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The oasis., 1896-04-18
oUAYMAs NOTES.

Miss Celsa Casanova of Nogales, Arlzoua, is visiting friends in Guay- mas.
 The heated term is now on, and Wm. Oyerholzer Is doing a good busi- ness in draught beer, fresE. and cold.
 Last Wednesday Mrs. Wm. Over holzer and son arrived from El Paso, joining MT. O., who is now engaged in business at Guaymas.
 The new cold storage and ice making plant of Beck & Cohen is operating very successfully, and they have. laid the foundation for n very fine business.
 Mir. P B. Chisem is building an ex- tensiyc addition to his already large tannery. and has greatly increased his water supply by sinking large new we'll
 Two ships are now in the harbor discharging lumber for Wm. Lund, the pioneer lumber merchant of Sonora. Last week he shipped to Nogales carload of lumber, to fill in part an order for the new sanitarium.
 Hotel AlInadar is the name Of the new hostelry at Guaymas which will be opened about the first of May by NJ. Marchebout, now of the hotel Cos mopollta. 1t is finely appointed structure, in most excellent location, and will meet long felt want.
 The distinguished officials of the republic, who passed Nogales week ago, are expected to retlrn to Guay- mas from Santa Rosalia today. To- morrow a banquet Is to be given them aboard of the Zaragoza, and at evening the four hundred of Guaymas wlllgiye them reception.
 Messrs. A. Bulle & Co.,, of Guaymas, have accepted the agency for Sonora and Lower California, of the Magde- burg Fire Insurance Co.,, one of the oldest and strongest underwriters in the entire world. Messrs. Bulle Ss Co. are now prepared to write policies on property in any part Of Lower Callfor- mia or Sonora, to any amount, and on reasonable terms.
 Last week there arrived from Ham, burg, Germany, direct, ship laden with merchandise of all descriptions for Francisco Seldner, the merchant prince of Guaymas; and ever since all hands at his extensive establishment have been busily engaged in gettingit through the custom house and conve- niently stored in MT. Seldner's spa cious warehouses.
 F. Aguilar, sucessores, the head of one of the heaviest and most widely known mercantile houses in Sonora, commands trade extending far over the Pacific coast of Mexico, which keeps busily engaged large force of men filling orders. Their store in Guaymas is one of the busy scenes of the Sonora metropolis, and the busi- ness is conducted by the managers, Messrs. Bustamante and Montijo, on a broad guage basis.
 MT. F. Von Borstel, the well known merchant of Guaymas enjoys an ex- torsiva ond contfnpollu ovnapdino trade with all the Sonora mining camps, where are employed so many of the most thorough and reliable ex- perts and mechanics-p people who always want the best of everything, and know that they can always ind it at MT. Von Borstel's store in Quay mas. In Mr. Peterson, his valued CO., adjHtor, MT. Won Borstel has an as-
The oasis., 1896-04-18
OFFICIAL PAPER OF MORALES, ARIZONA.
Saturday, April IS, 1896.

IN THE municipal game THE OASIS no longer plays splits.
The oasis., 1896-04-18
Balance
STREET FUND.

PAID. Jan 6, To general fund sl3.G0 Jan s, E. Covarubias, street
 cleaning warrant 9J. HOO Roy Titcomb, lumber,
 warrant 94, 3.29 Jan %, F. NJ. Main, widening Cam
 on street, warrant 70. H.jO Feb 1, k. Covarubias, Street
 cleaning. warrant 104, 14.50 March g. E. Covarubias, Street
 cleaning warrant lO9, HOO Cemetery fund, 5O.93
 sl25. .s2
 Balance ss5oc CEMETERY FUND.
 Cash s5OaS SAFE INCIDENTAL EXPENSE FUND. Jan q, Cash Apportionment 5000
 PAID. Jan q, Moving small pox patients
 to pest house, Sl.G5 Jan 2j, Stationary and stamps 50 Jan 2s, Moving small pOx patients
 to pest house. 1.10 Feb 2, Wood for pest house, 150 Feb p, Hauling brush away from
 park 50 " Hauling wood to the pest
 house 50 Feb r, Cleaning Nelson Avenue 2.15 March 8 Telegram to NJ. Reynolds, 50
 ssD
 Balance sllO
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-04-17

