The border vidette., 1917-10-20

has accepted a position with the Border Furriture Company, of which W. c. Page is manager, and in future he and Mrs. Rus sel will reside in Nogales, where they have many friends.
 This week Secretary J. B. Bristol of the Chamber of Com; merce received from the pro ducing mines of the Arizona European Mining Company, handsome big sample of high grade copper silver gold ore for exhibition at the State Fair. at Phoenix. Carloads of ore like the sample are being shipped by the company to the smelter at El Paso, from one of the coun- tvs best bets.
 Last Tuesday over a thousand head of whiteface sold by O. F. Ashburu, to Texas buyers, were shipped from the stock pens at SoDoita, near the Monkey Springs ranch. Deputy Sheriff Jack Deegan, who on the first of November will go to Ajo, to
  ernment. a% a line rider, went to Sonoita and superintended the loading of the cattle, which brouH ht't top prices.
 It's open season for "slackers" and officers and citizens are on the lookout for those unfortun- ate young men who are worth fifty good hard Americans dol lars, to the man who makes the catch. Deputy United States Marshal Harold Brown has al ready bagged two and is hun dred bucks to tue good. The reward offered by Uncle Sam, makes the stacker game worth the candle,- and if the poor de- luded devils, don't want to get just what's coming to them, they'd better not come to No gales.
 Henry Cohn of Culiacan, Sin alba, is a guest at the Monte zuma hotel. Mir. Cohn owns the Cohn Hotel at Hermosillo. and the Rosario Hotel in Culia- can. He says business in the south country is picking up, and everybody in his section of the country is prosperous under the lileral government of the state of Sinaloa. Henry and his as sociates own a big box factory, and since coming to Nogales he has received orders for several thousand boxes. His old time Nogales friends will be glad to know he Is prospering.
 Van V. Curtis, local head of the Department of Justice, is a very busy man these days, and nights too. MT. Curtis made an enviable putation as special agent of the Treasury Depart ment, at Nogales, before pro- noted to the Department of Jus tice, with headquarters at Wash ington, D. C. With the aid of immigration and other officers, Mir. Curtis is making slackers" mighty hard to catch. All sus- picious young men are rounded up immediately upon arriving in Nogales, and made to give a good accounting. All patriotic citizens are earnestly requested to aid the officers in every pos. sible way, to the end that slack CTS" be made to do their bit, !" willingly, or otherwise.
 E. A. French. manager of the Santa Cruz County Abstract & Title Company, reports a big mining deal on the tapis of great importance to Santa Cruz county For the handsome sum of $15O,OOO, the group of mines belonging to the Sheehy brothers, situated in the Santa Rita mountains, this county, have been purchased for an En glish syndicate, the deal being made through J. Carter Ander son. Tucson mining promoter. The first payment is said to have been $7.5O0. The remain der of the purchase price to be paid within two years from the date of first payment. It is said that the new owners have taken possession of the prop critics, and good ore is being mined for early shipment to the customs Smelter at El PaSo.
 On Thursday in Justice of the Peace Farrell's court at Har- shaw, A. s. Way, accused of murdering Fred. Miller, the