The border vidette., 1917-01-20
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest CulIed From Our
 Exchanges.

| preside | has at least, the satiS faction of knowing that he did
 the righ1 thing.
 Curfew whistle blows at 8
 o'clock p. m. during the year 1917, at Flagstaf to warn the
 the younger set there it is time
 to get off the street. No limit
 is placed on people of mature years.
 In order to keep her husband,
 Ray mo1d Rice from being locked
 up in the county jail. Mrs, Oneiia
 Rice on Wednesday night pull
 ed at little Damon and Pythias
 stuff, saved her husband from
 being incarcerated. and is herself | behind the bars in his stead.- | Kingman Mineral Wealth. There will be no more legal l angingS in Arizona as the par don board has commuted to life | senteLce all who had been sen fenced to hang. The amendment | 10 the constitution a6OliShing capital punishment carried by small majority at the last cleo tion Phoenix Messenger. All Europe wants peace. It | only is a matter, of terms. While differences between belligerents at this time seem to be inSur-
 mounta ole, yet practicable way
 may be found soon to bring | them into conference, and there
 the bloody chasm may be bridg ed. Whatever action the pres
 ident of the United States may
 take will be absolutely neutral
 in spirit and with no ulterior
 purpose.
 Never in the history of Pinal county were the county roads in such fine condition as they are
 10 be found at the present time. This is especially true of the new Florence to Casa Grande
 road which was completed but few weeks ago. Since the rains of the past two weeks the ! roads have been gone over with a drag and are now hard and
 smooth and the Casa Grande road is like boulevard, and
 that is true of all the roads in
 the county that have been grad ed up to turn water.
 For the purpose of. unsealing
 ten cliff dwellings which have
 never been explored, I. T.
 Sparks, travelling freight and
 passenger agent of the Arizona
 Eastern railroad and Wesley Hill.
 proprietor of the Apache Trail stage, have left on a twenty day
 exploration trip in northern Gila
 county. The cliff dwellings, were discovered last year and appar ently have never been visited or explored by white men. They
 are expected to yield important revelations as to the life and habits of the aborigineS.
 An important need of the State of Arizona is method by which some of the many thouS
 and men employed in the mines of the state can obtain the ne cessary knowledge to enable them to advance in their work. It is proposed to have the State Bureau of mines give cores pondence courses to those who are not able te attend the uni versity, the work being given primarily for the miner and prospector. and designed to help a man better himsef in his individual position. In addition to this it is planned to conduct miners institutes in various parts of the state.
 Judge Frank Baxter last week issued an order for father to adopt his own son who bad heretofore been adopted by ano- ther, one of the most peculiar incidents of court ever seen here. The fathers name is Arthur c. Clevenger, and he lives at Swan sea. He is a widower. His son,
 Lloyd Clevenger, was adopted
 by A. c. Purnell, a widower,
 who now lives at Atkinson, Neb- raska. The latter now gIves his permission for the father to adopt h1s own flesh back into the fami- ly, and on the petition of the | Arizona father, accompanied by | the permission of the Nebraska
 father, Judge Baxter based his l action of uniting father and son. The lad is thirteen years old. Yuma Sun.