The oasis., 1896-08-29
A1s1zoHA NEWS
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The total valuation or all property
 in the territory is 2S,O42, 175.72; the total territorial tax levy is 73 cents per sl00.
 When the east bound s. P. crossed the Colorado last Saturday nine-tenths of the passengers were ArizOnians re- turning on expiring excursion tickets.
 Citizen: The news has been pretty generally published that charges have been filed against Judge J. D. Bcthune looking to his rcm0yel from office. The Tombstone bar held meeting recently at which they passed resOlu. tions endorsing Judge Bethue.
 Samuel II. Logan, county surveyor of Graham county, has been awarded the contract to survey the line segrc- gating the coal fields from the San Carlos reservation. It is to be forty five miles long with monument every half mile. The contract price is twelve dollars per mile.
 Tucson Star: It is rumored that the NOgales bank robbers are making their headquarters at the San Simon cattle company horse ranche. They are said to be heavily armed and come and go as they please. An attempt to take them will no doubt mean desper- ate resistance and blood shed.
 Richard Ooker informs the Prescott Courier that countless billions of army worms now cover the surface of the earth over a belt of country extending four miles south from Mayors station and that Joe Mayer was putting net ting over his we'll and mining shafts to keep them from from filling up with worms.
 Phoenix Herald; Major Symonds re- ports that about twenty-tlIree miles Of the Rio Verde canal has been taken out and that as soon as the water low CTS in the Verde river work will begin on the dam. This enterprise will be completed to the chagrin of those who have ever been predicting its failure.
 At Phoenix, last week, the territor- ial Popusist convention nominated w. Q. O'Neil for delegate to congress, and adjourned after making a prop0- sitl0n for q vigorous campaign. The platform besides endorsing the na- tlOnal nominations and fayOring free silver and the usual populist demands declares for statehood for Arizona, the reclamation of desert lands by governmental aid and objects to the present irrigation laws of the terri tory.
 Arizona Republican: There ar rived yesterday at Tempe a band of gypsies numbering about sixty per- sons of both sexes. They come from Brazil and are provided with English gold They were met at the depot by asmall band of gypsies already camped near Tempe. It is said that it is the intention of the band to form colony near the Butte city. In matters of dress the new arrivals would rival the court of the shah of Persia. Tinsel and multi colored ribbons galore and | the dark complexions of the gypsie horde make very picturesque appear ] ance.
 Graham Guardian: David Marion | is in the S0lomonyille jail, for trying to get away with team and buggy | belonging to w. k. Jones. He stopped | in Stafford for about two weeks. and posed as band master. After he suc- ceeded in getting about twenty mem bers, he collected $5 or S6 and on Mon- day morning hired the team to go to Solomonyille. He had not returned at 9 o'clock that night so MT. Jones went after him. He had left Solomon vile and had gone in the direction of Bowie where MT. Jones found the the team. He caught Marion at the San Simon station and took him back to Solomonyille where he was lodged in jail.