The border vidette., 1918-07-27

| in circulation in Salt River val i ley to the effect that the food administration had issued a rul- ing prohibiting the storing of hay are erroneous. The nation al food administration has speci- fically exempted hay from the GO-day contract and storage rule on food commodities.
 During the last three weeks of June, James B. Treagle, the re presentative of Morris & Co.,, of Chicago, is said to have paid out over $4OO,OOO in cash to the stockmen of Yavapai county. Clarence Denny and George Mil Ter of Fort Rock and Dave and James .Wingtield of Camp Verde were among those getting big checks. Another S1OO,OOO will probably be sent here for cattle by the same firm this year.
 There will be about ,OOO acres more oats in Arizona this year than in 1917, according to figures furnished by l.. M. Harrison, field agent for the United States department of agriculture. The estimate is II, 500 acres this year, as compared to 10, 495 last year. Apache is the largest oat county, with $500 acres estim ated fer this year. Coconino is next, with 3,2OO acres; Navajo third, with 1 POO acres and Mari copa fourth with l GOO acres.
 Republican state headquarters announces that steps are being taken to have Lieut.. Thomas Maddock, former republican state chairman now in the na- tional army service on duty in France, to make the race as re- publican nominee for congress this fall in opposition to Repre- sentative Carl Hayden. It is stated that steps have been taken to secure Lieut.. Maddock's consent by cable and in the meantime nominating petitions are being circulated.
 Col Charles w. Harris, state adjutapt general. has received notice from the provost marshal general calling all of the negro registrants of the 1917 regiStra tion. The call is for 39, but there are only 35 within the state, according to the figures in the office of the adjutant gen eral. The men will entrain on August 1 and will be sent to Camp Lewis. Washington. This is the second call for colored re gistrants of the class of 1917, and exhausts the list.
 Elmer Welch, who has a big herd of goats in the Wallapai mountains, has arranged for the installation of a condenslng plant on the ranch, where 1900 goats will be milked and the milk con densed and canned for use. Goat milk is said to be the richest milk in use and should find wide sale, especially in this sec tion of the country. The goats have splendid pasturage and the ranch is we'll watered. This new industry should be fostered county. Miner.
 Reports that have come to the Arizona Council of Defense show that Arizona gave magnificent response to the Presidents sug gestion that residents of foreign ancestry or birth join in the celebration of the Fourth of July as a new Independence Day for the peoples of the world. The Fourth was more generally cele- brated in Arizona than ever be- fore and in nearly every com munity there was participation of the foreign element of the population, who marched in sec tions of the parades, presented emblematic floats. mingled in the main exercises of the day or held patriotic meetings of their own. At no point did there ap- pear a single feature of discord the celebration pledg:ng the peO- pie of the state as a whole to the nations service, without re gard to race or language.