The border vidette., 1904-07-30
ARIZONA NEWS.
Items of Interest from All over the
 Territory.

He says that range conditions are rapidly improving. He will ship car of beef cattle from Mesa tomorrow night.-Tempe News.
 Capt. Jeff D. Milton, maunted Chi nese inspector for Arizona, with head- quarters t Nogales, arrived in the city Monday morning, making the trip from Nogales on horseback in about eleven days Captain Milton is here acquainting himself with the local field preparatory to relieving A. Griffith, Chinese inspector at this place, who will take his vacation next month and, with his family, visit the coast resorts Yuma Sun.
 The appointment of Dr. Charles H Jones. of Tempe to be a member of the board of territorial medical ex- aminers was announced yesterday from the office of the governor. This ap- pointtnent was made to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Dr. Vii liam Dutfield to accept the office of superintendent of public health. It was also made at the suggestion Of the remaining members of the board Republican.
 Those coming from outside stated that the rain had been very general and that the range for miles around had been greatly benefited. The thousands of cattle which have been suffering and dying of thirst cared for as for as water is concerned. This is worth thousands of dollars to thls sec tion of the country and has given great encouragement to the cattle men and will stimulate all kinds of business.- Tucson Star.
 A splendid rain visited Florence Wednesday night and Thursday morn Ing It came down slow and went into tine ground. It was the best rain for wettin the ground deep we have had for some time. That 1t was a general rain is quite probable, as Flor ence is always the last place to get rain The farmers and stock men hereabouts are wild with joy as they feel that the drought Is broken - Florence Blade.
 Messrs. Coleman and Began have made a very rich gold strike in one of their claims, situated about one and q half miles north of Troy. They Start ed down or two inch stringer which gradually widened till at depth of 30 feet. l it is two feet wide and samples S9O gold per ton of ore. One could not wish for better thing than that without being considered hog We congratulate the boys and will take ours with little lenon and sugar in it-Florence Blade
 The directors of the W. H. Orr min ing company are still after the man that worked them out of their money abouts. One Of the directors has been to Needles and claims that he has seen enough to convince him that there is gold in at least one of the claims II hi1ne1eiCer CahyOn, tnat ne washed II from the dirt drawn from a pipe driven to some depth in the wash and that Il was really impossible so far as he coulc see to have it salted The other mem. bers of the company believe they were taken in and that the ground wa cleverly salted.-Mlner.
 Another bountiful rain visited Doug las Thursday July 2l, and flooded tn entire community and did more goot than can be estimated. It was one o the heaviest downpours, while it lasted that has visited this section of tn country and everything was thorough ly soaked. Word from the east tell of equal rainfall. The San simon i carrying it's banks full of water, whil word from Duncan tells of more wate in the Gila than in couple of years Damage done tracking by the down pour so far as learned has been sli ight though couple of feet of water go over the track at several places yester day. International A mcricen.