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The oasis., 1912-08-17

comply with new regulations, but the situation shall not be further complicated by the leasing of other lands until after another session of the legislature. By that time it is expected the land commission will have gathered sufficient data to formulate and recommend to the legislature a school land policy as to leasing, or selling, or not selling, and that laws will be enacted in conformity herewith if the legisla- ture approves the plan
 In the meantime any one occupy ing school land may continue to do so on securing permit from the land commission, which in a sense amounts to a lease, though the commission has nothing to do in fixing the lease rate. On ap- plication blanks are furnished the settler in duplicate, which being filled out, give the reader about all the information he could desire res- pecting the settler and the land he seeks to hold. These are filled out taken to the county board of super = visors which fixes the rental just as it always did, collects it and then sends the money to the land com mission, togethe- with the duplicate information blank. In effect it amounts to a lease and the state instead of the county, gets the money. The land commission re- ports that many of these applica- tions for permits are being received daily, though there are many more to hear from. It is estimated that there are about 1900 pieces of school land in the state now held by settlers.
The oasis., 1912-08-17

"The Goose Girl" Mrs. Lulu Wood.
 Vanity Fair," Mrs. Mather. "Pickwick," Miss Arrietta Smith. Lavender and Old Lace," Mrs. J. E. Wise.
 Under Two Flags" Miss Mary Sykes.
 Excuse Me-" Miss Margaret Wylie.
 Lavender and Old Lace," Mrs. Charles l.. Fowler.
 "A Grain of Dust" Mrs. A. L. Gustetter.
 Under the Rose," Mrs. W. H. Enderton.
 "The Shuttle," Mrs. E. Titcomb. "The Cost" Mrs. D. P. Smelling, Lavender and Old Lace," Mrs. Harry Hannah.
 "The Girl in Waiting" Miss Lulu Sykes.
 "The Crisis" Mrs. V. A. Sneaker. "The Woman in White," Mrs. Allen T. Bird.
 "The Scarlet Letter. Mrs. G. F. Powell.
 Three Weeks" Miss Josephine Titcomb.
 "Red Rock" Mrs. Otto H. Herold. "The Shuttle" Mrs. M. Marstel- Ter.
 "The Merchant of Venice," Mrs. Con O'Keefe.
 The Newcomes," Mrs. E. L. Chalfant.
 Many of the characterizations were original, interesting and anus. ing, and the ladies derived no lit- tie amusement in their presenta- tion and their determination.
The oasis., 1912-08-17
Death of Mir. W. ]. Richardson.

The Phoenix newspapers of Fri day of last week, received at No- gales Saturday, conveyed the intel ligence of the death of MT. w. J. Richardson, until recently of No- gales. who was found dead in his bed in lodging house in Phoenix, Thursday, having died in the night of Wednesday, from the effects of asthma, from which trouble the deceased had suffered a great deal
 Deceased had resided in Nogales several years, and was employed at the foundry, having been an iron founder by trade. Before he came to Nogales he was employed some time in the Hermosillo foundry, and formerly he was in the rail- road shops at Punta de Arena, near Guaymas, before they were removed to Empalme.
 An effort was made by those who know Mr. Richardson to locate his home and relatives, but without avail. The remains were buried at Phoenix.
The oasis., 1912-08-17
NoGALES NOTES.

Mir. Edward l.. Mix, clerk of the superior court, has sued the county for salary, there being a difference between his claim and what the board of supervisors seems disposed to allow.
 Thursday Miss Marie Bonillas of Nogales, Sonora, celebrated her saints day and in honor of the suspicious anniversary the young entertained at the Bonillas resid- ence a large party of young ladies of both the line cities.
 At the bull ring in Nogales, Sonora, there was a bull fight last Sunday, and the exhibition is re- ported as having been very exciting and interesting to those taken with such performances. Another is an- nounced to be pulled off tomorrow.
 The registration will close short Iy until after the primary election, which occurs on the tenth of Sep tember. So if you desire to vote at the primary consult the regis tration officer. Last week THE OASIS presented a list of the author ized registration officers.
 Thursday morning there was at Nogales, en route to Sonora, MT. k. K. Harris, of Tucson, owner of a producing mine at Cerro Colo rado, in the Altar district. There has been published an erroneous report that MT. Harris has sold his property. It was the Cerro Colo rado mine of Diego Moreno, which is close to the property of MT. Harris, for which the deal was made. Mention was made correct ly in THE OASIS, at the time. Doctor J. c. Underwood negotiated the deal.
The oasis., 1912-08-17
"A Book Day."

Wednesday was the regular so- cial meeting of the Santa Cruz Club Auxiliary, and the entertain ment was named "A Book Day." each lady representing in dress or costume the title of some we'll Known book. All wrote on slips of paper their guesses of the various books represented and the ladies Personating them, the one making the largest number of successful Suesses receiving prize, which was a book. Mrs. Samuel Leeker was the successful lady.
 Dalnty refreshments were served.
 The hostesses were Mrs, Otto H. mmerold, Mrs. s. D. Karns, Mrs. marry J. Karns, Mrs. Harry Hannah.
 The books represented and those representing them were as follows. F Inc Red Rose" by Mrs. s. D, Karns. Leeker, ''' ''"'''''
The oasis., 1912-08-17
Superior Court Next Week.

