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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-20

Difficulty of Getting Its Range In.
sures Comparative Safety.

The science of military aeronautics
has proved particularly useful to the
foot artillery; while it's serviceability i'm
the siege OF fortresses can scarcely be
overestimated. One ascension frequent
ly suffices TO observe the fertilization,
as well as the batteries to be attacked,
and these are at once cartographicaiiy
registered. What n valuable adjunct
a well equipped and carefully organized
aeronautic troop would have been to
the American army in the recent war
with SPAIN Had some of the Ameri-
can vessels engaged in blockading the
harbors of Cuba been equipped with a
complete kite-balloon outnt, the TASK
of investment would have been greatly
facilitated, the enemys fortifications
would have been Immediately exposed
to view, and the position and number or
the Spanish boats at once denniteiy as
certained.
To the enemy, the captive balloon be-
comes an object Of attack, upon which
the fire of both musketry and artillery
Is frequently trained. The question
here involved is obviously OF the high
est Importance; and considerable time
and labor have been devoted by the
German government to its solution. In
yestigation has now shown musketry
fire to be quite Ineffective; for. owing
to the difficulty Of measuring helgnt
and distance, the balloon is hard to MT.
Moreover, few bullet holes entail put
a slight loss Of gas. and cannot, tnere-
fore. infiict much damage. In the case
of heavy guns, however, the matter as
sumes an entirely different aspect.
Cannon loaded with shrapnei nave
proved very effective, more particularly
when the balloon has been stationary,
the range not too short ana the ais :
tance approximately known. Captain
Moedebeck states that at long range
the destruction OF the balloon py the
batteries Is comparatively simple
matter. At short range neaVy guns
are too unwieldy to be effective. krupp,
I'm 1870. sought to obviate this difficulty
nv the construction of balloon gun;
but of his experiments with this wea-
non I have as yet been unable TO ob-
tain any information.
What has been said of the effective
ness of battery fire applies to the sta.
tionary balloon only. BY constant
change OF position and altitude, the Sc
c,,ritv OF the balloon Is greatly increas-
ed. such a change of position is by
no means difficult for our German aer-
onauts. whose equipment permits oi
great mobility One OF the most ex-
perienced aeronauts-Capt. Gross-nas
expressed the opinion. now generally
accepted, that the effectiveness or neio
pieces or heavy guns Is greatly dimin-
ished so long as the balloon IL KEEP. ir
constant motion. Experiments have
proyed the advisability of keeping the
balloon Mt n distance OF Ave kilometers
| from the batteries-a distance whicr
| stili affords the aeronaut excellent Ia
| cilities for observation.-Foru
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-20
a STANDING ARMY.


All OF the various schemes advanced
for the reorganization OF the regular
army contemplate a large increase OF
soldiers. and 1t is to be hoped that when
Congress gets to work on the matter
the result will be standing army of a
size proportionate to all reasonably pos
sible necessities.
There should be no question Of cost,
within reasonable limits. Our country
Is rich enough to support as large a
standing army as is maintained by any
country in the world. No such army as
y supported by Great Britain. France
Germany and Russia, for instance. is
needed, but IL II was required the coun-
try could stand the expense. And, of
course. It will cheerfully pay for as big
an army as is needed. The only prob
lem to be considered is what is the
need.
Evidently the need is far greater than
what a great many people and Con-
gress have hitherto insisted on. Our
little army Of $4,000 was not large
enough for ordinary garrison duty In
time OF peace. 1t wasn't big enough to
do the police work OF our military sta
tions. 1t wasn't big enough to form
nucleus for an army on war footing.
It surely wasn't big enough to fight
the nations battles against a respect
able foe.
At every CRISIS OF war the nation has
realized the need of the regular soldier.
In the Revolution the Continental was
the main reliance of Washington and
Greene. The war OF 1912 was marked
with reverses until our soldiers had
been trained At the outbreak OF our
civil War there was, as there always
has been, only an inconsiderable force
OF regulars. Sykes brigade covered the
retreat of the Federal volunteers at
y Bull Run, but an army corps of regu-
lars would doubtless have won the bat
tie Of Bull Run, and IL the war had not
been summarily ended thereupon a
stable standing army at the start
would have shortened the conflict and
saved thousands of lives and millions
OF treasure. 1t took time. long months.
70 make effective soldiers of the volun-
feers. At the end OF the war the coun-
try had a trained fighting force that
surpassed any army that modern times
had produced. But II had had it's early
schooling In bitter experience, wasteful
nghting and all the horrors OF unskill-
ful campaigning.
The regulars fought the Spanish war
although the volunteers did excellent
service. But in the only campaign ol
serious lighting. that In Cuba, the regu
lars commanded the field. Had tn
war lasted longer we should withou
doubt have had another bitter lesson a
training OF the soldier In the face {
the enemy. For courage and ioyalt
are not enough TO make soldier. o
hand. any more than are enterprise ar
ambition sufficient TO make a good bus
pcss man. The soldier. like the man
profession. trade and business. mu
heve training. And our country shou
h4ve trained force OF sufficient eli
60 be more than a mere nucleus. mo-
than = sbirmish line OF advance or a
rear guard Of a retreat. OF any arm
that the exisency OF war may requi
% BE raised.
The country has never yet had AM
< 1>lng me . suf'eient force Of rcsuls
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-20
The Wnr PLAY.