Coast Fleet of SchOOners Are Max
ing Large Catches.
The present season promises to be
phenomenal one with the sealing fleet. a
strange feature of the great catch being
the number of seals taken by the schoon-
ers working on the coast between Cape
Flattery and the Farallones, says the
Portland Telegram. These sealers are
working in and off shore through the
herd now on it's way north to the breed
ing grounds. The herd must be of re-
markable size, for already catches of 1900
skins have been reported with the
schooners but days sail off the coast.
AS the owner in a sealing schooner
remarked this morning: Those inshore
representatives at Washington who pro-
pose settling the pelagic sealing dispute
by killing off the entire seal herd, would
probably tack an amendment to their bill
could they be persuaded at the present
time to spend week off the California
coast aboard a sealer After they had
been given a sight of the sea, for miles
on either side of the vessel, alive with
seals, they would be likely to add some
thing to the kll-all measure regarding
the seals that got away. Admitting there
have been thousands of skins taken, and
that the seal rookeries have been raided
by pirates, still, as fact, do not believe
the herd has been diminished. To the
contrary, if one takes the present season
as a criterion, the seals are increasing"
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-04-17
RICH PEOPLE OF THE STAGE

Wilson Barrett owns property in Eng
land. His fortune is estimated at $3.50
00O
Fanny Davenport has fortune in
vested in real estate in New York AMI vi
entity, from which she derives large in
come.
Calve could draw a check for $40. coo
that would be honored. She possesses
much landed property in France, and is
heavily interested in stocks and bonds
M. b. Curtis made a fortune out o;
"Saml of Posen, and a few years ago
owned very valuable property in Califor
MIA His troubles there cost him over
$780, 900, but he is said to have left a SIN Ill
fortune yet.
Lolita is accredited with owning valu-
able real estate in every large city in the
United States. She is the wealthiest wom-
an in the profession, and although she
could live as deliberately as desired with
her enormous income, she lives plainly
and is anything but extravaganza. Her
mother and herself are as shrewd pair
of fnanciers in petticoats as exist.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-04-17
HE RECALLS A PIONEER INCIDENT
Day on the Columbia just 40
Years Ago.

Forty years ago today was just such
a day as today is,' said B. B. Bishop
as he was talking to q. company of men
on the street at Pendleton last Thurs
day. Il can remember as plainly as
though it were yesterday
Judge Bishop, as one gentleman said,
was in the country when the Columbia
river was only creek, and he has
about as correct memories of the early
days as any man in eastern Oregon.
When he tells story about the times
when this country was young and its
history was merely a prospect, every
one listens and knows he is, getting
facts from one who was active in the
chief enterprises of the day and one of
the most influential citizens of the state,
says the East Oregonian.
Yes said he, ''the day was just
such an one as this, cloudy and in
clined to coll for spring time. l am
not referring to the day as it was in
Pendleton. There was no Pendleton
then. The Umatilla ran quietly down
toward the Columbia without one thing
here to interrupt it's flow, unless it be
some isolated settler or traveller, or
some Indian coming down to the wa
ter's edge to give his cayuse drink.
I don't know how the weather was in
this spot. / refer to place down on the
Columbia river on the Washington side
opposite where the Cascade Locks now
| is There's where I was and SO were
number of settlers. That was day of
moment. 1 can never forget it, as the
Indians came skulking about the settle
| ment and killed is of our white people.
| Times were mighty interesting about
then. We We're far from any other
center of settlement and if the red
| skins got the better of US we would all
| have lost our lives. AS 1t was, the
| margin of safety was very narrow and
we came within one or two aces of be-
| ing all massacred. The pesky varmints
not only killed 15 of our people, but
| almost captured our steamboat Mary,
which piled between there and The
| Dalles. They advanced as far as the
gang plank, but just at the right mo-
| ment, the engineer of the boat came for
ward and shot one of them, and the re-
| naming ones reiterated into cover.
with guards placed to watch their
| further movements, we got up steam
| and were soon in the middle of the
river and all safe. Yes, that was just
| 40 years ago today, and yet it seems
| only short time, and the events of the
| day are very sharply defined in my
memory"
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-04-17
THE SALVATION ARMY.

