The border vidette., 1903-06-06


 town.
 Rev J Corbin will preach at the Methodist church tomorrow morning at o'clock All are invited:
 Mir. and Mrs. J J Hardwick with their little child and nurse, have gone to Ph9nix, but they will later return to Nogales and make their home here
 Mir. John Bower of the Coches ranch, is in the city the guest of his old friend Jack Gates. Jack says he will return again on the Fourth of July.
 Tins morning Mrs. Ed. Titcomb ac- compained by the children and her mother. Mrs. George Christ, left for Santa Monica to spend the warm sum- ner months.
 This morning Professor w. H. Kramer of the Nogales public schools, left for his old home in Nebraska, where he will spend the summer Next term the gentleman will superintend the Bisbee public schools.
 Geo. Brooks, who for many years has prospected in Santa Cruz county, is in the city. Mir. Brooks has one of the bost copper prospects in the coun- try and he is looking for capital to take hold of it and convert it into a mine. Anyone desiring to invest in i copper mine will do well to address Mir. Brooks, either at Nogales or | Washington.
 MT. H. B. Merrlwether who year ago resided in Nogales with his family, is now residing in Magdalena, Sonora. The gentleman has for the past year been down at La Paz, Mexico, engaged in mining, but he says the bubonic ] plague put him out of business He says the plague is now a thing of the past. The many friends of MT. and Mrs. Merriwether will be glad to wei come them back to the United States at any time. The gentleman looks none the worse for his experience in Mexico and says Mrs. M. IS also enjoy ing good health.
 Tuesday morning Sheriff Del Lewis of Cochise county passed through Nogales on his way home from Hermosillo, where he had been with requlsition papers from the governor of Arizona for Ramon Gutierrez, who is wanted in this territory for murder. The sheriff did not get his man but thinks he will do so the next time he goes to Hermosillo. Sheriff Lewis is one of the best natured fellows in the world, but he is just a little, warm around his collar on account of his hard luck when it comes to getting criminals out of Sonora.
 J. D. McDonald, owner of the Nc Donald group of gold mines ia the Gro Blanco district, adjoining the John Maloney group, Is at the Brick wood. The mines were recently solo for $S0,OO0 to the Fergussons of Los Angeles, who it is said made one pay ment to Mir. Mcdonald Anothe: payment is about due, which will un- doubtedly be made for the properties which are very valuable, are said to be showing up fine. The gentleman is here on business in connection with the sale The sale of these mines means much for Santt Cruz and Noga- les, the county seat and THE VIDETTE hopes there will be no hitch i'll the deal.
 Thursday evening MT. Chas. R. Brown, cashier and chief book-keeper for the Nogales Copper company, was southbound passenger en route to the company's big gold mines at Cerro Prieto, Sonora, where the 20-stamp mill is pounding out yellow metal to gladden. the hearts of the stockholders. The company will at no distant date add one hundred more stamps and put several hundred more miners at work developing the mines. The Cerro Prieto mines are destined to become great producers of gold and a source of much revenue to Nogales. Mir. Brown will remain at the miHes until after payday, which is on the 10th of each month.
 Today Mir. Manuel Mascareiias, Jr., manager of the Santa Barbara and ! Buena Vista ranches in Sonora, will ! complete the telephone line between Nogales and the bis ranches. The line is thirty miles long and connects with Mexican Consul Mascarenas' residence in Nogales, Arizona. The Santa Barbara and Buena Vista ranches under the able management of Mir NJ. Mascarenas, Jr., are rapidly | becoming the best equipped and most pleasant Tn Sonora. Consul Mascare- ilas has cause to be proud of his splendid property, witt! it's miles of grain and pasturage and thousands of head of fine cattle. The telephone line will be great convenience and Of in ..;... L,.. hanefit tn thnSe ha yinr use