The border vidette., 1918-08-10
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest CuIIed From OuI
 Exchanges.

as against 514 carloads to date last year.
 Congress has passed a bill ap- propriating $32,OOO to pay dam ages to Douglas people injured by stray bullets in the battles at Agua Prieta.
 The government is calling for 25, ,OOO young women to join the United States Student Nurse Reserve and hold themselves in readiness to train for service as nurses.
 A big increase in postal re- ceipts at the Tucson postoffice for the first half of the year 1918 is reported by Postmaster J. M. Ronstadt The increase over the first six months of 1917 is S11,- 558 76.
 For violating the regulations of the restaurant division of the food dministra tion, ChaS. Guam, proprietor of the American Kitchen, of Mesa, was fined S1OO and his place of business closed for three days.
 Con P. Cronin, state law and reference librarian, has been named by Governor Hunt as the representative of Arizona at the twenty eighth annual meeting of the national conference of com missioners on uniform laws to be held at Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 22 to 27.
 Almost simultaneously with the announcement that the price of copper would be made 26 cents, an advance of 9 cents, came the announcement of the Phelps Dodge Corporation of an increase in the wages of the miners employed by their organ ization. (
 pr. Rosas Boido, convicted by a jury in Judge Sta nford's divi- sion of the Superior Court in Maricopa county on a charge of performing a criminal operation and entenced to serve two years in the state prison at Florence, has been paroled by the State Board of Pardons and Paroles.
 Charles F. V. Petersdorff, at one time city engineer of Tue son, will very shortly return to his hone entirely clear of any charges against him on the part of the federal government. The charging him with in the Hindu con- spiracy, for which he was ar rested some months ago, have been dismissed. Likewise, his bondsmen have been released.
 A big appropriation bill of congress carries with it an ap- of $1, ,8OO,OOO for the remodelipg, extension and i'm provement of Whipple barracks. It is probable that old Fort will be made a con- valescent camp, and there are really few places that are more suitable than that altitude for certain ailments, and no more pleasing surroundings than the pine clad hills of old Yavapai.
 A bulletin issued by the Amer ican mining congress, Arizona chapter, says that acceptance of the advance in wages in the mining districts of the state is indicated to have been in the spirit of a joint achievement or the part of operators and Oper atives and with other favorable outcomes of the cooperative spirit that has prevailed this year has made for greatly i'm proved situation i'll the state at large.
 Arizona has passed the Two Million Dollar mark in the sale of War Savings Stamps. On August first from reports of the Post Office and banks in the State to the State Directors of flee, the figures show 2,O29,O19 maturity value sold. over Four Hundred Thousand Dollars worth of stamps were purchased in July which, considering the weather in some parts of the State, was very good. Cochise county sold over One Hundred Thousand Dollars worth. Green lee, Coconino and Gila counties also made creditable shOwingS. It is hoped that August will
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