The border vidette., 1914-08-22
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items Of Interest Called From Our
 Exchanges.

Thirty six thousand acres, dis
 tributed over the southwest anC
 the northwest, were withdra WI
 for tile state use in connection
 with it's hospital for the insane
 on Monday.-Phoenix Repub
 lican.
 | Twenty five were injured. but
 none fatally in a pitched battle
 between AuStrianS and ServianS,
 Sunday. Forty Servians and twenty Austrians took part in the fighting, with rocks clubs and fists. Twenty one were ar rested. Record.
 A recent bridge party in Yuma wound up in a decision on the part of a number of ladies in the river city to organize polit- ical club and take an active in terest in the coming campaign. It is understood that the club will be a non-partiSan affair and will endorse the best men for office
 The purchase of an 8OO- gallon street sprinkler, which can also be converted into fire engine. is being considered by the town council of Florence. T h e l sprinkler which is under con sideration not only washes down the dusty streets, but by a slight mechanical change can be made to throw water to the top of a two-story building.
 A call for contributions to carry on the work of the Red Cross during the present Euro pean war has been received by Gov. Hunt. The governor is the head of the Red Cross so- ciety in Arizona. Contributions from Arizona can be made direct to the headquarters of the or ganization at Washington or | through Governor Hunt.
 Sixty or seventy hungry | Mexicans, who declared they were out of job as the result of the mine curtailment in the Miami and Globe districts, were arrested at Stafford Saturday when the Miami-Bowie freight train pulled into that place, as the result of having commandeer- ed the train and ridden to Saf- ford by intimidating the train crew. Miami Silver Belt.
 Parcel post service between points in the United States and France and Germany has been suspended, according to official notification by the Postoffice de- partment, and money orders in favor of Americans abroad who wish to return home may be is sued up to S1OO.OO except in such cases as it may be suspect ed that the buyer is making the purchase for speculative pur- poses.
 That word has been received from authorities at Washington, assuring them that a S5O,OOO hospital for Indians will be erect ed in the vicinity of Tucson, is the asSerSiOn of local officials of the United States Indian ser vice. Twelve day schools will also be built, it is said, but the money for these latter may not be forth coming with the present Indian appropriation m oney which is soon to be passed by Con reSS.-TucSOn Star.
 The State Land Commission has received from General Land Office a patent to BOOSTS acres of land in Sulphur Springs Val ley selected for the benefit of the State penitentiary. This brings the total of approvals for the penitentiary fund up to 35, 564 84 acres, and of approvals for all purposes to 191, ,766. 37 acres. The total of selections for the penitentiary fund to date amount to 6O,U5S. 85 acres, thus leaving 24, ,492.O1 acres pending in the General Land Office.
 A cut of from 20 to D per cents will be made in the forces of the E. P. &. $. w. railway within the next ten days, ac- cording to announcement made i by the management of the road. From fifty to one hundred and fifty men will probably be laid off. According to officials, the Douglas division is the one that will suffer the heaviest cut. for this division hauled copper | for export mainly. It is anti cinata6 thai the reduction of the |