The border vidette., 1907-03-23
TERRITORIAL NOTES.
Items of interest CuIIed From Our
 Exchanges.

Yuma, on the Colorado river. The pa per will be made from cotton wood pulp, with which recent successful eX periments have been made. -Winsow Mail
 The air receiver on the compressor at the Silver Thread hoist at Tomb stone blew up this morning about S:3Q and pieces of the receiver were thrown in every direction, and as conse- quence the building was badly wreck ed The entire front and part of the roof of the building was blown out Tombstone Prospector.
 Tom Turner has moved his family into Cananea in order to have his children attend the schools, four of them have entered the schools on the Mesa. Principal Edgerton is working hard to build up A school that will be equal to caring for all the children in the city and also the children of the outlying camps. His efforts are meet ing with success and appreciation Herald.
 The funeral of Lester l. Walden, superintendent at the Purcell mines in the Sierritas, was held at 9 o'clock Sunday morning from the mortuary chapel of 0. 0 Parker. Walden was fatally injured Friday by fulminat- ing cap which he held in his teeth ex- ploding. H. died while being brought to Tucson. Mir. Walden came here three years ago from Saline county, Missouri i-Tucson Star.
 A recent dispatch from Farmington, N. NJ :, says that w. l., Shelton, superintendent of the Indian agency at Ship Rock, has consummated a big deal allowing a corporation represent ing capital of $2,5OO.Ooo to mine on the Navajo reservation. It is said that the company, which has filed a $1O,OOO bond with the government, will commence operations as soon as they receive a permit from Secretary
 
 One hundred and fifty Mexican la borers were send out of Fl Paso last night for Salton Sea, where they will be employed Tn closing up the gap in the Colorado river. This is the larg- est shipment of la oorers that the rail- road company has made via Benson. The sea has been giving the company considerable trouble of late, since the high winds started blowing, which make it difficult for trains to pass During high sea the water washes over tue track, which is not far above the level of the great inland body of water-Prospector.
 President Roosevelt has again promoted his friend, Alexander O. Brodie, former Governor of this ter ritory. This time Governor Brodie Is promoted from paymaster and major, the position given him when he re- signed as governor of Arizona, to lieutenant colonel and assistant ad- iutant general. Colonel BrodIe was first major and then lieutenant colonel of Mir. Roosevelt's Rough Riders and was the real military man of the re- eiment, having been graduated from West Point. He is now in the Philip pines His friends are confident he will be made a brisidier general before he is retired Exchange.
 One of the most humane measures that has yet been introduced in the present legislature is the one which provided for the safety of human lives in mines The bill was introduced in the house by Hon. Bo. J. Whiteside of Santa Cruz county, and provides that it shall be unlawful for any per son, persons. company or corporation to develop a mine that has already reached a depth of 100 feet unless there are two means of escape there from-either tunnel wire rope or a ladder of wood or iron. Violation of said provision to be punishable by a fine of not less than Sl0O nor more than S300.-Yuma Sun.