The border vidette., 1909-12-04
TERRITORIAL NOTES
Items of Interest CulIed From Our Ex-
 changes.

John A. Black, former secretary of Tucson building and loan association. who has been on trial for embezzle- ment, has been acquitted on one of the three counts against him. He will be tried immediately upon the second count.
 A year hence Pinal county will be up to the 6rst- class list and a few years later will have an assessed val uation not far from S30.000,000 The diversity and magnitude of its natural resources make thls expectation not only possible but almost certain.
 United States Attorney Alexander intimates that the defaulting officers of the First National Bank of Doug las will be prosecuted in the federal court, noth wi thstanding the fact that they made good their shortage and no complaint made ny the officials of the bank.
 Orange shipments in carload lots are now being made daily from the Arizona orange packing house near the Santa Fe freight depot. When the plant gets fully under way three carloads of oranges will leave each day for the eastern markets.-Phoenix Democrat.
 The ingenuity of the Tombstone girl is shown in the fact that one of them recently gathered the discarded ''rats," skinned few cotton tails. and with deftness shaped the entire mass into the latest head gear fad in the shape of fur turbun. Oh, you Tomb. stone girls.
 Judge Doan in the Oochise. county court has refused the application for change of venue in the case of the Territory againt William Pfankuche William Bockholdt in Bisbee some months ago, and the defendent must now stand trial in his home court.
 According to the statistics furnished by W. L Clark, general superinuen roads of the country kill man every hour and injure one every ten minutes. Although no statistics are at hand, it is more than likely that the automo- bile joy ride is very close second to the railroads in the mortuary line. Sentinel.
 For the first time in several months possibly several. years-the territory of Arizona is at present free from legal entanglements for the first time since Attorney General John w. Wright assumed his office. If there are any cases pending at the present time. they have not yet been submitt- ed to the attorney general. With the exception of such legal matters as are now pending tor settlement before the territorial supreme court, not involv- ing the territory as a party thereto, there are no cases on hand at the pres ent tune that the territory is inter ested in.-Tombstone Prospector. The Territorial fair exhibits demon strated that every county in Arizona has great agricultural and horticul- tural possibilities. The fruit and agricultural exhibits from Yavapai county were an agreeable sur prise, Heretofore that county was generally regarded, by the uninitiated, as purely a mining section. The same Is true of several other counties, both north and south. One conld not look over the collection in agricultural hall with out being impressed with the idea that Arizona will, in the near future, lead all other sections in products of the farm and orchard as she does now in the production of copper. The natur- al resources of this blessed Territory are truly marvellous and then some.- Florence Blade.