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The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1909-01-14
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DEAD
AND SCORES OF CITIES IN RUINS
ITALY DEVASTATED
EARTHQUAKES

rent in twain, were spun around like
tops as they ran through the streets.
Many fell crushed to death. and others,
bewildered, took refuge for breath be-
side the tottering walls, where they
soon met the fate of their compan-
IONS"
Already British and Russian squad
rons have arrived at Messina. Sailors
and marines have been disembarked,
and they have performed courageous
acts in rescuing the injured and re-
moving the wounded.
A large number of survivors have
been transferred to the warships,
which are transformed into great float
ing hospitals. Steamers with doctors,
druggists, firemen and workmen have
arrived at Messina from Catania and
other places.
from Calabria confirm the destruction
of Reggie.
They report that the situation there
is as bad, if not worse, than at Mes
sina. The streets in Rome are jammed
with people, who snatch the special
editions from the newsboys.
The hands of all the nations have
been extended to Italy in her afflic
ton. From rulers have come mes
sages of coincidence and from the peo-
pies spontaneous promise of that aid
which brings the world closer to-
gether in time of great calamity.
Great Britain, France and Russia
sent their warships as soon as the
flash of the telegraph could carry the
orders to lend assistance to stricken
cities.
Relief funds have already been start
ed, and hundred ships and trains
are on their way carrying supplies and
reinforcements to the south. Rome,
Milan. Florence, Naples and other CT
ties are sending physicians, police and
firemen. Today all the ambassadors
and ministers expressed sympathy to
NJ Tittoni, minister of foreign affairs,
whose emotion was profound.
The bourses and theaters have been
closed throughout Italy, and dis
patches of sympathy continue to pour
in from all quarters of the globe.
At the time of the earthquake the
DOdl odppIO WAS lying Ill tue
harbor at Messina, and one of the Off
GERS told of the occurrence as follows:
AT half past five in the morning the
sea suddenly became terribly agi-
tated, seeming literally to pick up our
boat and shake it. Other craft nearby
were similarly treated, and the ships
looked like bits of cork bobbing about
in a temDest
Almost Immediately tidal wave Of
huge proportions swept across the
strait. mounting the coasts and carry
ing everything before it. Scores OF
ships were damaged and the Hunga-
rlan mail boat Andrassy parted her
anchors and went crashing into other
vessels.
Messina bay was wiped out, and the
sea was soon &C vered with masses of
wreckage, which was carried off in
the arms of the receding waters"
Eight sailors from the Sappho we're
landed and took up the work of res
cue. Officers and men from Italian
and British steamers also went ashore
as soon as possible, the Britishers saw
ing family of five who were impris-
oned in a burning house.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1909-01-14

Rev. James Mailley has resigned the
pastorate of the First Christian church
at Colorado Springs to go on the lee
ture stage. Doctor Mailley was struck
by lightning and badly stunned on
Camerons Cone. near Manitou. about
eighteen months ago. but speedily re-
covered the full use of his faculties.
The oasis., 1909-05-22

make money is offered. For par ticulars apply at THE OASIS office.
 Last week THE OASIS presented a statement that subscription bills were being forwarded to subscrib- CTS, and that they would aggregate about one thousand dollars. When the list was completed it was fonnd to be nearer fifteen hundred dol. lars than one thousand None of the accounts are large, and most of them seem insignificant. Yet in the aggregate they are a very handsome sum of money, every dollar of which can be used to good advantage by THE OASIS. Now, then, gentle reader, if you have re- ceived one of those accounts, please recolIect that the money is needed and remit by the first mail.
 Upon the Sonora side of the line the house of Proto Brothers is re- building the large stone structure in which they had store some years ago, and was.used afterward by a mattrass factory, which was destroyed by fire in August 1906. The roof is being put upon the
The oasis., 1909-05-22
Notice of Annual Meeting.

