The border vidette., 1908-08-29
TERRITORIAL NOTES
Items of Interest cuIIed From Our Ex.
 changes.

"Tempe. the Gateway of the Salt River Valley" is the title of an at tractive little booklet being printed in Los Angeles for the Tempe board of | trade.
 It has been decided that the plant of the South Side Gas company will be located half way between Mesa and Tempe for the purpose of supply ng both cities.
 Douglas police are after the vagrants that infest that burg on the theory that vagrancy is the forerunner of bur glary. The vagrancy law will be strictly enforced and miscreants chased out of the country.
 Mining is now more active, and labor is better employed, in Globe dis trict than at any time within the past rine months, while important strikes of ore have been made on several local properties which have attracted wide attention.
 The ground for the Florence peni- tentiary has been leveled and the ex- cavation for the foundation for the outer walls begun. The work from now on will be pushed with the great est rapidity. Eighteen conyicts have been employed there in preliminary work and forty more will be taken | from Yuma this week.
 Mesa has organized an athletic club, For some time several of the enthn- siastic young men along athletic lines have been figuring on a club where they could come together in social way, and place where they could exercise their muscles as we'll as their mental faculties. for it is proposed to have a reading room in connection with the gymnasium. The name chosen for the organization is the Olympic.
 Fred Borenstein, owner and man ager of the Crystal theater, on Con sress street, near Meyer street, is having extensive repairs and altera- tions made to his place. Mir. Boren- stein, who has been out of the city for some time has returned and is giving his personal supervision to the altera- tions that are being made. He ex- poets to put on much larger show this fall and winter than last season. He is quite optimistic over the outlook for the season.-Tucson Citizen.
 A gas company has been organized to supply that commodity to Mesa and Tempe The plant will be erected mid way between these points and man ufacture gas Tor both lighting and fuel purposes furnished. H. l.. Chandler, general manager of the company is making inspection and study of the subisct of manufacture and application of gas for economic purposes in Calif- ornia ard it is proposed to go into the subject with the utmost carefulness, both for the company and it's patrons.
 The capital of the state of Illinois has abominably disgraced itself within the last two days by greater excesses than have ever been charged against a southern community in it's dealings with negroes. There is this difference eften observed between northern and southern mobs: The latter never wreaks vengeance on the innocent. Only the man is punished who is guilty or thought to be guilty The northern mob in similar circumstances seeks to extirpate the negro race for the crime of a single member of it-Ari- zona Republican.
 Tke cowmen on the Tonto forest re. serve are not eager to pay taxes thls year, judging from the complaint of one of them, who sends in the follow ing picturesque ''kick' to the board of county supervisors, sitting as board of equalization since yesterday fore noon: ''TaXed by the iobo wolf, taxed by the coyote, taxed by the blackleg, taxed by the loco wced taxed by the forest service and taxed by the county, is it not the opinion of yonr honorable b,-ly that trial before Pontius Pilate was picnic as compared to those of a