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The oasis., 1896-05-23
MINAS pRIETASNOTES
X Collection of Items and Personais Gath
 cred al the Great casp

Cfta ot tss~ P'~ ~"e -
 A scant water supply Is greatly re- tarding operations.
 The machinery for the new Creston hoist weighs eighty-seyen tons.
 T. N. Marstellar, well known in No gales, has charge of the powder in the Creston mine.
 Next week Mrs. Doctor \ c. Wright and baby will go to Tucson to stay through the hot weather.
 q. Cells, just from Nogaes, is em- ployed as an assistant in the assay office at La Colorado milL
 MT. l.. Block will shortiy fit up his building, facing the MInas Prietas plaza on the north, as tplel.
 Friday Of last week Doctor k. l.. Hewitt was severely injured by kick from horse. His knee was hurt.
 Joe Bolln is running the Grand Gen. tral mill, Archie McKenzie the engine and Dave Richardson is on the pans. Tom Thompson, from Empire, Ne vada is running Las Amarilas mill. He was formerly inchargeof La Verde. Monday morning the fiesta closed, having run from the fifthef May. On the whole 1t has not been very success fu.
 Engineer Ignacio Bonillas was at Prietas this week engaged on some surveys for the Colorada-Crcston con- pany.
 Mir. Thaddens Mead, from the Union Iron Works in San Frantlsco, is set ting up the new hoist atllhe Creston shaft.
 new boiler Is to be put into the Grand Central mill, and ground is be- ing cleared for foundations for six Frue yanners.
 Frank Vaughn, formerly in charge Of the N. M. & A. railway shop at No gales, is running the pumps in the Amarillas mine.
 Saturday evening Mr. J. w. Good man, chief engineer of La Colorado mill, returned from Nogales greatly improved in health.
 In La Neta Madre mine sinking 1: being done on two aurlferous veins one seventeen feet in width, and the other eighty feet wide.
 Mir. c. c. Rountree has laid tho foundation and has begun work upor the superstructure for good hotel al La Colorado. It will be 4OxSO feet 1T dimension.
 Doctor A. c. Wright, well known in Arizona, is enjoying fine practice being kept very busy. The drug stor' of Wright x Forsee also does yer, fine business.
 The work of putting in the nev hoist at the Creston is progressing fayorably and it is anticipated tha within few weeks it's machinery vii be in operation.
 A new drill press and planer hay been put up in the machine shop a Prietas filling long felt want in tha department of the great work goin on in that camp.
 Mrs. J k. Beyeridge and family re gently arrived from Salt Lake City Utah, to join MT. Beyeridge, who superintendent of the work for tn Pan American Co.,, which is treatin by the cyanide process the old tailing ..f ( D.s,
The oasis., 1896-05-23

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Arizona republican., 1896-10-23
DIDN'T SAY FAREWELL.
A Prisoner Parts Company With an
 Officer Without Regrets.

Constable Jack Paddock of Gila Bend started for Phoenix Wednesday night with a criminal to be lodged in the county jail. MT. Paddock arrived here safely yesterday morning, but he regretted very much that he had lost the company of the prisoner.
 The man was found in boxcar at Gila Bend by the officer, who arrested him on charge of burglary. The of fense consisted in the breaking open of a car. He was examined by jus tIice of the peace and bound over to the grand jury. Constable Paddock started for Phoenix and his trouble be- gan.
 At MaricOpa the officer and his pris- oner waited at the depot for the train to leave for Phoenix. The prisoner was securely handcuffed and from ap- pearances had fallen asleep. The of ficer had been up all night and felt sleepy. He yawned several times and While doing so, dozed off. He awoke almost immediately with a start. He rubbed his sleepy eyes and turned to look at his prisoner. Could he be dreaming. he thought? No; it was a reality; the prisoner had quietly stolen away while the officer slept
 MT. Paddock searched the neighbor- hood, but without success. His wlilom companion had disappeared, and car ried away the handcuffs as a souvenir
 of the occasion. A description of the escaped prisoner was telegraphed along
 the line, but the genius with the man.
 acles and seven leagued boots had
 taken time by the forelock.
Arizona republican., 1896-10-23
UNlWBLCOME GUESTS.
The Influx of Tramps in the City Un-
 precedented.