Manager--Yes I've decided To accept
your war play. It'ii be sure 20 go. There
can't be any doubt Of u.
Author--Ah. I'm glad you think 80
well Of u. T.
Manager-Oh 7 don't think much ~
the play itself. u doesn't amount 20
much But I've just succeeded I'm get
ting n full suit of clothes that was
worn by y soldier who fell ~ III Caney
! This suit will he worn by the star and
n won't make any difference about tho
play. There's millions In it.-Clevcland
Leader.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-20
saving of Coal.

To make half n ton OF coal 20 as fif-
teen hundredwcight. place a quantity
OF chalk I'm the crates. Once heated.
this Is practically incxhaustibie from
combustion and gives out great heat
place the chalk at tho back of each Of
vo,,r ores i'm nearly equal proportions
with the coal Full satisfaction VIII he
fcit both az to cheeffulncss and AZ 10
the warmth Of the iire. and the saNins
throughout the winter viii be- AZ the
rate of Is per ccnt.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-20
THE INVESTIGATING COMMIS
SION.

Major Gen. Schofield, u. S. A.. re-
tired, former commanding general or
the army declined to serve on the ex-
ecutive commission appointed 10 re-
view the conduct OF the war. otherwise
TO investigate the conduct OF the war
department The ground OF his obJec-
tion is reported to be that. being a SOL
dier. his mind was pretty substantially
made up and he would go to the invest
igation with convictions already set
tled-though which way is not stated.
The position taken by General Scho-
field offered q clue to other army ofii-
GERS, retired and active, and to the
President. The former were naturally
not disposed to engage In what amount
ed TO a court of inquiry on their supe-
rior officers, the war department, the
commanders and the staff heads. So
the President has appointed commits
sion of civilians, able men with an old
soldier or two among them.
No one will believe that the Presi-
dent Is not sincerely anxious for a
thorough and painstaking investiga-
ton, u consummate review by high au-
thorlty Of the operations OF the war. He
has evidently been at pains TO secure
men whose character commend them to
the country for fairness.
But It looks likely that for the first
time since he took office, the President
has permitted himself to be pushed.
II looks as though this commission was
appointed in recognition of the some
what hysterical call Of the press to In
vestigate without further delay. The
more sober-minded have felt that while
investigation was necessary and desir.
able. even IL there had been little com
plant, that 1t could wait until Congress
which has the authority and will
which is the regular machinery coulc
meet and take the steps required tc
secure full survey of the work that
has been done since war was declared
So long as conditions complained OF
were being relieved. the inquiry as te
how they came to exist might have
awaited the usual proceeding provided
for such case.
1t looks as though the investigating
commission as 1t stands today was pri
marily a class in the school Of war. The
commission is of an extraordinar,
character in its authority and Its mem
5ership. In the course of its inquiry y
will doubtless learn a great deal abou
war that most of its members never
knew before. whether II will be able t.
secure from it's inquiry much of value
to the country or In the way OF elucida
ton of the complications that have de
veloped inquiry remains TO be seen.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-20
Families Badly MIXED.

