The border vidette., 1914-07-11
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of interest Called From Our
 Exchanges.

A meeting or the member or
 the Pima county democratic
 club was held in the old pueblo on the second, for the purpose
 of reorganizing and arranging
 for the coming campaign.
 A new addition to the store of
 the Phelps, Dodge Mercantile
 company in Douglas was recent
 ly opened and the smelter city now claims the largest mercan
 tile establishment in the entire state.
 J. H. Dyer. for number of years superintendent of the
 Tucson division of the Southern | Pacific railroad, left early last
 week for California to take up l his new duties as superintendent of the Sacramento division. D. M. Clark, county superin- tendent of Yavapai county roads, is under S7,OOO bonds awaiting trial on seven specific graft l charges, including the padding of payrolls. He will be tried before Judge Smith early in the July term. Flagstaff Sun.
 William Buckingham, for twenty five years Arizona repre- sentative of the Fairbanks Morse company, died last week in Clifton at the home of Normal Carmichael, manager of the Arizona Copper company. Death was due to apoplexy. Because the Rio Colorado act ed up and changed it's course, Arizona is now richer by many acres than before. This hap pened years ago, and California was the loser. Now comes the announcement that the United States, which held part of this transferred land as a military reservation, has donated ,28 acres to the city of Yuma. Tucson Citizen.
 That Arizona Federal prison CTS will be confined in the future at the state penitentiary at San ta Fe instead of being carried to Atlanta. is the news received by officers in Tucson. The order was made recently of a protest lodged against the common car rierS who wanted matter of several thousand dollars for talk | ing twenty five prisoners and guards from Phoenix to Atlanta. -Tucson Star.
 The state board of education recently at it's session granted a | pension to Charles H. Fully of
 Arizona, on account of his ser
 vices to the rising generations
 in the capacity of teacher. For
 thirty, five years Judge" Fully,
 as he is affectionally called has
 been a pedagogue in Arizona.
 Under the present law, teachers
 with a service of twenty five
 years are qualified to draw a
 pension of $6OO per year. Phoenix Republican.
 Thos. N. Wills, who owns one 1 of the finest ranches on the San Pedro river, between Feldman and Mammoth, has struck arte- sian water and is developing a fine flow. A few months ago he put down five wells on his home place ranging from sixty to one hundred feet in depth and these wells are now flowing into large reservoir and the water will be used to irrigate the large alfalfa fields on the ranch. Blade.
 Lois Nell, a Mojave squaw, wife of John Nell, died at her home, just below the pumping plant on the river, last Saturday. as victim of tuberculosis Immediately after her death, agreeable to tribal custom, the remains were cremated. The method employed, while sim pie one, was none the less effect i've. A hole about six feet deep was dug, a quantity of dry wood placed in the bottom, the corpse, attired in the best clothes and be- decked with such jewelry and other finery as she possessed during life, was laid upon this, face downward: more wood was piled on and the whole ignited. This done, the mourners went about their business with appar- ently no more concern save to see that the fire burned properly. The house in which she died, together with all her worldly possessions were also burned by the husband. .-Parker Post.