The border vidette., 1917-01-27
Fred. Afford, local represent

ative for A. M. Conard, the So
 nora land man, has returned
 from HermoSillo, where he hac
 been on legal business for MT Conard. Afford reported every
 thing very quietin in the south
 country. with conditions greatly
 improved in Hermosillo, where he met a mum Der of American
 mining men, who are working | their property.
 Manager l. M Raines of the 1 Nogales Steam Laundry, Inc. now has handsome new auto truck on the streets. Recently y new modern machinery was re- ceived and installed at the laun-
 dry, which is one of the best
 equipped in the state. A large
 number of people are given
 constant employment and the
 enormous business.
 More than 5000 National
 Guardsmen, now on the Mexican
 border, have been ordered home to be immediately mustered out of the Federal service. The order does not include the Guardsmen from deah 'ol Ala
 bama, stationed at this place However, the boys from the sunny south land soon expect to receive marching orders Many will regret to leave Nogales.
 George Mason, special deputy in Collector of Customs Hardy's office, has this week been over at Douglas, experimenting the installation of elegant new fur niture, etc., in the custom houses new quarters in the Federal building scheduled for comple- tiOn August first. The furnish ings being installed, cost Uncle Sam S2, 500, and Collector Hardy says they are worth the price.
 Last Monday parties arriving from out Arivaca way, denied that any Mexicans were killed there recently, in a fight between Mexican cattle rustlers and American cowboys. There was some trouble, according to the reports, and shots were exchang- ed, but nobody was killed. Utah has been stationed at Warsaw, and it is said that there is no danger of further trouble.
 Ore valued at almost one hun dred and seventy dollars per ton, copper, gold and silver, has been brought in from the prop erty of tue Arizona European Mining Company out in the Pa tagonia mountains, near the famous Three R mines. The com pany recently bonded the prop critics to Mrs. J. c. Underwood for $25O,OOO. Local people are in the company, finan- cially.
 Collector of U. S. Customs c: E. Hardy has succeeded in se- curing a substantial increase in salaries for numb of his en- ployees at the customs house, and he hopes in the near future to receive word from Washing ton, to the effect that his request for further raises, has been granted. The efforts of the col lector in behalf of employees of the customs service are greatly 
 Work on the International bridge, across the arroyo on In- ternational street, near the Un- ited States custom house. for which the government appro- priated money some months ago, will commence within the next thirty days, according to unoff- cial reports from Washington The bridge has been badly need ed for a long time. Collector Hardy is doing everything in his power to the end that the inter- national bridge may soon be reality.
 Walter Strickland, who died last Monday, after a months illness at the St. Joseph's hos pital. from pneumonia, was buri- ed Tuesday afternoon from Marsh's Undertaking, Parlors, where services were held by Rev. MobleY Of the Methodist church. Interment was in the cemetery. Walter was a. bout thirty-nine years of age