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The border vidette., 1914-07-25
NOGALES IS GROWING.
Assessed Valuation Now More Than
 Million and Half.

At Tuesday evenings meeting of the Nogales Common Council, Town Assessor A. A. Doherty submitted his report, showing the assessed valuation of the real and personal property of the Town.
 The report which was quite lengthy, was listened to by many of our citizens. and all complimented both the assessor and the town of NogaleS, on the splendid showing made and the city's unprecedentg growth during the past year, and the promise of greater things in the future.
 The assessor reported that af- ter a thorough, careful search, he was unable to find a vacant house in Nogales.
 The assessed value of prop erty real and personal, less county, widow and orphan ex- emp,ion of S9356, is S2, 521. .19, all increase over last assessment of half million dollars.
 Recapitula ation-9O4 town lots valued at S469, 252. 50; 444 improv- ed lots, improvement, SS37 ,231; value of all personal property, S896, 59O. 43; value of all railroad property, S327, 541.2 26; a total of S2, ,53O,615 19, less exemptions of S9356, making net value of all property for taxation, S2,521,- 159.19.
 There are in the town 552 buildings of all classes. Among these are five churches, five hotels, court house, one acad- emy, two schools, hospital, cleo tric plant, gas plant, ice plant, two livery stables, three garages, machine shop, foundry, two planning mills, lumber yard, four bake shops, seven plumbers, soda factory, cigar factory. The mercantile stores of all kinds number 54.
 Nogales also has one of the finest social clubs in the state The Santa Cruz Club-and the most delightful climate in the world; excellent water and first class water and sewer system owned by the city; two electric light plants under construction; first-class up-to-date telephone system nearing completion; a new city hall and fire department building in course of construc- tion; new high school for which $6O,OOO bonds have just been sold. and numerous other improvements contemplated for the immediate future.
The border vidette., 1914-07-25
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS.

You are hereby notified that the original tax roll for the year 1914 is now in my possession and on file in the Council Chambers subject to your inspection be- 5: D. m.
 You are hereby further noti- fled that the Town Council will sit as Board of Equalization on the evening of the third Monday of August Q7th,) 1914, in the Council Chambers when and where you may appear before said Board for the purpose of equalizing taxes.
 By order of the Town Council.
 ARGUS REDDOCH, 7-25-4t. Town Clerk.
The border vidette., 1914-07-25
Hardy Would Shoot Square.

Leslie c. Hardy, who is can didate for attorney general, in a statement recently issued to the press of Arizona, says:
 If elected I shall not accept private business, but shall de- vote myself exclusively to the business of the state" I believe that the attorney general of the state should confine himself sole ly to the states business. By so doing there is no probability whatsoever of entanglements with conflicting interests and, to this extent, he should not only pledge himself to refrain from engaging in practice involving public service corporations, but should, also, include all business, there by securing himself against any conflicting interests whatsoever.
The border vidette., 1914-07-25
NOTICE.

To the people of Nogales:-
 We, the members Of the com. mittee on the County Fair, ex- tend cordial invitation to the people of Santa Cruz county, to spend day in September with us at the beautiful oak grove near Papago Springs.
 There, we expect to have d. splendid County Fair, and if the people approve, to make it grow into an annual affair vastly worth while.
 The roads will be plainly marked by white triangular flags and there will be plenty to eat and all sorts of amuSementS.
 The exact date will be announ- ced later.
 THE COMMITTEE.
The border vidette., 1914-07-25