On Butler Taylor's farm bantam
chickens and quails are mixed. The
quail hen Matched chickens and the
bantam is the proud mother of covey
OF little auails. The little chickens fol-
lowed the quail mother OFT into the
copse and are az wild as real quails.
The bantam's little quails deport them
selves I'm the yard ana coop the same as
regulation chicks.--CarroIiton tKy)
Democrat.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-20

A coal mine In Scotland, which caught
fire over nifty years ago and has been
burning ever since. has at last burned
,,self ont. The mine is on the Daiqu-
harran estate. Daily. IL was set on IRE
bv the engines which worked the fans
and. although many costly attempts
were made to extineuish IT, thcy AL
proved unsuccessful.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-20
Soldiers ReIi.f Association.

The Rhode Island sanitary and Relief \.
sociafion ask generous pubiic for con'ribu-
tlors of money 10 enable them 10 carry ON
,heir work of relieving sick and wounded
soldiers aud sailors. nv sending clothing.
medicines and stores that the governmcnt
docs not supplv.
All contributions sent 10 the Daiiy ~cws
viii DC acknowledged in that paper.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-20

II is announced that Marian Grace
Perkins and Charlie Bourne. OF Middle
boro. will shortly issue a statement to
the public. We would pray hard to be
spared a smaller infiction.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-20

The Sultan of Turkey agrees to the
demand of the admirals to get out of
Crete, inasmuch as there is probable
ity of some delay in adopting the Cars
proposition of disarmament.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-20

We wondered II the late Capt. Allyn
capron and our own Congressman Adm
II. capron were related? The Captains
portrait looks a twin TO the Congress-
man. and It appears they are first
cousins
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-20

Rather a novel arrangement has been
entered into between the two "es-
teemed contemps" at Warrensburg.
One of the two daily papers has sus-
pended publication until July I. 1899. on
which dnte the other Is TO 60 into a
comatose state and leave the field clear
for a year for the one which is now
auiescent. The star is 1T for the first
IL months
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-20

BY the way our esteemed contempo-
rary the Journal edltorially bulls the
wheat market we might be led to guess
that somebody over there is feverishly
long OF the December future.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-20

The agreeable news comes that the
Second regiment of Texas which drew
the color line by refusing to accept pay
handed out by negro paymaster has
now relented and is paid off. The pay
masters name. Lynch. somehow doesn't
sound like niger"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-20

What with the subway and Keith's
theatre there seems TO be no lack OF
entertainment In Boston for the visit
ing odd Fellows.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-20

The commissary department ought tt
be all right i'm Gen. Kitchener's army.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-20

The New York city Goo Coos seem
bent on winning this time. Thcy have
nominated Roosevelt for governor.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-20

For all the complications out in the
Philippines "our flag is still there'-and
SOS Dewey.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-20

According to all accounts Mr.. Per-
kins of Middleboro is not a wise father
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-20

new depot over the approaches If one
is In a balloon.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-20

II mu.t be very smooth reaching Tho
The oasis., 1898-12-17
MORALES NOTES.
Interesting Items Gathered Around inc
 Line Cities.

Ladies shoes, gents shoes, and cnildren's shoes in great variety, and at prices which beat the lowest. at the Red House-R Vasduez.
 In the building formerly occupied by La Moda. on the Sonora side of the line, MT Ybarra is fitting up very handsome saloon and club room.
 Conductor James Reddoch has gone to Carbo to take run between Carbo and Guaymas. He will move his family from Tucson to Guaymas.
 Chamberlain's collie. cholera and diarrhoea remedy can always be de- pended upon andis pleasant and safe to take. Sold by Jas. B. Mix &Co.
 Those visiting Phoenix will find elegantly furnished rooms, centrally located and convenient, at l2i West Washington street, opposite the court house plaza.
 RAILROAD MEN ATTENTION IT Fleischer Bros. are now the sole agents for the famous union made Carheart Oyeralls Every customer is furnished with time book free of charge,
 Mr. Fred Gustley, the hide buyer, has established an office in Nogales, Sonora, with Adelberto Ybarra as agent. He has also offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Hermo- sIllo. Louis Wartenberg is agent at the latter place.
 Next Monday, December 10th, is the last day county taxes can be paid be- fore becoming delinquent If you have not already paid your tax send County Treasurer Chas. F. Hoff the money and save five per cent.
 The ladies of the Congregational church have been soliciting for treat for the children of the Sunday school. Any one wishing to assist in the cause can do so by calling on MT. Heald or Mrs. Faulds at the Sonora News Go. WANTED-To work on royalty or purchase outright, tailing beds, low grade concentrating propositions, or dumps. Address, with full particu- lars regarding tonnage, wood and water, etc, Concentrates, this office. Lieutenant II. 0. Fllpper writes Mx court of the United States has re- fused rehearing in the Tumacacori, Calabasas and HuebabI land grant case, settling the case finally and for ever.
 By an unwarrantable mistake of the cOmpositor, overlooked in the absence of the editor the initials of l.. w. Mix were put into an item announcing the death of the infant of MT. and Mrs. J. R. Mix, in TIE OASIS last week.
 Monday evening MT. w. T Broder- ick, formerly conductor on the So- nora railway, died very suddenly at the Nogales House, of heart disease. Deceased had been in i'll health of late. His body was shipped east Wednesday night.
 Saturday evening Messrs. E. R. Tufts and J. C. Mcconnell of Chicago, who went to Alamos, passing Noga. les the latter mart of Octoher ra- turned from that part of Sonora. Sunday evening MT. Mcconnell pro- ceeded northward, en route home, but hr. Tufts remains.
The oasis., 1898-12-17
Whole No. 2oI.

