The oasis., 1895-11-30
ArS1zoNA NEWS.
tculled from Exchanges.l

AOllEItSS VIII cOOli idNt di dNtiiiOR to it's electric light plant. The Con gress gold company is having 1t put Tn and the mine will be lighted With electricity.
 J. R. Faukes, a switchman in the A. X P. yards at Flagstaff, was so un- fortunate as to have one finger cut cfi and the left hand badly crushed while coupling cars last Saturday night.
 ". c. Glover. who had charge of tho St. Elmo saloon at Winslow, skipped out sometime in the early morning Monday, after rifling the safe and re- gister. He was over sl,900 short in his accounts.
 At Prescott last Friday c. E. IIo- bart, who murdered John Miller, was sentenced to life imprisonment in the territorial prison. Hobart'S crime was one of the most wanton ever commit ted in the territory.
 Postmaster Thomas of Phoenix, has received notice from the postotfice de- partment at Washington that after the first of December the postoflice at Goldfield will be discontinued, and all
 
 date, be sent to Mesa City.
 A colored man who attended a masked ball at Winslow and danced with nearly all the ladies in the ball room was summarily bounced aud cowhided when the time for unmask- ing occurred. He now threatens his aSsailants with arrest and prosecution.
 The body of an old prospector, James Martin, was found Saturday iD Humbug creek, thirty miles from Phoenix. The old mans cabin near by had been ransacked. The body was buried by tine negilbOrs but wifi be eyhumed to hunt for evidence of foul play.
 The Arizona Improvement company is again shipping oranges from it's orchard at the Arizona Falls near Phoenix, and the fruit is fully ripe and as clean and beautiful as ever an orange grower laid eyes upon. Some of the crop is offered there in the local fruit market, but most Of it will go to eastern markets.
 On the HassayaMpa not far from Prescott, last week the cabin, barn and blacksmith shop of w. II. Harlan were burned to the ground while the water wheel used in running his mill was blown up with dynamite. There was no one on the premises at the time except two boys who succeeded in saving one cabin.
 The Mohave County Miner says ar- engagements have been made with the land department of the Atlantic & Pacific railroad company whereby rail- road land in any part of the county of Mohaye can be bought cheaply and paid for in ten annual payments A great deal of the land in the Big Sandy valley is owned by the railroad company.
 St. Johns Herald: Apache county has experienced an unusually produc- tive year, especially in the corn pro- duct The yield of the valley between here and Springerville has been un- precedented. With the price, Sl.60 per cwt., will place many dollars in the pockets of our farmers, rendering the celebration of Thanksgiving day pleasure this year.
 J. H. Brown and son of Yavapai county, last week made a shipment of beesWaX to Hamilton, Illinois, being the first shipment of this kind ever made from that county. The firm named is engaged in bee culture in small way, having between thirty and forty colonies. The honey produced by them is of a very superior quality, surpassiug most honey found.
 Last week the Arizona Lumber X Timber company of Flagstaff, closed down their saw mill and it will prob- ably remain closed until spring. They have a good many million feet of lum- Der on hand, and the yard is full of iogs, so that should there be demand for lumber not in stock, the demand can be filled promptly. The blaming mill and box factory will be run dur ing the winter