The border vidette., 1915-08-07
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Culled From Our
 Exchanges.

gently made from Tucson to Bis bee.
 Nebraska Queen, the man. moth horse at Riverside park, Phoenix, is dead as the result of a snake bite. The horse was said to have been the biggest in the world. It was on display at i the state fair last fall.-Ex.
 The three year-old child of W. Wyman, who had a 22-caliber bullet pass through it's head, is | road to recovery. He was ac cidentally shot at his parents home on the Sandy.-Kingman, Arizona, Mineral Wealth. Walter l.. Church, who is pro- noting the Mt. Lennon pas senger aeroplane line calls at tentiOn to the fact that the cost of the machine would be $15, ,OOO instead of S1, 800. The aerial editor made a slight mistake in handling this Sitem.-Citizen.
 That there has been a mark ed decrease in the number of ,, prisoners received at the state prison, and also @ material re- duction in the cost of running the instituti tion, is shown in the annual repo,t of Superintendent Sims, received by Governor Hunt.
 The contract for the Tucson, Cornelia and Gila Bend railroad, which will connect the New Cor nelia mine at Ajo with the out side world, was let Thursday to James H. Maxey of Yuma. Ac- tual work on the grade will start during the coming week. k.-Doug- las Dispatch.
 Work of constructing the women's department of the Pio- neer Home will soon be under full headway. N. P. Olsen, who has been awarded the contract, has arrived and is busy with de tails of obtaining materials and the transportation of same to the home. Prescott Courier.
 A petition is out here and is being freely signed. requesting the county board of supervisors to place a bounty of five cents on jack rabbits. Similar peti- tions will be circulated, it is un- derStOod, at Bowie and Wilcox. and perhaps at other points in the county.-San Simon Arte- sian Belt.
 Little three-year-o old Edward Pratt Marshall. son of Mr. and Mrs. c. F. Marshall, died We'd nesday evening from the effects of scorpion sting. The little fellow was stung on the hand at 8:3O Tuesday evening and in spite of all that could be done passed away the following even Blade.
 One of the most important pub lications yet to be issued by the Bureau of Mines is to come out shortly. Two volumes of l, ,OOO pages each will be devoted to compilations, embracing every statue or act ever passed by Congress having to do with metal, iron, coal or gas. It will be known as United States Mining Statutes Annoted."
 Acting on the recommends tion or the live stock sanitary board Governor Hunt has is sued quarantine proclamation, admitting shipments of live stock from all the territory west of Mississippi, with the exception of the counties of Summer, Crow ley. Shedgwick and Butler in Kansas. The importation of the cattle from the state of Sonora, Mexico, is strictly prohibited.
 Reports from Phoenix indicate the possibility of new men get ing into the ring next year, when the political pot begins to boil oyer Sid. Osborn is one of the men mentioned for the gov ernorship on the democratic ticket, while Tom Campbell is the avowed candidate of the re- publican party, so far as Tom can avOW In the north the de- mocrats would like very much to see Congressman Hayden in the field, as he is the one un- beatable individual that could be put forward to congeal and consolidate all democratic fac tions and take the party out of of the Hunt quagmire.-Miner.