The border vidette., 1903-04-11
School books at f. J. Pellegrin's.

When completed the new Montezu-
ma will be the most pleasant and
comfortable hotel in Arizona.
DR.. Purify has this week been
confined to his home by illness. TIE
V1DETTE hopes for his speedy recovery.
The many friends of A Varona,
foreman of Las Dos Naciones Gil ar
factory, will regret TO learn that for
the past week he has been quite i'll at
his home in this city.
Easter service at the Congregational
Church tomorrow. Special music
and Eeaster Sermon, Mrs Melvin will
sing ''The Holy City," and she and DIR
Shaw will sing a duet 1.-The Mornin :
Land"
H F Graver, Philadelphia capital
list, is in the city on mining business.
The gentleman is being chaperoned
about by Mr.. John Henderson and
John Cave of the Coast Line Copper
company.
Last night o o. Saxhanq, one of
the lucky owners of the Vallecitos
gold mines, twenty miles from Imuris,
went down to the mines to inspect the
development work now going on under
the supervision of Ed. w Jones, one
of his partners. He will return to
Nogales in about five days.
Nogales is fast becoming a resort for
romantic love affairs. No less than
six people have met here in the past
sixty days and have been doubled up.
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after Lent a fair Iowa maiden will
come and claim one of the jolly Dewey
Club We will herald the news as
soon as the event takes place.
Wednesday night Col James
Fisher and Nr. William Laird, of
the Sonora News Company, arrived
in Nogales from Mexico. The gen.
tlemen are here to hold the annual
stockholders meeting of their COM
pany. Both gentlemen are we'll
and favorably known in the border
city where they have a host of
friends.
Hon. Tom Taggart, ex-mayor of
Indianapolis, Mr. S. E. Morris of
the indianapolis Sentinel, Henry
Jamison of indianapolis, and John
Mccarthy of Chicago, have this
week been guests at the Montezuma
hotel. 1t is said the gentlemen
are here on legal business connected
with the Indiana-Sonora Mining
company.
This week Assistant Manager A
VI Conard of the Hays Consoli-
dated Mining, Milling and Lumber
Company, purchased the Martinez
ranch, for his big. company The
tract comprises $4,000 acres and is
situated in Sonora, between Aqua
Zarca and the ;Diyisaderos. The
company now owns over a half
million acres Of valuable land in
the State of Souora.
Thursday w E Deity. the Phonix
mine expert, while going through the
PIanchas de Plata mine, fell down a
l5-foot Wine and broke an arm. He
received other bruises but none of
serious nature Mr. Deity, accom-
MED by John Henderson, p Sandoval
and Col A T Bird returned to the city
and now the injured expert is being
look ed after by DIR. Ray Ferguson,
who will soon have him fixed up as
good as new.
Mr.. Thompson has returned from the
Huachuca mountains, where he has
been for three weeks on a prospecting
trip Jim says there is something
doing" up in the Huachucas in the
way of mining. He located several
good copper prospects and will develop
them. The Montezuma people are
developing their properties with n
force of about fifty men. Joe Camp
mi of Tucson, is interested with MIR.
Thompson.
Our fellow townsman J. Q. Gates
has received four barrels of Missouri
Easter eggs. 1t will be a great in
novatien in the Easter egg industry,
for they will be the first specimens of
ready made Easter eggs ever seen in
Nogales An old friend of MIR. Gates
at Montgomery City, Missouri, has
perfected process whereby at a
certain time in the dark of the moon,
he feeds the hers various colors and !
the Easter egg is produced ready for
the market.
Monday the board supervisors of
Santa Cruz county met in regular
quarterly session, Chairman Richard /
Farrell, and Members Henry Harmon
and j. A. Harrison being present.
The usual quarterly bills were audited
and ordered paid and considerable
other business was transacted. The +
board was again in session Tuesday
Wednesday morning Chairman Farrell