The border vidette., 1917-06-23
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Culled From Our
 Exchanges.

1 Phoenix Knights of Columbns
 have raised approximately Si, COG l for the Liberty loan aside from
 individual subscriptions. it was
 announced yesterday. The organ-
 ization has raised approximately
 SG3. .C>OQ in the state to date.
 Coming at just the right moment. when things looked as
 if Arizona would be unable to
 till it's Qnota for the liberty loan.
 Sena tor William A. Clark, owner
 of the United Verde Copper com pany at Jerome, today bought l in the name of that mine, to be
 credited to Arizona's quota, Sl,- | coo. eco worth of the bonds.
 Misleading and fake reports of disaster to American arms
 should be discouraged and the
 war department can do much to
 discourage such reports by deal l ing fairly with the people and give ont all information in con
 nection with the war other than | actual movements of the army and navy that would be beneti- cial to the enemy.-Biade.
 Six thousand two hundred and sixty eight more automobiles are running about Arizona today than were burning gasoline at this time last year, according to the records of Secretary of State Osborn. The 15, Tooth motor car license was issued Wednesday, from that office. The number in existence in Arizona last year at this date was 9, 432. JIG. Gatti, the wholesale meat dealer and butcher of Clifton, Arizona, was in Phoenix few days ago. He came to the val : ley to buy fat beef stock but the grades here were too high for his market, hence he went away without making a purchase. Mr. Gatti tries to suppiy his market with beef at 13 cents pound wholesale hence he is restricted to range cows that are fat and
 to careful buying elsewhere.
 Official figures show Arizona
 went over it's quota of 34,S14 by
 2118. When the supplemental
 figures are gathered and added
 the total over the quota will be
 something like 5000. The official
 total figures for registration day
 are as follows: Total white re-
 gistration, 21, ,74O; possible white exemptions, 2,O26; total colored
 registration. 347; possible color
 ed exemptions, 222; total aliens,
 II, ,652; total alien enemies, 193.
 As I walked along the. paths this morning, plucking flowers,
 I found, in the yellow heart of
 lady slipper. little brown bee.
 My first impulse was to shake her out of her honeyed abode, but as I looked at her velvety body and sunlit, rainbow wings, a feeling of foolish tenderness SOrged over u.e. How useful the little creature was, carrying the pollen from flower to flower so l moved on leaving her un- molested. But even as J turned away thinking these pure, sweet thoughts, the damned thing stung me.
 Petitions asking the Board of Supervisors to call an election for bond issue covering good road construction are being cir culated in Tombstone and are being signed by every person pra ctically, to whom they are presented. A bond issue for good roads will be a great aid in every direction and more espe- cially if we are to continue in this war for the saving of trans portation and as a military high way the Borderlaud is a logical route. Good roads and peace, good roads and war. all three go hand in nd.-ProspectOr.
 Another badger fight was pulled off last night on the more or less blood stained battlefield, back of McNary's drug store The details are such that this paper refuses to give them pulicity. As an indication of just how bad it was, MT. Eogal, who chaperoned the badger, admits that it was the most brut- al exhibition he ever witnessed. Thanks to the energy of Joe Ho1an6'S bl1ll 6Oo and tho Viuor.