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The oasis., 1897-04-17
SONORA SETTINGS.
.cou.e,,on of Happenings in the State
 over thc Line.

UfGf ihS ,tprjetas Jesus Santa Cruz will rosume operations in the Blanca Julia niue.
 Al Guaymas Senor Arturo Morales s about to open a new general mer- rbandising establishment.
 The National Mexican Mining x peyeloping Co.,. at Fl Plomo, IS ar ranging to employ Yaquis as miners. Fl Progreso of last week states that q sale has been made of the famous El Chanate mine, which is situated about three leagues from the town of Altar.
 A pugilistic exhibition is to be clyen shortly at Hermoslllo by Black lack and swiftly" two pugllists re-, gently from Phoenix.
 About the 2oth Mir. E. k. Hale, son of the late U. $. consular agent, MT. Charles E. Hale, will return to Los Angeles where he Is attending bnsi- ness college.
 A corner has been worked on the Guaymas sugar market, and an ad- vance from twenty-five Go twenty seven and onc-half cents per kilo is already noted.
 Adylces received at Guaymas from the City of Mexico announce the ill- ness, in that capital, of Seiora Ale iandra dc Ia Vega de Redo tue mother of Diego Redo
 .sAs v aase aisues lias obtaiBeel from somewhere the alleged intorma- that there is yet a band of POO Yaquis
 tho war path making trouble .Aa. is news in sonora.
 Tomorrow ex-Presldente Dn. Carlos Garza Cortina and party of friends from Nogales will go to Santa Ana to visit Selor lsmael Padilla, the enter prising merchant there.
 Saturday of last week there were shipped from Magdalena twenty-seven carloads of Sonora cattle consigned to Bakersfield, California. Mir. T. J. An derson was the purchaser and shipper.
 Ores recently extracted from Fl Poryenir, San Francisco and Fortuna mines, properties of La CompaI1ia Mnera de Batuc, have assayed s2I GOO in silver and twenty-five ounces gold, per ton.
 At Minas Prietas, Monday of last week, there was a lively prize fight Tor a purse of SjG0, between Black Jack and Dan OConnel. Seven rounds were fought and O'Conncl was the Slctor- Geo. SculIy acted as referee.
 Beginning with this issue TIE OASIS will return to the post office at La Colorado and Minas pric.as for de- livery to it's subscribers in those camps. While not emipently satis- ,actory it is the best which can be done at present.
 Owing to the damage to the new crop Of wheat the price of flour has ilSen and it is now quoted at SIS lsil- l yerl per carga 1900 pounds. Formerly e. Sne price for that quantity was SIP. | :. 9,uce the above was in type the price oi Hour has again fallen to sI4. M AA-eoyeFnor Wm. T. Thornton of 1 New Mexico, who retired from office 1 9"'y ~, last week, has already returned ~ 9opora' which he visited last win ser' ana is pushing his mining invest | Hent' The gentleman is an experl- o op1eu mining operator with a wide | iGt,4ualntance among capitalists, and "'' @0'ent means much to Sonora.
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carried along in a satisfactory man ner. This rich property is one of tue coming mines of Sonora. It is owned by Miguel Latz, Geo. C.. Graham, Jack Faulds and others.
 Phoenix Herald: There will un- doubtedly be d new Southern Pacific Coast route of travel opened up one of these days by steamer line from
 Panama to Guaymas. which will shorten the communication between the west coast of South America and the United States very materially.
 The federal telegraph office at No- gales, Sonora, has announced the fol- lowing reduced rates on messages To Hermosillo, ten words, fifty cents, and four cents for each additional word. To Guaymas, ten words, sixty cents, and six cents for each additional word. The office is open daily and part of the night.
 MT Gus. Reymershofer of Calves ton, Texas, general manager of the Sonoita Valley Land X Colonization O., which owns two large tracts of land in the Altar district, writes TIE OASIS that he will be in Europe the coming summer. and while there he will endeayOr to organize colony to develop the iaads owned by the com pany,
 In the case of ]. M LafTont, before the court Of the first Instance at Guaymas, charged with inficting in- jaries upon Cllberto and Antpuio Le- levier thc accnsed was sohslcied of the charge as to injuring 6iberto, bat acquitted on the charge Of injur- log his brother X sentence of five months Imprisonment was pronounced and the accused admitted to bail, pending appeal to the supreme court of Sonora.
