The oasis., 1896-02-01
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Satur day, February I, 1896.
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George Benson. an old timer of Ari- zona, died of lockiaw at Tucson on the 20th instant.
 Mr. Frank Llnd)n, who has been employed in various capacities on the Southern Pacific for several years, has become city editor of the Tucson Citizen.
 A curious thing has been noted by
 Deputy United States Marshal Eze-
 kiels in connection with the offense Of
 selling liquor to Indians. It is that
 four out five persons arrested or con-
 yicted are shOemakers. He does not
 know whether the same circumstance
 prevails everywhere else, but it IS a
 fact as to Tucson and Pima county
 Here is problem for those who are
 interested in Investigating latent mo-
 tiyes of crime.
 Conductor Ed. Scott of the South
 ern Pacific, who resides in Tucson, is quite a pigeon and chicken fancier. Among the pigeons in his possession until recently was handsome red checker, homer, who had only been trained to fly, as carrier pigeon, about 143 miles. On the afternoon of the 18th some boys were tOrmenting the bird with sling shots, and the next day the bird was missing. Last week Mr Scott received letter from Los Angeles, from whom he obtained the bird, saying that it appeared at his cote on the 18th and asking perms- sion to retain the pigeon until after the poultry show, which takes place in Los Angeles from January ? to F ebruary l, where he wishes to ex hibit him as prize bird The pigeon is one year and thirty-five days old and was for a time used as a mes sage bearer between Catalina island and Los Angeles. The idea of it covering over 300 miles in day ha d never occurred to any one as possible. MT. Scott nov prizes the bird very highly and when he receives it again is going to try and train it to fly from RI Paso to Los Angeles, over 500 miles.
 Last Wednesday night, about S:30 p. m. wreck occurred at Fairbanks, on the tracks of the A. x 5. k. R. R., train No. of the N NJ. x A. R. R. double header in charge of Conductor Henry reached Fairbanks late in the evening. Engine l6 in charge of engi- neer Andy Linder and Brakeman s. $. Johns were sent to set out a freight car on the ' above that place, while Conductor Henry and the other brake man were unloading freight. To reach the Y, what is known as q three throw switch has to be passed, this switch belongs to the A. & S. F. road, is not kept locked and is liable to be thrown in any one of three directions for which it is designed. Consequently all engines are supposed to come to a full stop before reaching it for the purpose of ascertaining if in proper | condition. This precaution it seems | was disregarded by the engineer wh passed it at rate of speed said to be | six to eight miles per hour. The con- | sequence was the landing both engine | and tender in the ditch. The engine | when stopped was found to be buried | to the axles in the sand. The remark | 1f bystander seems appropriate in | this case that ''sOme firemen blossom | into engineers in a short period of | service while others are picked before | they are fully ripe" To much praise | ,an not be said in favor of MT. Samuel | Donally who came to the assistance of | the crew with several men, tools, tim Oers, etc. Both he and his men | worked until two o'clock the follow Ing morning getting the engine and | lender back on the track.
 PS. Owing to the remarkable cool ness and good judgement of the en- yineer the freight car did not leave .he track.