The border vidette., 1911-07-29
TERRITORIAL NOTES.
Items of Interest Culled From Our
 Exchanges.

! All of the contractors who bid
 on the Phoenix sewer system
 agreed to take bonds of the city
 in payment for the work The Yavapai county board of
 supervisors have granted the
 petition or 575 residents of the
 county for a local option election
 which will be held on August 10. Gila county has 2326 children
 of school age enrolled and an
 average daily attendance of
 1852 in it's 2S school districts.
 There are 5 schools in the
 county.
 The city council of Phoenix l has instructed the assessor to
 raise the assessment list for the tax levy $3,OOO,OOO from about
 S9, 900, eco to about SIP, ,COO,O The tax rate is to be $1.15. J. E. Ringer of Sanord nearly
 lost his life by attempting to
 take medicine in the dark. He
 picked up the wrong bottle and
 swallowed antiSeptic tablets in
 stead of calomel. Prompt aid from a physician was all that saved his life.
 After several months of wait
 ing on the part of the inhabitants of Tombstone, the much desired pay day of the Consolidated Mines Company, was a reality,
 Wednesday, when something like S28. GOO was paid out from the First National Bank, in talk ing up liens filed by miners.
 The California colony, located south and west of Casa Grande, is busy clearing and improving land. They have been delayed to some extent by reason of the fact that the owners of the fact 1 that the owners of the well-bor ing machine that was to put contract to bore we'll at a 1 mining camp in the Sheridan range which they have not yet completed.
 El Tajo Mining company, which is operating the San Geronimo mine located IS miles | east of POZa, in the UreS district, | is planning to enlarge operations in the near future. At present l about 1SO men are being employ 1 ed at the San Geronimo mine | but the company expects to l begin work on several of their i properties in that. vicinity.
 Announcement was made this | week to the effect that H. H. Taliaferro, who has been acting as agent for the $. P. de M. railroad here for the past ten months, has been transferred to the office of Supt. H. J. Temple, at Empalme. MT. Taliaferro was succeed by John l.. Pope, who has been a travelling auditor for the company in Sonora. Mrs. Pope will act as telegraph operator here also. The Can anea News.
 Under d recent decision by Chief Justice Kent, of the court of Arizona, the time for the registration of vot- CTS in Arizona shall continue the year This does away with the usual custom of boards of supervisors fixing the day when registration shallbe gin, but registration of voters must be closed 21 day before an election is held. To vote, one years residence in the territory previous to an ele C ii on and thirty days in the precinct is necessary Prescott Courier.
 There were a number of chan ges in the guard force at the prison during the ten days just past, and d half dozen men from as many different counties were brought in to fill enforced va cancies. Heretofore rotation in office" was regarded as a doctrine of demo- cracy, but our republican breth ren seem to have become inOcul- ated with it to such a degree as to make changes in the guard force at the prison keep step with the quarterly changes of the moon. Perhaps the apparent certainty of early statehood has created a desire on the part of the powers that be to give as many of the faithful as possible a suck at the pap-pipe before democratic Supremancy turns