The border vidette., 1912-12-14
Believing that a bad compro-

basas, in Superior Court Thurs , day, agreeded to settle with the Southern Pacific, and the com
 pany paid him for two cows crossed with a locomotive en- zines, one driven by Bill Arm
 strong. the other by Bill Butler
 The case was an appeal from
 the justice court, where MT.
 Casanega brought suit for the
 price of three cows alleged to
 have been killed. Judge O'Con-
 nor represented the prosecution
 and Francis Hartman of Tucson
 appeared for the railroad com l pany.
 H. M. Clagett, of Roy 6 Tit
 comb, Inc, who has been visit
 ing Pittsburg, Pa.. on business
 for the big local firm, writes that he has closed contract
 with the Durazno Mining Com
 pany, for the installation of a
 fully equipped plant at the old | DuraznO mines situated a short
 distance west from Nogales, in
 which a number of Nogales peo- pie are financially interested. Besides the Huntington mills
 and other machinery, houses
 will at once be built and the old
 gold camp will again be the scene of great activity. Earl
 Griswold and Frank Irving are interested.
 Elgin B. Holt, of Holt Bros,
 principal owners of the Oerro de Plata mines in the Ma gdalena
 mining district, Sonora, near Cumeral station on the Sonora
 railroad, was a business visitor here the forepart of ttle week purchasing mine and camp SUD- plies. The first clean up at Ce- ITO de Plata will be made some thirty and forty thou&and ounces of silver will be shipped by ex- press through Nogales to San Francisco. The story of Cerro
 de Plata and the Holt boys con- nection with the great property, reads like ye olden time fairy tale, mysterious and facinating. Elgin and Walter Holt deserve the best luck in the world. They are having it.
 Monday in Superior Court, Andrew Yesbit, trooper of the United States Fourth Cavalry, pied guilty to murder in the second degree, and on Tuesday ! Judge Duffy sentenced the mur- derer to ten years in the state l penitentiary at Florence. On | the night of October Both, Yesbit | shot and killed @ poor Mexican girl in this city, the cause of the | tragedy being jealousy. He es- capped into Mexico, but was later l arrested a short distance south | of the international line at the | inStigation of Pedro Torres, chief | of the Mexican secret service, and l turned over to the local authori- ties. He claimed to be innocent | of the crime against him, but on Monday is said to have confessed to County Attorney s. F. Noon, and pied guilty of murder in the second degree. The case was set for Wednesday.
 Ed. Mainline, the well known carpenter, who has in the past worked for many of the big min ing companies in Santa Cruz county, is now working for Su- perintendent Wanvig of The Three R Mine. Ed. says under the able management of Supt. Wanvig. the great bonanza situ ated on the west slope of the Patagonia mountains, is deve- loping into one of the best mines in the world. Regular daily shipments of high grade ore are being made from BloXtOn station and the mine is now bigger and better. This, nOt-with- standing the fact that many of the best CD mining engineers in the world said the Three R would not go down." Col. R. R. Richardson and his partner A. E. Crepin, knew different, and as a result are independently rich, and N. l.. Amster is making vast for tune out of the mine the engi- neers turned down.
 c. E. Sweet, of Kansas City, head of the Mansfield Mining & Company, the big hold lngs of which are in the Santa Rita mountains a short distance from Patagonia, was business visitor in Nogales a couple of days this week, departing for