The border vidette., 1903-10-31
LOCAL NEWS.


 A party of Indiana capitalists Is ex- pected in Nogales early the coming week.
 Mir. J. E. Bark, quite prominent in the Salt Silver Valley, IS visitor from Phoenix.
 Hon. Frank Cox, the very popular $. P. Attorney, spent a day in Noga- les this week.
 Judge Quinn of Patagonia. is in town. Came down on private business and incidentally to attend the dog show.
 Misses Lillian and M E. Lappan, two very accomplished young ladies from Detroit, Michigan, are registered at the Montezuma.
 Silver keeps rising in pricc. Not many cents need be added to the pres ent market rate to start great activity in numerous abandoned silver camps.
 Ramon Corona and Julio Araiza were guests at the Montezuma on Fri day of this week. The gentlemen are prominent and popular residents of Guaymas.
 d in Nogales asking that the city coun- cil pass an ordinance restraining cer- tain females from riding in carriages on Morley Avenue.
 Dan Patch, the pacer, smashed two more records this week. He pulled wagon one mile in :57 over the track in Memphis, and did grand half lisile Tn 56 seconds, the same day.
 Itis confidently predicted in the e ,st that copper will reach the 2O-cent mark in less than 30 days. Should most impossible to calculate the ad vantage to Arizona.
 Colonel Allen T. Bird of the Oasis, returned Thursday evening from a five weeks trip through northern Sonora, mule back, in the interest of his ex- cellent weekly. The colonel looks rugged and happy.
 Mir. Chas Hubbard, an experienced millwright and friend of Mir. Phil. Snodgrass, Is a visitor in Nogales, hay ing arrived here several days ago from the City of Mexico. He is on his way to Sonora on professional business VI by Phil. Snodgrass and John Grant.
 E. J. Pellegrin, the watchmaker, ieweler and stationer, says that to all cash customers buying S1.OO worth or more in his store from November 1st to January lst, he will make d novel and useful present; besides giving a chance in an original guessing contest in which will be distributed five prizes worth over S1OO %.
 When completed the new home of Mir. F. F. Cranz, now in course of cree tion on his Noon addition property, will be the most modern and elegant m the line city. Mir. Cranz has un- limited faith in the future of Nogales and he is taking a great deal of interest in the towns welfare. Besides his ex- tensive mineral and land interest in the state of Sonora, he is president of the International Investment Com pany, of this city, the business of which is now receiving hIs. personal attention. Men of Mir. Cranz' push and business ability, are of incalcul- able benefit to any town and we are glad he has cast his lot with us.
 Yesterday was Childrens' Day, with a big "D." Norris dE Row'es show drew an eager crowd of little ones, and there was quite stir among some of the older ones, in efforts to borrow young ster or two, to serve as excuses. The parade took place promptly as sched- uled, and the show was very satisfact ory all through. As an example of patience, there is probably no other organization in existeI ce which has accomplished as much. The cerform- ances of the different animals is simply marvellous, and all who attended felt fully repaid. The aggregation left sometime in the night. but the per formance will be continued indefinitely by aspiring young Nogalesians.
 Thursday evening Manager 0. N. Thomas and Cons ulting Engineer Geo. B Earnshaw of the Nogales Copper Company came up from the company's Cerro Prieto gold mines in Sonora, where they had been to inspect those great producers. which were purchased some time a go from the Nogales Min ing Company of which the Chenoweth brothers, Dr. w. F. and H. K, were the principal stockholders. The rrIre paid was $500, ,OOO. D. $ money. It will be gratifying news to the stock holders of the company in the east, to learn that the Cerro Prieto properties are comin up to expectations of every one. Messrs. Thomas and Earnshaw found things at camp working like an