Notice is given hereby that the Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the Estrella Mining < Smelling Company, corporation organized under the laws of the Territory of A izona, having its headquarters at Nogales Arizona, will be held at the office of the resident agent of the corporation, Allen Y. Bird in NogaIes, Arizona, on the first Mon day in June, 1909. Being Monday, June 7th, 1909, the object of said meeting being 10 elect a board Of directors to conduct the affairs Of the corporation the ensuing year, and to transact such other business as may cone before the said An nual Meeting.
 A. HEAvENsToN, President FRANK H. HOWARD, Secretary.
 MORALES, May l, 1909,
The oasis., 1909-05-22

coast, having gone as far as Mazat- Ian. Mir. Joffroy was at the city named two weeks ago at the time it was reported damaged greatly by an extensive fire. He states that 1t was town named Mazatan, in the state of Guerrero that was scorched. The similarity of names caused the report that was trans, mitted to get an "P into the name, locating the conhagration at the wrong place,
 A short time ago THE OASIS pre- sented a short local notice stating that a couple of good hotel people, man and wife, desired an opening. Within forty-eight hours there was received an inquiry which led to their finding just what they wanted: q fine opening in a lively town. This week the situation is reversed. A good hotel, rebuilt, furnished new throughout, with a fine run of custom, wants to negotiate with a couple, man and wife, to take charge of and run the dining room. Americans preferred, and white people only wanted. To the right kind of people a fine opening to
The oasis., 1909-05-22

walls, and when that is done the interior finish will be put in. The fire destroyed all the contents and all the woodwork of the structure, but the walls stand intact.
The oasis., 1909-05-22
NoGALEs NOTES.

This morning Prof c. R. Page started for his former home in Seattle, Washington.
 Tuesday Mir. Alfred Goldschmidt of the Eagle Milling Company of Tucson, was a business visitor at Nogales.
 Tuesday evening Hon. Bo J. Whiteside returned from tour of the territory in the interest of the Dos Naciones Cigar Company.
 "The American Lady," the most elegant and stylish shoe made. Sold only at the Red House, Ramon Vasquez.
 Friday Messrs. Roland Kelsey and N. Richardson went to Tomb stone, summoned on a special venire as trial jurors in the United States court.
 Monday Mir. George Howard will go to Tucson and visit day. Thence he will go to Globe Tues day to attend the territorial meet ing of the Independent Order of Red Men on Wednesday.
 A Kansas subscriber of TIE OASIS who received one of the bills sent out week ago came back by return mail with the full amount of the bill and money to pay a year in advance. "Go thou and do likewise"
 Tuesday evening Mir. and Mrs. D. R. Kelsey entertained pleasant party of young people in their new home on SonOita avenue-on the Noon hill Five hundred was the diversion of the evening. Dainty refreshments were served.
 A farewell ball in honor of Miss Lomax is to be given at Armory Hall this evening. The young lady has made many warm friends in Nogales during the school term who regret greatly her departure, and they will attend CD mdSse the parting dance.
 This morning Miss Drury goes to Tucson where she will visit a short time. Then she will go to her home in Maryland. The lady has arranged to go first to New Orleans, thence to New York by steamer, stopping one week en route at Havana, and visiting in Cuba from the time of one steamer to that of another.
 THE OASIS is in receipt of cir. cular from the Sonora Ore Buying Agency at Hermosillo, conveying announcement that there has been established at La Dura, on the Yaqui river, branch establish ment, where ores will be purchased and assays made for the general public. The agency buys ores, matte and bullion for the El Paso reduction works. lot
 The Nogales Water Company are preparing to proceed with the masonry construction upon the great reservoir for which excava- tion was made last year, up the hill eastward from the court house. A tool house mas been constructed on the dump, wagon road graded up the hillside to the dump, and materials, tools, supplies, etc., are
The oasis., 1909-05-22

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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-16
Birmingham In Summer