The Grand Hotel at Hermosillo con- tinues to maintain it's popularity The genial proplietors-B Barney and Harry Cohen-and the managers Max Marks and Ben Goldsmith-vie win each other in making pleasant the stay of their guests, and doing all in their power to please them
 With present facilities the Torres < PFietas railway can deliver at La Colorado and Prietas twenty-five ar- loads of wood daily, which with the other business of the line would con- stitnte quite atraflic. Seventeen car loads have been the most the wood contractor has ever loaded in single day.
 Friday of last week the new loco- motive of the Torres & Prietas rail- way was out on it's trial trip and per- formed splendidly. In the round house that night, from some unknown cause, the cab of the new engine caught fire, and was destroyed An other cab was built and the locomo- tive is again in service.
 MT. D. H. Snyder of San Antonio. Texas, has recently purchased some 5000 head of cattle in the vicinity of AiamOs, pay..lg sl5 to s20 per head in Mexican money. He is driving them up the Yaqui river into the Sahuaripa districr where he and his partner, Mir Fant have large ranch, where the cattle will be held until March ard then driven to Risbee and shipped
 Friday of last week the second dele gation from the Cherokee aud Dela- ware Indians, to visit the lower Ya- qui country with view to coloniza- tiou upon the lan1s of the Slnaloa & Sonora Irrigation Co.,, reached Her mosillo, where they remained couple VT udlSf pioCCthiuR " buhN uidc Nuu- day, thence to Cocorit. The party consisted of k. c. Adams and family of Fort Gibson, Indian Territory, and John Bnllette, T. E. Ketcham, J. B. Porter, Tom Buffalo, James Wilson, s. Secondyne. Adam Wilson, James Young, Jim Walker and John Jack son. Mir Adams Is the representative of the Delaware Indians at Washing ton, D. C., while the others named are all representative men of the Cherokee Nation, from various locali- ties in the Indian Territory. MT. Bullette seemed their leader, but they all impressed those with whom they came in contact as gentlemen of sub stsntial worth and merit and solid standing.
The oasis., 1898-12-17
SONORA SETTINGS.
Collection of Happenings in the State
 over tbe Line.

