The border vidette., 1916-06-17
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest CuIled From Our
 Exchanges.

Eight of the companies com ] posing the Arizona national guard have been mustered into the federal service, the four re- maining to be mustered in with in the next day or two.
 That there is no such thing as ditches, and that the right to appreciate waste water does not exist without specific contract with the user, is the decision of the state supreme court.
 Arizona had only 49 men kill ed around mines in 1915, as com pared to 62 in 1914, yet the num- Der employed was much larger in 1915, being 13, 598 as compar- ed with 9522. The fatality rate for 1915 was 3.6 per 1000, which is not high proportion.
 A dispute over mining claims that began seven years ago be- tween Win. Sparks, pioneer prospector and former sergeant of the Arizona ranger, and Frank Thompson, a wealthy mining man terminated on the main street of Globe Saturday, when Sparks shot and killed Thomp- son.-Record.
 Charles Engle, the man at Norton who recently demanded that his politics on his registra- tion blank be changed from Socialist to non Partisan, has notified the recorder now to | olooora ,oi,o, Eoolx to tho SooioliSt f. party. He is the man who said he would eat up the Democrats this fall. Yuma Sun.
 Dewey Harris, of Tempe has | been appointed one of the three candidates from Arizona who will take the examination for ad- mission to West Point early next month Harris is a member of the national guard, but following his appointment has returned from activity service to take the eXamination.-Tucson Star.
 State Land Commissioner w. A. Moeur and assistant. Ben S. Clark, of Phoenix, were in Tom mbstone today, having come here to conduct sale of state land, involving several thousand acres, situated in the northern end of the Sulphur Spring val ley. The sale was conducted from the court house steps this morning. .-PrOspector.
 At the meeting of the board of supervisors held Monday. pro- bably one of the most important matters that came up for con sideration, was relative to the services of the farm advisor. Lack of funds for the continual tion of his salary, caused them to discontinue the position after July 1st. Santa Cruz county is reported as having taken similar action for the same reason.- ProspectOr.
 Work on the proposed cele- bration for Patagonia on the Fourth is progressing nicely and from present indications it pro- mises to be the most interesting Fourth of July celebration ever given in this county. Two feat ures on the program are above the ordinary and should assure a good attendance and a splendid time. These two headliners are the miners drilling contest and the cowboy stunts.
 Woody Gatiin, one of the en- terprisipg sons of Supervisor J. s. Gatlin, had shipped in four carloads of yearlings last Satur- day and will run them on the range below town, Lawrence Sipe looking oct for them while Woody is detained in Nogales, where he is in business. About 300 head were in the shipment and cattlemen say they are as nice a bunch of bawlers as has seen been here for some time.- Patagonian.
 Shipment of 'Pablo," a non alcoholic beverage manufactured by the Papst Brewing company of Milwaukee, Wis, will nc longer be refused by railroad companies entering the state O Arizona, M O n d y afternoon : Judge Sawtelle stated that ht would grant the writ of mandat ory injunction applied for by thC Pabst Brewing company in two applications directed against thu