The border vidette., 1908-02-08
TERRITORIAL NOTES.
Items of Interest CuIIed From Our Ex-
 changes.

tractor, has entered suit against the
 Tonopah & Tidewater Railroad com
 pany for the collection of money due
 him upon contract, for the work done
 in the construction of the road. The
 total claims amount to over $50, ,O00, and is for work performed in San Der. nardino and Inyo counties. the greater portion being in this county.-N Needles Eye.
 George Truman, secretary of the
 Arizona Fair association, has filed the annual report of that body with Gov ernor Kibbey. showing that alter pay growing out of the recent fair. there is a cash surplus on deposit in the bank to the amount of $1366 52, that sum representing the actual profit of the recent fair. Truman's figures show that S34, 9O2 O9 was taken in from all sources during the fair and that S33,- 535.5 was disbursed
 In the local yards here last Satur- day there might have been seen a cement kiln. weighing 13O tons -or 26O.0O pounds. af in one piece, which is being shipped from Pennsylvania and designed for use in the Owens rivor project The kiln extended over three fat cars, and as precaution against damaging it, the train carry ing it was not allowed to go faster than fifteen miles an hour, and around curves at the rate of five miles an hour. It is the heaviest and largest shipment in one piece ever shipped over the line.-Yuma Sentinel
 When man seeks to improve on ,ture, he sometimes makes a big mistake, said prominent cattleman yesterday, in referring to the exter- minat tion of wildcats now in progress under the law, which provides a bounty of five dollars each on cat hides. He would prefer to pay a larger bounty per cat to stop the hunters from kill ing them, as the cats rarely destroy any thing of valus to man, while they are great destroyers of gophers, rats, mice and other pests, which would become a regular plague to ranchers. when the cats, their natural de- stroyers, are exterminated. Prescott Courier.
 Nol oE land office stated today that the flood of homestead entries continues to pour in. Many are being received from the vicinity of Sasco, the new shelter city in Pima county. Homesteads are being taken up for the purpose of cultivation. Dry farming is to be tried there on an extensive scale. The ma jority of the entries continue to come from townships in Maricopa To handle the increased busi- ness several new clerks have been added. In the land office today Re- ceived Hildreth heard the evidence in a case involving land in the vicinity of B1sbee, over which there is dispute as to whether it is best suited to min eral or agricultur al purposes. Phoenix Democrat.
 Recent reports from the work at Laguna dam are very encouraging. On the Arizona side about 15O men are employed. which is practically the same force in use for the past several months. At the opposite end of the big dam, where the work was closed do wn several months ago and the men either discharged CT transferred to the Arizona side. activity is again assert Ing itself. For the last ten days the officials have been gradually putting on la borers there, and on Monday the number reached 1O6. The big eating house on the California bank Is being put in readiness and other arrange ments being made, all of which tend to bear out the report that the force is to be still greater increased on the first of February.-YumaS Sun.