The border vidette., 1919-02-15
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Culied From Our
Exchanges.

| A statue of Frank Luke. Jr.
Arizona ace, who died fighting
the German army, will be erect
ed on the capitol grounds if 6
bill introduced Wednes day morn
ing by Represen tative Waters is
made law. It carries an apprO
priation of $4,000.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars
is the fee claimed by Attorney
Clement Colman and Attorney
| Thomas Molloy for services rem
dered the county of Yuma in
the recentYuma- Maricopa bound
ary case. This will allow each
lawyer $12, 500 for his share Of
the fee.-Sun.
Little distilling plants selling
as low as $12, have been ped
died throughout Arizona in re-
cent months and it is claimed
one of these will torn out quart
a day of 100 proof booze. The
internal revenue department has
located and secured possession
of a few samples but it is evil
dent considerable moonshine is
being manufactured and peddled
at SO per pint.
Inspiration mine at Miami used
to haul its men to and from
work in big 40 passenger autos
but now special train does the
work connecting with, each shift.
New station and waiting room.
new cars and equipment have
just been installed and placed in
Operation. This is Arizona'S big
gest, perhaps the richest mine
in operation in the state. It is
assessed at $40, 100000 which
valuation is obtained by multi
plying the annual output by five.
Nearly one and a half million
dollars worth of copper taken out
monthly. There is ore enough
in sight tofun the mill for forty
years or more.
The Panhandle Southwestern
Stockmen's Association will urge
the Texas legislature to pass
Legislation controlling the in
spection of cattle similar to the
one now in effect in New Mexico.
This was decided at q. meeting
of the executive committee of
the Association held at Ell Paso
Jan. %. Arrangements we're
also made for the annual ASSo-
citation convention to be held
here March 4th, 5th and 9th.
Badges were adopted and
tentative program arranged.
The Association includes in it's
mem bers zip cattlemen from Ari-
zona, New Mexico and West
Texas.-The Arizona Cattleman.
Cattleman of Cochise county
have been warned to be on the
lookout for two men who are re-
ported to be travelling about the
county purporting to be repre-
senting the Los Angeles Soap
company. The two men, who
have signed large number of
worthless checks in payment for
hides. represent themselves to
Paul Levender and M. Malcolm,
and it is said have induced a
large number of cattlemen to
sell them hides for which they
pay with check. Later the checks
turn out to be worthless. One
cattleman, Richard Nj. Johnson
of Garces, who sold some hides
to the two men, the check being
returned from the bank, marked
no funds, wroCe the Los Angeles
Soap company. He received a
reply stating that the company
had no such men working for
them.-Tombstone Prospector.
On Tuesday the Arizona legis-
lature established a speed record
when a house Joint resolution by
Mrs. Westover was adopted un-
der a series of suspensions of
the rules and was sent to the
senate where similar action was
taken upon it The resolution
approves the plan of Secretary
of the Interior Franklin K. Lane
for establishing land policy
under the soldier settlement act.
There is now pending cited the
resolution, a bill appropriating
500, ,OOO,O 600 to carry out the pur-
poses of the act which are to
reclaim 215, 100000 acres of arid
and swamp lands on which 100.
600 men may be eSta bliShed on
%, GOO farms, under a self fund
ing plan by which the settlers
will be allowed 10 years in which
to repay the government. The
resolution urges the congress to
pass the bill promptly-Mes-
SpDOpr