The border vidette. (Nogales, Ariz.) 1894-1934, 1898-09-01
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LOCAL BRIEFS.

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Francesa" store today.
Mr.. Albert Barnett was in from
the Arizeua ranch Tuesday.
This is steamer day and the festive
bill collector is abroad in the land.
Ben McCullar and his fifteen cow
boys returned to the Bacanuchi ranch
yesterday morning.
Hy. L. Caraway, the Sonora cattle
king, is making arrangements to erect
a fine mansion IN Nogales.
c. NJ Diaz, step father of Demetrio
and Francisco Velasco, last week won
$4,000 gold in lottery.
MIR. Lair, of the Sonora News Co.,
is dangerously ill at the Montezuma
hotel with inflammation of the bowels.
Capt. @. B. Keltol went out north
Sunday night TO look after his fences.
The captain is a pretty good fence
builder
Mrs. Jos. Thompson left this morn
ing on the stage for Tucson with her
daughter, Miss Lii y, who will attend
school at the st. Joseph academy.
Caraway's cowboys spent consider
able money in Nogales this week
Fifteen of them were paid off here by
Foreman Ben McCullar and they pro-
ceeded to invest it.
Lawyer Walter McCurdy is still on
the sick list and will in a short time
go up into the Ajo mountains to re-
cuperate Mr. McCurdy has been
working very hard during the hot
weather and is we'll deserving rest.
Richard Caraway has gone to the
Bacanuchi ranch, with the big outfit
in charge of Ben. McCullar, foreman
of the ranch. Dick has accepted the
position of book-keeper at the big
ranch and does not expect to return to
Nogales until Christmas.
A. L. Pellegrin returned yesterday
from Carlo where he went on mining
business. Mr.. Pellegrin is one of the
most expert assayers ia the country
and his judgement on ores is taken by
the best of mining operators.
The county democratic central COM
mittee will meet in Tucson today to
set time for holding the convention
to elect delegates to the territorial
convention and time for holding
primaries for the election of delegates
to the county convention.
Trains have been running very ire
guIarly of late on the N NJ & A. rail-,
road. The train that should have
gone night before last did not go till
this morning. If no more washouts
occur-the train will return this after
noon with mail and passenger.
Yesterday the bondsmen of M. S.
Snyder, ex assessor and tax collector,
paid in to County Treasurer Hof,
IS, $40, with interest, on judgment, of
$I,10679. The matter has been
standing since 1890 and the circum-
stances of the case are well understood
by old timers.-Star.
Tuesday Mrs. Ell Titcomb gave
birthday party to her little SON Ed
ward, who is now seven years old.
The little soldier boys Of which COM
pany Edward is a member, were all
there in full dress uniform and it was
strictly junior military affair. A
splendid time was had by the little
fellows.
Afr. Kennedy, the mining man, re-
turned the forepart of the week from
an outing in the mountains near Mag
dalena, Sonora, greatly benefited.
Mr.. Kennedy says he was in the sports
men paradise, as the game was so
plentiful he was kept lodging to keep
from getting run over by the deer and
wild turkey.
A preacher in Bisbee announced
that he would discuss family scandal
from the pulpit and as result every
seat in the church was filled, many
standing in the aisles and a look of
satisfaction on the faces of the entire
congre cation. The shrewd master of
the flock then proceeded to discourse
on Adam and Eve.
Mr.. Bohall, proprietor of the Amer
lean barber shop, is in receipt of a
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