The border vidette., 1911-06-17
TERRITORIAL NOTES.
Items of Interest CuJIed From Our
 Exchanges.

w. F. Kerr, for ten year. foreman of Arizona Sentinel dieC
 last week in Yuma. A divorced
 widow and six children survive
 him.
 l Judge Kent has held that the
 prohibition election in Maricopa
 county was valid so far at least aS-Tempe is concerned and the sa1oons in that town have closed following his opinion.
 The Copper City Brewing com pany in Douglas has reached out for new fields of trade and in a short time will have a branch at | Phoenix from which both draught and bottled beer will be dis tributed
 The Post Office Department has granted an increase in pay of $500 Der year to the post master at Ray, the raise to be- come effective on July 1St. The offices at Globe, .Bisbee and Metcalf are decreased S1OO each.
 A Washington dispatch says: The Bank of Douglas, First Ma tional Bank of Douglas, Prescott National Bank, First National Bank of Clifton, and First Ma tionaI Bank of Yuma are made depositaries for postal bank funds.
 On a mortgage foreclose the little Butte Mine has been pur- chased by the mortgagors for the amount of their claim, S52,OCO It is said that no de- finite plans for development have been decided on. The new owners are Phoenix people.
 Chas. Stewart butchered a ninety day lamb which weighed 35 pounds. He raised it in his ducing big crops of hay con tinuously for 33 years, and the alfalfa in this field now stands three feet high.-Mesa Press.
 Theforest fire in the'Dragoons4 has been extinguished. About 3O,OOO acres was denuded of timber and underbrush but the damage is not thought to be ex- tensive since the fire was con trolled before it reached the main timber belt on the range.
 Twenty one thousand dollars worth of opium, which was when Line Rider Miles arrested T. Andrews, a smuggler, near here, has been shipped to Los Angeles and de- stroyed. Andrews was convict ed and sentenced to one year in the penitentiary Tucson Citizen.
 The Mineral Wealth having M. J. Riordan, of for U. s. Senator for Arizona. MT. Riordan replies | that loco weed must be Sprout- | ing earlier than usual in Mohave county this year, and that he | does not care to get mixed up in | an organization containing Bill | LOrimer.
 Efforts are being made which | are expected to meet with sue cess to have the government | sink a well at San Simon to a | depth of 5000 feet. None of the wells sunk in the neighborhoodI | have reached bed rock which it | is thought will be encountered | at depth of between 2OOO and 5000 feet.
 A second flowing was we'll brought in Wednesday by H. O. Carr of Benson, three and one half miles southwest of San proving the arteSian belt to be at least three and one half miles wide. Four other wells ire now going down. The new flow is small, but will doubtless develop larger.
 The Prescott Courier has an account of bell which was presented to the Pioneers Home by MT. Jenkins. The bell was found on the desert | and as it had the coat of arms of the United States stamped upon the four sides, it is sup posed to have been used on one of the government camels.
 Capt. Van Siclen accompanied twenty five prisoners to Tempe, where they will be put to work on the new bridge about | to be constructed there. For i the most part they are men who worked on the Florence bridge | last year, and are experienced |