The border vidette., 1914-10-03

1 all arrangements US TOT the hl
 Paso to Phoenix road race
 draws to an end. Greater in
 terest than was anticipated is being manifested by car owners and drivers. It appears that
 there will be more than forty
 entrants. We shall undoubtedly y exceed and excel the Los An
 geles event in numbers, time
 and interest and will receive a
 great amount of publicity.
 Work is being rushed on the
 auditorium of the new S165, ,OOO
 agricultural building of the Uni
 versity of Arizona, so that the
 Farmers Short Course may be
 held there thls year. It is ex
 pected that the auditorium will
 be entirely completed by Jan
 uary 1, 1915, when the short
 course commences. The Farm
 CTS Short Course will be held
 at Tucson January f to 16, in
 elusive. A record breaking at
 tendance of farmers is expected.
 Prof. Stanley F. Morse su-
 perintendent of the agricultural
 extension service of the Univer-
 sity of Arizona agricultural col
 lege, was in the Salt River val ley September p and 23 to at tend the farmers meeting at Phoenix and Mesa, to discuss the question of an organization to secure a farm advisor. He is also perfecting plans for the third annual agricultural dem onstration train, which will start from Phoenix on November 19.
 In recent statement at Tue son, relative to the building of the Port LoboS railroad, that will give Arizona connection with the coast, MT. Frank Mur- phy said that Arizona will have a water front at Port Lobos. within six months after the Mexican troubles are definitely settled By that Mr. Murphy is understood to mean that he and his associates have fully deter mined to build the long proposed railroad to Port Lobos, on the Gulf of California.
 Mrs. R. N. Keaton, of the San Rafael. met with painful and dangerous accident last Friday | evening at her home. She went | to release a horse which was tethered near the house, and in some manner the rope became | entwined about her body and | she was thrown to the ground and dragged until the rope broke the frightened animal. Mrs. Keaton suffered painful and at first it was thought many ribs were broken, but later examination proved this to be incorrect. Physicians dressed her wounds and latest reports are that the injured wo- man is now getting along as well IS could be expected.
 The sworn statement of ex- Denses of a number of candi- : dates have been filed at the capitol building. It is shown that Don Babbitt, unsuccessful 0oratiOn commissioner, spent 5267. 20, while F. A Jones, who heads the ticket for the same position. spent $500. Mark Smith swears that he spent but s8UO.25, while Charley Hanson, who made such a great race for nine inspector, spent S527.51. p. J. Miller, candidate for the jax commission, spent $50, while Sidney Osborn, who was reno minated for secretary of state, avished $2O on his campaign. Judge Hawkins, who was a can lidate for the democratic nOm- nation for the supreme court, spent S195.O5.
 Arizona will benefit to the ex ent of about S12O,OOO from the past fiscal years receipts from national forests in the state. This includes, however, more han S3O,OOO received from the ale of timber from the school ands, but logged under the re- sulatiOnS of the forest service. The figures have just been com oiled by the department of agri ulture. The total receipts rom ArizOna'S national forests were S2S4, ,323. 94 derived almost . .qually from lumber and forage, with something over S15, ,OOO in eceipt from various special IseS and from water power de- Deducting the $3O, , 30. 5S received timber sold from