'"The land where the chilly blasts of winter freezes not the marrow in me bones,' gadly warbled a representative specimen of the genus hobo, as he crawled from a brakebeam into the waiting arms of Officer Buck. '-
 This is the season when the knighEs of the boxoar leave the regions of snow and ice and travel southward to the land of warmth and sunshine Phoe- nix is the Mecca for this class of peo- pie when winter arrives, and at the present time the influx is great. The city officers keep sharp eye on them and as soon as one is noted, off he goes ito the city jail, where he is lodged for the night, and if a satisfactory ac- count is not given he assists the chain gang in beautifying the city.
 It is true that many deserving per sons out of employment come here, and not being able to find work, resort to stealing or begging. The officers are determined to keep the community as free as possible of that element.
 The many robberies committed lately are charged to vagrants and the small force of officers is kept very busy watching suspicious individuals.
Arizona republican., 1896-10-23
A CALL FOR FITCH.
Col. Fitch Wanted in California to
 Speak in Place of Reed.

According to the Tucson Citizen, Col. Thomas Fitch received a telegram Wednesday from the chairman of the state central Republican committee of California, requesting him to come to Los Angeles immediately, to speak in place of.Hon. Thomas B. Reed, who is ill. Should MT. Reed, who is en route to California, recover sufficiently to keep his engagement, Col. Fitch will address other meetings.
 At the urgent request of Col Fitch and Hon. A. J. DoTan, Col J. A. Za- briskie will accompany the congress sional candidate from Tucson on a tour through the southern and eastern portion of the territory. They will visit Bisbee, Tombstone, Clifton and points in Graham county.
Arizona republican., 1896-10-23

teri1ation. the enemy's country re- ferring to the place where our men of finance live ito a large extent, the city of New York.
 'FThe Democrats have increased the National debt s1O0, 100000. How long at that rate, will it take them to pay the National debt?
 Arizona? you ask. AS a genuine Republican and cowboy of the west, and as interested in silver production for twenly-two years, I want to say to you that ann a bimetallist, as the Re- publican platform most clearly is, pledging its honor to fight manfully and sincerely till all the world shall adopt it. (Uproarious applause, with waving of banners) I am for silver and gold. (Voices, That's rightly I want to simply say here, contrary to the opinion of some others of my brethren, that think the demonetiza- tion of silver i'm 1873 was wrong Gre newed applause) and it ought never to have been done But the question is now, How are we going to help it ? Some of you know how legs were cut off in the army sometimes without ne cessity, but they were off, and you could not put them on again. And so, alas! with our silver. We have had it disposed of for more than twenty years And yet Mr. Bryan says that old trag- edy is the cause of all of our troubles today. We'll, suppose you see an urc1- in with the whooping cough, and heal him whoop, T caught it, sir, twenty three years ago playing with Billy Bryan in his back yard' FWhopper my lad,' of course you reply, the cause is much more recent And SO the cause is much more recent here for all the ills we suffer. We believe in silver and gold, the whole Republican party does, as the St. Louis platform ex- plicitly declares, but not in silver monometallism.
Arizona republican., 1896-10-23
. MARDCOPA CLUB.
New Club Rooms Will Soon Be Ready
 for Occupancy.

At a recent meeting of the board of directors of the Maricopa club, Walter Talbot was elected president; w. l.. Pinney, vice-president; Dr. Ancil Mar tin, treasurer; Thomas Dalton, secre- tary.
 A committee was appointed to buy the furniture for the club rooms and prepare for the removal to the Adams hotel.
 Regardless of expense will the new rooms be fitted up; rich carpets will cover the floor, and the costliest of draperies and portieres will cover windows and doors. There will be a bowling alley and a billiard and pool room. The floor of the billiard room will be laid with what is called a hardwood carpet.
 The reception rooms will be won der and delight to visitors and guests of the club. The rooms are already being prepared to receive the furniture, and when all is in readiness a grand ball will be given that will slrpass any of the past fund,ions given by the club.
Arizona republican., 1896-10-23
GENERAL SAMPSON IN CHICAGO.
The We'll Known Arizonan Talks on
 the Vital Topic.

