The border vidette., 1903-05-09
MAY 9, 1903.
LOCAL ITEMS.

Inspector of Customs Hitchcock is on the sick list. ...-
 P. s. Sprecher says he has had the humps and he didn't catch cold either.
 Mayor H. w. Kelsey went to Tucson Friday morning on busi- ness returning the same day.
 Contractor Jas. Vandevort Of the new Montezuma is in Los Angeles where he went to attend the big fiesta
 Will wonders never cease? Man ager Smelling of the Sunset Tele- phone and Telegraph company has the humps.
 Our old friend Geo. r Jones, the efficient and popular IS. customs inspector at this port, has this week been reported on the sick list.
 Thursday forenoon the S. P. pay car was welcome visitor in No gales and as a result money has for the past few days been easy.
 Monday evening Mrs L. C.. Clarke presented her husband with a fine girl baby. Dr. N. K. Noon reports mother and little one doing nicely.
 This week I. G. King, the min ing man, purchased some valuable gold prospects nine miles from Minas Prietas. The price paid was not learned.
 Thursday night C. R.. Brown, the efficient cashier for the Nogales Copper company, went down to the companys' big Cerro Prieto gold mines in Sonora. Thursday and Friday Mine Host J. T. Brickwood visited his mines a short distance from Nogales in. Santa Cruz county. It is said rich strike has recently been made.
 Jack Gates, the, capitalist, has gone to. the coast to spent some of his hard-earned money His many friends here hope he will enjoy his outing and get af ran for his dough. :.
 Andy Bartleth, the well known mill man. who for sometime past has been in Sonora, is again in the city shaking hands with old friends and looking after his valuable and extensive real estate interests.
 While in Hermosillo this week Alex. Joffroy, secretary of the Brady-Levin' Commission com pany, brokers of Nogales, Sonora, purchased a Panama hat from May Brothers that is the envy of all his friends.
 Mrs. Iaeger, wife oi Mine Host Iaeger of the Monlezuma has gone to Los Angeles to spend week or, two with friend. Mrs. Jaeger is very popular with the lady guests at the Montezuma and she will be greatly missed.
 Frank R. Gray, one of Wells Fargo tS Co.'S. efficient messengers has been ailing this week It is though he has the spring fever. Frank halls from Phoenix and ought to be able to stand off little thing like fever.
 Thursday Vim. Buckingham, re- presenting Fairbanks, Morse & Co, was business visitor ln Nogales interviewing prospective purchasers of mining machinery, a speciality of Mir. Buckingham's firm. The gentleman makes his headoaurters in Los Angeles, Calif
 Mrs. Chas. T. Kleeman, the eStim- able wife of Manager Kleeman of the Sonora Savings & Investment company, left Monday morning for Los Angeles to spend the summer and Mir. kleeman is the most lone- some man in Nogales. THE VI- DETTE man has been there himself and can svmpathize with friend kleeman.
 Mr. A R. Jamison, with the Arizona Gold and Copper company at Salero, was q pleasant caller at this office the iorcpart of this week.
 Hank Summers has returned from the COcOspera ranch, where he went to examine some mineral deposits. He reports having had q splendid time at the big ranch and says Don Louis Protq treated him fine a
 Emery and Mrs. Chalfant will shortly go east on a visit with friends and relatives. Emery is one of Wells-Fargo x Cos, most efficient messengers, but he has been in every wreck since he has been with the company. He thinks q lay-off will do him good and