The border vidette., 1916-07-15


 ard Oil Company, with head quarters at Phoenix, arrived
 from the state capital Thursday, on company business. Vic Condron, agent for the big com
 pany, motored down from Tucson on Wednesday,, and has since | been busy with the local trade.
 Harry Dolson. one of the pro- prietors of the Owl Drug Store, after a com bined business and pleasure visit to Los Angeles, returned home last Monday. He found the Owl doing an enormous business, as a result of the ar rival here of many thousand mili- tiamen from California, ,Connecti- cut and Utah. All good custom CTS.
 Last Sunday the mounts for the Utah Field Artillery arrived, and this week the Mormon boys who compose one of the best drilled batteries in the National Guard, have been doing some strenuous practice work. Gap. tain Webb is naturally proud of his husky bunch. They are way above the average, both as men and soldiers.
 Sid. D. Kempton, member of the local firm of Kempton & O'Neill, ore buyers and assay CTS, accompanied by his family, returted the forepart of the week from Sinaloa, Mexico, where M. KnpoDf0r Io1 or h,1ei ness for his company. His firm has mining interests in Santa Cruz county which will now re- ceive Sidney's personal atten- tion.
 General F. Elias Gales, mili- tary governor of Sonora, last Wednesday issued a proclama- tion ordering all volunteer sol dierS to their homes. The south ward movement of Mexican regular troops from border con- centratiOn points has been in progress since Wednesday. The soldiers will be sent to the Yaqui River valley to hunt Yaqui Indians.
 H. M. Cochran, ex-vice consul under American Consul Frede- rick Simpich, at Nogales, Sono- ra, writes from Washington, D. O., that he has recently been appointed vice consul at Guate- mala City, where be has gone to assume his new duties. MT. Cochran's friends here and at his old home town, Tucson, will be pleased to learn of his. we'll deserved promotion.
 On June 18th, Mrs. H. F. Sprecher, mother of Paul Spre- cher and Mrs. George B. Marsh, of this place, passed away in Washington, D. o., after ling ering illness, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. S. F. Cooper. Deceased was an old resident of Nogales, having resided here a number of years ago. Many old time friends here regret a good woman's passing.
 Jack Hoy, one of the best | known mine managers in the | west, who is in charge of pro- mines in the Patagonia l district has been in the city | days enjoying a visit | with Mrs. Hoy and the children. John Glasson of this city, also | an experienced miner, is super of the mines, from which regular shipments are being made to El Paso.
 w. w. Ford, the well known efficient local plumber, who has just completed the plumbing work in the annex of the St. Joseph's hospital has secured the contract for doing the plumb ing on the S25, ,OOO army hospital now being built in Nogales for Uncle Sam's soldiers. MT. Ford has had many years practical in the plumbing buSi- ness. He is thoroughly reliable and understands the plumbing game from A to z.
 The Idaho national guards men, twelve hundred strong, arrived in the city last Tuesday, and are now comfortably located on the hills northwest of the city. The first battalion com prised Companies B, A, F and the regimental band. The sec ond battalion included Companies H, M, D and K. Two machine pun DlatOOnS and a hospital