The border vidette., 1914-01-31

Construction work on the Cop ! per Queen cOmpany'S test mill
 at Bisbee, operation of which 1 will be begun shortly.
 A civil suit has been filed by
 some of the stockholders of the
 Union Stock yards of Los An
 geleS and several of the direct
 Ors. The plaintiffs alleged that
 the defendants had embedded
 approximately $15O,OOO an d
 wrecked the company. A re- | ceived has been asked for. The treasury department of the United States government
 has decided that no income tax
 is to be collected On lumber sold by the government until the
 timber is cut and marketed, and the cost of same is figured out.
 In other words the income tax
 will be assessed only on the profit.
 Quail, duck and other bird
 shooting ceases this month. Al
 though the duck shooting is
 permitted under the state law,
 yet one is liable to be arrest
 ed if they shoot ducks after Feb
 ruary first as the Federal law
 which sets aside the state law,
 makes it unlawful to shoot sev
 eral kinds of game beginning February lSt.
 To the loyal friendship of two boys Miss Jessie AinswOrth, aged 14, of Los Angeles, owes her life. She is the niece of c. F. Ainsworth of Tucson, member of the board of supervisors. She is recovering from the effects of being overcome by gas because these youths allowed their blood to be transfused into her veins when she was in a dying con ditiOn
 We close our DeruSal for today with the follwing hot one: A prominent boot and shoe man of this city has made a proposition to the cemetery commitre to re move all of the bodies from the old cemetery to the new for noth ing. He expects to make big money from the sale of leather from the bodies of the men who died with their boots on. .'- Tombstone Prospector.
 Proceedings in the preliminary on the new industrial arts build | ding at the Tempe normal came 1 to a temporary halt with a meet | ing of the board on Tuesday | evening at which time one and | all bids submitted on the general | work and equipment | were rejected. Not bid was | opened but what it far exceeded | the apprOXimateS previously | made by the board.
 The New Mexico state board Of has increased the valuation on cattle and sheep. | The minimum valuation for sheep was increased S3. 30 to S3. .75 per head, lambs under one year are to be assessed $2. 75 per head calves are raised from SIS to $21 for common range calves and graded range stock Range COWS are 10 be from $50 to $3S per head as against $27 to S33 per head last year.
 Recognizing the able perform ance of his duties the past year, A ttorney General G. P. Bullard received notice of his reappoint- ment as Arizona commissioner of the American Automobile asso- ciation. The appointment was made by the president of the A. A. A., residing in New York. The new appointment is for the year 1914. Bullard has been the Arizona repres entative of the association for several years and he is well known in western circles.
 I. G. Lelevier, son of c. G. editor of the recently Douglas Industrial, was Tuesday appointed conSti- agent in Douglas by Acting Governor Randall, of Hermosillo, to succeed Gustavo Padres. who has been in Douglas in that capacity for but about two weeks. Young Lelevier is 3 bright, intelligent young man and will conduct the recently newspaper in con nectiOn with the office as the