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Show ARIZONA PAPER SENDS MESSAGES BY PIGEONS NOG ALES, Ariz.. Aug. 7. An evening eve-ning newspaper has Just established carrier-pigeon news service In con-Junction con-Junction with Its news department Thirty-six blooded pigeons are housed In a roomy rof obtained through the local army post and located atop the newspaper building The service Is intended for use by officers of the law and news men when they go Into mountainous districts dis-tricts In Arizona or Mexico where no telephone or telegraph Is available. Arrangements have been made with the Santa Cruz county sheriff's office to carry one or more of tho birds when on a man hunt in the moun-tains. moun-tains. Private individuals will also use the birds when desiring to send back messages mes-sages from Inaccessible points of their travels. Five of the pigeons were taken to Patagonia today for a test flight. They were back in their cot on the newspaper news-paper plant within 15 minutes of release. re-lease. Patagonia Is a mining camp In the mountains. By road, which winds and turns, the camp Is 2S miles from 1 Nogales Ry airline, aviators have measured the distance, as 15 miles This Is said to be the first Instance In the I'nlted States of a like nen-s serlce being Installed by a publlshor in a city of this slzo. |