The oasis., 1896-02-01
ARIZONA NEWS.
Iculled from Exchanges.l

Efnll LenOrmanO, ,One or tombstone
 pioneers, died at Fort Huachuca on
 the 18th inst. at the age of tifty-fiye
 years.
 J. C. Hyatt, a barber, was shot and
 killed at HolbrOOk on the 20th instant
 by Harry DOnley, bartender, in a
 quarrel over a game of cards.
 Governor Hughes has appointed
 Mrs Rebecca G. Phillips, of Phpnix,
 as member of the board of education
 of the territorial normal school
 While in an intoxicated condition in Phoenix one night last week, Chas. Stahl, cook, fell into water ditch and was drowned.
 Prescott mechanics and business men were caught rather heavily by the failure of the American Building and Loan Association of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
 Lieut. Leavell, of the regular army, who was on detail to instruct the Ari- zona National Guard, has been ordered to Alcatraz, Cal, to pass an examina- tion for promotion to a captaincy.
 At ranch near Phoenix a playful mule reared and caught it's head se- curely in the crotch of a tree. Its struggles were unayailing, and only by cutting down the tree was the ami. nal released.
 A man named Clark who is serving a term in the pennitentiary at Yuma for horse stealing, is wanted in Texas for murder He has been a bad pri- soner, making several attempts to escape and once attempting to murder fellow prisoner.
 The Territorial Bar Association has elected the following officers: J. C. HerDdon, president; Webster Street. vice president; J. W. Crenshaw Secre- tary; Walter Bennett, treasurer, C. NJ. | Frazier, R. E. Sloan, c. w. Wright and Wm. Herring, executive commit. tee.
 Ira Stroud died in Phoenix one day last week at the age of seventy years. 1 He crossed Arizona by the southern trail in 1852, his first child, afterward Mrs. Brawley, being born at Yuma at that time. He settled in California but in 1877 came to Phenix where he had since resided.
 Some fifty men and teams are now busily at work on the reservoir of the | Florence canal, enlarging and strength | ening the same. When the work is | the huge 1600-acTe reservoir will hold two feet more of water than it does at present. This work is being gratuitOusly done by the Casa Grande farmers without expense to the canal 
 A telegram from Chicago dated the 25th ult., says: D. B. Robinson, first vice president of the Santa Fe system. has positively declined the offer of the presidency of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, and will continue with the Santa Fe company. Mir. Robinson stands at the head of the railroad men of the United States and the west is to be congratulated upon his decision to remain with the true and tried old Santa Fe.
 Eugene S. Ives, the wealthy New Yorker, whom Tammany has twice honored by sending him to she state senate, while in Arizona recently looking at leaSlDle canal proposition, made the discovery that his father. Captain Ives was the first to explore bhe Colorado river and write descrip- Lion of the country thus reclaimed. This fact has increased his interest n the canal project and his money will be invested.
 Last September the Fowler brothers lf Phoenix planted five acres of canal I gre and they got good stand through ,ut, so the field now looks like a biz .ahbage patch. They planted in rows hree feet apart, and the plants in lrills one foot apart. Between the ( 0ws they cultivate. About October st the first irrigation was made. and low many of the roots are an inch in Iiameter and the plants are a foot nigh. They will dig up the roots this eason and extend the plantation. rom the five acres one hundred acres e gill be gcf mt Lrr.r, bfu