Among the saving forces of the times
must be reckoned the Salvation Army
Its numbers, it's discipline, its intense
enthusiasm and spirit of sacrifice give
1t force and character in its peculiar
field of Christian effort.
In the Pacific northwest the Salvation
Army has undergone a distinct change
for the better within the past eight or
ten years 1t has developed stronger
and better leadership, but without los
ing in zeal or abandoning in the slight
est it's distinctive field. 1t has less of
the erratic, and has gained firmer and
clearer purpose.
And with these changes has come q
change of public estimation. Ten years
ago the Salvation Army was regarded
as nuisance by many fair-minded and
excellent people, and others considered
1t disturber of the peace and a de-
spoiler often of family happiness. These
feelings created much opposition and
some persecution, but with the improve
ment of the army, and long and contin-
uous proof of its nobleness of purpose,
these have died out, and today the army
approval.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-04-17
PECULIAR AND PERTINENT.

The Transvaal Beers speak a mongrel
language. and very few of the middle
aged people can read or write Dutch.
Sligo derives it's name from the river
Sligeach (slig, a shelD. The O'Haras and
O'Garas were the chief clans.
A woman in Simpson county, Kentucky,
still spins and weaves all the cloth for the
clothing worn by her husband and chill
dren.
The Coliseum at Rome was built to
accommodate 100000 spectators. 1t covers
five and one-half acres of land, and was
120 feet high.
The tallest standpipe in New England
was completed at Kennebunk, Me-, last
week. 1t is 105 feet high. and some 10 800
rivets were used in its construction.
A reform wave has struck the city gov
eminent of Woodstock, VT. An anti-to-
bacco league has been formed among the
members of the government, and already
IL of the town officials have Joined it and
given up tobacco in every form.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-04-17
BUSINESS POINTERS.

The Skagit News says that a fish hatch
cry is to be established on the SkaSit
river.
The Port Townsend nail works have re-
sumed operations after being closed for
several years.
The Willamette valley is hoping for a
beet sugar factory to be established by
the Spreckles interests.
The exports from the port of Tacoma
for the month of March, were valued at
1928, 1874; imports, 100000.
The ocean commerce of Tacoma has
rarely been more promising than at pres
ent says the Ledger.
The South Bend chamber of commerce
has ascertained that creamery at that
place could depend upon the milk of 500
COWS.
The Alaska Packers Association has
about so men employed at Blaine and at
the fishing grounds getting ready for the
seasons work.
The prospects of the coast sealing fleet
are even less hopeful than had been an
ticipated. says the British Columbia
| Commercial journal.
A lumber exchange has been opened in
| Seattle G. w. Stetson is president A
| membership of 200 is expected. Lumber
| journals are kept on file and exhibits OF
| native woods are carefully arranged.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-04-17
EXCITING cHAsk
Dangerous Leaps That
Police Refused fos

.
John DAILY, who claims to be 49,
entered the house of H. Ostermait
at Hoboken, N. j., while the family were
absent to see what he could pick up.
He put on suit of Mr. Ostermann's
clothes and an overcoat He used his
own overcoat to wrap UP a number of
small valuables. Just as he was leav-
ing by the front door, having lighted I
one of Mr.. Ostermann's cigars. Oster-
mann's son met him. The young mans
suspicious were excited by the bundle
and DAILY voluntarily accompanied him
back into the house and gave up the
parcel
He overheard young ostermann tell
the house maid to go for policeman
Then he made a quick dash through the
front door. Ostermann yelled "Stop
THEIR and Roundsman Hammond and
Policeman Harrison started in pursuit
The chase led the putting policemen
through Fourth street to Washington
street. At each door idle Hobokenites
Joined the chase. When the pursuit be-
came too hot for Daily he lodged
through the open door of tenement
house and gained the roof. The crowd
remained in the street and yelled lust
lily and the police labored up the stairs.
Half way down the block he came to
a row of three-story houses, removed
from the tenements by an alley. DAILY
hesitated. 1t was a dangerous Jump
He looked back and saw the policemen
laboring along after him three or four
houses back. Then he jumped He
barely reached the roof, and caught and
steadied himself on the stone coping.
His nerve pleased the crowd, and 1t yell
ed with delight as the policemen came
up to the jump and refused it, Other
policemen, who had followed in the
street, were ascending to the roofs of
the lower houses There was no time to
be lost. DAILY ran to the corner of
Bloomfield street, turned and ran over
the roof of the house he had robbed BY
this time there was fresh team of po-
lice on the roof. Half way down the
block the fugitive was stopped by a tall
fiat The police began to walk and mop
their brows, believing they had the thief
sure. The crowd below waited a speedy
denouement. DAILY looked back, and,
seizing the sill of the fourth-story win
dow, swung out over the street. Hand
over hand he went from window sill to
window sill, paying no heed to the cheer
Ing crowd below, or to a blonde woman
above, who was dressing, and who
| poked her head out and told him he
ought to be ashamed of himself
No. 1926 Bloomfield street is a still
| lower building, and when DAILY reached
it he found a footing on a window sill
| Opening the window, he went 1t. The
| crowd yelled even more vigorously, and
the baffled policemen peered stupidity
| over the cornice of the roof. Daily went
down through the house and concealed
| himself in the coal celler, whence he
was later ANONYMOUSLY dragged by the
collar. At the police station DAILY said
| he lived in New York.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-04-17