Next Monday Judge w. F. Cooper of Pima county, will hold court at Nogales, to try a number of cases in which Judge Duffy is disqualified. The injunction case of Frank Powers of the Worlds Fair mine, against the Arizona Tax Commission, is among the cases set for hearing. In that MT. Powers has been granted temporary injunc- tion restraining the commission from raising the assessment on pro- duct of the mine named, which has been done under the new tax law, Under the territorial law twenty five per cent of the product of mines was assessed; under the state law the entire output is listed.
The oasis., 1912-08-17
Occupancy of School Lands.
Phoenix Republican. l

It will take a long time for the people of Arizona to become as familiar with their new state laws as they were with the old territorial forms but they are rapidly adjusting themselves to the new conditions. There is probably more com plexity in respect of land matters anything else.
 Though it has been printed be- fore there are probably many who do not yet understand that school lands not in private posses sion under lease at the time of admission cannot now be leased The law provides that those who were occupying school lands shall not be disturbed, providing they
The oasis., 1912-08-17
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY.
An Interesting Collection of Items from
 the Rural Regions.

From the Gro Blanco region there has come a report that MT. Ellis McDougal has given an op- ton to Eastern capital on the Ragnarock group of mines, adjacent to the Austerlitz, and that those holding the option have commenced work. The first payment is to be made at the end of sixty days, and the price stated is $50,000.
 Mir. H. NJ. Perry, who was a forest guard, stationed on the sum- nit of Mount Wrightson (Old Baldy), in the Santa Rita noun tains, died on Monday of the present week, at a ranch house in the vicinity of the mountain. His remains were taken to Tucson. embalmed and shipped Wednesday to his former home in Morris, New York.
 Mir. Frank Reichert who has been located some years at the Trenton camp, in the Santa Rita mountains, near Alto, has been do- ing development on the Michael. itski claim in the Josephine cafion, about three miles from Trenton. He has run tunnel more than 100 feet upon a goodly looking ledge, in ore all the way, and he has two feet of rock which will pay to ship. The ore assays 11% copper and forty to fifty ounces in silver per ton.
 The Chief group of mines, ad- aCent to the Worlds Fair mine, in the Patagonia mountains, has been taken over by George B.. Hosier and associates of Kansas City, Mo-, upon a bond and lease, the upset price being stated at s90000. The property has been owned by E. K. Bethell of Pata- gonia, and Bracey Curtis of Noga les, who have made the deal with Mr. Hosier. Under the ownership of the gentlemen named there has been done considerable work, in. cIuding tunnel about one hundred feet under cover, which Mir. Hosier will extend with the expectancy of cutting rich ledge at the end of 800 feet.
The oasis., 1912-08-17
SONORA SETTINGS.
Shaken Out Here and There In the
 Great State Across the Llnes

The state congress has postponed for one week the elections called for the last Sunday in August, and instead of that day they will be held on the first Sunday in Sep tember
 The rebels operating along the Yaqui river in the vicinity of La Dura and Tonichi are reported to have moved westward toward the Sonora river, with Ures and Her. mosillo as objective points, and the federals on the river have been brought by rail from La Dura to Hermosillo, to meet them on the newly chosen ground.
 The wheat crop, raised without irrigation, this year in the vicinity of Qnerobabi, is reported better than ever before. Some twenty carloads of the grain have been shipped from Querobabi station to the Terrenate mill of Miguel Latz & Brother, at Pearson station. The price quoted there is five and one- half pesos for 160 pounds.
 El Correo de Sonora, a Guaymas daily newspaper, dated the 14th inst, states that there has been discovered at La Colorado a new and rich vein or ledge carrying gold and silver in large quantities. The ledge is stated to be about fifty feet in width, and on Sunday there were about sixty men at work in the ground of the discovery.
 By competent authority THE OASIS is informed that The South ern Pacific of Mexico is arranging to return the Cananea-N Nogales train to its former schedule, leav- ing Nogales in the morning and re- turning at evening, instead of the present arrangement under which the run is reversed, the train leav- ing Nogales at noon, and laying over night at the copper camp.
 Garbanzo shipments by rail out from Sonora have been larger this year than ever before, being almost double up to this time, with the shipping season having yet some months to run. Since early in June up to Thursday of the present week 555 carloads have crossed the at Nogales, en route to Spain, Porto Rico and Cuba, via New Orleans. Last year, from June to and including December, the ship ments coming this way aggregated but 298 carloads.
The Oakes times., 1912-06-13
DUMAS SENTENCEINJULY
Says II Sent to Prison He "WiII Take
Medicine Lake a Man."

