The border vidette., 1918-03-16
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest CulIed From Our
 Exchanges.

Approximately five thousand American Indiaos have enlisted in the army for service against Germany, according to a state mept from the war department. Also, the Indians of the United States have subscribed more than nine million dollars to the Liberty loans.
 A Canadian order in council provides for the free admission into Canada of meat cattle until February z, 1919, when import ed by bona fide residents of Can ada under regulations by the minister of customs. Cattle, ex cept for breeding purposes, are ordinarily dutiable at 323 per cent.
 Packages containing dutiable gifts sent to members of the Expeditionary Forces temporari- ly serving in England will be delivered free of duty, provided the contents are bona tde gifts, the quantity is not beyond the personal requirements of the ad dressee, and that the parcels are addressed for delivery to the regimental address of the re cipient.
 The people of Florence cer- tainly needed our admonition to do their derndest" and went away over che top" in thrift stamp sales in tbe big drive con- ducted last Saturday by the ladies and school children of Florence when thrift stamps to the amount of $1886. 20 were sold. And how the kiddies did work The old saying worked like beavers" wasn't in it with the way those youngsters kept you digging up the quarters.
 The state health officer has ordered that every school child in Arizona be vaccinated. This will affect 1000 pupils in Phoe nix and more than 10000 in the state. Each child must show a satisfactory scar or submit to vaccination. A certificate from Q physician will not be accepted as evidence. The penalty will be expulsion from school. The order is issued as general health requisite. as smallpox prevails in various parts of the state.
 Arizona has reported to Pro- vost Marshal General Crowder that the classification of regis trants in this state is complete, thus making what is expected to be record. That Arizona Is the first of all the states to com plete the classification and will be so announced in few days, is the prediction at the office of the adjutant general. Only three or four days ago, Colonel Harris received notice from Washing ton that no state had completed the classification, and the state ment carried the inference that the work was far from being completed.
 B. w. Coker IS home from | Washington, where he and Mr. John Norton went to wage war against the granting of sheep trails across the White Noun tain and San Carlos Indian reserva- tions that menaced the cattle in dustry of Pinal county. They were entirely successful. MT. Coker sta tes that Messrs. Reed and Reeves of the. Indian depart ment are now in Phoenix await ing the arrival of Attorney Truesdell when it is expected that they will come to the Flor euce and Casa Grande valleys to present tue diversion dam contracts to the land owners. - 1 Florence Blade Tribune.
 The Mountain States tele- phone construction force is busy installing a new toll circuit from Tucson to Casa Grande, and if will be completed early next week. The new line will put Casa Grande, Toltec, Florence and Red Rock on a direct cir cult, improving old conditions more than fifty per cent in ser. vice. Patrons desiring long dis. tance connections with the above named places will not have tC
 wait, as under the old system,
 until El PaSo, Bisbee, Douglas,
 Nogales and other points are cleared from the line. Some
 times a heavy run of business