The border vidette., 1916-08-12
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Culled From Our
 Exchanges.

Flagstaff is to be congratulat- ed upon it's splendid paved streets and it's clean, economical
 city government.
 New Cornelia. has donated the sum of S1O.OOO to a Catholic church and priest house for tbe new town of Cornelia.
 The thirteen national banks and fifty one state banks of Ari- zona have deposits of nearly $6O, ,OOO, ,OOO; an increase of near ly S15, 100000 over last year. Their total resources are nearly $40, 100000.
 l During the past quarter the Shattuck A cizona Copper had net earnings of $689. .615 94. Dividends amounting to 124 per cent were paid during the quart CT, totaling $437 500. This is shown in the quarterly report of the company issued for the quarter ending June 30.
 The cantaloupe crop of the Mesa growers this year proved a paying proposition for those engaged in the industry. From a total of 800 acres 382 cars of melons were sent out from Mesa. and the prices received were in all cases satisfactory, ranging from $1 for flats to $4.5O for standard.
 Harold. Bell Wright, the well known novelist, has returned to his retreat at Oracle, the Tucson summer colony, in the Catalina mountains. north of that city. He goes for the purpose of es- tablishing in camp near his own, an old friend, Dr. Williams, of Pittsburg, Pa., who is accom- panied by his family.
 Denying his motion for a re- hearing, the. supreme court of Arizona has set September 15 as the date for the execution of Robert Dayton Talley, the Gila county murderer, who was con- victed five years ago of the mur der of a man in Miami. Talley recently lost his case on appeal to the supreme court.
 Locey, who expects to start | work very soon on group of tion expert and proposes to use a Curtis biplane on his journeys between the city and the mining camp. The machine already has been ordered from St. Louis. It is of large carrying capacity, that it may be loaded at need with camp supplies - Journal Miner.
 Charging the University of of that institution with careless ness and negligence, Joseph l.. Cloud, father of Leo. Cloud, who was electrocuted at the un- iversity in March, 1915, is suing the institution for S5O,OOO dam ages. Young Cloud met his death by coming in contact with a live wire while painting a tank at the university.
 Walter Mcintyre left Wednes- day for Phoenix, where he will have his right eye removed. Sev- eral week ago, MT. Mcintyre, WI1llO WOI hl lll3 III OtiO hCio Oi1i OoL- ing barley, a barley beard flew into his right eye. For time it was thought the eye could be saved, but the pupil had been pierced and sight destroyed, and to save the sight in the left eye, the right eye must be removed.
 Permission to build reservoir, conduit and power house in Sa- bino canyon in the Cataline mountains has been granted to John w. Daily of Tucson by the secretary of agriculture. The proposed dam and power plant. when completed, will be one of the largest power projects in Arizona, and is expected to SUD- ply power to the city of Tucson, and to mining camps in the sur rounding district.
 Burros would appear to be open for. appropriation in any number on the San Pedro river, where the cattlemen will enter upon campaign of extermina- tion, if nothing else can be done, for the wild donkeys, said to number more than ,OOO, are eat ing out the range in some local itieS. Most of them are descen- dantS Of burrOS trrpod nI1t Inv