JackStad's stag party last
 Saturday evening, at the Jack
 stadt residence on Noon Hill, was a very enjoyable affair. About
 twenty of Jacks friends, sum-
 mer widowers and others, were | there. All had a fine time and
 Jack was unanimously elected
 President of the Summer Wi dowers Club
 Charley Karns, and in fact the whole Karns family, is this
 week wearing that smile that
 won't come off, all on account of the arrival last Monday of a bouncing boy, at the home of MT. and Mrs. Karns. The little one weighed nine pounds. Mother and son doing nicely and the fond father feels like a four-year-old. Congratulations.
 J. Lorenzo Hubbell, Republi- can candidate for United States senator, and Hon. J. E. Morris on, formed United States district attorney, were stop-over visitors between trains Thursday. The gentlemen are touring the state in the hopes of uniting the Bull Moose and the Republican par ties. Their proposition is for the Republicans to adopt the Bull Moose platform and in 1916 run Roosevelt for president on the Republican ticket. Local Republicans refused the peace offerings and the pilgrims de parted for the north on the af- ternoon train. Some say the present cold spell here, is cauS ed by recent snows in the Pinto mountains.
 At the recessed meeting of the NOgaleS common council, last Tuesday evening, at which the Mayor and all the members, including the clerk and the at, tOrney, were present, the pro- posed new electric light fran chise prayed for by the Nogales Electric Light, Ice & Water Company, was disposed of for the present, by deferring the matter for six months. After the meeting adjourned, represens tatives of the applicants for the franchise, announced that they would immediately start an mi tiative petition in order to bring the matter before the voters of NOgaleS. Up to the hour of go- ing to press. however, no action in the matter, has been taken.
 The Big Business is coming our way. For the first time since THE BORDER VIDETTE first saw the light, more than twenty two years ago, the paid announce ment of a Republican aspirant for office this week appears in this old exponent of Democratic men and Democratic principles. The name of the gentleman who has taken the step ih the right direction, to the extent of ten bones, is $. F. Noon, the efficient present incumbent in the office of county attorney. MT. Noon has hopes, which in many quart CTS are said to be well-founded, of succeeding himself. Hence his announcement that he will be a candidate for the office subject to the decision of the Republican electors at the September prim- aries. The only thing on earth we have against Fred is his politics.
Evening star., 1914-04-12

Exerted Enormous In
huence Under Alex
ander Ill. but Quar-
relied With the Present
Gar. and Is Again
Restored to Power
How He Overthrew the
Late Premier and Put
the Present Prime Min
lister, Goremykin, in His
Place Called The
Secret knower" Because
of His Access to All
Diplomatic and Court
News.
Evening star., 1914-04-12

rich nor Influential Scores of Princes
Mestchersky are scattered over the en-
pire, some are small officials. and one,
Prince Ilya. is patrolman in Moscow.
Vladimir Petrovitsch never had money
Or patronage and he owes his present
position as Nicholas lis mentor to his
abilities alone.
Mestchersky was born in 1si5. Before
ne was thirty he became the brains and
pen of CZarevitsch Alexander later
Gar Alexander III. That was in the era
known as The Great Reforms. and
Mestchersky pleased the absolutist heir
by daring to oppose the then popular
emancipation movement. In the next
twenty years Mestchersky showed his
talents by producing dozen novels.
which boldly and coarseiy paint st:
Petersburg high life. In the eighties
Mestchersky a much-read novelist.
with a following outside Russia. His
best known books. are Women of St
Petersburg. One of Oar Bismarcks.
The Nihiists,'' and the four-volume
Men of the Great World.
None of Mestcherskys books shows
much literary talent and his shameless
way of writing offended many. But
Mestchersky is not literary He took him
self seriously a politician and min
ister-naker: and by confidence and zeal
50 riveted his yoke on the dullWitted
Alexander Ill that with the exception of
Synod Procuror Constantine Pooiedonost-
self he had no equal in power
Mestchersky has all along played the
role of uncompromisiug reactionary. His
reactionary influence on politics was ex
erted through his friendship with cars
and his reactionarv influence on the pub
lie was exerted through the Grazhdanin
which was founded in 1872 with capital
supplied by Czarevitsch Alexander. The
Grazhdanin always showed such perfect
knowledge of court and cabinet actions
that il gained Mestchers-iy his soubriluet
.'taiuovied' the secret knower
The progressive majority does not buy
or read the GraZhdanin, which is regard
ed as mere incendiarism. but those who
want to know the inner history of Rus
sian affairs the latest ntrigues, the fu-
ture prospects. these all buy 1t. Today
the Grazldanin is the least read but the
most quoted parer in the empire.
At one time Mestchersky had the priv
iese of visiting Aiexander ~ wnen,
ever he pleased. Then came period
Of quarrel. The Grazhdanin published
an ostensibly reactionary article of the
kind which pleased Alexander i'm
menseiy. but enemy pointed out that
the first letters of every word spelled out
a violent lampoon on the czar as Alex
ander the Great-Little." The czar re-
jected Mestchersky's explanation that he
had been imposed on by an unknown con-
tributor. Later the pair made friends, and
Mestchersky was the chief instigator of
nincties.
In those days reactionary Black
Hundred" organs Of the type of the
Zemstchina and the Tchorni Oriol
Evening star., 1914-04-12

