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Llnvia de Gro, which he declares one of the greatest gold mines on the contin- ent
 For your best girl diamond ring or pin, with g stone of the first water, will be just the thing for Christmas pres ent. Get her one at the store of the Sonora News Company. At.
 AIr. Charles Montgomery, the scout and hunter, was at Nogales Monday, delivering to the board of supervisors a number of pelts and scalps of predatory 'varmint, receiving therefor the boun- ties provided by law
 Louis Lulley' Senate Buffet is prov ing one of the most popular places in Nogales Mr. Lulley is an accomplished caterer, and lie keeps constantly on hand to fill orders, all sorts Of deIicacies, fish, oysters, lobsters, the finest cuts of meats, wild game, etc.
 The walls of Wells, Fargo X Co.'S. new building, at the railway station, are ris- ing with all due celerity, and the struc- ture is beginning to assume form. But 1t will obstruct view of the new rail- road depot from the quarter where it shows to the best advantage--the north
 At the local bank notices are tackled up stating that Banco Mi nero de Chihuahua notes are dis counted one per cent,
 You can get genuine English fruit cake at Barnes (S Nutt's bakery. The best in the market, and very delicious. Just what you want for your Christmas dinner. Fine home made confectionery also, at low prices. They still continue to make excellent bread
The oasis., 1905-12-09
Notice of Forfeiture.

No6ALEs, ARIZONA December $, 1905. To l.. W. JIMMIE, CT lis Heirs or Assigns:
 You are hereby notified that ! have during the year l905 expended one hundred dollars in labor and improvements upon eaeh of the following named mines situated in the N0gales mining district, santa Cruz county. Arizona Territory, the locations whereof are found of record in Book ,, of the Records of Mines on the Page indicated as follows. Luke mine, Book s page l65; Moonlight mine, Book ], Page l66 La Palma mine, Book 5 page l6S; Oak mine, Book 5, page l69; Hill side mine, Book 8 Page To; Rattlesnake mine, Book ,, Page l72, El Cato mine, Book & Page l53; Fl Lion mine, Book 5 Page l54 Rabbit mine, Book ,, Page l62; Tiger mine, Book ,, Page l6i; all in order to hold said claims under the provisions Of section 2324, Revised Statutes of the United States, and the amendments thereto approved January 22nd. 1SS0, concerning annual labor upon mining claims It being the amount required 10 hold said lode or lodeS during the period ending on the s1st day of December 1905
 And if within ninety days from personal service of this notice or within ninety days after the publication hereof you fail or refuse to contribute your proportion of such eXpenii- ture as eo-owner, your interest in the claim will become the property uf the subscriber your co-owner, who made the required ex- penditure by the terms of said Section 2324
 G. CASTRO. First publication Dec. 3, 1905; last Jan. 6. 1906
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NOCALES NOTES.

