The oasis., 1896-10-17
AHIzo~A NEWS
LcuIIed rom Eschanses.l


 tion was held, voting for tax in that school district for payinga an indebted ness of 2,j00 The vote was 40 to in favor of tax.
 Bisbee Orb: Repairing is going all over town. Roofs are being recovered and new windows being placed in. The amount of damage done by the rain and hail will mount to nearly s25,000.
 Millions of army worms are reported to have appeared in Mohaye county since the rains, and it is said that the Wallapai Indians are waxing fat on soup made from the worms.
 If your children are subject to croup watch for the first symptom of the di- se-hOarsenesS. If Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is given as soon as the child becomes hoarse it will prevent the attack. Even after the croupy cough has appeared the attack can al- ways be prevented by giving this re- mcdy. It is also invaluable for colds and whooping cough. For sale by Chenoweth < Mix.
 Bisbee Orb: Captain Hare's troop E. of the famous Seventh Cavalry, are now here, engaged in the construc- tion of a telegraph line from this place to San BernardinO. This regiment, since the massacre of the brave Gen. eral Custer. has been known as the "Avengersn and in many a bloody field has we'll earned it's title. Captain Glassford, of the Signal Service, will cgrp orrfva fo insgaqf tho limo
 Last Sunday afternoon while the San Simon was over it's banks two Mexican boys killed a large white Ibis. The Ibis is very rare bird in the United States and is only found in the lower part Of Florida and along the mouth of the Colorado river below Yuma. l.. is a very remarkable oc- curence to find one this far from it's haunts. If must have followed the San Simon down during it's flood.
 Phoenix Gazette Elridge Jordan, administered serere threshing to J. Frank Elwell, editor of the Phoenix Populist, last Sunday, for defamatory article in that paper, rehecting upon the young man. The community have little sympathy for Elwell and the general verdict is that he got just what he deserved. If this religious" editor had 8 little more muscle and less society," in his make up, he would be better calculated to edit populist paper.
 The inconvenience caused by the unavoidable absence from the terri tory of Dr. J. M. Ford, late chairman of the Maricopa county convention, by his being unable to return in time to certify to the nomination for county offices, has been satisfactorily ad- justed by the candidates all resigning and then being appointed by the cen tral committee as in such cases pro- vided by law This was accomplished last Saturday and certified to and the embarrassment" so industriOusly cir culated by the democrats will be on themselves after November 3.
 Yuma Sun: The Colorado river has been on boom the last week Capt l Polhemus who has been on the riverfor forty years, says the river has never been SO high in the month of Septem- | Der. On the morning of the 27th of | September the water gauge read | eighteen feet and five inches; the 2Sth | nineteen feet.six inches; the 29th, | twcnty-three feet two inches; the 3Oth | twenty-four feet six inches; making rise of six feet and one inch. The | cause was unusually heavy rains in | Wyoming and Colorado. It rained | there for forty hours doing great dam-