General A. J. Sampson of Phoenix, who is about ito enter the territorial campaign, took part in a mee5ing of the Commercial Mckinley club of Chi oago few days ago. This is the way the Chicago Inter Ocean referred to his speech.
 General A. J. Sampson of Arizona followed with one of the most ap- plauded and eloquent speeches of the two months series. He said in be- ginning: Tn the house of lords-our house of lords then-lthe great Earl of Chatham, on the eve of the dis memberment of the British empire by the secession of the American colonies, exclaimed: My lords, it is well that the throne, our august King George III, should be instructed in the lan- guage of truth and not l5he terms of f1attery as to the gathering menace. So before the throne of this country our collective citizenship, I cry, beware of this rrmnbling Tevolutionp Yes, already divided into two hostile camps! For listen to MT. Bryan's dramatic charac-
Arizona republican., 1896-10-23
LOWELL ON MARS.

Percival Lowell, who founded the Flagstaff observatory especially to study tlhe canals of Mars, is firmly con- vinced that that planet is the abode of intelligent beings MT. Lowell has written a book entitled '@Mars," which comes very near proving his conten- hion. The only feature that throws doubt on it is the fact that Mars has a very rare atmosphere, but still the at mosphere is there. One of the as- bounding things about the Martian canals is that they are all projected on great circles of the globe that is, they are laid out with mathematical accuracy to travel the shortest dis tanees between two points on the Mar tian surface Minneapolis Journal.
Arizona republican., 1896-10-23
ABOUT VENEZUELA.
The Negotiations to Be Reopened
 Without Delay.

LONDON, Oct. 22.-The following official statement regarding Venezuela has been issued: There is, happily a better feeling manifested on both sides of Ithe water between the respect i've people and it frequently happens that manifestations of this kind help governments to am amicable conclu- sion. Regarding the allegations that Sir Julian Pauncefote has returned to America charged with a mission having flor its object the settlement of the dispute, the patent fact is that he all along he has had such a mission. He has returned to Washington with cer- tain instructions, and negotiations will be reopened immediately. But it is early to say whether or not the pro- posals of the British government are likely to be accepted"
Arizona republican., 1896-10-23
THE CRISIS CLOSE AT HAND.
What a Spanish Editor. Says
 About Cuba.
The Insurgents Planning to Make the Decisive Stroke of the R .vo- Iutlon-The Spaniards to Be Sand wiched and Crushed.

NEW YORK, Oct. 22-Senor Manuel J. Moran, who was deposed by Cuba's captain-general, Weyler, from the ed itorship of La Discussion of Havana be- cause of his alleged too free treatment of events in Cuba, has arrived on .Ihe steamer Ciudad Conda. In an inter view he said. If the plans of General Gomez have not miscarried an advance guard of 1 800 pa;riots is today cross ing from the province of Santa Clara into the province of MaEanzas and, with the main body, to follow in few days, will strike whaE is expected to be the decisive blow in the campaign.
 ''With Maceo in the east awaiting this movement and Gomez pressing forward, the Spanish forces will be sandwiched. It will be the greatest and in all probability the final stroke for freedom.
 ''Nolt until this struggle is ended and uhe people of Cuba attain their inde- pendence will the world know how the truth has been systematically sup pressed. Urder existing circumstances it is impossible to send out the truth concerning amy victory or advantage gained by the insurgents, so strict is the censorship. Should the editor of a newspaper publish any news dis tasteful to the captain general he (the editor) is called upon to dis close the source of his in formation. Refusal means imprson- ment. Betrayal of the author of the information means the death of that person.
 'sThere are fewer executions than there were two months ago. Within the last three weeks Weyler was noti- fled by Premier Canovas not Ito kill so many, as it was attracting too much attention Whatever executions now take place are secret. The Spanish commanders under Weyler are begin ming to show the white feather. It may seem incredible Ito an American mili- tary man, but I state the simple truth when Isay that the royal troops in the province of Havana are never moved in bodies of less than a thousand. They are afraid to venture out with smaller number. It will be equally surprising g when I state that General Weyler, who professes to be as able tacIcian as he is butcher, now proposes as his coup de grace to surround the impregnable heights held by Maeeo and wait for the Cuban general to come down.
 '"The patriot army is better equipped at present tha1l it has been at any time, all reports ito the contrary notwith- standing. No one knows better than Weyler that NIaceo cannot be dislodged from his position in Pinar del Rio. Nevertheless the captain general is actually in earnest in his crazy plan to besiege him. The advance guard of Gomez. I have no doubt, is at this mo- ment in the province of Santa Clara or on its border, and Ehe most important engagement in the revolution cannot be far off"
Arizona republican., 1896-10-23
BILLIARDS REVENGE.
He Makes It Rain and Spells the Tem-
 pc Republican Meeting.

