The border vidette., 1914-01-31

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 matter to the Prescott district,
 where it properly belongs, now
 that Arizona has been divided for United States court business.
 The company recently filed an anSw wer, admitting it's slate of
 bankruptcy, through it's attor-
 neys Phelps & Cox, of Phoenix.
 After that paper had been re- ceived, Judge Sawtelle appoint
 ed as temporary receiver, John
 Metz of Tucson.
 Murder. white slavery, selling
 liquor to Indians, cattle thieving,
 box car breaking and many mis-
 cellaneOuS miSdeedS will occupy
 the time of the United States dis
 trict court at it's Prescott session,
 which is to open on March
 second. Marshal Dillon has
 sent into the Washington office
 recommendations concerning the
 hiring of hall in which to hold
 the coming session of Uncle
 Sam's, own tribunal. The docket
 will be well filled. An accum
 ulation of suspects has been in
 the making since the last big
 term in Phoenix in the fall.
 Those who are in the habit of minimizing the agricultural in dustry in Arizona, will undoubt- edly be greatly surprised to learn that Arizona; while not a leader in the total number of bushels pro- duced, led all the rest of the na- tiOn in the amount of winter wheat per acre in the winter of 1913. According to government crop reports the 32 bushels per acre garnered by Arizona farm CTS bettered the record of any other state in the Union. The total yield in bushels was 928, ,OOO on 29, 1000 acres. Idaho stood next with 28 bushels to the acre.
 O. N. swell, state inspec tor of weights and measures, has returned to Phoenix from a ten days visit at made his second annual inspection of weights and scales and looked up com violations. He found everything in fairly good shape and says that the people of l Tempe are trying to comply | with the law as near as they | know how. He has had no trouble in that vicinity. Mesa | is the next place he will visit, and then Florence. During the cold months he will inspect in | the southern part of the state and in the summer the north.
 The Navajo and Apache cat tlemen held their annual meeting | in Holbrook recently. The off cers for the ensuing year are: 1 Saunders, president; Jas. Donague, vice president; .. c. Henning, secretary; and | Fred Randall of St. Joseph, treasurer. The members voted | an assessment of five cents per head according to the county assessments. Frank Wallace and Geo. HenneSSy are repre- senting this association at the National Association at Denver. The association went on record IS being in favor of the national ease law, and of a state law allowing persons to lease more 5han one section of school land. They also passed a resolution of being in favor of not allowing my more Indians on public lands outside of reservations
 "Border Life During the Mex can Revolution" will be the title ,f the next novel written by Dane Coolidge who will come to Nogales from his home in Gal fornia next month to gather iata for the book. During his ;tay on the border it is more han probable he will visit Doug as and other points many times. He has laid the foundation for many of his best short magazine stories in COchiSe and along the border, and now he proposes to ssue a book with this section of he country as the scene of ac- ivity. While in Nogales it is aid he will be the guest of Consul Simpich also a hort story writer. who is an old ime friend, and should he go o Douglas he will be entertain d by Frank w. Doan, another friend. Coolidge is the Luthor of "The Texican." "The
 and of Broken PrO1niSPS etc