The border vidette., 1916-07-08

COuucll ldSG MOnUay evening, Police Judge W. H. Smith was unanimously re selected. The |! salary of A. l.. Peck, superin- tendent of streets, was fixed at S1OO per month.
 Manager Joaquin Legarra of The Red House, has recovered l his two handsome American flags, and says he bears the boys no malice. The Fourth of July decorations at The Red House were easily the best in town, without the two big flags.
 Nogales is now the biggest little town in Arizona. The movies, root beer stands, re- staurantS, etc, are doing a great business, accommodating more than ten thousand regular U. $. soldiers and state militia, all of whom are glad to be here.
 Collector of Customs and Mrs. c. E. Hardy enjoyed the Fourth of July at Patagonia, where the Collector delivered the Fourth of July oratiOn to a large crowd of Santa Cruz county's patriotic 1 citizens. They returned home in time to witness the fire works.
 Ralph O'Neill, manager of ] Kempton S5 O'Neill, the we'll known successful assayers and ore buyers, returned the fore part of the week from Ell Paso, where he accompanied a ship ment of copper ore, which his firm sold to the El Paso Smelter
 Manager Ben Evans of the Montezum ma hotel, left Thursday for Los Angeles, to enjoy ten days rest by the sea, with Mrs. Evans and Master Ben, who have been sojOurning on the coast the past two months. The folks will accompany MT. Evan home.
 A battalion of the Fourteenth United States infantry, sent here from Douglas upon request of Colonel Sage. for reinforce nents, at the time it was feared the Carranza soldiers were about to attack Nogales, returned to Douglas last Tuesday, to rejoin l UQ0lf fOSlneuG.
 With six full regiments of infantry, almost a regiment of cavalry, nearly a regiment of artillery, machine gun companies | galore, signal corps companies and a full field hospital corps. now stationed at Nogales, timid citizens are again able to sleep | with hOth aUQS closed
 | Yesterday a note formally ac- -ceDtiug General Carranza's pro- posal to settle the differences between the United States and Mexico, by direct negotiations, was handed Mexico's Washing ton representative, after the note had been approved by Pre- sident Wilson and his cabinet.
 With soldiers now guarding Ajo, the new mining camp, Casa Grande and the Roosevelt Dam, those points are now just as safe for Americans as other Arizona towns Companies l. and K were sent from here to Ajo. Company M went to the Roosevelt Dam, and Company to Casa Grande.
 Charley Wiswall, manager of the Greene Cattle Company, has been here several days this week from the big ranch near Cana nea, where he had been on con- pany business. From here he went to Lochiel, the company's big ranch in the San Rafael valley, of which Tom Heady is manager.
 On account of the arrival of ten thousand soldiers in Nogales recently. the business at the local postoffice has increased to wonderful proportions, and in orders to expedite the handling of mail, Postmaster Schuckmann requests the patrons of the office to mail their letters, etc., early in the forenoon.
 The display of fireworks from | Reservoir Hill on the night of the glorious Fourth, under the personal supervision of James 1 B. Mix, who is a past master in the business, was a credit to even Mr. Mix, who for more than a quarter of century has been the official director of fire works in Nogales.
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