According to the almanac the sum-
mer is half gone. In the south the
heat is not excessive, and here in Bir-
mnigham those who are fortunate
enough to live on the highlands find
the evenings as cool as the nights
at many popular mountain inn. The
fact is that comparatively few pleasure
resorts offer any greater inducements
in the matter of temperature or scene
ry than this valley and these hills OF
ours. But many who can afford 1t 81
away at this season merely for rest
and a change of scene.
Thousands of our people spend their
vacations by the seashore or in travel,
and from now until September the rail-
roads will be taxed in hauling pleas
ure-see5lng passengers. Thousands of
others who are well-to-do. prefer, how
ever, to remain at home until the fail
and then take their outings But The
great majority Of people in every city
belong to the Can't-Get-Away club and
stay at home the year round Mem
bers of that club who live in crowded,
steaming cities are to be eommiserated
in the dog days; but here in Birming-
ham there are no congested districts,
and all lovers of nature may, without
even spending car fare. feast their
eyes upon landscapes of surprising
beauty and enjoy the good old summer
time as well as Ye autumn the winter
and the spring.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-16
THE VILLAGE CHURCH.

From the Saturday Evening Post.
The New England Country Church as
ISOLATION has a worthy aim-namely, the
social and economic Improvement of rural
communities through the agency of the
rural church"
Here is a typical American village, con-
tanning 1900 to 20O0 inhabitants. 1t has six
Protestant churches, with six different ed
ifices, none In the slightest degree note
worthy architectually; six pastors whose
small salaries are generally In arrears;
six separate organizations competing with
one another for the financial support of
the community to overcome their six
everlasting deficits
Combined, those six bodies could easily
have a church building of such size and
dignity as would impress the most care
less observer with a sense of the re-
ligous interests of the community-much
as the courthouse impresses him with a
sense of its political interests. The. pas
tor of that church would be as much
a public figure as the superintendent of
schools. The one organization could speak
to and for that community with much
authority.
land association has in mind; and
whether the differences among the sew
eral creeds are more important than the
gain IN church leadership which might
be achieved by consolidation is, OF
course, a question for churchmen to de.
eide
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-16
IDENTIFICATION OF PARTIES.

From the Independent
When political parties have become dis
organized, broken into sections with con-
fiicting views, we may look for approach
ing reconstruction, or at Geast rearrange-
ment. Such is the condition of both the
republican and the democratic parties to-
day. 1t is time for change.
Look at 1t. What principle do. the two
parties represent in any such way as to
distinguish them. There were definite
economical issues that separated them
before the Civil War, and certain moral
and constitutional issues that divided
them during the war But after the
Civil War and the passing of the recon-
struction period there arose the prime
necessity TO enlarge the national revenue
and the republican party took up the old
whlg doctrine of protection. with its high
tariffs, and forgot its earlier principles.
Meanwhile the democratic doctrine of
free trade became less pronounced, under
the necessities of revenue, and could not
be recovered. even under the leadership
of Grover Cleveland There grew up, I'M
der protection, gigantic combinations of
wealth which introduced new conditions
and exigent political problems What
followed is the disintegration of parties
which we now behold.
See the party of protection divided in
Congress into stand-patters and insur-
gents. both using the old shibboleth, but
one seeking a high and the other a low
tariff Think of the manufacturing state
of Massachusetts demanding free hides
ma frna
free trade split into sections; democrats
In the Senate standing pat. with repub-
licans for protection of sugar and lum-
Der; sections of the opposing parties COM
binng with each other to carry their va
rious interests 1t Is an amazing phe-
nomenon, utterly subversive of all party
consistency. Is LaFolette republican?
Is Daniel democrat?
Then there is the question of finance
and the control Of corporate interests,
the one other great public question. See
how the two parties are divided Have
We not seen Cleveland and Bryan, both
democrats, and yet representing oppo
site financial views? Do the democrats
of New York and those of Texas repre-
sent the same principles as to the con-
troll Of corporations? Or, in the repub-
lican party, did not Roosevelt represent
a view praised by as many democrats
republicans, and cursed by men of
both parties?
The condition is very curious and quite
abnormal. 1t reminds one of the political
condition before the Civil War, when the
whig party was breaking up, and demo-
free soil party. There is no sort of rea-
son In the present condition. We are
held together by old names and tradi-
tons that have lost their meaning. All
signs look to reconstruction of parties
along the lines that have already divided
each of the old parties. It is nearly or
quite time to divide on principles, and
not on power and plumber Who is a re-
publican here in the north? Who is
democrat in the south?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-16
His better does not breathe upon the
earth. King Richard ILL.,
King CottOn'S Own Exposition

