The border vidette., 1909-01-02
TERRITORIAL NOTES
Items of Interest CuIIed From Our Ex
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l going under the name of Villa m 1 Larkin, who was killed by a man
 named Barr, at Kings River, in Hum | boldt county, Ney., was her husband, William l. Stiles, the notorious Ari- zona bandit.
 The flood in Salt river during the recent storm was one Of the biggest of
 recent years. At Roosevelt the water
 flowed foot and half deop over the
 highest part of the dam, which is
 eighty five feet high, measured from
 the bed of the river. There were se-
 venteen breaks in the Arizona canal,
 the most serious being seventy five
 feet in length. Thess have all been
 closed by temporary repairs.
 Treasurer J. N Gains of Cochise county reports that the Copper Queen
 Mining Company has paid the amount of it's taxes for the year 1908. The amount, $l41, 365 S1. is the largest in dividual tax payment in the history of Cochise county and the entire terri tory, the assessment being $6, 29 900. The tax was paid in full, the same being paid by an approved draft on New York.
 Well-informed Eastern holders of shares in silver mines are not alarmed by the low price of the metal, know ing as they do that there must be from time to time streaks of lean and then streaks of fat. It is the opinion of the best informed bullion dealers that the metal will go down to the low level of 1903, when it touched AZ cents per ounce In the same year it rose to 61 4c an ounce and then moved slo wly upward until it was active at 71 cents in 1906 In 1907 the high est price was 70 1-2 cents In the same year silver sold for short time as low as 53 7 8 cents.
 Gov. Kiobey has returned from full of hope. but not bub bling over, for coming statehood. IE the event of a special session of con- gress being called for tariff revision the claims of Arizona and New Mex co will be vigorously pressed. Before eaving the governor had assurance that the president would do what he could to forward the measure, but with Cannon in the house and Beve- idge in the senate, and both non- ,on, ,no;tt,I ctotohood assurapce couId | lot be made doubly sure. He has lopes, however, that the hopes of Ari- ona will be speedily realized.
 A Bisbee dispatch says: "The fight or the old right of way of the Ell Paso z South western between Bisbee and Douglas, which has been in progress or the last eight months, has been ecided by the general commissioner of he United States land office. at Wash ngton, in favor of the Cochise County [ Electric Railway company, the incor- orators aud principal stockholders of which are Jamer Douglas, M J. Gun and George H. Neale. The ther contestant TOT the ValuaOle con- ession was the Arizona Southern com any, Michigan corporation. It is l xpected that the successful company , ,ill before long begin the construction f an electric line to connect Bisbee :, nd Douglas.
 Fourteen degrees below zero was the owest point reached by the thermo- aeter in Flagstaff during the past week., says a correspondent. How yer, the snow and sleet are no longer alling, and while every thicg is still rozen, the atmosphere is perfectly lear and the sun Is shining. The oliday week in Flagstaff will doubt ess be a cold one. but not nearly as isagreeable as tie past few days. he people of Flagstaff are using eighs almost exclusively as a means conveyance. San Francisco noun aims are perfectly white from base to l cmmit, and stand out in maj estic plendor against the deep blue sky, T resenting u landscape view that IS t arely ever cq1alled.