The border vidette., 1917-12-22
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Cuiled From Our
 Exchanges.

Cochise county last week vot- $1 ,OOO, 900 for highway construc-
 tion and will begin work early next spring. Over $500, GOO will be spent in constructing con- crete highway from Bisbee to
 Douglas.
 In it's campaign for the saving of coal the Fuel miniStratiOn declares the average American home is superheated. Eminent American physicians ace quoted
 as saying that a room above 68 degrees Fahrenheit is too warm for health and exposes the oc cupants to catarrhal diseases and pneumonia.
 Over in California one of the great American patriots sent 100000 dozen of eggs to New | Zealand where they retailed for 54 cents per dozen. At the same time this patriotic sold eggs to the people of his own state in large quantities, but the retail
 price was 60 cents per dozen.
 For ways that are dark and for tricks that are vain, the heather Chinse hasn't anything on cer
 tain brand of American patriots. The SomertOn Star.
 That agricultural lands in Pi nal county are worth money was again demonstrated this week at the sale of state land held at Florence, when tract of land was purchased by Mir. Stevens of Long Beach, Calif., for ap : proximately $21, ,OO0. Immedia tely after the sale was conclud ed and he had been announced as the purchaser, Stevens was offered $4, 800 more for the land than he had just paid for it. The offer was refused.
 Perpetrator of one of the most brutal murders in the history of Pinal county. B. Mandich, slay CT of l.. B. Beck, shift boss for the Ray Consolidated, was this week sentenced to from 15 to 25 years by the superior court of Pinal county. Mandich killed Beck at Ray July Eth last be ] cause he had been discharged for unsatisfactory work, the murder being committed with heavy lantern, with which Man dich beat Beck to death, kicking him at the same time with his heavy shoes.
 Tine secretary of agriculture announced recently that further advance of grazing fees on the national forests will be deferred for the present. He also an nounced that no change will be made at this time in the existing regulations governing the is suance of grazing permits for more than one year. The req sons for this course have been set forth by Secretary Houston in an identical letter to the sec retaries of the American Live Stock Association and the Ma tional Woolgrowers' Association.
 More than half of the f,25O 'colored men who completed the course at the reserve officers i training camp at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, have been com missioned as officers in the army. Nearly 100 colored physicians and surgeons have received com missions as officers in the Me dicai Reserve Corps. A full fighting force of 3O,00O colored soldiers, including representa- tives in all branches of military service will constitute the Nine ty-second Division, to be detail ed for duty in France under Gen. Pershing.
 Under the Arizona statute an employer is liable for injury sus tained by his employe, regard less of negligence if the employe was not himself at fault. The supreme court of the state re- gently affirmed judgment in favor of mine employe who was in jured by the escape of compress ed air used in ventilating the mine, when he opened a valve under circumstances which in volved contributory negligence. Qnspiration Consolidated Copper Go. vs. Mendez, 166 Pacific Re porter, 279) The law is upheld as being a valid measure, sub- ject to exemption of liability where the injured employe has been guilty of contributory neg ~ hos a