L. T. Bristol, Dentist, Marsh Bldg
 MT. B. schwob went to Cananea Friday
 Thursday evening Mrs. Mark Lulley returned from Los Angeles
 Tuesday wr Bracey Curtis, was quite ill, and was confined to lis room.
 Tuesday Mir. Joseph Pizskorski, the Calabasas farmer, was in Nogales.
 Wednesday Nr. and Mrs. Bird went to Calabasas to attend the Flood-John- son wedding
 Heavy black cardboard for mounting photographs for sale at THE OASIS office.
 Mr. II c. Glore the netallurgist and mining engineer, came from sonora early this week
 Mrs. B. H, Chambers was noted bv the Douglas papers of Monday as visit- ing in that city.
 Mir. Il. Morgan from La Colorado, was at Nogales Thursday, en route to Cananea and Nacozari
 Thursday NIr. F. J. Duffy went to Tucson, on business, returning at even- ing of the following day.
 Miss Stella shortridge of Tucson, is visiting Nogales, the guests of Misses Irene and Pauline Mercer.
 \ five roomed brick cottage for sale at reasonable price. All modern improve ments. Inquire at TIE OASIS office.
 Yesterday morning Mir. Frank Reich ert came in from the salero region. He reports activity continuing out there
 Wednesday morning Mir. George Sayre started for San Francisco, where he intends visiting two or three months Seats for the Lady Minstrels ssconcert can be secured at the store of thelsono- ra News Go. Apply early and get good seats.
 Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Bethell from Washington Camp, are in town, and the gentleman has been4uite i'll, confined to bis room at the hotel
 In Nogales, Sonora, Wednesday even- ing public meeting was held to devise means for uniting with the people of other points in Sonora, to aid in relief
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"A TuMBLINe, Tawney Waste of Water" " is glaring headline in the Arizona Republican, to an art icle about the flood it Phoenix. With q slight change what a head line that would have been for the recent Illumination of Congressman Tawney against statehood for Ariz- ona. "A 1umbling, Tawney Waste of Wind" would have been highly appropriate.
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Of distressed settlers in the lower Yaqui river region, who are suffering from ex- cessive floods. Presidente Claussen ap- pointed committee to collect subscrip- tions.
 Friday evening of last week Mir. Ed Titcomb went to Los Angeles, going to Benson by freight, and there catching one Of the limited trains.
 Wednesday Hon. D. c. Chalmers, the sage Of La Noria, was a visitor at the county seat. The gentleman was en- thusiastic about ioint-statehood
 "The American Gentleman the finest and handsoniest shoe for gentlemen's wear, at the Red House. Ramon Vaseuez.
 Monday evening Mir. George E. Earn shaw, the well known mining man, re- turned from trip in the east, where he went on business several weeks ago.
 In strict confidence Mir. K. K. Rich- ardson of Patagonia has informed THE OASIS that he knows why John D. Rockefeller has taken to wearing q wig.
 "The American Lady," the most elegant and stylish shoe made Sold only at the Red House, Ramon Vasquez.
 Yesterday MT. Frank Cox, superin- tendent for the Black Mining Co.,, (Cerro Prietol was at Nogales, returning from business trip to the City of Mex leo.
 Information from the Moctezuma dis trict of Sonora, received at Douglas, is to the eject that heavy floods in the Bayispe river have done great damage in the Mormon colony Oaxaca.
 Thursday evening Mrs. H. S. Eberle arrived from Los Angeles, and yesterday went out to Promontorio, to join her husband, who is general manager for the Promontorio Consolidated Mining Go.
 All the latest and most popular novels at the store of the Sonora News Co. And any one of them will make very acceptable and highly appreciated Christmas present. 1t
 Don Lauro Gonzales Condo is the ac- complished chef at the Senate Buffet of Louis Lulley, and is ! master of lis pro- fession surely. Such tempting delica- cies as he prepares have been unknown in Nogales.
 "Wednesday Mir. John Maloney arriv- ed at Nogales from Sinaloa, 10 visit his family through the holidays. Mir. Ma lony has been running the mill at the
The oasis., 1905-12-09

THoUGHrit better to die than suffer modification, is the defence of the naval cadet, Merriwether, on trial for having killed in a pugilistic encounter q fellow cadet, named Branch. Perhaps; but the Branch family don't think 10.
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Metal Quotations.

Following are the market quota tions on metals for today; Copper (E. Cathoae) IS cts. per ID. Lead, per 100 lbs. 5.35-5.S5 Silver, per oz., 644 cts New York City, Exchange l.Ol Pesos. Bullion value 50 Mex. Dol. (local) 5l
 American Dollars 200 Mexico City Exchange 2.0l
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MoMENToUs issues are before the present Congress for settlement. It will go into history as the most important national legislature since the civil war.
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For BreakfaSt Luncheon or Tea

