The border vidette. (Nogales, Ariz.) 1894-1934, 1900-10-27
ARIZONA NEWS.
Many Items of General Interest
to our Readers.
Civil Service Examination in Noga-
les November 81, IeOo.-The
Cananea Company Makes An
other Winning.

Registration in Yavapai county will
not be far from 5000.
The Phoenix board of trade is ar
ranging the preliminaries for the win
ter carnival, is be held sometime dur
ing the session of the legislature.
Garfield Drake, assistant postmaster
at Tucson, has been rendered an ap-
pointment in the military postal service
of the Philippine islands. at salary of
$1400 per annum. He will accept.
A band of fifty or sixty Pima Indians
held big roundup of jack rabbits,
about ten miles northeast of Phoenix,
south of the Arizona Falls. The Indians
spent the entire day in the slaughter of
the jack and killed over $50 of them
The school fund in the several coun-
ties will be considerably augmen ted by
reason of the greater number of of poll
taxes collected this year, as a result of
making the payment of the tax a pre-
requisite to registering
The Sunset limited, will begin run
ming on November Z, and three trains
will be run each way weekly The
train has been newly equipped through
out and will be the finest train of the
kind ever run west of the Mississippi
river.
Word was received in town last night
that the hotel at Aqua Caliente was
burned yesterday. The hotel was new
and had just been completed and was
the pride of all who live in the neigh
borhood of that famous health resort.
Republican.
The Lordsburg Liberal says that the
contract for widening the guage of the
Arizona & New Mexico railroad, from
Clifton to Lordsburg, has been let to
8 H Buchanan of Ell Paso, and the con-
tract provides that work is to com
mence this week.
The Bisbee Review now serves Re-
publican and Democratic campaign
literature together, both central COM
mittees having secured space of three
columns each for political thunder and
the first issue under this unique ar
rangement appeared last night
Pine trees are dying in the noun
teins on account of the drought. This
is specially so in the Mogollon noun
tains where thousands of trees have
been withering up for lack OF moisture,
1t is to be hoped that the recent local
rains will revive the life in our forests
Miner.
The springs and streams of the Santa
Catalina forest region will be stocked
with rain bow trout within a short
time, says the Star. The U. s. fish
commissioner says that two years after
stocking a stream that the increase is
so rapid that 40 amount of legitimate
fishing can ever appreciably reduce the
trout supply.
A lively political poll tax tilt took
place yesterday over the issuance of
these rights of suffrage, says the Pres
colt Journal-Miner. Under the law
any patriotic citizen has the right to
demand from the assessor a poll tax,
provided he pays for it, and it is only
optional If he desires his name placed
on the register to vote.
The proof sheets of the governors
report to the secretary of the interior
have been returned for correction. The
report shows among other things that
the bank deposits of Arizona have been
increased this year more than 100 per
cent over those of last. They were then
81, 06O,960 They are this year $4,74S,-
305. - Republican.
The Ell Paso Times says: 1t looks
very much as if the Arizona & New
Mexico railroad is to be extended from
Clifton to Ell Paso at an early day.
Rumors to this effect are very persist
ent and it is significant that the chief
engineer of the road has made his home
in Ell Paso, and there is some talk of the /
general manager locating here.
A vicious COW being driven along |
Sixth street, Sunday afternoon, says
the Blade, made dash at Alex BOstic !
and the latter ran and jumped unto Il
a board lying across the top of we'll
curb. The board broke in the middle
and threw Alex into the we'll which is
fifty feet deep. He was not seriously
injured by the fall although there was
but little water in the we'll to break the
force of it. He suffered q dislocation
of one shoulder and few slight
bruises.