The border vidette., 1914-12-26

y 70 mountain lion measuring nine feet from tip to tip. This is one
 of the largest lions killed in this
 section for some time.
 Manager of the Yuma Heights
 Fruit Farm, w. F. Warburton,
 says that he is shipping fifty
 boxes of Yuma oranges a day
 at $4.O0 per box f. o. b. Yuma.
 These oranges are going all
 over the country. In Los An geles the Northern California
 navels are selling for $1 60 per
 box while the Yuma'S are in de mand alongside of them when
 they can be had for $3 50 per
 box. The Yuma orange is
 known all over the country as
 the finest orange in the world.
 San Simon has recently been
 made a voting precinct of Co.,
 chise county and at the last re
 gistration recorded 23O legal
 voters. Nest of them are said
 to be Democrats, although there
 were a few who claimed to be
 ProhibitiOnists, some Republi. cans, with here and there Q stray Bull Moose. The Socialists and Labor Party people did not seem to be represented in the com munity by any one having lived in it long enough to have ac- quired legal residence.-Arte- sian Belt.
 Scoring victory for the more conservative element, the Ariz- ona State Federation of Labor at recent meeting in Phoenix elected E. J. Warren of the Phoenix Cooks and Walters as president and Bert Wilkinson of Phoenix Carpenters as secre- tary. Wilkinson was opposed by Campbell of the Bisbee Min CTS and a hot fight was put up for the. position. The move to recall Frank Brown of the Bisbee Miners; who had been elected legislative watcher, fail ed by a big vote.
 With bullets flying across the border so profusely that three persons were shot on the Amer icau side of the line, Major George H. Crabtree, medical corps, attached to the Ninth cavalry played tennis at Naco with another army officer for two hours last Sunday afternoon. The Tennis court is one of the most exposed places in the en- tire district. This, according to the Douglas international, mere ly goes to show what lengths an tennis player will go to play his game.
 Tucson's Christmas trade is apparently scarcely affected by the hard times, which are re- ported by other cities, accord ing to statements of many of the leading merchants. The Christmas trade. of this year is well up to the mark of former years in many lines of business, if any change is to be noticed it is in the way of a greater buying of useful and staple articles to the partial ex clusion of the novelties design ed for Christmas trade only. Such is the concensus Of opinion in the retail trade.
 c. M. White, lpresident-o of the Arizona Sunday school cOnven- tion, has been advised that, the next meeting of the convention will be held in Yuma next Octo- Der. The Commercial Club which sent an invitation to the Sunday School convention to hold it's next meeting in Yuma and that proper entertainment would be provided, has also been notified by the executive committee of the Sunday school convention that the meeting would be held here. About one hundred peo- pie will attend this convention and it will be good advertise ment for Yuma. Sun.
 A test of the Arizona anti lien labor law adopted at the election was begun in suit filed . in the United S tates court by Mike Riach, an cook, enjoining Will liam Truax, reStaurauteur, from discharging him. He says the new law conflicts with the Fourteenth amendment of the United States constitution. The law provides that at least eighty per cent of the employees of A.