The border vidette., 1915-10-16

of the week, from Tucson, on private business. Tuesday he accompanied the NOgaleS ElkS to Tucson, as chairman of the entertainment committee, which I herd from Nogales.
 Last Saturday and the day before, A. l.. Paschall, farm ad- visors for Cochise and Santa Cruz counties, was in attendance i at the Santa Cruz county fair at Sonoita. In a large measure the success of the fair is due to the untiring efforts of MT. Pas chall, who in many ways assist ed the management.
 R. A. Davidson, of New York, member of the engineering firm of Cole, Ives & Davidson, is a visitor in the city. His firm has the contract for building the great power plant for the Inter national Gas Company of this city He is here to inspect the work which is being done by Superintendent Richards of New York.
 The city council held an in tereSting business session last Monday night, Mayor Mix pre- siding. Another meeting will be held next Monday evening. At last Monday evenings meeting, Clerk Budge was instructed to notify property owners on the | fo immediately put in cement side walks.
 1 w. T. Roath has purchased the Frank Irvine place, corner of Elm street and Sonoita ave nue. The new owner will at once commence the erection of two brick cottages. Mir. Roath is rapidly becoming one of our big real estate owners. He believes in Nogales' future and is backing his judgement with hard Amer ican dollars.
 The average tax levy for all l purposes in Arizona for 1915 is | S1.6215 on each S1OO valuation, according to figures compiled by the state tax commission. The commission made public the fact that $25, ,51O.34 is the amount of taxes to be paid by the private car companies for the year 1915. This is to be collected by the state treasurer.
 Captain John Cady of Patago- mia, accompanied by MT. Basil Dillon Woon, until recently city editor of the Nogales Daily Her. aid, spent couple of days here this week from Patagonia. Mir Woon will shortly depart for Mexico on private business. Captain Cady is making arrange ments to publish his book on Arizona history.
 MT. Bill Hunter of Fort Sum ner, New Mexico, an old time personal friend of Mir. Land, vice president of the Santa Cruz Valley Bank & Trust Company will tomorrow ship a trainlOad of cattle from Calabasas. The cattle were bought from the SorrellS brothers and several other Santa Cruz county stock raisers. They will be shipped to New Mexico pastures.
 l Mr. Clay. the Hermosillo min ing man, arrived from the south Tuesday evening, accom- panied by MT. Harry J. Smith the banker, and c. c. Rountree the Minas Prietas merchant Mir. Smith was on his way to E Paso, where he had been called by telegram announcing the death, last Saturday, of his father. MT. Rountree has gone to Los Angeles.
 Columbus Day, Oct. 18th beine a legal holiday, the day was ob served in Nogales by the closing of county and city offices, the banks, postoffices and bushes: houses. In the evening there was music in the Nogales, Son ora plaza, by Urbalejo's band , in honor of the occasion. 4 [ large crowd from the American . side of the line attended the con f cert.
 Friends and admirers of Con gressman Carl Hayden wer greatly disappointed because h, did not attend the county fai at Sonoita last week. Congress : man Hayden has a host of friend 5 in Santa Cruz county. Man,