The border vidette., 1917-01-27
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of interest CulIed From Our
 Exchanges.

l
 to market along about the same
 time. our farmers will be feeling
 pretty cocky. It's time they
 were having an inning.
 More than ten thousand acres
 of land in the great Yuma valley
 are being leveled for planting to farm products next year, mostly
 cotton. Everywhere the hum
 of this class of industry is pro
 life, and as the days go by others are becoming interested.
 What is believed to be a record
 price for desert land, was re- ceived by H. C. Meyer when he
 sold 64O acres of desert for $3S,-
 4CO. The land was sold to Ed
 ward R. Jeffery of Los Angeles,
 who will at once drill wells and install pumping plants prepar
 atory to the cultivation of cotton l on the tract.
 The daily press of Phoenix. with republican leanings, are pleased to refer to the meeting of the Democratic State Ex ecutive committee at Phoenix as a Hunt" committee. This com mittee was elected by the demo cratic voters in each country. One thing certain, it wasn't a Campbell" committee. Copper Era.
 John Twomey of Tammany Hall, is making arrangements for decided improvement in his ablishment. He is going to move the front back and will put there instead new fixtures, featuring high grade cigars and tobaccoS. His famous bulletin board will be moved inside few feet but will remain a permanent part of the Hall.-Bisbee Review.
 Foreign relations of the United States should be considered in the light of intelligent citizen ship and Americanism, entirely free from partisan bias. The situation is too grave when the destiny of one hundred millions of human beings is at stake, to quibble for partisan advantage. Every citizen should be a patriot first, regardless of party affilia- tions.
 A rate hearing will be held in the federal court. Phoenix. Feb. 9 to decide whether railroads are entitled charge more for passage from eastern points to Arizona than they do from the same point to the mountain sta tes in the north. The rates to Arizona are about the same as those to California also. The case is brought by the Arizona corpora tion commission.
 Compulsory education will ap- ply to all children under eigh teen years of age within the state of Arizona unless excused | for valid reason by the school trustees, if bill introduced in the legislature by Represent i ative McGrath of Greenlee coun- ty, becomes law. The present school age limit is 16 The bill | has been referred to the com mittee on education.
 Advices from Washington re- ceived Wednesday were to the | 6uSCU UIIdU I ISSlOSIO W lISOd SShO the name of John L.. Irwin to the Senate for confirmation as register of the Phoenix Land | Office, to fill the vacancy caused by the death in September of | Thos. F. Weedin. MT. Irwin is resident of Phoenix, where he l has been prominently identified l with the democratic party of the | state for many years.
 Mrs. B. B. Bethell this week received an Indian basket, to be | placed with her already large | and valuable collection of these l curios, which is of unusual inter est and evidently of considerable | age. It is known as burden | basket, having been used by the l aborigines for carrying loads, by means of strapping it around | the forehead and letting it hang down the back. It is intricately | woven of native grasses, and | was made by the Pima Indians. | The basket was presented to Mrs. Bethell by Fred J. Gold smith, who formerly lived in Pa tagonia, but who is now in the | Casa Grande country.-Pata nian.