The border vidette., 1912-07-20

from Fort Huachuca and the BiSbee rifle club, resulted ir defeat for the Bisbee team, mak. ing the second defeat in five years, the crack team from the Sixth cavalry doing the trick last year and the Fourth dupli eating the performance. The total assessed value of property in Pinal county for the year 1912 as shown by the equal ized assessment roll, is S3, 123 ,672 again of a fraction over fl per cent in the property value since June, 1911. Old Pinal is cliln ping the ladder of material progress ten rungs at jump and will soon be at the top Blade.
 Supervisor H. R. Wiggins, of Ray who was here this week attending the meeting of the Board of Equalization, informed that the work of establishing the grades of the Ray townsite had just been completed when he left and that the work of rebuild ing the burned district would be commenced within a few days s- Florence Blade.
 The contract for grading the Lewis Springs -Huachuca branch of the Fl Paso & Southwestern railroad was let Saturday, in Ell Paso to McArthur Brothers Co. who had the grading contract for the Fairbanlx-Tucson eXten- sion. The Huachuca branch will be about II miles in length. and the work is to be completed within 90 days
 According to the Range News, a new bank is being launched at Wilcox. The temporary quart CTS are located in G1eeson's Cash Store. John Gleeson is president of the institution, and W. Kalt- Reuleaux is manager for the present. The capital is S1O, 1000, and it is regular chartered State Bank, under the supervi- sion Of the Bank -EY Yaminer of the State.
 Goats are to have a prominent place at the seven Arizona State Fair. During Fair week the National MOhair Growers As sociatiOn will hold it's annual show and convention here. Space for goats will be provided at the Fair grounds and animals from all parts of the United States will be exhibited there A num- ber of valuable prizes have been offered for competition.
 Chris Christenson, city coun- cilman of Tucson, pioneer and one of the best known citizens of Pima county, died at Los An geles of cirrhOsiS of the liver. He was a man without family, and so far as is known, had not a relative in the world. In his burial, one of the most urgent requests of his later years will be complied with. He wanted, so he often said, Ito be sure he was dead" and expressed a desire for cremation.
 Dr. A. c. Kingsley. superin- tendent of the Arizona asylum for the insane, leaves today for an extended trip to north and east, where he will make a study of many of the insane asylumS throughout the country for the purpose of finding out whether or not improvements in the method of treating the patients is necessary in Arizona or if this state is well abreast of the times in the treatment accorded the unfOrtunateS of the state.-Ga- zette.
 The state land commission has just completed the forms of ap- plications for lease of Arizona school or university lands, and is now engaged in sending to every leaseholder a copy of the application for lease, together with a blank permit, a printed copy of the land law, and an explanatory letter, with the re- quest that the applications be made out as speedily as possible and forwarded to the state land commission, a duplicate copy being retained in the office of the board of supervisors in the county in which the lease is made Arizona Gazette.