The Interstate Cotton Seed Crush
It's feet the project of giving cotton in
all It's forms an exposition of its own,
and then it will hand over the enter
prise to the entire cotton belt.
Presumably the first exposition VIII
be held in New Orleans, the leading
city in the cotton belt, and 1t will be
opened in the fall of 1910, for full
year is needed in which to marshal the
worlds vast array of cotton exhibits.
No broad exposition of this nature has
ever been held, and the work must be
organized on original and comprehen-
sive lines.
A crop that is worth on the farm at
least $500, 900, 1000, and that soon takes
on forms worth three or four times as
much more, certainly affords scope
for great and interesting exhibition.
The success of the first exposition
would mean the success of subsequent
ones. Great care, therefore, should be
taken to organize the first exhibition
well. 1t is in good hands, and doubt
less all will be done that competent
men can devise.
1t might be we'll to offer to the
chemists of the world a good round
prize for the production of eotton-seed
butter that would leave all Rockefeller
butter at the post. Thete is no good
reason why the vegetable matter that
is rapidly supplanting lard should not
be turned by skillful men into butter.
Notwithstanding the objections of the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-16
FOR SUMMER TRIP.

From the Chicago Record-Herald.
A good method for packing trunk is
suggested below:
Across the bottom of the trunk arrange
your underclothing in smooth, compact
layer.
On top of these place a hat box with
your best hat, carefully wrapped in tissue
paper, with perhaps neckties, belts, any
soft thing that will go In and will not
muss.
Next to the hat box place, II possible,
another box packed with Numbered shirt
waists, blouses to summer gowns, slips,
etc.
If the box is not as high as the hat
box, things may be piled on top OF 1t
until 1t is even across
On top of these place your ordinary
skirts, the heaviest first.
In the middle tray pack your evening
coat and the skirts of your best gowns
In the top tray good bodioes, stuffed
with tissue paper. and II there are moi
too many, one-piece evening gowns.
In the hat box part of this tray put
whatever hat or hats you desire to take
for morning or outing wear.
OF course, no two trunks can be packed
exactly alike. The above are offered SIM
ply as general suggestions.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-16
MOltgOmerg's BARGE Line

With accustomed foresight and en-
terprise the merchants of Montgomery
have no intention of being outdone by
the merchants of Birmingham in the
near future. The former assume that
the latter will secure short rail line
to the Warrior river and that barges
pulled by towing boat will do the
transportation act to and from tide
water. They know that barge trans
portation is the cheapest way of NOV
ing goods known to man, and SO they
have organized company to put six
barges on the Alabama river. These
six barges and tug will cost but $780,
900, and they will ply up and down at
a total cost of but $4,000 month. They
will carry cotton and naval stores
down the river and all sorts of goods
up stream.
Montgomery will thus get in Bir-
mingham's class, although it will not
| have the assured loads down the river
that the barges of this district will
have. There is no reason why goods
Of the first class coming to this dis
trict should not be carried at very low
rates.
But will this district get ready to
utilize the river that a generous gov
eminent is about to offer it the year
round? This Is the great issue in the
district. and the river will be opened
Ito six-foot slack-water navigation
abreast of Birmingham in 1911. That
year is marching on.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-16
Harriman's Wiz.

