The border vidette., 1911-06-24

| ZftSo cnllO1on O1 SCHOOL age,
 This is expected to add about
 S3CCO to the school fund appro.
 priated for that district
 Richard J. Schweppe of Tenn
 pc is now on his way from Los l Angeles to MOoSehead Lake, 1 Maine. in an automobile, and
 the trip if accomplished as plan
 ed will be the longest tour ever | taken directly across country.
 Reductions for the small con
 Sumers of water are the demands
 in petition circulated in Doug
 las following.the annual report of the water commission which ! showed that municipal owner ship was netting the city neat profit. Confirmation for the expend-
 iture of s4S, 800 for the construc- ton of a pumping plant and ditches was received by Super intendent Lonergan of the Colo
 rado River Indian Reservation
 Monday from the department of
 the interior.
 Slicing beets began at Glen dale Sugar factory Monday The arrival of beets at the factory, will soon be at the rate of twen- ty carloads and about 300 wagon loads per day, which will be about the maximum of the daily run.-PhpniN Republican.
 An effort is afoot in some parts of Arizona to establish a uniform time for the whole of the state to be. The movement originates from the Arizona development board composed of all. of the business mems organi- cations and of which H. V. Fail o1. is president ,---z=1..--:. =s
 Sunday was big day at Yuma in the icing business at the ice plant and the Southern Pacific ons were iced during the day, thirty five cars of oranges, an even 100 cars in all. On the cars of melons it took 45OO | pounds of ice to each car. This | IS 1clng SOme.-Sun.
 Although the rain and storm of Sunday did no damage in 1 Jack Fredic1s who runs a goat ranch below the grounds | of the Warren Country Club, suffered considerable damage from the hail, which was very severe in that part of the dis trict More than 100 of his full grown goats were killed by the hail during the afternoon
 The Navajo Development com pany are making arrangements with the government to purchase five hundred million feet of pine timber on the Apache and Sit greaveS National forests south of HolbroOk. The contract will be for ten years-S2. 50 per thousand feet for the first five years and S3 per thousand for the second five years. A rail road to Holbrook will be built if the sale goes through ninO Sun.
 Two school teachers of Clifton, Miss Grier and Miss Agnew started on a horseback journey of 700 mi les, first to the petrified forest, near Holbrook, thence to the ice caves of Mt. Baldy, near and from there to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado These intrepid ladies go by without male escort, and are well armed to keep off bad men and other wild ami maIs They will return in time for the opening of school in Copper Era.
 w. H. Cox of Jerome has been a member of the Live Stock Sanitary Board, succeed ing J. M. Stewart of Prescott, who recently resigned. Both are Democrats, it being the police of the administration to keep one member of that party on the board. Mir Stewart re signed because of the press of private business and his duties as supervisor of Yavapai county. His successor is well known the territory, having been erga ged ir the stock busi- ness tllp greater NlIt of his life t.