The border vidette., 1909-01-16
TERRITORIAL NOTES
Items of Interest CuIied From Our Ex-
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When the packing house closes for the season on Tuesday says the De- mocrat, ffty-four cars of Salt River valley oranges will have been shipped out of the city. the total value of which is slightly over SlOo.OOO. each car averaging something over $1 800.
 Contrasts in Arizona climate are contiuually being afforded. The water impounded in the dam near Williams IS now frozen to the deph of five or six inches and the News says, affords | fine skating for the devotees of that healthful sport, while at Yuma and in the Salt River valley gay picnlc ex- cursions are of almost daily occur renee
 A petition is being circulated in Holbrook for the purpose of buying new school property and establishing better school facilities within the pre- sent district of Holbrook. This has been entirely a ''la DOT of love" on the part of the petitioners but should have favorable recognition from every voter in this precinct. Lst us have better scho ool buildings and then and not till then may we hope for better schools. -Winslow Mail.
 Tom Dupree, who headed a gang that committed sensational series of Lold,.s ;, Toro oo.,o. soroa five veals ago, and subsequently, es- capped from the Tombstone jail in the big jailb-eak when Billy Stiles and Bert Alvord, the train robbers, re- gained their liberty, is believed to be the man arrested by Deputy Marshal James Cochran yesterday evening. at the point of pistol, in the Pioneer saloon.-Globe Belt.
 Frank Ennis, of Silver King, was here Wednesday on business. He re- ports increasing activity in that min ing district. Two forces are at work on claims adjoining the old Silver King under the direction of rival claimants That district has been seriously retarded in it's progress in the past by disputes and litigation over ownership of claims and we regret to see a renewal of such hurtful conten- tions.-Florence Blade.
 The will of the late Brewster Gam eron has been filed for probate at ko he of the will. which was made in New York city on December 13. 1906, cne third of the estate is left for Mrs Cameron, who resides at Fort Riley, Kan. with her daghter, Mrs. Helen Cameron Briggs. The remainder of the estate is to be equally divided among the three children, Brewster Cameron, Jr., Miss Martha Cameron and Mrs. Briggs. The value of the estate is estimated at S6O,OO0.
 w. H. Easterwood was in town to- day from his homestead out on section twenty eight. He has we'll of good water on the place aud is now figuring on putting in pumping plant for irrigating purposes The we'll is i03 feet deep and it has twenty-five feet of water in it. Some time ago he put in ten acres of wheat and it is now up and as fine 8 stand as could be wished for, notwithstanding the fact that it has never been irrigated. It is grow ing nicely and he figures that it will make good hay even if it does not mature a grain crop Tempe News.
 Barney Oldfeld in a three mile ex- hibition Sunday afternoon, at Phoenix, beat the track record of 2:5S estat- lished by the Red Bird during the territorial fair, doing tho three miles in 2:44 The second mile of this ex- hibition lowered the track record of 54 5 made Friday afternoon by Old field, to 54 ? seconds. This was the best speed exhibition of the day. In the mile exhibition. Oldf.d did it in 55 seconds flat. The record of 54 ? for the mile in only ? seconds be- hind Oldfeld's time on the A gricul- tural track at Los Angeles and 3 ? seconds behind the worlds record on a circular track established hv Huyhes