The border vidette., 1913-04-19

from NacO, where he went Sun | day on the KrOhn Special, in company with Major Fred. Krohn, superintendent of the ! Nogales Cananea branch of the Southern Pacific. The special
 arrived at the border town after
 the battle, but Mir. Bowers says
 he saw enough to convince him
 that war is hell" Also that | Gen. Oieda and his small gar against great odds. Besides own
 ing mining property. MT. Bo-
 wers owns valuable land near Noria, Sonora. He and Mrs. Bowers are guests at the Mon tezuma hotel.
 Wednesday night Col. Obre- gon, commander of the Sonora state troops, with two trains of soldiers about one thousand
 men-and large amount of
 war equipment, departed for Empalme, which place has been evacuated by the the federals,
 who are now encamped near GUaymas, at Rancho de Quay
 mas. Yesterday morning about two o'clock, Colonel Ga bral, who the evening before arrived from NacO with another trainlOad of state troops and supplies, de-
 parted for the front. NacO and NOgales is being guarded by Chief Bulle's Yaqui Indians, all seasoned vets of many years experience.
 Thomas A. Wetzel, an eXper- fenced mining engineer well and favorably known in western min ing circles, is down in the Mag
 dalena district, Sonora, inspect ing mines. He accompanied Elgin B. Holt, president and manager of the Cerro de Plata Mining Company, owners of the great silver bonanza in Sonora, who is also interested in other val uable mines down there. MT. Wetzel not only has big capital behind him, but unlimited cap ital in front of him, for anything worth while. Now days capital is like the old man from Pike county, Missouri, it must be shown. He and MT. Holt eX- pect to be absent from Nogales several days.
 Although thousands of bullets fell on American soil and many homes and business houses were hit, only one American was ac- cidentally wounded during the battle of Naco, Sonora, last Sun da& between Huerta's soldiers al Colonel Obregon's state t1HbpS. First Associated Press reports of the fatalities were greatly exaggerated, but the of ficial statement sent out the day after the battle is bad enough, being as follows: Federals, 30 killed and 78 wounded; Consti tutionalists, 23 killed and 125 wounded On Monday General Ojeda, the federal commander, was given a parole by Colonel Guilfoyle of the Ninth cavalry, and railway traffic was reOpened to Cananea.
 T. c. Jones, president and treasurer of the African Land & Irrigation Company, an Ari- zOna corporation, owning valu able land in the territory of Te- pie, Mexico, has gone on an ex- tended trip east, on business for his company. Jones has invest ed largely of his personal funds in the company, which is a guarantee of it's success. Dur | ing the many years he has sue cessfully engaged in business in Nogales, where he has large real estate holdings, he has made an enviable reputation for himself. He is honorable and upright in all his dealings, and having made a success of his private business, can be de pended upon to carefully guard the interests of the African Land & Irrigation Company. He will be absent from NOgales about a month.
 l. Burgoon, who has been as sisting in the installation of the Huntington mills In d other machinery at the Penn Sonora Mining Company's Durazno gold mines near the PIanchas de Plata, in Sonora, a short dis tance from the international line, is in from the camp. He reports the installation work progress