Rainmaker Bullard is happy, for by the exercise of his arts he caused the heavens to cloud over and rain to de- scend upon the earth. He chuckled gleefully as he gathered up his rain making apparatus and posted home ward under shelter of an n1mbrella. "I'm square now," he said '"The Re publicans cannot hold their Tempe meeting unless they defy the elements That's what Jerry gets for turning a polecat loose under the Cartwright school house while I was talking 16 to 1 to the dear people,"
 Bullard had his revenge, for the weeping heavens made it impossible to hold the meeting, which was indefi- nitely postponed.
Arizona republican., 1896-10-23
METHODIST CONFERENCE.
Pastors of the Sou harn Branch Trans
 act Business


 The general conference of the NJ. E. church south met yesterday mcrning at the church, corner Center and Ad- ans streets. Bishop R. K. Hargrove, who is also president of the Vanderbilt university Hof Nashville, Tenn, pre- sided at the meeting which began about 9 o'clock. Tine bishop made a few opening remarks, and the remaining time of the meeting was consumed in preliminary business, and reports from pastor of various churches.
 During the meeting Dr. Morrison, secretary of the board of foreign mis- sions, entered the church. Bishop Hargrove called him forward and in troluced him to the conference. The doctor then made some remarks ex- pressive of his pleasure in being with the conference, and spoke briefly on the subject of missions, expressing pride that throughout the hard times ot the past few years the board Of mis- sions had been able to keep all their msn in the field and to hold their groundI The doctor promised to ad- dress the conference at an early date more at length on the subject. Announcements were made for preaching in the church last evening by Rev. Mckinney, and for the meeting of the conference at g o'clock this morn ing.
 The Sunday school board met at 1 :45 o'clock yesterday afternoon and the board ot missions at 2 o'clock.
Arizona republican., 1896-10-23
CAMPAIGN WHOPPERS.

Thick and fast are the campaign lies about candidates for office spreading. The latest is one on Thomas Flanni- gan, Republican nominee for l5he as seably. The lie is apparent to all who are acquainted with the young man. The opposition is assiduous,y telling the voters that MT. Flanndgan had been ser tenced to serve . ten, ne Yuma penitentiary for horse stealing and that he was paroled by the gov ernor after serving one year. Such lies only serve to make votes for Mir. Flan- nigan, who is too well known in this valley for yarns of that character to affect.
Arizona republican., 1896-10-23
HARRlSON'S ELEVEN SPEECHES.

INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. General Harrison arrived at his home tonight. Leaving New Albany at 10 o'clock this morning, he made eleven speeches be- fore reaching Indianapolis. At New Albany he spoke for thirty-five min utes and severely arraigned the Dem- !ocratic party, charging it with direct responsibility for the panic of 1893 and the subsequent industrial depres- sion. 1t is conceded that l,lhe ex-presi- dent has done much toward weakening the free silver sentiment in the region he visited.
Arizona republican., 1896-10-23
AN OBJECT LESSON.

Judge Kfbbey has returned from No gales and Bisbee, where he made speeches in the interest of the Republi- can congressional nominee. While at Nngales, he stepped across the line and purchased a couple of cigars, for which he rendered half dollar. To his surprise he was given 65 cents change in Mexican money for his American coin. Thinking mistake had been made, he called the dealers attention to it, but was assured that no error had been committed. The judge carries the coins around in his pocket as an object lesson on the free coinage of silver.
Arizona republican., 1896-10-23
ARIZONA SHOULD GET THEM.
Many New Sanitariums for
 ConSumptives.
Insurance Companies About to Put in Practice Serene for the Re- lief of Stricken Policy Holders A Good Idea.

