The border vidette., 1913-03-15
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of interest Culled From Our
 Exchanges.

l
 held as suspects, but there has
 been no trial up to the present
 waiting, it is reported, for an l analysis of blood found upon
 the shoes of one of the men in custody, which he claimed was from a chicken he had killed Arizonan.
 Rock Rodgers and young
 Hotchkiss, nephew of Hank
 Hotchkiss, the hunter and trap
 per, have recently located two opal claims nine miles east of
 Silver City and are developing same They have taken out some very fine looking opal ma trices which have all the fire of the choice Mexican opals.
 Ten Chinese merchants from | Hermosillo and other cities of Sonora, passed through Ben son Friday bound for San Fran cisco. They have shut up shop | home to China in the meantime for a vacation. They were placed under bond at Nogales not to tarry in the United States. Thomas Patterson is having an 1S-inch we'll bored by J. R. Blalack, that was down 67 feet Monday with 45 feet of water, and still going down. Mir. Bla- 1 lack will next put down an 1S- inch we'll for himself, then one for James Brogan and later one fo, . of hi h the sweet potatoes will certainly l thrive.
 A Mexican sheep herder, em- ployed by Archie Wilson shot himself accidentally Friday, near Wilcox. He stumbled and fell and his gun was discharged, the bullet entering his leg above the knee He lay out in the open for nearly day before he was discovered and brought to town, where he is being attended by Dr. Wilson.
 Judge Richard B. Sloan, for mer governor of Arizona, for 12 years an associate justice of the supreme court and the first federal judge in the new state, will engage in the practice of law at Phoenix, having formed partnership with Wm. M. Sea bury and James Westervelt, the latter a recent arrival from New York City.
 Cattlemen predict the largest calf crop this season, so far as percentage goes, than ever in the history of the cattle in dustry in this portion of the United State. The number of calves will not be as large as other years, because there are fewer cows, but the percentage of increase will be record break CT say all cowmen.
 James M. Cochran, of Brad ford, Penn, owner of the old Hermosa mine a5 Harshaw, the Buffalo group, and other val uable property in the district, arrived in Patagonia Sunday and will probably remain in the district for @ time. MT. Cochran is a very wealthy man and it is hoped by mining men here that he will start work on the Her. mosa or some of his other prop critics.
 It has been reported that the old Silver King property near Superior have been bonded by some California capitalists in the sum of S75, 1000 and that work on this property will be started at an early date. The Silver King has remained idle for a number of years, though once it was one of the best mines in the state, nearly $15, 100000 worth of silver having been taken out.
 The spring session of the Pima county teachers institute will be held at the end of the month, starting March 31 and continuing for four days. It is announced that Dr. E. B. Bryan, president of the Colgate univer- sity, Hamilton, N. Y, will be present at the meeting, making number of addresses and aiding the teachers with his long and valuable experience. Dr. Bryan, beside being a leading educator of the United States, was at one time the head of the gov ernment's educational work in