 Quantities of rich ore are coming in from the San Manuel mine at CabOr- ca. This property, now owned by Diego l.. Ortega, was worked by other parties at some former period. It has recently been denounced by the present owner, and has already mace a good showing. The ledge is four feet wide and the rock yields 23O ounces, silver, and one ounce, gold, per ton. It is sent to Hermnsilln and sold to the Mexican Ore Co.
 Recently prospector named Jesus Cordes discovered a valuable mineral ledge on the Jotoiqui ranche, about forty miles north from Santa Ana. The lucky finder took Seilor Diego A. Moreno into his confidence and in- duced the latter gentleman to de- nounce the property. Tuesday of the present week development work was commenced. . The width of the ledge is not yet developed. Surface assay 1000 ounces silver and one-half ounce gold per ton.
 United States Consul R. IIughs Long is in receipt of an official report from Vice Consul R. D. George, in charge of the consular agency at Quay mas, conveying the information that he has secured the release of the four American sailors from the steamer Orizaba who have been confined in jail there, on charge of smuggling, since last August, With his usual prompt itude MT. George took up the matter IS soon as he went 10 Gnaymas, and induced the authorities toinvestigate the matter thoroughly, with the re- suit that a decided insufnciency of evidence against the accused was de- veloped and their discharge ordered. 1
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NAT WAS BARRED.
An oId Soldier Fioored by the Civil serv-
 ice Law.

tNC Law
 The Chicago Records Washington correspondent, under date of the 7th inst, gives the following interesting personal remniscence which will be read with interest hereabout;
 Nat Fulmar is the only surviving member of President McKinley's regi- ment, the 23d Ohio, who was not here to see his comrade inaugurated as pre- sident of the United States, but he wrote him letter from away down in the southwest corner of Arizona apol- ogizlng for his absence and explaining why he could not come. Pullman is a miner, and since the silver coinage law was repealed has been down on his luck" like so many of his Occupa- tion. One of his neighbors owes him $500 and promised to pay it on the lst of February, but neglected to do so, and Fulmar did not have the money to pay his expenses to Washington.
 "The president read this letter with as much interest as any he had re- received since the 4th of March, par ticularly because it contained some references to their army life and to a great occasion in the history Of the regiment, when after the battle of Antietam, the members of the 23d were the only men in the army that bad cvilee and bread 10 cat before they turned in at night. This was dpg to the energy and skill Of William McKiuley, cOnHiissary sergeant, who hustled the wagons np ahead of every other sergeant in the service. For tbis, Which was something more than an act gallantry, Col. Rutherford B. Hayes promoted him to second lieut. cnant and gave him his first start in life. Nat Fulmar was with Mckinley on tha. occasion, and therefore knew all the facts. It gave him as much pleasure to recall them as it did Pre- sident Mckinley to read them in the ill-written but intelligent letter.
 The president answered Fulmar with his own hand. regardless of the demands upon his time and the clamor of l2,000 otfice-seekers. He thanked his comrade for remembering him, ex- pressed his regret tha the had not heen able to come to the inauguration, and asked him if he could do anything, personally or officially, to promote his comfort and welfare.
 "Fulmar snapped at his proposition like trout at fly, aud wrote back immediately asking the president to have him appointed customs inspector under the collector at Ncgales. The pay of that position is $50 a month, and the duty is to ride the Mexican boundary lines day after day and night after night on mustang, looking out for smugglers and Chinese immi- grants. The president immediately ordered the appointment to be made, but it turned out that position, like almost everything else, is under the ciyil-service rules, and a vacancy, even if he made one, could only be filled by a competitive examination, which Mir. Fulmar would not attempt. While he knows all that Is necessary to know about prospect holes and practical and can tell the time of day by the sun, Mir. Fulmar would not be very much at home in a school house. They had an examination down there for inspectors not long ago, and the only man of all the can didates who presented themseIyes who was able to pass was q venerable
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in every way get as near as possible the
expressions of the people

in every way get as near as possible the
expressions Of the people.