rated by thin walls and going along them
is like walking through a museum or an
oriental bazaar. The sidewalks are mar
row and the goods are displayed close to
the streets. MANY of the dry goods stores
hang fancy patterns of cloth from the
ceiling. and the larger establishments will
have piles of goods put on the floors and
stacked mp near the street. Notions OF
all kinds are hung from strings stretched
across from wall to wall high up. and all
sorts Of queer waFS OF display are con-
triyed. The light OF The stores comes
in through the doors OF from the roofs.
Many of the business establishments are
large. with stocks of fine goods. The
prices are high. The best from all over
the world is brought here for sale. and
the city. while not a rich one, has thou
sands OF well-to-do people.
rhe chief shopping hours are from 4
Evening star., 1914-04-12

TO o'clock in the afternoon. At that
time the streets are crowded with women
and men and the crowd is as thick as
that between the Treasury and the patent
office on F street in Washington at about
the same time. Moreover, it looks much
the same. No -one is in hurry The
people saunter along or stop and chat
with their friends. Nearly every one is
well dressed. and nearly every man. old
ana yeung. carries "a cane. The Limenos
are very polite. The men bow and lift
their hats when they meet, and they tip
their hats and. bow again as they pass
There are many we'll dressed women.
wearing the fashionable outlandish styles
of today. and there are also many who
are clad in the dead black that the lady
of Lima of the past always wore when
she went out to walk. Such women do
not wear bornets. but they wrap fine
shawls of black goods about the head,
Evening star., 1914-04-12

people are rigid church goers and Sunday
morning the streets are filed with fami-
lies on their way to. the masses which
are celebrated at the cathedral and
churches. Every one is dressed for the
occasion and almost all of the women are
clad in ack. None of them wears
hat or bonnet and none goes to church
merely for the sake of showing her
clothes. The usual headdress is the cloth
shawl covering the hair ard neck so that
the face only shows out. Some wear
mantillas or shawls of lace over the head
and not a few are now beginning to wear
dresses other than blck. am told
that women would not be permitted
to enter church in a bonnet and that
those who do so are tapped with long
stick by the sexton and told to take their
hats off. In the churches the men sit by
themselves one side and the women
Evening star., 1914-04-12

sky ran nearly the whole reign of des-
potic Alexander III. he has run the
greater part of Nicholas reign. and he
may run the reign of Gar AIexe if that
little gentleman ever comes to the throne
Russians marvel at this. They cannot
lind anything in Mestchersky' tediously
written. ill-printed periodical which
should overthrow ministers. Yet. here is
Nestchers' throwing the able. honest
koaovtseff from the saddle, setting up
his friend Gorernykin in kbkovtsef $
place and preventing great European
war. To him. primarily are due the new
ministerial changes. and emphatically
10 him is due the fact that Russia did
Evening star., 1914-04-12

SonHades. and when corporal punish
ment was abolished he frantically de-
to defend serfdom. Thirty Years after
the emancipation of the serfs he pro-
claimed that this act was blunder. and
he recommended that the peasants
should he returned to servitude and put
under the lash.
The sprogressives were furious. Nest
chersky took a perverse delight in caIs-
ing them to rage and he rubbed in all the
harder his recommendations of re-
preston.
Most Russian prosressives paint Nest
chersky as a black, unqualified agent of
provocation but this view is wrong The
prince has good points. He has always
scourged the inertness. incapacity and
unproductiveness of the bureaucracy
While attacking the liberation move
ment he has himself boldly attacked GER
tain of the worse class of reactionarfes.
In revolution days he proclaimed that if
the government would only work and ac-
complish something the >autocracy would
not be ilnperited at all-the people. he
said, are in revolt nc; against autocracy.
but against incompetent officialdom.
Mestchersky then had his first quarrel
with Witte. whom he was friendly with
many years before. Later he made it UP
g Win WlIte. anu IL Is W ltlt anu MeSt-
chersky between them who brought about
the fall of kokovtseff.
When Witte was dismissed from the post
of finance minister in 1903 Mes5chersSy
stood boldly by him. He claims that Witte
is his creation. Another official friend
of Mestchersl1y is NJ. Saber. procuror of
the holy synod 1t was Mestchersky who
got into Office the repressve Minister of
the Interior Plehve, who was assassi-
mated in the first year of the war with
Japan. All his political nominees have
been active men of. character. TIL s is to
his credit The prince stands for reaction
supneness and bureaucratic mediocrity.
Mestchersky owes his influence with
Nicholas IL to this strong side of his
character. He is bold, he has u solution
for all problems and he never spares in
competent officials even il these officials
character enforccs itself on Nicholas.
who can never make up his own mind
and seldom hears the truth owing to the
dread which courters have of treadinS on
his toes.
AS Mestchersky is unpolite and I'M
attractive old man. his ways hurt the
average courtiers feelings. The grand
dukes with the exception of Nikolai
Nikolaievitsch. detest him, and the En-
press Alexandra will not receive him. She
suspects that ii was he who planned the
scheme to exclude her invalid son Aiexei
from the throne and to put In his place
the young Dmiriu Pavlovitsch, son of
Evening star., 1914-04-12

