The border vidette., 1915-12-25
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of interest CulIed From Our
 Exchanges.


 called upon for the latest censu;
 of Tucson and other information
 which lead the authorities to be
 lieve that the uperviSing ar
 chitect of the treasury is ma king
 up estimates for federal build
 ing in Tucson.
 Ramon Villalobos, who was
 convicted at the fall term of
 court in 1914 for the murder of
 Phin Brown in Devils Canyon
 in July of that year, paid he
 penalty of that crime by forfeit
 ing his life on the galloWs in the
 state prison Friday afternoon.
 The first large shipment Of al
 falfa seed ever made from Ari-
 zona to outside points was made
 asst week when a carload of the 'seed, raised in the Santa Cruz
 valley was shipped to Cincinnati. Ohio. The car was valued at S45OO and contained 3O,OCO pounds of seed. Tucson Star.
 Jesse Loveless. the negro sol dier convicted of rape committed on the Fort Huachuca military | O Leavenworth, Kas., yesterday morning on the Golden State. He is to serve a life term sen 1 tence. Deputy U. s. Marshal | WilletS was in charge of him. Star.
 One of the stiffest fines ever imposed on a corpora tion in this state went on record Thursday afternoon, when the corporation com mission assessed fine FOf LOCO against the Arizona 6 | Eastern railroad company for contempt of orders issued some time by the commission. Fail ure to submit necessary data re- lative to operating costs, result ed in the fine.
 The jury that was called to in quire into the sanity of J. w. Kermeen, after three hours of deliberation, decided that he was mentally responsible and fixed the date of his hanging as January 7. The case of William F'altin, the convicted murderer that Warden Sims refused to hang, was taken up immediate ly and finally determined that he was insane.
 Durham and White have let a contract for well near the state highway and about 5 miles out of Florence where they have property. MT. Durham is a firm believer in the willow stick and believes he was located water at the point where the we'll is to be | sunk. He does not think that | they will have to go deeper than | 90 feet before they encounter a | good flow of water.
 Mrs. Annie Olds, who is charg- | ed with the murder of her hus- | band at Pearce last spring, ar rived in Tombstone Sunday, Ok | lahoma City, in response to the notice sent to her that if she did | would be forfeited. The case ] against her has been continued | from time to time on account of | illness. It is expected that the l case will be tried early in Jan uary.
 The Eleventh International Farm Congress is 10 be held | next October at El Paso Head ] quarters of the Congress have been moved from Denver to the former city, and preparations are being made for the biggest | Congress yet. Every farming community in Arizona should begin now to plan for an Arizona exhibit which will eclipse any | other event of the kind ever held | anywhere.
 The best asbestos in the Unit ed States has been mined at the Grand Canyon in Arizona for some considerable time, but the recent numerous discoveries of this metal in the Globe district have caused considerable inter- est. The price of the asbestos is high, running from S1O per ton on extremely impure ma terial up to $35O per ton for the better grades. Although the United States leads all other countries in the manufacture and use of asbestos, most of it's raw material has been imported from Canada. However, Arizona asbestos has been proven even better than the Canadian, as it contains lower percentage of