The border vidette., 1903-06-27

Harrison and Harmon, joined by Chairm an Farrell at Patagonia, went to Tucson to meet the Board of Pima County in join session. The object of this meeting is to county the coupons and compute the interest on the Mar row Guage railroad that never was built and saddled debt of over two hundred thousand dollars on the tax payers of the two counties.
 "Wednesday Mir. Richard Fleischer, brother of l. B. Fleischer of the Bos ton Stores, came up from Hermosillo, Sonora, where with MT. Frank Smith he is engaged in the mercantile busi- ness. The firm name is Fleischer & Smith. Mir. Flcischer reports busi- ness in the capital city good and is we'll pleased with his new venture. TIE VIDETTE wishes Messrs Fleischer and Smith good luck. The same even ing the gentleman returned to Her mosillo.
 Wednesday night John H. Foley, at torney for Mrs. Anton Swensen, wife of the Los Angeles mining man, an ac count of whose sudden and unfortunate death at Atil, Sonora, June 18th, ap- pears on the first page of this issue of TIE BORDER VIDETTE, passed south on his way to Altar, where he will make a thorough investigation of the kill ing of his clients husband The gen tleman is said to be a first-class lawyer and before he gets through with the case in hand some startling and in teresting developments may be looked for. While here Wednesday evening he held consultation with Mir. Ramon Vasquez, who was acquainted with both Brown Sweusen.
 Mr. A. M. Carter, one of the in corporators of the "Magdalena Ex- ploration and Development Company, articles of incorporation of which ap- pear in TIE BORDER VIDETTE, is in the city from the company's mines in the Magdalena district. Mir. Carter's home is iu California, where he owns some valuable mining properties. He is now operating in Sonora and we are glad to say he has gotten hold of ex- ceptionally good gofd-silver prospects which through the company above mentioned, he IS offering to the in vesting public. Anyone desiring to get in on the ground-foor of good venture will do well to keep MT. Carter and his company in mind-
 This morning Mir. Jas. Randall, who for several weeks has been in No gales under the treatment of Dr. Ray Ferguson, for an injured hand which was hurt while monkeying with piece of scantling with silver in the end which he did not see when it was tossed to him by helper, out at the Martha mine in the Altar District. owned by Mr. Talbot and associates, returned to the mine slightly distigured but still in the ring. Instead of losing his hand as it was at first thought he would, he will only have one stiff finger, which Jim says is much better than no finger at all. While here he was the guest of Mir. and Mrs. John Henderson, whose kind attention he will never forget. There is another man in Nogales who has won his life long gratitude. That man Is Dr. Ray Ferguson, the man who could have gotten one of his hands, but didn't. Thursday Hon. M. A. Smith ex- delegate to congress from Arizona, and one of the territory's most popular citizens, was visitor in Nogales on mining business. He is looking we'll and hearty and says he IS feeling fine. Mark says he has retired from the political arena and it now devoting all of his time in looking after the interests of gentleman named Mark Smith. The following paragraph taken from Washington, D. c. paper will be of interest to Mir. Smiths many friends, who are readers of TIE VIDETTE: "Delegate Mark Smith of Arizona came into the House resatur- ant in Washin ston and joined some Congressman who were discussing an address recently delivered to an as . sociation of dry goods and other clerks on "The Commercial Value of Smile. :" Mir. Smith was asked what he thought of the matter, and he answered: "1 have just settled, and my experience leads me to the conclusion that two smiles cost quarter"