A few small biscuits easily made with Royal Baking Powder. Make them small + as small round as napkin ring. Mix and bake just before the meal. Serve hot.
 Nothing better for light dessert than these little hot biscuits with butter and honey, marmalade or jam.
 You must use Royal Baking Powder to get them right.
 POWDER co. NgwyoR
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he was back again in the gorge with a
long reel of braided line and q great
piece of wood, to which he had affixed
a score Of old fsh-hooks. He threw it
into the current and played the line out
swiftly until the wood lodged against
the rock in the middle of the rapids.
Then he made his end of the line fast
to tree and scrambled up the cliffs
miles above. He came down TO the
rapids again opposite to where he had
been standing. Here he tossed out an
other piece o. wood similar to the FIST
and let it run with the current. After
repeating it half a dozen times, a swirl
took it against the very rock where the
first piece Of wood lay lodged; and by
clever manipulation of his line he sue
ceeded at last in floating the two to-
gether, so that their many hooks be-
came interlOcked.
Then he secured the end Of the line
to a tree, Just as he had secured the
first line on the other bank, and there
was the solution of the problem that
had baffled the engineers!
When he hurried to the bridge build
ers and told them what he had sue
ceeded in doing. they lost no time in
fastening a heavy cord to the line and
this was pulled across without mishap.
Then another cord twice as heavy was
pulled across and this in turn pulled
light rope through the rapids Before
evening tLl9 eIistiieeIs udd pullCu the
first wire cable across and with this
stretched over the gorge it was easy
enough to carry others back and forth
and to begin the work Of building the
bridge.
They gave Dick q handsome present
and the town gave him q hundred dol
lars. But better than that was the
fact that the CHEZ engineer offered
him position, and today Dick Spencer
is building bridges in the northwest
where he often has to use his ingenuity
in overcoming problems as simple and
yet as difficult as that of the gorge in
his native town.
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this viii cost a great deal Of money
more than the bridge ITSELF
That night at supper Dicks father
said that he was much worried THE
town needs the bridge very badly, in
deed said he, and we all lose a great
deal of time and money because we
have none. But the building of that
dam is going to cost more than $50, 0e0
and that means that we will have to
increase taxes heavily and keep them
UP for a good many years to come. The
town council is to meet tomorrow, and
hardly know what to say to them. It
seems too bad that we should have to
spend $50 GOO just because we can't get
a line across the gorge"
The next morning Dick went fishing
for bass in the gorge. Above him lay
the steel for the bridge, but there was
no workmen and everything lay in ap-
parently hopeless inaction. Dick climbed
out on a rock where the current swirled
green and hungry, and cast his minnoW
into the whirl.
The bass did not bite and gradually
he allowed his line to run out farther
and farther into the current. Suddenly
he noticed that after it had gone about
a hundred feet an eddy would seize the
bait and pun it straight toward a rcck
that showed above the worst part of
the rapids in the very middle OF the
river
He tried it again and again. Then he
reeled in hurriedly and ran home. Soon
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Dicks father was the mayor Of the
town, and when he went down to the
river to see the engineers they told him
their trouble.
You see," said they, I'VE thought
that it would be easy enough to carry a
wire cable across the river III a boat;
but now we find that no boat ever
made could live for a moment i'm these
terrible rapids. The gorge is far too
wide to throw, or even shoot, something
do"
The engineers spent some days ex-
aiming the shores on both sides, but
they found that the rapids were bad for
so great distance that there was no
place where they could try to get a
cable across with any prospects of sue
cess. AFTER consultation they said to
Dicks father:
we wish that you would let us
have the best kite-fyer among the
boys OF the town We may be able to
do what was done at the Niagara
gorge, where the engineers got the first
cable across by flying a kite from one
bank to the other, and then by means
Of the kite string they hauled
heavier string over, and so on, until
they got q string and then the rome
pulled the first wire cable across
Dick, who held the honor of being the
best kite-dyer, hurried home and re-
turned with his biggest kite; but
though he flew it with all his skill. it
was impossible to get the kite over the
gorge. Whichever way the wind blew
there was an eddy over the rapids that
drove the kite back every time. The
engineers We're unwilling to give up
and they encouraged Dick to keep it
up for whole day. But then they
had to confess that the kite plan would
not work, and they sat down to figure
out some other plan.
I'VE are sorry they said finally to
the town authorities. but we are afraid
that the only way to erect the bridge
viii be TO dam the river uD near its
mouth and make a false channel for fl.
so that we can work in the gorge; but
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DroK sPENoEBss LUCKY IDEA.
How He Helped the Engineers Build
the Gorge Bridge.

Dick Spencer lived in a town near q
great gorge through which there ran
river fun of rapids so fierce that no
man had ever been able to devise a
boat that could live in the swirl AS a
result whenever peonie wanted to
cross from one side of the gorge TO the
other they had to 60 many miles
around by way of a ford far above,
near the head of the river.
Much time was wasted in this way.
and at last the town authorities sent to
a firm of engineers anc gave them a
contract to build fine steel bridge
across the place.
Within a few months the steel girders
ana beams We're unloaded at the edge
OF the gorge, and then men came to
erect the bridge. But they had hardly
begun before they stopped again, for
they realized suddenly that. while their
plans provided for everything that was
necessary to build a bridge, they had
not devised way to get the first beam
across. The gorge was nearly half a
mile wide, and there was no beam or
plank long enough in the whole world
OF course, to lay across the chasm so
that men could begin to work.
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IzGA1
First published ia The Topeka State Jour-
nal Oct 5. 1861
BIDS WANTED.
~ 81 &c 81 Clerk.
ropeka. Kan.. OF. 5. lsO5.

