The border vidette., 1914-10-03
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Called From Our
 Exchar ges.

| Nerl +. Osborne, or Phoenix, :,
 has been appointed deputy col
 lector of income tax, Vice w. J,
 Graham, resigned. Osborne is a
 pioneer of the state and father
 of Sidney P. Osborne, secretary
 of state, who has just been re-
 nominated.
 The premiums offered at the
 state fair this fall for dairy cat
 tie are practically the same as
 have been offered in the past
 few years. The dairy industry
 of the state has now become so
 important that the number of
 purebred dairy cattle is increaS-
 ing rapidly, and this year will
 undoubtedly witness the eXhibi-
 tion of the best dairy cattle ever
 gotten together in the south
 west.
 As far as the republicans and
 prOgreSSiveS are concerned, there
 was no primary election held in
 Yuma county A tabulation of
 election returns made by the
 Sun shows that Ralph Cameron,
 high man on the republican
 ticket, polle6 seven votes in the county. George Young, high : man on the progressive ticket, | boiled the same number, while Bert Davis, the socialist candi- | date for United States senator, polJed 53 votes.
 The southwest is to have a new mining journal. The pub lication will be known as "The NTiniror md ncoor L[ Coll, we'll known newSpaperman will be editor and proprietor. The magazine, which will be of the same size as the Saturday Evening Post, will be published at Douglas and the first number will appear about December l. It will cover mining activities in the state of Arizona and also northern Sonora.
 c. M. Zander, @ member of the present State Tax Commis- sion, was visitor this week | Mir. Zander and associates have | done much for the state and the | democrats appear to believe l that they are entitled to another | term in their present positions | U Ouo6I GlI01I olISCUIOd uIIS NdUS has ascended from a bunny little | state, so far as taxable prop erty is concerned, to one of the most prosperous coElmonwealths in the Union.
 The cotton gin located in Phoe- nix, Arizona, has begun it's re- gular fall campaign, starting about thirty days earlier than usual on account of the advanced condition of the Egyptian long staple cotton crop of the Salt river valley. There are seventy five bales on hand ready for ginning and picking is in pro- gress throughout the valley. The gin at Chandler is also in operation, and the daily output this season will be double that of last year.
 A strong and vigorous denial has been made by Corpora ton Commissioner A. w. Cole of the report sent broadcast to Arizona newspapers by a Phoenix cor respondent, that he would ask the democratic party caucus to demand the withdrawal of F. A. Jones from the ticket. In recent statement Cole charact- erizes the report as lie man. ufactured from whole cloth. He states that as a democrat he will vote for and support MT. Jones and that he expects and believes Jones will do as much for him.
 The announcement that the 1 business men and farmers are in an effort to fin ance the Southern cotton crop through the European crisis, is one of the most important events that has shown up on the indus trial horizon for many years. . There have been numerous plans 7 sprung out of this great pro- blem whereby the farmer could ( chase the bear to his den at so 1 mach per chase, but the bear always escaped, and the farmer ( was usually caught, and many ' would be financierS have talked ] as vOluminOuSly on the subject l as a book farmer discussing the boil weevil. But the present { plan cuts out the middleman $ The man with the cotton and 1 the man with the money are { now talking face to face, and it is a great hour for DiXieland.