1t appears to me the professor desires
to continue in close touch with his 50
called reform Democratic "allies." But
with berating those in the Peoples Par
ty and his effort to keep recognition of
his "allies" he is liable to OverWOrk
himself In his last paper he says: We
ment in certain quarters to give the
Democratic party the whole credit TO,
the great political battle put up last
campaign We are willing to give great
credit to that party for breaking its
shackles
1t is noticeable that the professor
speaks kindly in saying anything about
the acts of his allies" He does not ask
speedy damnation' to 'overtake
them He reserves those winning cpl
thets for those who are not willing that
his committee should put shackles upon
them
He is afraid if opportunity comes tC
deliver over the Peoples Party, he OF
the committee cannot deliver the goods
which may make victory at the polls
so he will have poor show of being ap-
pointed minister or consul to the Canni-
bal Islands. so the poor natives will fai
to get their salad.
l do not claim to be a shrewd poll
tican, and probably am entirely unfit
to be member of the state central com
mittee. but | do claim to be a struggii &c
farmer laboring under the burden of {
mortgage that is almost old enough &c
vote, and so far as | have been able
to get expressions of farmers they cn
dorse my favoring the Nashville con
vention. Our views may not be SO far
reaching as one who '"sits in his edi
toral chair, field glass in hand, an(
quietly surveys the evolution of hui
manity Accustomed to the comfort
of philosophy, no hour has come whici
can o'ercast him with gloom. He ma
observed the power of evOlutional law.
The above is what the professor ha
| to say of Mr.. Owen in his paper. Ont
| would almost think he was referring tt
| the Ancient Mariner" or FLYNN:
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Dutchman." And he no doubt thinks us
poor devils, who are evoluting will take
such a man for leader No, thank you;
the Flying Dutchman' never reached
port, neither will we il we choose
leader who can quietly sit with field
glass in hand surveying us as we evo-
lutte.
The Peoples Party was brought into
being by men who could not be whipped
into line and if it lives to carry out its
great principles it will be that class who
will keep it alive; SO if the professor is
as true a reformer as he poses to be- he
will not let his "angry passions rise
against those who helped form the Peo-
pies Party for other purposes than
merely political machine to be run by
committees. who are not in touch with
those who honor principles above party.
| believe il we gain needed reforms in
time to save the people it will require
the best efforts Of all earnest men. and
don't think calling those who honestly
differ with you names and consigning
| them to speedy damnation" is the hes,
| way to unite us.
A work is before us that will tax uS
| to the utmost. -Hamlin V. Poore.
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/ have been called many names since
reform, but heretofore it has been by
those who have openly opposed reform.
Now l am one of the "spasmOdics or
middle of the readers He states that
his two column editorial was written tC
show the result of such madness" He
also expresses hope that the councils
of moderation and wisdom will prevail
everywhere"
l should judge the professor had just
been attending one of those councils
when he wrote this sentence. ''As for
the traitors, let speedy damnation over
take them"
The professor seems greatly exercised
because earnest men in the People s
Party do not quietly submit to rules and
practices of the Old parties, and tamely
submit to the wishes and action OF COM
mittees If committees are infaili3le
why was it new national committee
was selected last year? Many true Pop
ulists feel, and have felt. that even tins
national convention at st. Louis made
grave and serious mistakes, and feel
free to express themselves at the risk
OF the professors speedy damnation
overtaking them
feel that those mistakes make IT
essential that a convention be catled
so the rank and file of the people can
fully learn what steps are likely to b
taken in the future. If policy OF
silent inactivity is to be continued fol
the purpose of seeing if some party will
steal our platform and again force hon
est reformers to campaign with what is
| called Reform Democracy or Free Sill
yer Republicans. it is time now that the
! people know it. l believe in keepin;
the spirit of reform, as laid down a
Omaha alive and active. | also belicv'
in every voter paying small tribute
towards the expenses of delegates &
state and national conventions; and re
| quiring every delegate on his return tt
render a report of his work.