IopeIEaa Kan, Oct. 5, 1905.
Sealed bids will be received at this Of
nee unsil 5 O'Clock p. m. Monday, Oct. 9,
1sg2, Tor 40 arc lamps TO be placed on the
Melan arch bridge.
The successful bidder will be expected to
furnish all material and labor required TO
complete the job in d tWorkrnanIike man
ner. all work 70 be done as per plans and
specifications now on file and under the
instructions Of the superintendent Of the
city electric Hight plant
All proposals must be accompanied by a
certified check for so. payable to the city
Of Topeka, as a guarantee that the sue
cessful bidder viii enter into a contract
with the city within five days after the
award is made.
The mayor and Council reserve the right
to reject any or all bids.
J. II sQU1REs. City Clerk
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Iow ono w. Rates.

Every day from September Is to
october 81, 1905. inclusive, the Union
Paciric Will sell one way tickets as
follows;
$1,000 to ogden and Salt Lake City.
$1,000 to Helena and Butte. Mont
$225O to Spokane and Wenatchee,
$3.50 to Huntington and Nampa,
$500 to Portland. Tacoma and
$500 to Vancouver and Victoria.
$500 to Ashland and Astoria, Ore
gon, viz Portland.
$500 to San Francisco. Los An
ge1es ana san Diego.
CORRESPONDENCE low rates to many
other California, Oregon, Washington
Montana, Utah and Idaho points
Through tourist cars run every day
on Union Pacific between Missouri
river and Pacific coast; double berth
S5.75. For full information call on
or address nearest Union Pacific ---en-
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AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING AND
providing for the publication in book
form OF certain compiled and revised or
dinances of the city Of Topeka and GER
nectton herewith
Whereas, A compilation of certain laws
of the state of Kansas affecting cities of
ion of certain general ordinances of the
city of Topeka has been made by Chas. F.
Spencer and fled with the city clerk and
the city has purchased and accepted the
same and has contracted to have the same
published in book form, and,
Whereas, Included in said compilation
and revision of the ordinances of said city
are certain revised ordinances which have
by the mayor to take effect upon their
publication in the Book of Revised Ordi-
nances of the City of Topeka, now, there
fore,
BE 1T ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR
AND COUNCILMEN OF THE CITY CT
Topeka:
compiled laws and said compiled and re-
vised ordinances in book form is hereby
authorized; that said book shall be known
a. the Book of Revised Ordinances Of the
City of Topeka and the publication in said
book is hereby authorized OF all ordinances
passed by the mayor and council to take
effect on their publication therein, and that
upon their publication in said book ordl-
nances shall take effect and be in force
pursuant to and in accordance with sec
lions 1874 and 1876 of chapter 122 laws Of 1903.
Sec. 2. This ordinance shall take erect
and be in force from and after its publ1ca-
ton in the official city paper.
Passed the council Oct. 2, 1905.
TSeal,1 w. Fl. DAVIS. Mayor.
Attest: J. H SQUIRES, City Clerk.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
onice Of comptroneG. of the Currency.
washington. D. G. Sept. z. 1906.

