The border vidette., 1914-06-13

in this county, as well as all the
 other counties of the state
 which will soon be followed by
 candidates for state and county
 offices It is generally under
 stood that there will be several hundred candidates all told of
 the five parties, which will make some ballot when 1t comes down
 to the voters. - Mohave Go. 1 Miner.
 The Armory which is being
 constructed jointly in Tucson by
 the city and state, is proceeding
 rapidly and the side walls of the
 main floor are now completed.
 The armory will be built and equipped for occupancy by fall. It will serve as a large conven- ton hall as well as an armOry. In the basement there will be bowling alleys, shower. baths, equipment rooms and shooting gallery. The building will cost $25, ,OOO.
 According to the report of the collector of customs for the port of Douglas, about three million dollars Mexican) worth of copper ore passed through that port in May, consigned from Mexican points to the Arizona smelterS. The mines at Nacozari shipped more ore into the United States than all the other Sonora properties combined. The total shipment amounted to 257 carloads con- taining 1O,O36 tons of ore.
 An agitation to have all the streets and alleys in the busi ness section of Tucson paved, is now under way and is meeting with widespread approval in the old pueblo. A petition prepared by the Chamber of Commerce and addressed to the city officials, asking for the creation of a paving district out of the entire business section of the town, is being freely signed by the merchants and residents of the city generally.
 The official mandate of the Supreme Court of the United States against Grant Brothers Construction Company which was fined S45, ,OOO on a charge of importing alien contract labor CTS, was received last week by the federal court in Tucson. The case prosecuted by former United States Attorney Morris on, being heard in Tucson. The Grant Brothers Company. was fined $45, ,OOO and an appeal was taken to the Supreme Court of the United States, the lower courts decision being a affirmed.
 Forty three years ago Con Crowley, at present living in Globe, was a resident of George town, Colorado, mining district. Crowley was prosperous aud was known as the poor mans friend" An acquaintance de- sidered to.get out of the district and borrowed hundred dollars from Crowley who promptly forgot the matter. Last week Crowley received through the Globe post office a letter from Alaska containing a check for a thousand dollars from the man he had staked over fifty years be- fore. The man had made his way to Alaska with the first rush of gold seekers and accord ing to his letter to Crowley had struck it rich.
 Mrs. J. H. Anderson of Seat tie, Washington, has leased the Duke apartment house, on Orange avenue, and will within the next few weeks open a first modern hospital. Mrs. Anderson has not yet arrived in Yuma but will be here within a week or ten days. It is her purpose, so the Sun is informed, to fit up these aparmentS in modern first, class manner for hospital pur- poses and conduit a first class Mrs. Anderson is a trained nurse with several years in the work. She | has been the matrOn in Sevral similar institutions. She has l friends and relatives in Yuma | who have induced her to come here, believing that this is a good point at which to locate an institution of the kind. The | Duke apartment house is admir- ably fitted for the business. It | is a new building and with slight | .ho onI nn0nSSaTu