The border vidette., 1916-05-27
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Culied From Our
 Exchanges.

Salt River valley will prod uce over 900 carloads of cantalopes, according to B. I. Dawson of Dawson Bros, Denver, who has just finished survey of the crop and acreage for the coming season. Tucson Star.
 Owing to the recent embargo on ore which bas been placed on shippers in Arizona and New Mexico, by both the Douglas and Fl Paso smelters, many leasors in Cochise county have been forced to suspend opera tionS.
 All the preliminary details for Prescott's S25O, ,OOO Court House have been arranged. The con- tracts have been let and in a very short time the work will be in full blast and by January l., 1918, the new building will be fully completed.
 After Arizona Blade Tribune had gone to press last Friday a telegra m was received from Carl Hayden stating that the Indian appropriation bill had been pass ed by both houses of congress carrying the amendment for the diversion dam above Florence.
 Cripple Creek to date has pro- duced, in round numbers, S35O,- 100000 in gold. The greater part of that has come from a depth of less than 1000 feet. It was produced in spite of wastful methods of mining, careless ore sorting, and inefficient milling process.
 Friends of Prof R. H. Forbes, dean and director of the college of agriculture and the agricnlt- ural experiment station at the | University of Arizona, were pleased to learn that the honor | arys degree of doctor of philo- Sophy was conferred on him by the University of California on May 17.
 Attorney Allen R. English has received unofficial advices that his son, Robert English, had been recommended to the Senate for appointment to An napolis, by Senator Ashust. Young Robert is a Tombstone boy, and his friends will no doubt be pleased to hear of the pointlnent. nt.-ProSpectOr.
 Leslie Hardy, for the past four years assistant attorney general of Arizona, has resigned to be- come a member of the law firm of Ellinwood and Ross of Bisbee. His resignation will go into eff feet June 1. Although no one has been named for the position, one name has been mentioned, that of Alex. Baker of Phoenix.
 A wedding of interest took place on Monday afternoon at 3 I o'clock, when Miss Martha Roth rock, attractive daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. R. Rothrock, of El gin, was married to Jewell Trask, at the home of the latter's grand mother, Mrs. L.. $. Trask, at this place, Rev. J. E. Ferris reading the marriage service.- Benson Signal.
 Word received from Douglas is that Wm. Coleman, the we'll known local musician has joined | the army at Douglas, which has been mobilized for border ser vice. This makes several who have joined from here, and when Lieut.. Blome arrives here to re- cruit many more are expected to be mustered into the ranks Tombstone PrOspector.
 The United Verde Copper Company has offered prizes in Jerome and Clarkdale for the l best improvement for residence property in both town. A fund for tie purpose has been set aside for award in each town, the sum of S75, ,OOO for first prize l and $50 for the second prize will be offered for the best-kept and | most attractive lawns and yards | through the summer months.
 Two young Yuma Indians, sons of Manuel Garron and Jose Morehado, dead on the reserYa- tion near Yuma, as the result of tatooing, which they had done on their arms at the Robinson | circus, recently in Yuma, by a man who travelled with that az preoation and performed the |