WHEREAS. BY satisfactory evidence,
presented to the undersigned, it has been
made to appear that The Capital Ma
tlonal Bank of Topeka in the city OF
Topeka, in the county sof Shawnee and
state of Kansas, has complied with all the
provisions Of the statutes of the United
States required to be complied with before
an association shall be authorized to COM
mence the business Of banking;
NOW, THEREFORE,. I, William 3.
Ridgely. Comptroller OF the Currency, do
hereby certify that The Capital National
Bank of Topeka" in the city of Topeka,
in the county of Shawnee and state OF
Kansas, is authorized to commence the
business Of banking as provided in Sec
tiCn Fifty-one Hundred and Sixty-nine Of
the Revised Statutes of the United States.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF witness my
hand and Seal of office this twelfth day
of September, 1905.
VIM B. RIDGELY,
rEeaL1 Comptroller of Currency.
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AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO THE
general health of the city OF Topeka and
amending section of Ordinance No. 16z9,
approved July Z, 1895, as amenued by Or
ana repeating said section 4.
Be It Ordained by the Mayor and Council
men OF the City OF Topeka:
Section L That section 4 of Ordinance
No 1921 approved July ], 1898, as amended
by Ordinance No. 24A3, approved March y
1904 be and the said section is hereby
shah be the uuty OF the board of health
to prescribe rules and regulations, to be
approved by the mayor and council for
carrying out the ordinances OF the. city Of
board shall meet regularly on the fourth
Monday Of each month. Special or extra
meetings shall be called by the secretary
OF the board when an emergency demands
1t Shall be the duty of the city
physician under the orders and direc-
tions Of the board OF health to see that all
the rules and regulations affecting the
public health OF the city are properly en-
forced, and he slan perform such other
city as may be prescribed by the mayor
and council. The said board OF health shall
make monthly reports to the mayor and
council OF all matters and details connect
ed with said department.
Sec. ?. Section Z of Ordinance No. 1920
approved July 1, 1888 as amended by 0rdi-
nance No. 24S3. approved March g. 1904, is
hereby repealed.
Sec. B. This ordinance shall take effect
and be in force from and after-its publica-
ton in-the official city paper.
Passed the council October 2, 1906.
Approved October 4. 1895.
Attest: ]. H. sQUIREs, City CLERK.
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for the appointment of appraisers there
for and prescribing their duties.
Be 1t Ordained by the Mayor and Council
men of the City of Topeka;
Section /. It is hereby declared neces-
sary to condemn and appropriate for the
use Of the city of Topeka for the purpose
of opening and widening Smith street be-
tween Seventh street and Eighth avenue.
in said city, all of the following described
land situated in the city of Topeka,
Shawnee county, Kansas, tO-wit:
The west thirty (50) feet of lots number
ed go, 222 224, 226, 22S, 230, 232 234, 236 23s.
240, 242, 244 and 246 on Smith street and al
Of lot numbered 2sS and the west hVe ana
eight-tenths (5.S) feet of lot numbered $50
on East Eighth avenue.
Sec 2. For the purpose of providing a
fund to pay for the condemnation and an
preparation of said land as aforesaid, a
benefit district is hereby created and es-
land within the following described boun-
dairy, in the city of Topeka, Shawnee
county, Kansas, to-wit:
ter line Of Seventh street with the center
line of the alley running north and south
in the block bounded by Chestnut street,
Eighth avenue smith street and Seventh
street: thence south along the center line
of said alley to the center line Of the alley
running easterly and westerly IN said
block: thence easterly along the center line
of said last described alley to the center
line of Smith street; thence northerly
along the center line OF Smith street 10
the center line of Seventh street. thence
westerly along the center line of Seventh
street to the place of beginning.
Sec 3 The mayor, by and with the con-
sent of the council, shall appoint three dis
interested appraisers. who shall qualify
and proceed as provided by law to give
notice and assess the damages caused by
the condemnation and appropriation OF
said land for the opening and widening OF
said street; they shall ascertain the actual
value of the land proposed to be taken
without reference to the projected inn
provements and the actual damage done
to all other property thereby. For the
payment of such value and damages said
appraisers shall assess against the city of
Topeka. the amount of benefit to the pub
lie generally, and shall assess the remain
der of such damages against the lots and
pieces of land within the said benefit dis
trict which shall, in the opinion of said
appraisers. be especially benefited by the
opening and widening of said street, and
in proportion to the benefit derived-1y each
by the opening and widening of said street
as herein provided. The said appraisers
shall report to the mayor and council their
proceedings in all things as provided by
law and shall. upon completion of their re-
mort. file the same with the city clerk.
Sec l. This ordinance shall take effect
and be in force from and after its publica-
tion in the official city paper.
Passed the council Oct. 2, 1905.
Approved Oct. 4 1893,
TSeaI1 W. H. DAVIS, Mayor.
Attest Attest J. H. sQUIREs, city clerk.
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ROCK ISLAND


Effective Wednesday, oct. 18th, 1905,
Rock Island trains 3 5 and SO will be
operated between Topeka and and
Chickasha instead of Kansas City and
Chickasha running on same schedule
time as before. No. 35 will leave To-
peka 1920 a. m, returning No. 36
will arrive at Topeka 7;45 p. m.
KANSAS CITY AND RETURN 81.
Festival
Tickets on sale October / to Z, final
limit returning October 8. The Santa
re will run a special train, returning
after the Priests of Pal1as parade, Oc-
tober 3rd. Many attractions day and
night the entire week. T. L. King,
c. P. & 7. A.