The border vidette., 1912-02-24

COu uD1e or weeks; Is aSdlI1 q : ut1-SC at the Montezuma hotel Mr Hunter is connected with Harry Greenwell, the mine promoter of this city.
 Lew Hartman. mana ger of the Float Gold Amalgama ting VI n- ing Company, says he Is reaGy to start up his new mill, ju,t a soon as Engineer FraDlz Fi1ca is ready. Last week Lew in stalled new hoist on the prop erty, and added other new iu- provements which great y enhance the value of same. He reports new strike of ore in the old antigua workings at depth and says the future of the Float Gold certainly looks good. Roy & Titcomb, Inc, of this city says is first class in every respect.
 The citizens Of Nogales, Ariz- ona, and Nogales, Sonora, are now and always have been, too closely connected in every way, to allow that unpleasant flag iE- last Sunday, to in any way in cident of terfere with the pleas ant relations existing between them. The ignorant intoxicated Mexican soldier who snatched the American flag from the Fleish- man automobile, was immediate ly arrested and will be punish. ed to the full extent of the law All good citizens regret the in cident, and the quicker it is for gotten, the better it will be for everybody.
 Elgin B. and Walter Holt, who are successfully engaged in min ing sin the Magdalena district, Sonora, spent a couple of days heresssthis week on business, re- turning to the mines Thursday night. Besides being first class mining engineers, the Holt boys are experienced assayers. They are also largely interested in the Arizona Sonora Mines Company, which owns valuable gold prop erty in the Magdalena district, now being worked by Mexican miners to whom Manager E. B. Holt leased the claims. All parties interested are making good money.
 Mr. R. E. Lee, has arrived from Kansas to accept the posi- tion of court reporter in Superior Judge Duffy's court. MT. Lee comes to NoSales highly recon mended both as & gentleman and court reporter. Of course he's a Democrat. He was one of three stenographers who report ed the notorious Harry Thaw murder trial in New York sev- eral years ego, and with his ex- tensive experience, will have no trouble making good". in his present position We take pleas ure in welcoming the gentleman to Nogales.
 According to the Fl Paso Times of recent date, good news has been received from the Me Kinlev County, New Mexico, oil fields, in which number of Nogales people are interested. It is stated that the Mckinley County Oil Company has struck a flow of oil at a depth of 27O feet; also that the Gallup Inde- pendent Oil Company had struck a veritable stream at a depth of about 700 feet, and the oil excite ment continues. Wherever wells have been sunk to date oil has been encountered and the field promises to become one of the most important in the United States.
 Last evening at 7:3O Superior Judge Baxter of Yuma county decided the Chenoweth-E -Earhart contest for the office of treasurer of Santa Cruz county in a favor of R. R. Earhart, Democrat, whose election was contested by H. K. Chenoweth, Republican. Attor- ney Kingan of Tucson represent ed Chenoweth and W. A. O'con- nor of this city, appeared for Earhart. A motion for new trial being denied by Judge Baxter, Cheuoweth's attorney gave notice that he would appeal the case to the Supreme Court of Arizona. The costs in the case will have to be paid by Cheno- weth, according to Judge Baxter's decision.
 Last Monday morning at 7 o'clock MT. Charles Dumazert and ID