| l believe conditions at this time de
| mand that the Peoples Party step on
from strictly old party methods and i
! all times be free to hold conventions an
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Editor Representative:
On my return from trip to the
coast, am pleased to see in the Repre-
sentative that you are calling down our
misguided and fool friends who do not
seem to realize that the Peoples party
came into being as a protest against
the two old parties. and the deplorable
political and social conditions existing
in the United States as a result of their
venality and Incompetence
If there ever were need and provoca-
ton for third party, there is greater
at this time To maintain our princi-
pies and organization is essential to the
success of the reform cause in '98 and
1900, for the potency of the Omaha
platform with the great commonalty
of America is greater than all Others
that have ever been formed before OF
since
The leaven is working both East and
West, and no true refOrmer in the Pop
ulist or silver Republican ranks viii
encourage Democracy's bigamous de
signs. We may be sister. but should
be nothing more. 1t is time enough t.
cross a bridge when we get to it. an,
if the Democrats stick to their ont
idea panacea-free silver-those who
desire salvation will have to jump ont,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-06-02
OUR FORUM
FROM NOETH CAROLINA.
An Interesting Letter.

Mica N. c.. May 19.-NOt having a
personal acquaintance with you, but
knowing pretty we'll your general politi-
cal sentiments. | venture to address you,
moi more as a personal matter than OF
q general interest in the peoples well
fare.
trust to find you with the people OF
the Peoples Party who deem 1t essen
TALLY proper to hold a conference con-
yention at Nashville.
| am not opposed under certain cir
cumstances to a cooperation between
the two parties to elect certain men
whose political principles are pro-
nounced in the party to which they be-
long and well known. but the whole
sale bargaining, selling out and barter
ing away of principles into which our
official servants have led the party, is a
disgrace and political decentralization to
a sovereign citizen, hod-carrier, coal
digger or section hand. to say nothing
of the educated and cultured part Of the
party.
| know the move is a departure from
old party fashion, but all officials should
be taught that the people are the higher
law, and in case Of malfeasance in office
their right and duty at once demand
action and their judgment assumes its
place as supreme party law.
| have been disguised into inaction
in this state on account of my aversion
to the filthy fusion practiced in the
state; and when saw the national mar
ty pass into such hands, was astounded
and discouraged.
The referendum principle should be
adhered to by our party and they should
practice what they preach and begin tc
act in it now. Very truly yours,
Samuel Archer.
Chairman Peoples Party Elk. Com
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A GENEROUS OFFER.
You Can Improve the Breed Of
Your Fowls and Help The


Your Fowls and Help The
Representative.
Mr.. Hamlin V. Poore, of Bird Island,
MINI, makes the following liberal
proposition. which every Populist
farmer In the country should take ad.
vantage of and thereby help The
REPRESENTATIVES:
Mr.. Poore will supply for 81, 20 eggs
OF the following varieties: Barred
Plymouth Rocks, White Wyandottes.
and Single
Comb Brown Legh0rn. For every set,
ting ordered through The REPRE-
TENTATIVE. Mr.. P0ore will ship to tho
ono sending the order. 26 eggs, secure.
" and carefully packed delivering tho
same at the express Office at Bird Is
land, AND EIGHTY CENTS OF EVERY
DOLLAR WILL BE DONATED TO THn
REPRESENTATIVE.
Remember that while obtaining the
eggs Of splendid fowls, AT LESS THAN
THE USUAL PRICE. you are helping
THE REPRESENTATIVE and the Gauss
OF reform. :--,..
Now Is tho time to order. Send Ia
your orders At once to The REPRE-,
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apolis. Mimi.
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certain very hot place before we would
have so stultited our past utterances
by supporting a railroad president and
national banker. Judging from the tone
of your editorials | infer that the POpu-
lists of your section have met with lair
and honorable treatment at the hands
of the Democrats 1t has not been so
with us. Since the organization of the
Peoples Party in this state and up to
the Chicago convention no amount OF
abuse. Islander, misrepresentation and
persecution has been spared by the
press and politicians from highest to the
lowest to crush out populism in this
state.
