The border vidette., 1914-07-18

Mix and all the members and Clerk ReddOch being present. Cornell Neumann, who has been
 on the sick list, is again able to
 be on the job.
 l Major Fred. KrOhn, Superin-
 tendent of the NogaIes Cananea
 branch of the Southern Pacific of
 Mexico, with headquarters at
 Naco, Arizona, was here We'd neSGay. having made a trip of
 inspection over the line. Major
 Krohn reported everything quiet
 and orderly at Cananea, and stated he did not anticipate any serious trouble at the big mining camp between the striking min
 CTS and the mining company.
 Mrs. P. J. Munch and son
 Phil, have gone to St. Joseph,
 Missouri, to enjoy a visit with | MT. Munch'S family. Pete and | County Recorder Phil Herold are busy organizing the ancient,
 more or less, honorable society of Summer Widowers, the mem | bership of which is not so large in numbers as in former years. Owing to the small membership, the Summer Widowers and the Stay Homes, may decided to consolidate.
 Nomination petitions for the following Democratic candidates, all subject to the Democratic primaries, were this week circu- lated and numerously signed by electors of Santa Cruz county: United States senate, Hon. Mark Smith, the present incumbent; Secretary of State Sidney P. Osborn, present incumbent; and Leslie B. Hardy for Attorney General. All of the candidates have a big following among Santa Cruz Democracy, and at the September primaries they will receive the support of a large majority of the Democratic voters.
 Attorney E. R. Purdum this week announces in THE BORDER VIDETTE that he is a candidate for the office of County Attorney, subject to the will of the electors at the Democratic primaries to be held on the Sth day of Sep tember. Mir. Purdum, who is both a lawyer and a gentleman, is not only popular in Nogales. but he has host of friends and acqua1ntances in the Elgin coun- try where he resided before com ing to Nogales. He is also well and favorably known in other sections of the county. With the united support of the Demo- cratic electors, if nominated, Mir. Purdum will be elected at torney of Santa Cruz county, by a large majority.
 Thanks to the untiring efforts of Honorable Mark Smith, one of Arizona's efficient United States Senators, the United States government is about to pay the claims of our citizens, who lost their property on the international line, at the time the strip was cleared by order of the powers that be in Wash ington. These are just claims and should have been settled many years ago. They aggre gate about one hundred thous and dollars, which sum will be distributed among the following claimants, whose property was destroyed: Theodore Gebler, the John T. Brickwood estate, A. l.. Peck, Joseph Lusignan, and several others.
 Burton & Son, of Nogales, were this week awarded the big contract for erecting the hand some new Town Hall, and work on the magnificent structure will be started at once, and push ed to completion as soon as pos sible. The brick for the new Town Hall will be furnished by Jones & Hines, brickmakers and contractors of this place, who also have the contract for furnishing the brick for the new electric light and ice plant of the Nogales Electric Light, Ice & Water Company, now being erected on Grand avenue. The bid of Burton & Son, accepted by the Nogales Fire Depart ment, Inc, of which Bracey Curtis is president, was S22s65O-
 On Friday of last week, Geo. N. Sayre, the we'll known United States mounted customs inspect