The border vidette., 1919-04-05

Roy & IltcOmb, Inc. has gone to the West Coast of Mexico, on combined business and pleas ure visit. He will be absent from Nogales a couple of weeks.
 Attorney William King, the well known corporation lawyer, from -Bisbee, arrived in the city last night and this morning con tinued south to Hermosillo. MT. King is one of the best Mexican lawyers in the southwest.
 Mir. Alberto Mascarenas, who recently arrived from Silverbell, where he has been employed by the big mining company, for the past three years, as boOkkeeper and cashier, has decided to en gage in the commission business in Nogales. He will be asso- ciated with Eduardo Ramirez, one of the best customs house brokers on the international bor der. The new firm will have offices on both sides of the in ternational line.
 Mrs. Whitehead, wife of Lewis B. Whitehead, assistant city at torney of Los Angeles, accom- panied by her little daughter, arrived the forepart of the week, for visit with the lady'S par ents, Deputy United States Col lector O. Customs and Mrs. 1. H. Hayes, of Lochiel. Mrs. White head was formerly Miss Lucretia o r1f by many friends in Nogales, with her parents.
 o. M Zander, chairman of the State Tax Commission. has been a visitor in the city several days, in connection with the Three R tax suit. involving about thirty thousand dollars back taxes, for 1914. 1915 and 1916. The case is being heard before Judge s. l.. Pattee. of Pima county. At torneys Kingan and Campbell are representing the mining company and County Attorney Leslie c. Hardy and Commis- sioner Zander, represent the state.
 Mrs. Harry Hines is here from her husband the we'll kpowu building contractor, is now To- cated. Mrs. Hines made the cross country trip by automo bile. On account of the unset tied condition of the copper market, the mines and reduction plant at Clarkdale are all closed down. MT. and Mrs. Hines may return to Nogales to again make their. home here. Their many friends will be glad to welcome them back.
 Thursday Colonel Epes Ran dolph, president of the Southern Pacific of Mexico, and Vice Pre- sident Long, were in Nogales, on their return from tour of inspection over the Southern Pacific of Mexico, as far south as Mazatlan. The trip was made in Colonel Randolph's elegant private car "Pocahontas." Wm. Breckenridge, many years claim agent for the company, accom- panied his chief. Reports hav- ing had a pleasant, interesting trip to the wonderful south coun- try.
 Oscar F. Ashburn, one of the county's supervisors, was busi- ness visitor at the county seat the forepart of the week, from his big Pennsylvania ranch near Patagonia. Recently MT. Ash burn visited the oil fields in Texas, in which he is interested financially. Like all Nogales people who have gone to tine fields to be "shown," MT. Ash burn says he is more than satis- fled with his investment. He believes many Nogales people will make big money from their | holdings in Texas.
 Under the auspices of the B.. P. O. E., of which splendid or der deceased was a member, the funeral of the late D. H. O'Brien, was held last Thursday after noon from Marsh's undertaking pariors. Interment was in the Nogales cemetery. Deceased had resided in Nogales about two years, during which time he was employed at the Western Union Telegraph Company's local of flee. Death resulted from con- sumption. To the sorrowing