The border vidette., 1919-02-22
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Culled From Our
 Exchanges.

Six feet of snow in the White mountains and a serious short age of fuel at Ft. Apache were | reported to the United States weather bureau at Phoenix re- gently, in a communication from George J. Henry, observer.
 A splendid rain visited the lowlands Tuesday night, while the mountains were covered with a mantle of snow. Reports from outlying districts indicate the storm was quite general, which is encouraging news for stock man and farmer, as well as the community in general, ,-Patag go nian.
 The Navajo County Fair asso- citation of Snowflake recently purchased one thousand acres just northwest of the town, where the future fairs will be held. Preparations are already being made to make the second annual fair better than the in itial one held in October of last year.
 Efforts to oust Thomas Edwin | Parish and to abolish the office of state historian have failed. The bill introduced by Senator Whiting to accomplish this has been indefinitely postponed in the senate, while in the house another bill on the subject has been introduced by Peterson to cont tinue the office.
 In connection with the visit of the Utah delegation to discuss the purchase from Arizona of land north of the Grand canyon, it is interesting to recall that considerab ble portion of the north ern part of Mohave county was | withdrawn by the Government in the year 1910, on the recon mendation of the U. $. Geolo- gical Survey, as possible oil bearing area.
 Former county attorney c. B. | Wilson, of Coconino county and county attorney Kirk T. Moore, of Pima county, arc in Phoenix working out details of the court action they may bring jointly against either Yavapai county or state auditor Jesse Boyce for a settlement of the muddle at tending the congressional grant of 100000 acres to Arizona for | the payment of railroad debts | that had been fastened upon the territory by congressional ac | tion.
 At the next University assem- bly, at the University, which will be on March ?, at 3 o'clock in the Auditorium, there will be a Memorial Service for tue mem bers of the faculty and student body who have given their lives l for their country, either in mili tary service or other forms of war work. These Sunday as sem plies are open to visitors, and are looked forward to by many residents in the neighbor- bod as we'll as by the University community.
 Had congress attended to the business of the country, entrust- ed to it's care, instead of wasting days, weeks and months criticis- ing the president and his cabinet officials, who are doing their duty, the country would be in
 better condition. Pinhead pol
 iticians, not all republicans we
 are sorry to say, have gabbed
 tangled, resoluted and run
 around in a circle to attract at
 tention. In the mean time our
 president has gone the even
 tenor of his way and despite the
 sorry spectacle of congress, he
 has accomplished much for hu m anity.
 Con Cronin, state librarian
 has prepared for submission tc
 the legislature a bill to appro priate $1O,OOO to build approa ches to Lees ferry, Coconinc county, which is the only cross j ing for many miles either way O. the Colorado river in the GranC j canyon It developed at the ! conference of the Utah delega tion with the Arizona officials I that there were three possible crossing places over the grea chasm of the canyon. One is a : Lees ferry, where the Utah mel estimated to build a bridge anC :: the SecOndiS at the mouth o : the Grand wash. A bill alread. is pending before the Legislature | F1. Ipl Ir,f IfNF1 n