D REPRESENTATIVE HENRY was con-
~ demning. at tea in Waco. an in
ternational marriage.
1T reminds me in its barefaced quality
of materialism,' he said. of a story
Who presented the duke to- YOU .
girl friend obviously asked a multi-Inil-
iionaire duchess from Denver.
Nobody presented him.. the duchess
answered, yawning behind her lewcled
hand. I bought him in the open market.
Evening star., 1914-04-12
PRINCE NESTCElERSKY AN ARTOCRATlC REACTMNARY BOSS

Grand Duke Paul and first cousin of the
cZar.
Nest chersky is almost the one anti-Siay =
and pro-German among Russias reac-
tionares. Othe- reactonaries pose as
violent Slavophiles. hut Mestchers>y
laughs a tn" Brother Stay notion and
boldly calls FOR an alliance with .AUst-ia
and Germany for the support of TuT KEY
In this he sees the preservation of Euro
pean peace.
Mestcherskt is hated III the Bslks rs.
He once threatened the Ser7< ana Bui-
sarians that their countries would be
turned into Russian governments.
Evening star., 1914-04-12
The COFFIN WHICH
>>ONTNNS PIZARRoS REMAllS

have their seats on the other making you
think of a collection of nuns who are
dead to the world.
7 am told it is different when church
Is over The people then phi, on their
gay clothes. Some 80 10 ne bull lights
and others have evening parties and
dances. I would say that the costumes
,'hurch far more seemly than thu>e
of our country. where one lOo51s ove!
tropical garden of flowers and birds-of-
paradise feathers in vain attempt 10
reach the eye of the preacher
The Sunday sights of the streets are
also more seemlv. There is business
done in Lima the Sabbath. The
stores closed and You walk through
blank walls or great doors fastened with
padlocks. Every store mas its windows
OF boards. and there is nos 4 sign OF
goods OF any kind TO be seen. Some
times there is a grating at the top of
the door Tor ventilation and sometimes
round hole has been made al the
height of ones face that those within
might look out. but there is no business
carried on anywhere. This is also the
case in the evenings on Week days. The
ordinary business hours are from q
until g: and at night there is no wa1kin :
- along and looking into the store windows
Indeed. after dark the streets are almost
deserted. except near the moving picture
shows which have recently cap,ured
Lima by storm.
And lust here | would say that there
is great liberal movement going in
this country. The people are demanding
liberty of religious thought and worship
New laws have been passed by the ma
tonal congress and it is now possible
for any person to establish any kind OF
church where he p.eases Until now
the Protestant missionaries have moi
been permitted to push their rel:gion in
to the interior. but the new laws pro
vide for full religious freedom through
out the country.
This movement is at its beginning il
Peru. but it has been goin. on through
out South America for several years past
Ecuador. which was once Very intolerant
has established complete religious free
~ dom. Paraguay has done the same. ant
IL Uruguay is about to adopt con
I'd serted providing that there shall be M
ne union of the church and state Simila
re demonstrate are going in Chile
re and there a general demand is expressed
n that from religious and secula
err institutions shall stand alone.
~ But before I leave the churches wan
- - to take you into the cathedral OF PiZarro
-, 1t faces the Plaza Mayor with its pain
1a trees and its beautiful fountains 1t il
a in the heart of the city. and its tower:
III can be seen almost anywhere over thu
"a Rimac valley. The bui ding is said to be the
ae finest church editice the South Amer
iS lean continent with the single exception
III of the cathedral at Mexico City. The in
,y terror is very impressive. and it make:
sn one respect the Catholic religion wher
Evening star., 1914-04-12

pnning them back SO that the face alone
shows. This background adds to their
beauty. and the costume is far better
than the monstrosities our women now
wear. 1t saves the buying of new hats
and bonnets and 1t is easy to put on or
take off.
And this brings me to the crowd which
one sees here on Sunday. Lima is god
ly city although we have a Methodist
bishop here in my hotel who says it is
the most bigoted earth. 1t is alto
sether Catholic, and that not of the mod
ern Catholicism of America and Europe,
but somewhat the same as it was in the
days of PiZarr0. There are priests and
nuns everywhere ani great monasteries
and converts galore. The most of the
Evening star., 1914-04-12

