The border vidette. (Nogales, Ariz.) 1894-1934, 1903-09-05

was carried By large majority. The
councimen elected were Alberto
Clausen, Alfredo Sandoval and j. F.
Arrange. There were one or two
encounters at the po.ls, which were
not on the friendly order, but no
serious damage vas done.
Sunday night G. w. Hinchclitfe,
general manager of the Sunset Tele-
phone IL Telegraph company, accom-
panied 10y his son, G. FL. Jr., arrived
in the city on his annual inspection
trip. OF course he found the local
office, which is under Manager Smell
ling's supervision, in fine shape, for
Smelling understands l+is business, and
incidentally, never has time to neglect
it,
For some reason not yet explained
the Yaqui River Copper company has
closed down work in the mines at
now all but deserted Those who have
seen the mines have great faith in
them and assert that they are very
rich. 1t has been asserted of late
that their mana cement has not been
altogether satisfactory. = Cananea
Herald.
Monday Attorney-at Law William
Cooper returned from San Francisco,
where for the past six weeks he has
been for the benefit of his health. 1t is
with pleasure that we report his COM
piete recovery. Mr.. Cooper is one of
Arizona's brightest lawyers and he
has "a wide circle of friends in the terri
tory all of whom will be pleased to
know he has regained his health and
will join Us in the wish that it may be
permanent.
Don Ricardo johnson, one of the
pioneer mining men of the state of
Sonora, is a visitor in Nogales on min
ing business Mr.. johnson was at one
time the owner of the Martha gold
mine in the Altar district, now the
property of Mr. Talbot and associates,
which are said to be very valuable.
1t is SAID that Mr. johnson now has
another big deal on the tapis which
when consummated will net him
snug fortune. We hope so.
Mr.. John Symonds of the Torres
& Prietas R. r., and DIR. l. Hewitt
of Prietas who is interested with
DIR. Bayly in the ownership of the
Nogales Drug Store, were visitors
in Nogales Wednesday en- route to
San Francisco, where Mr.. Symonds
again goes to have his eyes treated
by specialists. We hope he will be
permanently cured this time. DIR.
Hewitt goes for rest and recuper-
alton. He and Mr. Symonds will
be away month
Charley Love of the Griswold Cycle
Co. has this week been very much in
evidence about town with handsome
big automobile which his company is
putting in fine running order for Mr..
Campbell. general manager of the
Llano Colorado Placer Mining Com
pany, the extensive property of which
is situated fifteen miles north of the
town of Soyopa, Sonora. The new
red monster is the largest and most ex.
pensive machine ever brought to So
nora and cost pile of money.
This week A L. Peck received a
letter from Superintendent H. w.
Squires of Montana mill, in which he
stated that he wanted to hire three or
four 6 horse teams for month to
haul ore three miles over good noun
tain road to the Montana mill. The
ore will be sacked and the price to be
paid for the work is $50 per ton.
Anyone having teams should CORES
pond with Superintendent Squires at
once. His postofice address is Orc
Blanco, Santa Cruz County, Arizona
An Associated Press dispatch dated
Mexico City, Aug. 29th says; "The
fourth sub committee on the monetary
commits ion has made an important
peso and showing that the present
fiuctuating dollar is detriment to
the present welfare of the country as
well as a menace to it's future. The
report says that it is of the greatest
Importance to impart stability to
foreign exchange. The committee
recommends a ratio of to 80 as the
maximum limit and ratio of l to SO
as the minimum limit"
The sad and untimely death of
Mr.. Alonzo E. Noon, which occurred
at Orc Blanco last Monday, August
31st, is deeply regretted by every
body in Santa Cruz county, where
he was loved and respected by
every man, woman and child. He
was a good citizen, honorable and
upright in all his dealings and
idolized by his family which con-
sisted of loving wife and five
children, three girls and two boys,
who in this, their hour of terrible