The border vidette., 1908-08-08

The recent hail storm that visited
 this section recently greatly damaged
 many fruit crops but did not comple-
 tely ruin our friend John Wilson's lit- l tie peach orchard at the corner oi
 Grand Avenue and Elm street, to the delight of Johns numerous friends
 with whom he shared the rosy checked
 luscious fruit from the young trees. Dr. Van Archibald Smelker, for
 some time past physician and surgeon
 for the Oananea. Yaqui River &; Paci-
 fic railroad, with headquarters at this
 end of the Nogales- Oananea branch,
 has resigned his position with the rail-
 way company and will practice his
 profession in Nogales. having taken
 the pleasant officers in the Montezuma
 hotel block, formerly occupied by the
 late Dr. John l. Nicholson. Dr.
 Sneaker is a pleasant, aff,ble gentle
 man, who during short stay here has
 made many friends, all of whom join us in wishing him success, and hearty
 welcome to Nogales.
 Thursday morning District Attor- ney w. A. O'Connor, County Recor- der Phil Herold. and Hon. Bo. J.
 Whiteside, legislative assemblyman from Santa Cruz county, left for Pros colt to attend the big Democratic Ter ritorial Convention being held there to- day. The gentlemen will help to mo-
 minate the Hon Marcus A. Smith, the unbeatable delegate to congress from Arizona; who next Novemb Der
 will be reelected by the largest ma jority any delegate from Arizona ever received. Santa Cruz county's deleea. tion will cast it's vote today first. last and all the time for Our Mark"
 John Yoas, the successful, well known rancher, of Camille. this county, who last Sunday received terrible fall from wild horse he was brea king, juries Thursday as to be reported, by his physicians, out of danger. John says he feels certain he will never be the same physically, but his mental faculties are as sound as ever, and he'll not soon forget the dear friends who so tenderly cared for his injuries, and made it possible for him to ride fifteen miles to the railroad and come to town where Dr. Kingley gave him pr ofessional attention, There Is hopes of saving Johns leg, but his hearts gone.
 George B. Earnshaw. manager of the Cerro Colorado Mining Company's big mining property down in the Al turned from Salt Lake City, where he had been on a combined business and pleasure trip, being accompanied by Mrs. Earnshaw, who remained in the beautiful Lake City to visit couple of months with relatives and friends. While in Salt Lake, Manager Earn 'haw purchased a lot of machinery which he will install at Cerro Cobra 10, one of the coming big mining camps of Sonora. After spending a | couple of days in the city transacting | company business, MT. Earnshaw con- inued on south to the mines.
 N J. Purcell. manager of the Bue- la Fortuna Gold Mining Company's | plendid properties in the Magdalena mining district, Sonora, Mexico. a lhort distance from the Nogales Oa- lanea railroad, has gone east on a hurried business trip for his company. At recent directors meeting held in ] his city. Manager Purcell was author zed to purchase several thousand dol 1 ars worth of machinery for installa- ion at his company's mines which Ire located on the eastern slope of the | oinito mountains. southwest of Cana lea short distance. The Buena For una Gold Mining Company. of which Mr. Claude M. Ackien. of Ellicott Jity, Maryland. is president and treas lrer. is strong financially, and in the ,ery near future, Manager Purcell ex- ,ects to be operating with large force # men. The property owned by the company has great merit. and under he splendid management of N. J. Purcell, will no doubt become one of he big producing mines of northern 'onora.