- %Sts-Ao lt ;
again fallen under
the tuteIage of his
old mentor. Prince
Mestchersky, the
man behind the
throne. the able,
energetic, detested
editor of the week
ly Grazhdanin. the
secret Knower.
who gives away al!
court and cabinet
Evening star., 1914-04-12

mysteries. and is able to give them aWaS
because the secret events are mostly MS
own creations
This reversion of Nicholas means Nest
chersky's rehabilitation. For four years
before 1911 the '.man behind the throne
was. like Mr.. Dooley. very much behind
it. in fact, he was out of favor. Now
he is back, making ministers and unmak-
ing them. running an empires foreign
affairs. and soon he viii celebrate the
fiftieth anniversary of the day when he
first pushed himself into position from
which he could influence Russias fate.
+ :
As the chief of autocratists AMI re,c-
tionaries, vladimir Petrovitsch Aestcher-
Evening star., 1914-04-12

not fight Austria over Albania and that
she dared not check the triumphant
Turks when they marched back into
Adrianople. Alike in inner and outer
politics Prince Vladimir Petrovitsch is
the man.
MestcherSky's career is a good illustra-
ton of Chancellor Gortschakoff $ saving
that only autocracies allow men without
Influence to rise to greatness Gort-
schakon was mainly thinking O; Turkish
history Mestchersky is just such little
man. The MestcherSkys are AN old fam
iiy--their FinnoTartar ancestors were
sovereign rulers OF the principality Of
Mestchera-but nowadays they are neither
Evening star., 1914-04-12

LIMB with me to
the rocky top OF
: an Cristo . h . !
mountain and take
= lools over The
city of Lima. We
are ON the edge %
the Rimsc yalie.s
within eight Iailss
OF the = elf =
ocean and abo1.;
t-G0P fee isaeT
IN IN tive air. Sit
Evening star., 1914-04-12

he declares that Pan-SlsviSm is senn.
mental chimera which costs Russia
money but does her no good
Mestchcrsky's greatest triumph is the
casting down Of kokovtscn and the Gle
vation of GoremHkin. his friend He
hrst attacked Kokovtseff' vodka finance
and kokovtseff way OF concluding rail-
road loans. Niite next pushed the as
saulI in the council of the empire
rs fact. the policy of den;oralizirx
the peasant with liquor in order to en-
rich the state dates from Whites da5S-
Kokovtseff took over the vodka monop-
oily with all its defects readyn,ad.
Mestcherskys enemies affirm that he at
tackled kokovtsef because KokovtseH
was too scrupulous about pure financial
administration. and cut off the state sub
sides which the Grazhdanin enjoyed
for forty Years. whereas White paid out
money literally. Probably this and the
much worse stories circulated by enemies
about Mestchcrsky are ISLANDERS. At any
= rate. they do not shake the loyalty Of
Nicholas II.
During. the ministerial crisis Nest
chcrsky was thrice at Tsarskoe Scio.
and he knew of the cabinet changes be-
fore any one else. He also was respon-
sIole for the cars rescript ordering a
reform of the demoralizing vodka
monopoly. He drew up the rescript itself
and advised Nicholas Ii to issue it, H..
was also responsible for the choice of
NJ. Bark finance minister. and he car
ried through his old argument that the
minister of finance and the president OF
the council OF ministers should never be
the same person.
Mestchersky has now got a tighter
grip than ever OF the court. and tight
grip through Gore1nykin. Bark and Sab
ier on the cabinet. His next scheme ia
said to be for the Irritation of the legis-
lative powers Of the duma and council
of the empire. This week ne writes in
the Grazhdanin denying these plans, bur
he has begun an attack on the council
of the empire Tor defending one OF its
members. Prof.. Grimm, against ill-use
by Minister of the Interior Casso. The
progressives say that Mestchersky will
not rest until he mas wound up the con-
stitution and brought Russia back to the
autocracy which fourished before the
war with Japan.
tCopyrj-bt 1914 by Curtis BroWp.l