Arizona republican., 1908-05-17
EVfNIS OF THE WEEK AT THE LINE CITY
Nogales Board of Trade Endeavors to Secure Attention of the Recama- ton Service.


 Nogales, May 16-Postmaster busy the past month owing to heavy increases in mails, and as a consequence has appointed an ad- ditional clerk, Roy COrnett, to help handle the work and thus continue to give the town the efficient service he has always done.
 All the committees for the fourth of July celebration are making head way towards big time for that day. They are working hard to make this years celebration the best ever held in this county. The sports committee is arranging for special features that will add greatly to the days festivities and help to draw a big crowd.
 The accident which befell many of those last Sunday who went on the picnic to the end of the new road now building in Sonora, Mexico, has ont proved as disastrous as at first thought to be, and those who were hurt arc rapidly recovering, and will be out again soon. The greatest damage done was to the engines and the track.
 Quite a large number of the chil- dren of the town have been afflicted with measles. and although not of a serious character yet sufficiently troublesome to cause watching. The physicians have ben quite busy as a consequence.
 Miss DeForest. one of the teach CTS in the. public school here. who has been filling the place smade va cant by the resignation of Mrs. Fitch. has resigned to accept a higher sal aried position at Peyson and leaves for her new post of duty on Satur- day
 The Nogales Board of Trade has requested Chief Engineer Hill of the reclamation service that, in the event of his securing additional appropri- ation from Congress for the work of the service in Arizona, the appropri- atiCn of it for work of the service in Arizona, the appropriation some part of it for work on the Santa Cruz river here. As the board has maintained a gauging station on the Santa Cruz at it's own expense for over a year, and as the needs of this
 
 diate attention, it is only just and fair Santa Cruz county should be considered first in the distribution of this money for irrigation purposes.
 The death of the collector of GUS toms caused a delay in the payment of the salaries of the employees for the past month, as the vouchers all had to be made over again and sent to Washington for approval, and the check for each individual therefore issued from the department there di- rect.
 The immigration service now has its full quota of men for this port Owing to the changes which are con stantly occurring in this service it is hard to keep the force up to the standard all the time. but now there are three competent men here and the work of the service will be eff ciently looked after.
 The past week the dog catchers have been putting forth their best endeavors to rid the town of vicious dogs, and their success in this direc- tion has been good. But although many have been caught and killed there are still enough to be caught that will warrant keeping the good work going, and the men in charge are consequently looking out and try ing to secure them all. Those desir- ous of keeping any caught can do so by paying the proper tax.
 The Nogales Building and Loan