The border vidette., 1927-08-27
DOsYOU REMEMBER NoGALEs 80
YEARS AGO AUGUST 27. 1897


YEARS AGO AUGUST o7, 1897 2
(THE BORDER vfDEfrE)
Louis Fleisher has joined The
Larks.
Attorney Chas. Blenman is
back. from a trip to Mammoth.
The Nogales Athletic Club has
decided to have their opening
ball the first Friday in Septem.
ber at the new hall.
Charles Taylor. the assayer,
is busy these days testing rock
that is being brought ia by the
numerous prospectors.
There will be a lively time in
our sister town of Nogales tomor.
row. There will be a city cleo.
tion with three tickets in the
field.
Capt. l.. w. Mix left Sunday
night for visit of two months
to Europe. He will go to Lon
don, Paris and to Switzerland
before returning. He goes on
mining business.
Col. George Christ came down
from Tucson last Sunday morn.
ing TO visit his family. His
family will join him at Tucson
on the first. They will occupy
rooms at the Hittinger residence.
A. J. Sullivan, son in law of
Mrs. J. w. Wilson, is up from
La Colorado or two months
leave of absence. Mr.. Sullivan
has been in the Amarillas mill
there for two years. He left for
Chicago Thursday night.
Alfred Hampton went to Ben
son last Monday and met his
father, Gen. Wade Hampton,
who was on his way east in his
private car. Mr.. Hampton went
on to El Paso, with his father
and returned yesterday morning.
Gen. Hampton is just returned
east from a western tour of in.
spection of railroads.
w. E. Pomeroy and partners
left Tuesday for the Ajo noun.
tains ard the Rio Yaqui country.
They went by stage to the
Mexicana and expect to buy
burros there for. their outfit.
There is considerable excitement
about these districts now and the
first in there will get the best
locations. A number of people
pass Nogales every week bound
for the Yaqui river gold fields.
An effort is being made by the
cattlemen of the Arivaca and
Buenos Ayres country to have q
detail Of soldiers stationed at
Arivaca to prevent the Papago
Indians from getting away with
all the cattle in that section.
These Indians have been very
bolc for years in their depreda.
lions against the cattlemen and
they have killed or driven off
hundreds of head and all efforts
of the stockmen have so far
failed.
Surveyor General Christ has
been advised from Washington
that instructions will be forward.
ed him by the General Land of.
fee concerning the surveying Of
the towsite of Nogales, and he
is now daily inA spectation of the
receipt of such instructions, upon
receipt of which the Immediate
survey of the town may be ex,
pected, mean while the matter is
at a standstill although the Or.
der of supervision has been re.
voked by order of the president.
Star.
The recent placer strike in the
beds of the Yaqui river in Mex
leo is taking away some Of the
interest in mining matters from
the frozen regions of Alaska.
The reports that come from the
Yaqui have been verified enough
to satisfy great many and a
number of parties have gone into
the new country to ascertain the
truth for themselves. Rich
placer ground has been known
in parts of the Yaqui country for
years. but the white prospectors
have been forbidden to enter the
lands of the hostile Yaqui Ia
dians. A recent treaty has been
made in which the gold fields
there are thrown open to the