NEW YORK, Oct 22.-Hereafter it will pay a man to insure his life be- fore he becomes consumptiye, for then ithe insurance com paalies will take excellent care of him in the hope of keeping him alive. The large and enormously wealthy insurance compa- nies are considering a scheme to pro long human life. It is not a new born spiEit of philanthropy which has ac- tglated them, but a strictly business like, though in every way laudable de sire, to save themselves from financial less by availing themselves of the best medical skill and appliances.
 Steps are now. being taken by these companies which will result in the building of sanitarfllms for the ex- press purpose of prolonging the lives of consumptive policy holders. They believe they will be able to save an immense amount of money by pro viding samitariums flor those of their patrons who are affected with tuber- culosis, instead of allowing the disease to proceed unchecked until it results in premature deatlh.
 The sanitaIi1Im will fulfill the medi- cal and surgical ideal. Every method known ito science and art will be em- ployed and every theory advanced by the great scientists of the world to cheek the invasion of the dread disease will be promptly tried, so that here after the consumptive who is fortunate enough to hold policy in one of the companies connected with the sani- tarium may feel confident that he will be enabled ito live as long as there is and human way of keeping the breath of life in his body.
 To those knowing little of the insllr- anloe business it might appear that The taking of these risks on tubercu- loscis cases would inevitably result in great loss. But at present many per sons in the incipient stages of con- sumption are insured every year, for it is difficult for the examining pllysi- clan ito detect the earlier stages of the disease where the symptoms are care fully hidden, as is apt to be the case.
Arizona republican., 1896-10-23
DEATH OF MRS. COOK.

The Los Angeles Times of recent date contained the following death mo- tice: Cook-In this city, October 13, 1896, Mrs. Mary E. Cook, aged 73 years, beloved mother of Mrs. N. C.. iShekels of this city, Mrs. Wilkerson and A. s. Shilkle of Arizona. Funeral from family residence, No. TAO South Hill street, Tuesday, October 20, at ?. m. Friends invited Prescott and Phoenix papers please copy)
Arizona republican., 1896-10-23
MORE JAW FIGHTING.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 22.-Dan Lynch, Tom Sharkey's manager, is highly indignant over the statement made by Bob Fitzsimmons that Sharkey is unwilling to meet him be- cause of his (Sharkey's> engagement with Corbett Lynch declared he never made such statement to Fitz- simmons and that Sharkey will be ready to meet Fitzsimmons any time.
Arizona republican., 1896-10-23
last fortnight of the campaign to ask ths T- isr' general if he shall not . m Territorial Library, sl6 ora +h sn

likely that when the attorney general shall learn the true inwardness of this case he will ask Mir. Ellinwood for an explanation. In the mean time the peo- pie of Arizona will see that a very cheap plan to make Mark Smith a mar tyr has flashed in the pan.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-10-23
OR. THE GENESIS AND EVOLUTION OF A
MONSTER!
BY JOHN CLARK RIDPATH, LII ID.
MONSTER /!

no VINO mas may ienu 10 ulm WIZ HAS
not, and receive his own with usury.
This principle was adopted by the Amer
lean republic in the day OF trial. The
means necessary for the prosecution OF
the war were not taken-as the hfe was
taken-but were borrowed. The quad
rennium was an epoch Of prodigious
borrowing A great part Of the lend
ing was patriotic; but much OF it, even
ut the first, was interested, and was
mixed with continuance and Interior de-
signs.
The currency that had to be provided
to meet the startling emergency that
had overtaken the American people was,
in the nature OF the case, made to be a
legal tender in the payment OF debts.
The government must needs have such
a money. All metallic money-as is its
invariable habit under such circum-
stances-slunk away and hid itself in
dark Golfers, mostly beyond the sea.
Waht did gold care for liberty, for the
waste of human life, for the republic,
for the Union m=ae sacred by the
sacrifices and blood of our fathersi
1t was intended by those who first
contrived the legal-tender currency that
it should be absolute money in the pay
ment of all debts of whatever kind. The
supreme court Of the United States has
since decided by voice Of eight to one
that congress possessed-and possesses
the right and power to make such a
money. whether in war or in peace
The vitality Of the legal-tender act is
now rs much a part OF the constitution
al history Of the United States as is the
abolition Of African slavery. But they
who were skilful in watching their own
interests, even in the throes Of our ma
tional breakup and impending catas-
trophe, adroitly contrived that the ma
tional currency should have an excep-
ton in it in favor Of those who should
lend their means to the government.
They who should make such loan should
receive therefor q bond and the inter
est on the bond-as also the duties on
imports OF foreign goods-was exempt
from the legal tender of paper and re-
served for coin.
Thus came the bonded debt OF the
United States. The debt grew with the
progress OF the war, until it seemed to
approach infinity. The nation swayed
and struggled through the bloody sea,
and came at last to the shore. The pro-
cess Of debt-making had acquired SO
great momentum that it was difficult to
get it checked and reversed. In the
early summer Of 1865 the soldiers were
mustered out and remanded to their
homes. By August the work was done;
the grand army was no more; but such