The border vidette., 1912-04-20
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest CuIled From Out
 Exchanges.

There was a meeting held on M )nday night in Phoenix for the purpose of organizing a Wilson club, following the exam pie of the advocates of the cleo l tiOn of Champ Clark to the presi- dency. There were about fifty present at the first meeting while the Clark club organzed, with a hundred members.
 Senator Mark A. Smith has in tfo1uced into the senate 'rill which appropriates five illio Is of acres of land to the stated of Arizona to be used in building roads and bridges in the new state and for their maintainance. Surely our senators are letting it be known that Arizona is on map.
 Jeff Milton the genial immigra- tion inspector was in the ciiy | today. Jeff recently made re- markable find in a cave in the WhetStOneS where he uncovered a sack of Spanish Dubloons be- | lieved to be hidden for over a century and of great value. Jeff has been polishing up some of his find and passing same to his friends who are accepting the novel Souveni ITS asTaft buttons. -ProsEector.
 It has been learned that with u order which came last week from the director of the Shat r>rn,>onx, increase in the number of miners employed on that property. also came direction to Mir. Shattuck. the managing director at Bisbee, to proceed at once with the pre- para tion of the proposed site for the new shelter, which it has given out is to be instructed in the near future.
 Shipments of cattle still pour in from Mexico. Joe Rebeil of Ga borca, now residing in Tue son, is bringing in 1900 head which he has sold to Oliver Hall. made, among them the AlamOS Cattle Co.,, G. V. Angulo and others to A. Silva of Sacramen- tO, Calf. The revolution and loOterS are creating cOnstePna- ton among moving property holders and live stock growers in Mexico
 Judge Robert c. Ferguson, a resident of Tucson for more than generation, died last night at the age of SS. The cause 0f 1o1i1ifxy though until within the last two or three days Judge Ferguson had been able to be about the street. He was a native of New York. He came to Tucson 30 years ago and engaged in the practice of law which he follow ed until his death, though, for several years, on account of old age and infarmity, his practise was not active.-Star.
 A solid masonry diversion dam, costing S15O,OOO is to be built across the Gila river 1 miles below Florence and a dis tribution system consisting of latterals and canal thirty miles in length, including a SpillWay extension from the river through HOO feet of mountain side to empty water into the canal, will be built by the farmers of Flo renee and the Casa Grande dis tricts, and it's construction is to be well under way a year from now.
 About 10000 head of sheep are being Sheared at the shearing pens east of Kingman. The | animals have been grazed in ! this section the past month and | aie in fine condition. The greater part of the sheep are owned by | J. L. MundS and Frank Purcell. i While the losses from lack of | feed has been quite large the 1 sheep owners bringing their tlOcks to this county have been 1 rewarded by getting early grass and weeds and greatly imprOv- ing the young that had survived | the hardships of the past month | or two.
 Bills were introduced each | into the senate and the house of | representatives on April 10 by Senator Smith and Representa- | tive Hayden. to fix the times