The border vidette., 1911-12-30
LOCAL ITEMS.

Superior Judge elect F. J
 Duffy is absent from the city- at
 tending court at Tombstone.
 P. J. McCarty of Camille, where
 he and his family own a tint
 ranch, was county seat visitO
 Wednesday.
 Clay Hale, formerly of this
 city now engaged in business a Ray, Arizona, has been here
 circulating among his friends
 this week.
 O. o. Saxhang left Thursday night for San Xavier, Sonora
 Mexico. to accept a position with 6 big American mining company opera ting near that place.
 Judge M. Masteller visited Sonora last week on business connected with mining properties whice he recently bonded to American capitalists.
 Mir. George F. Jackson of the Sonora Railway, with head quarters at Guaymas, was a busi- ness visitor in the city the fore part of the week.
 Those who attended the Moose ball in Masonic hall Christmas night had a fine time. The music was good and the turkey supper served by Chef Huber of The Arcade grill, the best ever.
 One of the prettiest calendars for 1912 that has come to THE BORDER VIDETTE office is from Dtve Loeb, of The Popular Storr, this city, for which we extend hearty thanks.
 ''Goldest weather in the his tory of the country" say our oldest inha bitant>. The hills around Nogales have been cover ed with snow for a week, and the farmers and stOckmen predict prosperous times.
 Duane Bird, youngest son of Colonel and Mrs. A. T. Bird of the Oasis, is spending the holi- days at home, from the Univer- sity of Arizona. Duane has a | wide circle of friends and ac- luaintanceS here who will help | make his vacation pleasant.
 Willie Cavanaugh, chief clerk n the Sonora News COmpany's Ocal store, spent Christmas with liS mother at Tombstone, where tt, this time of the year the weather is delightfully."- cool, being of the back eaSt'' brand. Willie said he had a happy Christmas.
 Col. Posey has a force of men 1t work few miles from No gales, in the Gold Hill district, a splendid mining bonded from Probate fudge M. Masteller, Some fine ore is being piled up 'n the dump for shipment to the ustOms shelter.
 A. M. Conard, president and , ,neral manager of the Sonora opper Smelling Company, who laS been in the east with his amily the past six weeks, wires com Pratt, Kansas, that he is now bound at that place, but to reach Nogales to- tight.
 Thursday three carloads of { omatoes from the state of Si- 1 aloa, Mexico, passed through Togales en route to eastern ( ointS The tomatoes from Si- alba are the equal of any on Z arth and naturally find ready Z larket at fancy prices, anywhere l l the United States. This week Manager Ferd. a anMourick of the Sonora News a Ompany, has been a business d isitOr at Guaymas, checking up le branch at that place. Dur l Lg his absence from the city le affairs of the local branch ave been carefully looked after V 7 Chief Clerk William Cava- Q lugh. After eighteen days on the 'ad between Denver, Colorado, Id Nogales, Fred H. Moore, e mining man of this city and r '. A. Kelso, prominent mining V an of Colorado Springs, arriv- z here last Sunday in their ltomobile. On the overland n ip the gentlemen travelled 6 7enty-five hundred miles, much n
 which was through snow. 7, hey are interested in mining n 'Operty in Sonora.