From seemingly authentic sources
e. IL. Hartman is fast reganing his
health" said a business man. Those
who met the great railroad wizard In
Birmingham early in the year remarked
his physical weakness, but along with
1t his pluck and quick wit. Whatever
ails him is being cured by the aid OF
European physicians and wholesome
recreation.
1.-The Wall Street journal of Wednes-
day printed clumn about Mr. Har-
riman under a Boston date line, and
among the breezy things in the article
are these: People who think Mr. Har-
riman an invalid, seeking foreign
climes to prolong an existence hanging
by slender thread Of life, should have
seen him when he crossed the ocean, IN
June. accompanied by no doctor and
no nurse, only his wife and Secretary
Millar of the Union Pacific. He was
looking better and feeling better than
when he passed through Boston, in oe-
tober last. If anyone thinks Mr.. Harrl-
man is mentally decadent, they should
have heard his bright remarks and
passing comments upon anything that
came up of human or financial interest,
either on the deck or v the smoking
room. He was as frank and clipper as
a school boy, and just as much inter-
ested in one subject as another, wheth-
er it was the advancing price of agri-
cultural lands in Idaho, or the rail-
road rates charged in Ecuador, or the
outlook for American investments in
Europe, the bank reserve, or any
other subject-and all these were I'M
der discussi3n.
"'You don't remember me, Mr.. Har-
riman, yet I sang at the Metropolitan
opera house when you were a direc-
for" said lady singer of International
fame. Il guess 1 was not invited be-
hind the scenes" said Mr.. Hartman,
with that inimitable boyish twinkle in
his eyes, which were yet brighter when
in the smoking room toward midnight
he would inquire of a railroad oper-
ator from South America what he re-
ceived per ton per mile for transporta-
ton, how many cars he carried in a
train load, etc. Certainly Mr.. Hartman
showed no decadence in mental ability
or human interest"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-16
SOUP WITHOUT A SPOON.

From the London Chronicle.
Soup without spoon seems even harder
to negotiate than meat without fork,
and we can sympathize with the COM
plant recorded in the diary of Felix Plat
ter, young Swiss, who went to Mont
pellier in 1852 in order to study medicine.
He lodged In the house of his professor,
Catelan, one .of the greatest doctors OF
lis time, and yet writes Platter 1--WE
were compelled to eat and stew in the
usual French fashion-that is to say,
picking the meat out with our fingers
and then drinking the broth. In vain we
begged our hostess to let us have spoons
for not a single one was to be found in
the house, the only implement on the
table being a large knife fastened with
an iron chain. No one here seems to
have ever heard of spoons, which we at
home find SO useful Montaigne was
astonished when he visited Switzerland
in 1880, to find that lat all meals they
put on the table as many spoons as
there are people present"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-16
AbOlishing Rural POstOflceS

One rural postoffice after another is
wiped off the map, and when rural free
delivery is carried to maximum there
will be few rural postoffices indeed.
Six years ago there were 74,169 post
Offices in the country; now there are
but 81 1853, and hundreds of Offices are
abolished every year.
The small village that refuses to be
enterprising and to attract population
is destined to become just an r. F. D..
with number attached, and really for
all practical purposes this serves all
needs except to furnish a place for a
placeholder.
In the long run every county in this
state will have from 20 to 80 rural free
delivery routes, and then there will
be no one to go to the village post
office. The Hardscrabbles will pass
out and the dweller in the country will
set up small postoffice of his own in
front of his home, and the village post
oflce will not be missed except by q
few loungers and the ex-postmastel
himself.
AS yet Alabama has barely thou
sand rural free delivery routes where
It needs at least two thousand. The
people of neighborhood that will give
due attention to bridges and to roads
can readily secure the establishment
of . rural free delivery route, and
whom one road is covered in that way
ana the people see how useful and in
ssructivs and convenient 1t Us. other
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-16
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Mine Men Meet Tomorrow.

The meeting to be held at East
Lake Saturday under the auspices of
the Alabama Coal Operators assoeia-
ton promises to be largely attended
said ], V. Allen. secretary of the asso-
citation. An interesting programme
has been arranged and the addresses
and papers will have a practical turn
and will doubtless have good results.
How to minimize accidents and the best
methods of caring for the injured will
be important topics of discussion and
the lecture and demonstration by Dr..
Shields of the United States army hos
pital corps Will be a notable feature
of the INogramme.
THE heads of various mining COM
panies will be present and the invita-
ton list includes engineers, superin-
tendents foremen and surgeons. A
barbecue ample to satisfy the appetites
of 800 men will be served from l to
O'clock