The border vidette., 1907-07-20
TERRITORIAL NOTES.
Items of Interest cuiIed From Our Ex-
 changes.


 ly to visit Phoenix in the near future.
 The Phoenix Typographical Union is agitatiEg the matter of building q printers home in Arizona, an auxiliary to the Printers Home at Colorado Springs. The question will be brought before the | T. U which meets next August at Hot Springs, Ark.
 splendid rain visited this section last Monday evening, and it came none too soon, as the range was badly in need of a good soaking. The weather had been very hot for few da, s previous, but since the ram. Is again back to the normal " illiams News At Yuma an Indian whom Deputy Sheriff Kinney tried to arrest rushed upon him with a knife. The deputy shot the Indian in the arm. The Indian fell, but again sprang up with knife in hand and rushed for the of ficer, who shot him through the body. 1 The Sun states that the Indian will recover.
 There are 100000 feet of copper wire in the switchboard at Chicago's main telephone exchange. The use of the telephone is fast increasing all over the world, and the improved ser vice required in large centers necessi- tates the use of vast amounts of copper wire. The expansion of the telephone industry won't hurt Arizona and New Mexico any.-El Paso Herald.
 Attention is again sharply drawn to the Pata gonia district by reason of the recent visit of Dr. l.. D. Ricketts, Thomas F. Cole and James Kirk to the locations made some few weeks ago by Col. w. O. Greene of Cananea, Mexico. It is said that these gentle men were favorably impressed with what they examined -American Min ing Review.
 The Gazette states that last Tuesday the decomposed body of Elder w. T. Bod dwell, @ho lost his life in the Gila river, January 31, was found buried in the sand one mile below the point where he attempted the fatal crossing near Solomonville. A gold watch, $75 in money and papers which deceased was known to have had on his person, were missing.
 Lon Holiday, the popular Southern Pacific engineer who was badly hurt Friday, is expected to recover from the wounds inflicted by a timber on which he hit his head as he leaned from the cab window. An eye is in iured, facial bone broken and the muscles of his neck injured, and 1t is feared that he will be forced to give up engineering.
 Near Douglas this week young planter was instantly killed while us ing the telephone, it being supposed that lightning struck the wires A 1 few nights ago during the storm in ] this city, cable containing l50 1 telephone wires was crossed by an are light wire and burned through Sup i pose som ebody had tried to use telephone just then.-El Paso Herald.
 It has been decided to employ Amer ican miners instead of Mex cans at the Savage mine. Paradise district. Oper- ations are to be centared in the main shaft, the Snowfall, where two shifts will be continually maintained. This shaft is now down Tn the neighborhood of l6O feet, and is in more than six i feet of silver ore running, it is estimat- ed, about $26 to the ton but carrying very little copper American Mining Review.
 The fees collected by the territorial auditor for the filing of articles of in corporation during the nnonth of June, amounted to S4 SOP 40. This is not one of the big Eaopths, for the business always decreases somewhat in June as it does in other lines. However, it is an increase of nearly S700 over the business of June year ago, showing that the average increase of this year over last is being well maintained. - Repu blican.
 The Bisbee Miner says since the smoke and flame which covered the eastern portion of the city known as the Chihuahua Hill district, with ruins, the work of salvage and summing up the coast of the fire to the city has been in progress. From all appear ances the first estimate of $2OO, 900 is not in the least too high. The number of houses burned is said to be seventy six, while number more were seriously damaged by fire, water and smoke, raising the total to nearly 100 The houses were in part owned by large property holders in Bisbee, but the ma ority of the people living in them had but little left, besides their house. hold goods, in many cases gather ed together after long years of toil.