The border vidette., 1914-08-15

] man, has for several days past been guest at the MOntezuma
 hotel, from Sonora, Mexico. He | hopes soon to see the internal troubles in Mexico settled, at l which time work at the graphite properties will be resumed. It is stated on good authority
 that the great copper mines at Cananea, will close down today, thereby throwing several thou
 sand men out of work. YeSter-
 day large number of men were
 laid off, and the remainer will
 be out of employment today.
 Manager Ben Evans of the
 MOntezuma Hotel, expects early
 next week to have bis new priv ate telephone system completed. There will be fifty telephones in the new exchange, which will be
 up to- the minute, and great convenience to guests of the big hotel.
 Reports of the execution of Juan Saenz. telegraph operator at Magdalena, by Gales sol diers, is denied by prominent citizens of Magdalena, now in Nogales. The operator was ar rested but has not been execut- ed. He was accused of being a MaytOrena spmpathizer.
 Dr. and Mrs. H. ". Purdy have gone to enjoy a weeks va cation at the big Richard Brady ranch in Pima county, managed by their Son-in- law, MT. Charles Ruppelius, formerly of this place. Dr. and Mrs. Purdy will be met at Tucson by MT. Rup- Delius. and the trip from there to the ranch will be by auto mobile.
 Mrs. Edwin Mcfarland, of Pa tagonia, spent yesterday here consulting with her local lieut. enants. She is a candidate for superintendent of schools. Her Democratic opponent, Mrs. Jose phine Saxon, of Nogales, is now in the country looking after her fences. Both ladies are making a good, clean flight. The kind
 
 The party given Thursday evening, by Miss Josephine Tit comb, at the beautiful home of her parents on Mob Hill, was a delightful affair. Those present were the Misses Josephine Tit comb, Margaret Wylie, Mildred Fowler, Helen Forbes; Messrs. Edward Titcomb, Jr., William Cavanaugh, Harry Chenoweth, Jr., Harry Hobson, Eugene Sykes and Herbert Wood.
 J. A. 'Legarra, manager of the ing goods for the big emporium on Morley avenue. writes from New York City that he is having a fine time and is making some dandy purchases of up-to- the minute goods for the NogaleS trade. During Manager Le- garra's absence in the east, Don Ramon Vasquez, owner of the Red House, is in active charge of the store.
 Mark Manning, of the Sonoita this county, has been several days in No gales this week. Mr. Manning is one of the Democratic can didates for supervisor. He owns one of the best farms in the Sonoita country. While here he was chaperoned around by At tcrney Purdum, also a Demo cratic candidate. Attorney Pur- dunn aspires to the office of county attorney.
 Colonel Ben Ashbey of the | Sonora railway, in charge of the last passenger train south since | the nstitutionalists took charge l of the property of the Southern Pacific of Mexico, is tiled up.." in Hermosillo. While Col. Ben is not really and truly tied up," he's as good as tied up, since he can't get away. Conductor Jack l now in the city, who was 'tied up" many months at Empalme and Guaymas, says the colonel has his sincere sym pathy. That's what Jack says.
 Harry Grace, formerly of No gales, DOW of Los Angeles, where he and his family have a fine residence, is a business visitor in Nogales. From here he will go to Sonora, on business connected with big land deal