and restaurants? They will surely help
you,' inquired.
They can not. In sheer self-protec-
ton the stores have been obliged to
shut down on any further credit bust
ness, and as for the restaurants, there
is not an eatable scrap left that is not
handed out the back door to the strand
ed ones before the customer has finish
ed paying for the meal. There is trouble,
desperate trouble brewing in this town.
Nightly l hear of plots laid by men who
had they work and food would not
dream of breaking the laws. They want
to get back to civilization, and some of
these schemes to secure the necessary
passage money whisper of murder
Il gave the man some silver" contin-
ued Mr.. Wheelock. land made an APP
pointment with him to call at my room
the next day at the dinner hour.
He never came. That night a ST.
wash, his squaw and little child We're
murdered on Douglas island. an ak hav-
ing been used on the man and the wo-
man and child strangled. The little
red-painted Hudson Bay trunk of the
siwash had been broken open and 800
in silver money and buckskin sack
containing small amount of gold dust
taken.
Two days later an Indian from the
Yukon mission came to town and told
of three men who had visited the mis-
sion store and purchased provisions
sufficient for a trip to Fort Simpson.
One of the men was described as being
a thee Boston (gentleman) and smok
ing gold-mounted pipe.
Whether it was my friend you are as
safe to conjecture as myself"
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-04-17
PROGRESS OF THE SCHOOLS.

The citizens of Trail, B. c., are SUBJ
scribing for the building of school house.
The new Roman Catholic seminary at
Westminster, B. c., has just been opened
by Bishop Durieu. The seminary win ac-
commodate 25 students.
Professor J. A. Churchill of the Baker
City, Or, public schools, has drilled his
pupils how TO act in case of fire breaking
out On Monday the directors of the
district and a reporter of the Democrat
visited the school, and Churchill, as is
his practice once a month, turned in a
fire alarm and in less than a minute the
building was vacated.
What might be called the cash part
of the. school permanent fund of Idaho
amountse to about $4,000, divided as
follows: State bonds, $4,000; loans,
$61. 400; unpaid principal on sales,
$3.50, ass. 65, overdue interest and lease
money, about 100000. The interest dis
bursements of this fund have been as
follows 1892, $14, 80; 1893, $39, 9S445; 1894,
$l4, S3l; 1895, $15,S3O29.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-04-17

A Look Here and There All Around
the Country.

A Look Here and There All Around
the Country.
Early gardens are looking well Mt Ken
newick.
George Lee is planting 60 acres of fruit
trees in the Kennewick valley.
The farmers in and around Delight,
Adams county are using phosphorus to
kill off the squirrels.
]. A. Larrabee of Chelan Falls has re-
ceived ten pounds Of peanuts which he
will plant this spring.
Miss NJ. w. Olney has begun civil ac-
ton in the superior court of Franklin
county against the Pasco Union Land
Company on account of moneys and legal
services rendered by r. Olney and l.. C.
Frey, said account having been trans
ferred to the plaintiff
OREGON.
The Eugene Guard says that the seniors
at the state university are about to don
caps and gowns.
The Dalles is having a building boom.
Mr.. Max Vogt is rebuilding his brick
block that was destroyed by fire several
years ago. Mr.. Vogt's building will cost
$65, 900. A. NJ. Williams is putting up an
additional store adjoining his property, to
cost $4,000. Besides these, there are a
number of private residences going up
while other buildings are being raised and
improved.
When Mr.. w. r. Graham, a well-knowr
Corvallis tailor, returned to his home IL
the western suburbs of the city about
o'clock Friday evening, he was shocked
to find, his wife lying lifeless upon th'
| floor. He at once sent for a physician
! DIR. Mason FASTENED out, but found tina
Mrs. Graham was Head, having expired
| of heart failure. 1t was her custom L
| remain at home alone while her HUSBAND
was attending to his business in town.
| IDAHO.
The Rathdrum creamery company ha
begun operations.
An effort is being made at Rathdrur
to organize lodge of A. o. U. W.
The Tribune is urging the people G
Lewiston to be thinking about the Fourt
of July celebration.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-04-17
PROGRESS OF THE SCHOOLS.