Last week Misas Seymour of Torres was quite i'll.
 It is credibly reported that there is an Oscar Wilde club at Torres
 Last week Mr. Bement of Deming, New Mexico, made shipment of cat tie from Magdalena
 Saturday of last week MT. George F. Beveridge, manager of El Urbabo mine, near Torres, went to San Francisco to visit his family through the holidays.
 During tue latter part of last week MT. Joseph L. Giroux, manager of the big mines at Jerome, Arizona, and MT. l.. Lindsay Of Nogales, were at Hermosillo on business.
 Last Saturday MT. Harry Cohen of the Grand Hotel at Hermosillo, went to Alamos on mining business, and in the same interest will proceed thence into the state of Sinaloa.
 Last Saturday Don Carlos COnant, Of the Sinaloa & Sonora Irrigation Go. came up from the lower Yaqui region to meet the delegation of Cberokees going down to see the valley.
 Mir. John D McGilvray, slperin- tendent cf the Ahogado mine. vas in Hermosillo last week He is now working two shifts of men in the mine, and expects to reach the ore body by Christmas.
 Messrs. J. c. Flores and Joseph Braun have opened new Casino on Calle Yaflez in Hermosillo, which combines all the attractions of Ga sino and American bar room MT. Braun, gentleman or experience is in charge
 During the last two weeks Mir. Fred D. Levy, travelling agent for the "Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc" Monterey brewery has been visiting Hermo- sillo and Guaymas. He is now at the latter place awaiting the next steam CT down the coast.
 Mir. A. A. Pesquira, the Hermosillo cattleman, who went over to Bisbee and Fronteras last month on business. and was taken quite ill at Bisbee, has so far recovered as to be able to travel and returned home last week He is rapidly improving.
 Mir. Marshall P. Wright of Kansas City, is south of Matape, in the Ures district, where he has recently de- nounced some very promising prop critics he is preparing to work on an extenaive scale. Colonel Bryan of Washington, D. O., is interested with him.
 MT. Sam T. Jones, a brother of Senator John P. Jones of Nevada, has been recently visiting various points of interest in Sonora. Last week he was out to see Colonel w. $. Morrow: mining properties at Mesaquemada about thirty miles southeast of Mina' Prietas.
 Mir. Lachman, at Torres, recently received letter from Wirt Bowman in Colorado, in which Mir B. relate: that Conductor Johnson, who rar freight on the Sonora railway last summer, and has rec ntly been run ming on the Santa Fe railway where MT. Bowman is employed, had fallen off from train cracking his skull and otherwise seriously injuring him. He WAS not expected to live.
The oasis., 1898-12-17

not enter The evidences Of their work were plainly apparent the next morning, in broken door
 Hogan & Co.,, have established a wood yard on the flat between the blacksmith shop of J H. PomeroY and Roy & Titcomb's lumber yard. They have put in steam saving and splitting machine, and are prepared to supply the public on short notice with tirewood cut in all lengths and dimensions
 On the 10th inst. the shipments of Sonora oranges crossing the line at Nogales, aggregated POO carloads more than ever before in an entire season. Shipments commenced on the 10th of November, and the two hundred mark was reached in exactly one month. Since last Satur- day many more carloads have passed, and 1t is anticipated that the total shipments will exceed 250 carloads.
 
 Monday morning it was discovered that during the preceding night the store of Ramon Vasquez lthe Red House. had been entered and robbed. The burglars had deftly cut hole in the back door, through which hand easily turned the key, in the lock on the inside, and entrance quickly fol- lowed. Several overcoats, undercloth- ing, hats, caps, shoes, and other goods were taken to the yaIne Of two or three hundred dollars.
 Monday evening MT Chas. Wimple gave an exhibition of patent fire extinguisher which proved the little apparatus capable of doing all claimed for 1t. A frame of very inflammable material had been set up near the de- pot, around which large crowd as- sembled to witness the test. It was ignited, and when all ablaze MT. Wim- pie approached it with an extin- guisher. In ten seconds the flames were all extinguished The test was great success.
 Billy Young will present to the amusement loving public at the No gales opera house, on the evening of of Thursday, December 22d, high art Vaudeville performance Of rare excellence and merit In the splen- did array of talent volunteering to assist hlm are Messrs. Fred Herrera, Jas. B. Mix, Virg. Smith, Eugene Sykes, Milt. Bohall, Harry VanTreese, Professor o. l.. Lewis, H. c. Ott, and Master Alex. Grey Lulley. In his wonderful ventriloquial specialties Mir. Young will present for the first time his marvellous automators, here tofore described by THE OASIS
 THE OASIS is in receipt of the brief of MT. Guillermo Dominguez, the well known advocate and attorney, at Her mosillo, in behalf of the defense in the case before the supreme tribunal of the state of Sonora, wherein Ale jandro H. Mendez, Ignacio Amarillas, Fernando Moreno, Manuel Mascare- mas, and Engenio Pima, officials at El Plomo, were accused of homicide, per petuated upon the Papago chieftaiu, El Bruto, who was killed In the trou- ble at El Plomo last year. Mir. Dom- iuguez cleared his clients The gen tleman, whose offices are across the plaza from the government palace at Hermosillo, enjoys an extensive prac- tice, and numbers in his list of clients many Americans with extensive min ing and other business interests So- nora.