The border vidette., 1917-09-08
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Cuiled From Our
 Exchanges.

The Southern Pacific company has we'll drilling outfit at work in Patagonla this week, putting down we'll on the company's $ | right of way near the depot. At present engines are watered at
 Crittenden, about three miles above town.
 The four Mexicans convicted in the Pima county superior court last January for resisting an officer during the labor trou-
 bles at the Ajo mines and sen l fenced to the Arizona state priS- on, were granted paroles today by Governor Thomas B. Camp
 bell, acting on the recommends tion of the state board of par donS and paroles.
 Natriculation and registration of new students at the Univer- sity of Arizona will be held on September 14th and 18th. Fri day and Saturday. Entrance examinations will also be given on these days. Monday, Sep tember 17th will be registration day for old students, and class
 work begins the following day, Tuesday, September 18th.
 Johnny Duke, of the ever po- pular Hotel St. Michael, who has been in the country for many years, and who is an old time cattleman. says that the range is in better condition right now than he has seen it for thir- ty years. The generous Demo- cratic rains have made this whole country look like an en- larged garden of Eden.-Pres- colt Courier.
 All reports received by the | national department of agricul- ture shows that the potato crop for this year will be about double | what it was last and that on this account potatoes will be sold at such prices that will allow great CT use of spuds which has al-
 ways been such popular food The potato is a splendid substi- tute for bread and with plenty of potatoes less bread will be re- quired. W. Watson Pickerell, county farm advisor spent a few days in town this week in the inter- ests of the crop survey of the state. MT. Pickerell and Mir. J. B. Sellers, who is in charge of the work in this state, will hold several meetings this week end in the southern part of the coun- ty for the purpose of securing the balance of the data required to complete the state map Florence Blade.
 The Poultry department of the University of Arizona is planning poultry breeders directory for the state of Ariz- ona, and is desirous of obtaining the names and addresses of all poultry breeders in this state, together with the breed or breeds in which they are espe- ciafly interested and offer for sale. Write Charles R. Adam son, Head of Poultry Depart ment, University of Arizona, Tucson.
 September 1st the new Feder- al Child Labor law took effect. Hereafter no child under four teen may be employed in any factory, mill, workshop, or can- nery in the United States whose products are to be shipped in interstate commerce, and no child under 16 in any mlne or quarry. The working day of children 14 and 15 years of age in factories may not be longer than 8 hours and they may not
 be employed between 2 p. DO. and $ a. m.
 Pinal county will not have to spend money for new maps of
 the world, says Miss Lola Le Baron, county superintendent of
 schools, in an interview with the | Republican of Phoenix. Miss
 Le Baron, who is now on her
 second term as superintendent
 of schools, believes it would be
 unwise for money to be spent
 for maps while the boundaries
 of the warning countries are
 changing every few days and as
 there are sufficient maps now of
 the world as it was before the war, she intends to wait until the changed conditions will war