The oasis., 1896-02-08
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Saturday, February 8, 1896.
ARIZONA NEWS.
[culled from Exchanges.l

ElkS was luStlluIcu WlJu JulItg-Sla charter members.
 Congress is suffering from visita- tion by small pox, and the board or supervisors of Yavapai county have quarantined the place.
 The Gazette wants the Southern Pacific to change the name of Mari copa to "PheniX Junction." The suggestion is not bad one.
 A carpenter was doing some repair ing in an ancient Prescott building a few days ago, sawed into wall and discovered stored away in hole near ly $500 in cash.
 There will be room for no more cat tie in the Salt river valley until past ure is good again in April, as almost every available acre is stocked to it's utmost. When summer comes it will be impossible to oyerstock.
 Work has commenced on the dam above Striped Canon, on the Bill Will Hams Fork. The company intend to make a substantial dam sixty feet high and take the water out through rock tunnel into the valley in Yuma county.
 Hay is now rather a scarce article in the Salt river valley, and by cutting time, the latter part of April, the val ley will be cleared of all there is in the market. Hay brings s4 ton near Phoenix, but six or eight miles out it is worth only B.
 Australian salt bush the new forage plant is about to be introduced near Tempe. It is said that the salt bush thrives best in strong alkall land and is more nutritious than alfalfa. Hall this proves true there will be boom in alkali lands.
 W. J. Welcome of Gila Bend asks a divorce from his wife, Sarah Ann Loy, on the ground that she has husband living. Loy was sent to the peniten- tiary for ten years in 1884, but he is now at liberty, and as no divorce was obtained he is still married.
 Winslow Mail: Col. Breed is taking time by the forelock in one particular, at least. We are informed that he has ordered $500 monument, so as to have it in readiness to place over his grave when he shuffles off this mortal coil. The old gentleman says he does not want any hitch in the proceedings when the end finally comes.
 Hogs are grown and fattened as cheap ly in the Salt river valley as in any other part of the world. They do ex- cellently on alfalfa until three or four weeks before shipping time, when they are finished off on grain, either wheat or barley. The pork is then as solid and good as though they had been raised next to Kansas corn crib. Thousands of swine there never see grain until they are nearly ready for the shambles.
 A brakeman by the name of Quinn l was accidentally shot on a freight | train near old Gila City last Friday 1 by another brakeman, through the l calf of the leg. It seems that a num- Der of tramps had slowed themselves | away in box car and the two brake | men went to put them out and of the | train. One went in the car and the | other remained on top. To frighten | the hobos, the brakeman who went in | the car pulled his gun and fired shot | through the roof of the car, with the | above results.
 Phoenix Herald of last week, says | Dr. F. o. Richmond has for the past | three days been at work on the Rose | cattle west of the city, which have | been in quarantine for the past year, 1t having been found that several of | the cows were afflicted with tubercu- | losis. Yesterday he took the temper | ature of the entire band three times | and gave them a thorough test with | the result that twenty-three bead | were condemned, six more showing | suspicious symptoms and seventeen | released from quarantine.