The border vidette., 1914-02-14

J. OHlSIedU, UDc dfcIlIUecU dIld
 builder, who has the contract
 for building Patagonia's hand
 some new brick school house,
 motored down from the second
 city in the county Wednesday in
 the medico's new Ford. Mrs.
 Mcconnell and the little boy are enjoying a few days visit in Pa
 tagOnia with Mrs. OmStead. MT. Omstead is now putting the fin iShing touches on the new school
 house, of which every taxpayer in Patagonia is justly proud.
 As result of a battle between Jesse Gatlin and Jewel Trask of
 Patagonia, and Juan Yerbes and
 FortinO Hernandez, two Mex ican horse thieves, in the Pata- gOnia mountains near the Three R mine last Monday afternoon,
 Hernandez is dead and YerbeS is in the Sisters Hospital with 8
 broken leg. Jesse Gatlin, the well known cowman, who shot
 both robbers, who were riding fight. is entitled to the thanks of every taxpayer in Santa Cruz county, as is his friend Trask. The man in the hospital will re- cover, and if he don't escape,
 will be tried for horse stealing.
 Mrs. Hardy, the estimable wife of Collector of Customs c.
 E. Hardy, arrived in the city the forepart of the week and now the popular collector is pleasantly located in the elegant residence on Terrace avenue, recently purchased from l.. Ephraim. For many years the HardyS resided in Tucson, where they have a wide circle of friends and acquaintances all of whom deeply regret their departure. What is their loss, however, is Nogales' gain. We extend to Colonel and Mrs. Hardy a most hearty welcome to our city, where we hope they will enjoy many years of health, wealth and happiness.
 Charley Levin, brother of Henry Levin, the we'll known commission man of the firm of Levin & Joffroy, who for some time past has been chief clerk of the Southern Pacific of Mex ico's Mazatlan, Sinaloa office, is visiting in the city, a guest of his brother and family. MT. Levin came to Nogales via San Diego, and Phoenix, at which latter place Mrs. Levin and the children stopped to enjoy a visit with the lady's mother. Charley may decide to remain in Nogales indefinitely. He is native son of Arizona, having been born and raised in Tucson, where he and his good family have a wide circle of friends and acquaint- anceS.
 Jeff Rountree has contracted with State Representative H. J. Saxon to develop water on that gentleman's Butter Fly Ranch west of the city limits. While the contract between Mr. Saxon and Jeff is only verbal, it's perfectly good contract. Jeff met Harry the other day and said: I'll drill you a well and guarantee water in less than two hundred feet for two hundred dollars" Harry said: "I'll give you five hundred dollars for water at ten feet or two hundred feet" Jeff said You're on, old hoss, I'll commence boring next week." With plenty of water, the Butter Fly Ranch will be the best homestead in Santa Cruz 
 Sam White and w. F. Findley, two of the best all-round ropers and bronco busters ever pro- duced by Texas, have signed articles of agreement with City Marshal Wright, to rope and deliver to the city, every dog, male or female, found rambling around without a tag. Messrs. White and Findley are past masters in the business of roping ing wild steers and bronco horses on the plains of the Lone Star state, and the rounding up of Nogales' undesirable dogs is progressing nicely. Thursday the boys turned in more than a half hundred, and yesterday and today they are searching every nook and corner for tagless pups, hairless or otherwise. &