it's whisker tips If it slides down a wave that the seal has raised, the seal swims after it. The seal is a very rapid and graceful swimmer. Sometimes this seal when it has tossed up the fragment of fish skin in this way will turn over in the water with swift spiral movement and catch the fish skin on it's bristles again when it comes up. It is some thing like man tossing things up in the air and then turning round and back in time to catch them when they come down.
 For hours at time, as kitten plays with 8 ball, the seal juggles this frag- ment floating in the water.-New York Sun.
The Press., 1897-05-20
Musio That Reaohes Out.

There is some recompense even in pain that attends the living of colorless lives. There is story of how visitor to Amsterdam, wishing to hear the wonderful music of the chimes of St. Nicholas, went up in the tower of the church to hear it, and there he found a man with wooden gloves on his hands pounding the keyboard. It was all harsh and discordant when heard so close by, yet all the while floating over the city were strains of enchanting music. Peo- pie in their homes were thrilled by wonderful bell notes that fell from the tower So it is in life. There are many sweet souls shut in to pain and sorrow and others whose days are filled with dull, monotonous labor, who little dream of the music that reaches out and touches with it's sweetness other lives; music that comes from their pa tient hammering away with wooden gloves on noisy keys that seem all out of tune. Surely sometime and some where will come to all such so much of sunshine, so smooth path, that they will forget all the past in a present bliss. .-Philadelphi Times.
The Press., 1897-05-20
Always Play Cards For Money.

England is termed puritanical, ; said a New Yorker who has been in London good deal, "but English peo- pie who consider themselves very prop CT do things sometimes which would shock people of similar sort in this country. For instance, even clergymen often play cards for money, and women do so as matter of course. I never played game at an English house at which there was not stake.
 1.-The stake was small if women were among the players, and possibly only a few shillings changed hands, but it never seemed to occur to any English people ever met to play for fun The people were of the middle class, which is anything but fast.
 Fancy an American clergyman play ing cards for moneyi He would be con- sidered bad lot by many if he played cards even for fun. And certainly a young woman who arose from card table with a dollar, more or less, of a mans money in her possession would be considered fast, to say the least. ''-- NnxU V0rlr SI7D
The Press., 1897-05-20
s1oping Shoulders.

And now, says New York fashion writer, comes the disagreeable news that in foreign fashion centers sloping shoulders are to reign We have it on undoubted authority that the leop- ard cannot change his spots nor man add one cubit to his stature, yet will the modern exponent of fashion ex- srcise her ingenuity in the alteration of the anatomy above the shoulders For many years we have worn our shoulders up to our ears, so to speak. Now all is to be changed, and the fashionable woman must assume the virtue of s1op- ing shoulders, though she have it or not. Seams from neck to shoulder point are to be heightened, and all fullness that remains in the top of the sleeve will tend i'll a down ward direction. The shoulders proper will remain where they are, but will look as if they had received direct impetus toward the elbow.
The Press., 1897-05-20
A Last Resort For Dinner.

For sheer originality in matters of food I commend the following direc- tions, which one of the Parisian papers gave to its subscribers The supplies were getting lower and lower in the Prussian girt city. Seine gudgeons would not bite, so the anglers took to the sewers. "Tske long, strong line and large hook. Bait with tallow and gently agitate the rod In a few min. utes rat will come and smell the sa- vory morsel. It will be some time before he decides to swallow it, for his nature is cunning. When he does, leave him five minutes to mediate on it, then pull strongly and steadily. He will make convulsive jumps, but be calm and do not let his excitement gain on you. Draw him up, ct voila votre diner. "- London News
The Press., 1897-05-20
FRENCH ARMY AND NAVY.
England's Traditional Enemy Not Behind
 Her In Armament.


 The French navy ranks next to that of England in numbers, while in effi- ciency and fighting qualities the French ships are fully equal to their English rivals. In fact, in naval architecture the French early took the lead, and many of the English types of ships were mod eled after the French designs, says The Chautauquan. One of the chief differ ences between the English and the French armored ships today is ill the disposition of the armor and the conse- quent design of the hull English de- signers have striven to protect the men working the guns, and to do this they have reduced the length of the ships armor. French and naval architects, on the other hand, have given little atten- tion to the protection of men and a great deal to the protection of the water line. Therefore they have reduced the breadth of the ships ar1nOr.
 It is worthy of note that France is the only great power which levies tax on such of her citizens as either lo not enlist in the standing army or wh enlist for a shorter term than three years. Only those who are officially de- clared 'impecunious' are exempt from such tax It is payable annually as long as the liability to service lasts, and the revenue from this source amounts to about 80, 900, 900 francs. or $6, 900, 900, annually.
 The officers of the French army re- ceive very thorough education at the different military schools. At the head of these (although not exclusively mili- tary) stands the Polytechnic school in Paris, which admits 150 pupils annually after competitive examination. The course occupies nine months ill the year for two years.
 As it is impossible to keep under arms for three years the entire annual contin- gent of recruits, the law provides for the discharge of thoroughly trained men at the end of the first or second year of active service in such proportions as to bring down the peace strength of the army to the number annually determin- ed upon by the general assembly. Pref erences in this connection are decided by lot. For this purpose every recruit at his enrolment draws number, and only those having the highest numbers are entitled to consideration
The Press., 1897-05-20
Rrazil'a Jungles.

