The border vidette., 1917-09-22

has declined the appointment Of Assistant Attorney General of Arizona.
 Van Curtis, recently promoted from a position in the Treasury Department, to position in the Department of Justice, with headquarters in Washington, D. O., has been assigned to this district, for the time being, and will be located in Nogales, to | friends.
 At Tucson last Wednesday evening the good citizens of pa triotic old Tucson, royalty enter | tained the new National soldiers from Santa Cruz county, by turning the town over to them, l during their stay between trains. When the boys boarded their Pullman for Fort Riley, they gave three rousing cheers for | Tucson.
 Merchants and exporters have been informed that they may now secure from the U. S. col | lector of customs, at this port, a license to ship goods the value of which is less than $1OO. For shipments valued at more than S1OO. the same rule will prevail as in the past, and license will 1 have to be obtained from Was hington.
 l Hon: Oscar F. Ashburn, farm CT and stockraiSer, from the Monkey Springs ranch, near Pa: tagonia, motored down to the county seat last Wednesday to take a position in the parade with several hundred citizens of the county who acted as guard of honor to the soldiers who last Wednesday joined the National Army.
 Dr. Sam S. Butler, of Mazda lena, Sonora, has gone. to Gray | Creek, Colorado, where he has accepted the position of physi- cion and surgeon for big com pany giving employment to several hundred men. Mrs. Butler, who is a sister of Mrs. E. B. Sharpe, of this city, ac- companied the doctor as far as Nogales, where she enjoyed a couple of days visit, before returning to the Garden City.
 Howard Keener, expert lino- type operator and dry farmer, was here couple of days this week from his farm in the San Rafae. valley. For long time
 MT. Keener has been an oper- ator of one of the machines in the Arizona Daily Star office. He was here on business con- nected with the purchase of the Santa Cruz Patagonian of Pata- gonia, from MT. Jack Price, the present owner.
 Nick Farrell, we'll known sue. ceSsful rancher from the San Rafael valley, son of Hon. Rich
 ard Farrell, highly respected
 pioneer citizen of Harshaw, has
 been in the city several days
 having come to say good bye to
 his younger brothers, William and Thomas, who have gone
 with the second contingent o1
 Santa Cruz county's fighting
 men. Nick said he, wished he could have taken the place oi
 either of his brothers. That's
 the dope, Nick.
 James Ritchi, superintendent of the Arizona European Mining Company's producing mines neal the famous Three R mines in the
 Patagonia mountains, accom- panied by Mrs. Ritchi motoreC , to town last Tuesday to say goot bye to Arturo Valenzuela anC , other friends who joined th' , National Army. Jimmie say' , the mine is looking good anG , some of the finest copper -silve
 ore every shipped from the dis g trict, is being sent to th' shelter.
 Effective September 10th, th' t Arizona Corporation Commission : handed down a decision regulat ing automobile traffic betweel 3 Nogales and Tucson. The de ! cision provides that all perSon
 or corporations operating car
 between Nogales and Tucsol . must Ee governed by the regula T tions prescribed by the Commis sion. The rate of fare is ike - at $4 between here and Tucsol :, and intermediate fares are ike Tho O