The border vidette., 1897-09-04
BRIEF ITEMS.

District court will convene in Tucson
Septem Der ID.
Hon. Ben NJ. Crawford of Clifton,
was in Tucson during the week.
:: Attorney S. E. Hazard is having a
brick dwelling built on: north Court
street. -.
Geo. H. Smalley is 10 be congratu-
lated on his. writeup of the University
of Arizona, which was published in the
Arizona Republican OF recent date 8:
Prof. Tourney. of the University, and
his bride have taken passage at Liver
poo for home, and may be expected in
Tucson about September 10th.
New country brings with it new people
and Tucson has young novelist who
''if his works take as his friends think
they WILL" he will soon rank among the
| best writer's
Mrs. Hiram Stevens and daughter,
Mrs. j Knox Corbett and daughter,
and Miss Marie Hughes; have returned
home from California. Hon. Sam
Hughes and Miss Attic will return the
middle of next month.
The regular quarterly meeting of the
county board of examiners will be held
at the office of the county school super
intendent on Tuesday and Wednesday
Sept. and 8, when examination of all
applicants for teachers certificates will
be had.
&c oil, l., i-
condition-it having obtained some
fifty new members-all will join in a
shooting tournament in few days.
Parties desiring to join will apply to
Mr.. Chas. F. Weber, who is authorized
to accept and qualify them for full men,
bership.
The San Xavier poultry farm was
visited the other night by coyotes ard
the owners thereof lost over one hun
dred fowls. Fortunately they we've able
to replace them and now have every
thing in order as before having supplied
their loss from Tucson parties. Among
the new stock are a number of large
Lang Shang roosters, which they in
tend to breed to the common stock to
increase the size of market chickens.
District Clerk A. J. Haibert, yester-
day placed his resignation in the hands
OF Judge Davis, to be acted upon at
such date as the Judge may elect. Per-
sons in such position as to be supposed
to know, very distinctly limited (D yes
terday to the man from the Star that
on or about the fourth proX. Jack Hal
bert,s resignation would be accepted
and the new appointee publicly an
nOunced.-Star.
Mrs. DeGroff returned from her east
ern trip on Friday morning. She ac-
companied her son, Bert Orndorff, to
Highland Falls, New York, where he
entered the National Preparatory In
stitute, conducted by Lieut.. Brayden,
which has a very high reputation. Bert
goes there to prepare for his examina-
ton next March for West Point
cadetship, to which he has been ap-
pointed by the president through Ari-
zona's congressional delegate. Mrs.
DeGroff reports having had delight
full trip.-Star
u0 lOuOWIuS uduleu ClIIZenS nave
been drawn to compose the grand jury
to serve at the coming term of the dis
trict court, which convenes September
18th: S. H. Drachman, Homer Co.'s,
Geo. W. Atkinson, III. A. Proctor, Geo.
F. Kilt, Joseph Goldtree, Isidor Meyer,
G. w. Cheyney. w. A. Mcneil. William
Shaw, G. A. Avery, F. w. Cooper.
Fred ROnstadt, Douglas Snyder, B. G.
Brichta, Henry Meyer, Chris Christen-
sen, J. P. Hchusen, NJ. T. Freeman,
w. S. Neff, Charles DeGroff.
S. H. Drachman, wife and children
returned last night from San Francisco.
Mr.. Drachman is looking very nearly
in usual form once more and says he
never felt better in his life, excepting n
slight weakness. The doctor he stated
said one morning shortly after the
operation had been performed that /
"well you are a whole lot better off thar
Richard Croker with all his money!
and when asked how that was, he stated |
that Croker had just died. Mr.. Drach-
man says he is glad to be back again -
Citizen.
The board of trade committee ap-
pointed at Thursday evenings meet
ing on securing additional dwellings in !
our city, composed OF Charles F. Hoff, |
E. j. Trippel and Dr. Matas, with Mr.. |
Hoff as chairman, has already gone: to |
work in earnest. Mr. Hoff states that !
he has already found four of our citizens
who have means and each are DESTROYS