The jungles of Central America and Brazil are masses of vegetation so dense that it is practically impossible to pene- trate them. Swain and his party, when crossing the isthmus of Darien, labored hard with their hatohets and machetes the whole of one day and achieved but half mile. In many parts of Central America the undeEgrowth renews itself 90 rapidly that it is almost impossible to keep a road open through it. In one instance, in Honduras, road 16 feet wide was made by engineers and laborers through jungle, the under brush and vines being cut away even with the ground. Two weeks later, re- turning to complete the work by laying stones on the roadbed, they could rot find the road, the vines having com pletely filled the vacant space.
The Press., 1897-05-20
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 Mexican Railroads.

Charles H. Clark of the Hartford Courant, now travelling in Mexico, writes: "One custom prevails on this road that The Courant has long urged for Connecticut. Wherever they kill a man they put up a black cross You see them all along the road; here 1, there B; at one spot are A. Take Connecti- cut, with its HOO grade crossings and it's annual butcheries, and before long we would have such an array of crosses that the grade crossing would have to go Here, of course, the road is the rarity. No fence pens in the railroad If anything is on the track, the engine removes it. A train hand told me that, one trip being late, they hurried, and in consequence killed three steers and five burros ill eight hours All along the track are skeletons stripped by the turkey buzzards and whitened by the sun. But cattle are as plenty as they are big down this way y
The Press., 1897-05-20
A New Orleans De1ilah.

A Coliseum square belle is the pos sessor of B distinctly remarkable sofa pillow. It is stuffed with the W iskers, boards and mustaches of admir- s whom the fair one, under the pretense of test ing their affection, enticed into shaving clean. The collection of hirsutes in- oludes all colors, shades. lengths and degrees, from grave to gay, from gay to debonair-the soraggly snow covered whiskers of ancient beaus, the lion tawny vandykes of middle aged men, the curling mustaches of early manhood and the doWny fuzz of devoted but cal low youth-all jumbled together heart lessly and remorselessly into a strange, soft, multiohromatio medley upon which madamoiselle reclines her pretty head with languorous faith in the effective ness of her patent method for dreaming dreams of her faithful and hairless band of gallants. New Orleans Times-Dem- ocrat.
The Press., 1897-05-20
BETTING ON THE RAIN.
The Queerest Gambling Game In the
 World Is Played at Calcutta.

World Is Played at Calcutta.
 One of the most curious forms of gambling in the world is "rain gam bling, 7 which in the winter season of the year is at it's height in Calcutta. The principal rain gambling den is in Cotton street, Burra bazaar.
 No one who has not visited the place can have any conception of the vast crowds which at every hour of the day and far into night pass in and out.
 The great majority are Mawaris, who are born specuIators, but there are as we'll plenty of we'll to do Europeans, Eurasians, Jews, Armenians and Greeks and women too. All swarm into the small courtyard where this strange form of gambling is carried on, through a narrow entrance barely feet wide. The courtyard is about 200 feet square. The far famed tank with spout falling into the courtyard is the one spot where all eyes are fixed. The tank stands at the edge of a second floor roof. It is about feet long by feet wide and g inches deep, with the spout opening in- ward, some or inches from the bot tom. From this it will be seen that it requires a pretty heavy downpour for at least ten minutes to cause the spout to flow. Intermittent drizzles, which partly fill this tank, do not count, as the shower to fill it must pour down un- interruptedly and then the bets are won or lost
 Chances are taken either for or against the spout running A gray haired. wizened old man is the owner of the den, and there is another similar place across the road, only smaller. On the roof, over the fifth floor, there is a small, square watch tower, ill which are stationed five or six men, whose duty is to scan the horizon closely and report on the formation of rainclouds. On these reports the odds rise or fall.
 A bet made and won one day is al ways paid the following morning. Everything seems to be Ion the square, !" and indeed there is little chance for cheating. The odds range as high as to 75 on some days, even ill the rainy season. Many have made fortune in a single day. One person won over e5, . 900 in the course of few weeks. But he worked the system on scientific meth ds,-NeW York Herald