The medical department of the Univer-
sity of Oregon has just graduated q doc
tors.
The public schools of Dallas, Or, are
closed and will continue so this week, by
order of the board of directors, on account
of the amount of whooping cough preva-
lent among the children.
The directors of the Medford, Or, school
district, at the meeting last week, were
empowered to borrow $4,000 with which to
pay off the claims against the new school
building This will bring the Indebtedness
of the district up to nearly $4,000.
The Nez Perez News says: Whoever
has the work in hand of starting a school
here had better awake from their Oregon
reverie, get a Waterbury move on 'em, and
have the school opened. Inquiries are
coming into this office every day in regard
to the opening of school. There are plen-
ty of children here who shouiN be attend
ing school every day."
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-04-17
Color of the English Flag.

There was once dispute among a
group of Beers over the color of the
English flag. There was much differ
ence of opinion on the subject until an
old patriarch, clad in a blue shirt and
soiled yellow moleskin trousers, arose.
He knew nothing about the English,
but he was solid on the color of the
flag. When he stood up there was a
murmur of loom Peet," and respect
full pause. 1.-The English flag" he said,
with an air of placid certainty. lis
white" There was a general cry of eX-
postula ton, which had no sort of effect
on the old warrior. Don't l know"
he asked, gently. II have seen it-seen
it three times; once at Majuba, once at
Bronkerspruit, and once at Doornkop
Each time it was hoisted and each time
il was white" And that settled it.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-04-17
Theology bY the Pound.

The wife of a minister down in Cincin-
natl traded a barrel of his old sermons
not long ago for a new breadpan. The
next spring the rag man came around
again and asked If she had any more SER
mons to sell.
"Why do you want sermons?"
Because I did so well with those I got
here a year ago. I got sick in the sum-
mer and preacher in the country board
ed me and my horse three months for that
barrel of sermons, and he has since got a
great reputation as a preacher up there.
1 will give you five cents pound for all
you have got."-Pittsburg Dispatch.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-04-17
i IN the ohio FARMER. as fol...

<1sfons will grow in almost any soil
81 il well filled with humus, possesses
<ertility and can be thoroughly drained.
A rich sandy loan is preferred. En-
deavor to, have the land free from
stone, rubbish and foul weeds. Exper-
fenced growers claim that 1t is almost
impossible to put on too much manure.
Any good compost will do. and some
consider that so two-horSe loads per
acre is not an excessive amount. Many
use poultry manure and ashes, applied
as top-dressing, in addition to other
manure. Soils which have been previ-
ously fortified will produce a large
crop with no other fertilizer than nj
trate of soda. From 600 to $50 pounds
per acre is sufficient, but that amount
should be divided into two or three
parts and applied at different times
during the season. The onion manures
which are advertised have also proven
satisfactory as a fertilizer for such
land. top-dressing of ashes, phos-
phate, or other manure when bulbs are
half grown is very beneficial.
Formerly it was the custom to sow
the seed directly in open ground where
the crop was to come to maturity. Now
many progressive growers sow seed
under glass and transplant. 1t is
claimed that onions will bear trans
planting better than almost any other
plants, that the crop natures several
weeks earlier, and that the yield is more
satisfactory, and that the task of weed
ing is less difficult than when the seeds
are sown in the field. 1t is absolutely
essential that the seed be fresh. Three
pounds of seed per acre is the amount
usually sown, although beginner can
safely SOW at the rate of four pounds.
Where seed is sown directly in field
it can usually be put in as soon as pos
sible to get the ground in first-class
condition. Where sets are used they
should be planted as early as may be
without subjecting them to danger from
frost.
In setting plants many crowd them
as much as possible. Some place rows
only 10 inches apart while 16 inches is
about the average distance. This pre-
cludes the use of horse in cultivating.
The usual way is to cultivate with
wheel weeders and cultivatOrs.