Ballot boxes have been stuffed till
they fairly 'busted' special amend
ment to a most infamous election law
has been put on whereby the will Of the
majority may be thwarted and all this
has been done for the purpose of ut
terly destroying party that has been
contending for the main principle OF
the Chicago platform. The men who are
responsible for all this are those who
| during the canvass. were loudest in the
| praise Of Bryan and silver.
| The man who believes they are sin
| cere and can be trusted to carry out
ante-eiecticn pledges is one who is too
green to burn even when the devil get
him. Sincerely yours,
John T. Child -esS.
Amelia Va
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political parasite DOb5yn, when looked
upon seriously is only capable of pro-
voking mirth. His extreme anxiety Of
exterminating all who disagree with
his private plans. or the political des
TIMES of the selfish little Clique of Ow
enites that halls from Minneapolis. and
who have chosen him as their spokes-
man, presents the cOmical picture Of
the worm trying to swallow the
whale" There is no danger that those
political hucksters can take the great
Peoples party into their vest pocket
and dispose of it for profit to them
selves, and disaster to the party. The
people are "onto" them, they can not
fool them again. and all this racket
on the part of our friends is like order
ing out the artillery to suppress
mosquito. Our friends are only adding
dignity to those rascals by descending
to their level to notice the scampS.
Leave them alone until our next con-
vention, then brand the traitors pub
licly and throw them out Of our con-
ventiOn halls and let them seek other
fields to do the dirty work of their
masters outside the councils OF the
Peoples party. They have only car
ried out their policy inaugurated az
the st. Louis convention when thet
violated the solemn and sacred instrc-
! tiOns of their constituents who sent
III nd M
| mission. The zeal with which thew
:, have continually labored to create
| strife and dissension has brought a
great many of our less enlightened
members OF the party to believe that
they could create dissension. This is
| all wrong. Their influence in this di-
rection has as much influence on the
course of the Peoples party as a yellow
dog baying at the moon. in retardine
it's course each night. The dog barks
| but the moon moves on in its course
unheeding the jar of the universe by
the yelping cur.
1t is gratifying to know thag such ar
array of patriots exist within our par
ty that when the first sniff of danger
to our partys integrity Or honor is
felt those battle SCARED veterans O
many an honorable but disastrous con
flict are willing again to take the felt
in defense of their party's honor. The
able articles by Brothers Donnelly
Lang, Gibbs, Poore Reed Maben an.
others which appeared in last week!
Representative are worthy of highes
praise, as they reflected the sentiment
of the entire rank and file in this stat
of the members of the Peoples party
Occupying an official position in whicl
| receive correspondence from all quar-
tiers of the state, | can assure ou
friends that the prompt arrival of al
the prosperity we are now experienc
ing" | can say with knowledge. 9TH
people are with you.
Very respectfully yours,
John c. Hanley.
ST. Paul, June l.
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Editor Representative.
A trial subscription of three months
to The Representative is sufficient to
lead me to think that | cannot do with
out it. Scarce as dollars are I feel
that the outlay is fully rewarded by the
weekly visit of your paper.
We are Populists in this locality for
the sake of the principles upon which
the party was founded. If the principles
are good it follows that the party must
be a good one Bad parties are not for
mulated to illuminate good principles
and then fight for them with the con-
sistency and persistepcy which has
characterized our efforts for the past
five years. Some of US are middle OF
the readers to thasd extent and degree
that we refuse to support Bryan and
SeWall. We had PODulist ticket in
this state and we would have seen the
Chicago party in the hottest part of =
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our bandwagon, for the Peoples part!
will sweep the country.
Yours respectfully
F. D. Culver.
EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS.

p. NJ. Dedon of Lindstrom. Mimi,
sends us 81 and adds: THE Republi :
can confidence wave of prosperity has
not submerged this place yet. Dollars
are harder to get than ever before. Re
form papers. as well as gold bug papers,
are dropped for want of dollars, and
the name Mckinley is not as great as 1t
was before election. At the present
rate of prosperity speed it will be NC
Kill Them at the end of four years
But if it gets to one dollar speed year
| must pay for the Representative. The
Peoples Party must live and become the
leading party of this nation, or the ma
ton will go down No more rotten
Democratic deals will do us any good.
Give us the Omaha principles with the
initiative and referendum.
Ole Nygren. of Cokato, Mimi, sends
us 81 and adds: Times are getting