Bemidji, Minn., June S.-Dr. D. F,
Dumas, former mayor of Cass Lake
whose conviction on a charge of at.
tempted arson, was last week upheld
by the state supreme court will not
be sent to Saltwater to begin his pris.
on term until July 8. Judge w. S. Nc.
Clenehan before whom DR.. Dumas was
tried and convicted last October told
E. E. Mcdonald special county attor.
ney who assisted in the prosecution OF
DR.. Dumas that he plans to call a
special session of the Beltrami dis.
trict court for the purpose of impos,
ing sentence on the Cass Lake physi
cian.
1t also becomes known that Judge
Marshall A. Spooner who with A. A.
Andrews Of this city and Freeman P.
Lane of Minneapolis, conducted the
defense of DR.. Dumas has completely
withdrawn from the case and Geo
Spear of the Grand Rapids law firm
of Spear & Stone is now looking
after the interests of Dr. Dumas. DR.
Dumas is at liberty on bail bond to-
falling $4,000. He was here and ad
mitted that he did not know what his
next move would be but still hopes tc
avoid being sent to Saltwater. He
said, IF the worst comes to the worst
will take my medicine like man.
The Oakes times., 1912-06-13
BOLD HORSE THIEVES
THOSE OF AFoHANIsrAN ARE
MOST DARING IN WORLD.
How They Saw the Mud Walls Of the
Stable to Reach Their Booty
Stealing a Soldiers Mount
From Under His Nose.

The Khyber pass is the chief gate.
way into Afghanistan. Sixteen miles
south Of it is the city OF Peshawur.
The adjoining valley and balls have
always been the haunts OF profession
al thieves. The objects which they
most covet are arms, money and
horses. In securing these they evince
great skill and daring.
Their most popular mode of horse
stealing requires at least three men to
carry it out comfortably and success
fully. One of them quietly steals his
way into the stable and lays hold of a
cord which has been pushed through
one of the holes in the wall by an &C.
complice outside.
. The two use this string as a saw,
while the third man pours upon it a
plentiful supply of water. The cord
silently and speedily cuts Its way
down the mud wall.
In wonderfully short time the
three craftsmen manage to saw round
q portion of the wall, which, when
pushed outward, leaves space suffi-
This done, the remaining work pre-
sents no difficulty. The ropes which
bind the horse are cut, and in short
time he is cantering to the hills with
generally two or three of his new mas
ters on his back.
A somewhat bold and impudent ex-
ploit in the horse stealing line was
once the amusement and the talk Of
the English military station for some
days. The cantonment was surround
ed at sundown by chain of sentries.
This demanded great number OF
men, and all regiments, cavalry and
Infantry. European and natives, night
ly gave their proportions.
A native trooper on this occasion
fastened his horse to the peg fixed
about the middle of his beat" and to
keep his courage and himself warm
the night was dark and bitterly cold
walked smartly backward and for
ward
The extent of this walk was not
more than thirty yards. and thus at
no time could he have been more than
fifteen yards from his charger. He
was armed with short rifle and a
tulwar or sword.
While he was thus doing duty a
hillman managed to crawl quite close
to him without exciting notice, and,
waiting quietly until the sentry was
near the end Of his walk, and, OF
course, with his back to the horse, the
robber cut the chargers rope, mount.
ed him and in moment was off.
The sentry fired his rifle in the di.
rection in which his mount had gone,
the guards turned out and great
noise was raised. but the oMtwitted
soldier never saw his horse again
Harper's Weekly.
The Oakes times., 1912-06-13
Dictionary Jokers.

The popular idea is that dictionary
makers are about as infallible as max
ers Of literature can be, and yet from
the earliest times the mistakes Of the
photographers have furnished amuse-
ment. In our day the Century Diction-
ary has been supposed to be about the
last word in such compilations, and
yet 1t has been pointed out that one
joke on the Century occurs under the
heading Question, to pop the. See
Pop" which may be excellent advice,
but raises laugh, nevertheless.
When the Forty Immortals were en-
gagged in making the dictionary Of the
French academy the word "crab" came
up for a gloss; they were about
agreed to define it as "a little red fish
that walks backward" when Furetiere
pointed out that it was no doubt a
good definitions, save for the fact that
the animal is not fish, it is not red
until 1t is boiled; and it does not walk
backward
The Oakes times., 1912-06-13
Sense of Humor.


That lively perception of the ludi-
crous, which we all possess in great.
er or smaller measure, has been very
rightly called the saving sense of hui
NOR 1t saves our souls alive. It
saves US from all manner of folly
and wickedness and sorrow and de-
spair In effect, it saves us from our
worst enemy. who is oftenest ourself.
But one mans humor is sometimes
another mans boredom and a wom-
ans evaporation. Which is to imply
that the humor sense manifests itself
In vastly dissimilar ways
There are many kinds and degrees
of the sense. 1t varies in different
climes and in different ages. 1t waxes
and wanes with our growth and de-
cline, and assumes as many colors
and forms in the course of life as
the procession of the seasons as
sumes in the course of year. 1t is
raw and crude in our infancy, full
blooded and famboyant and bolster
GUS in the hot summer of our lusty
youth, ripe and mellow and kindly in
our autumnal prime, and cold and
bleak and comfortless in the wtntry
cynicfsm Of old age.-T. P.'s Weekly.
The Oakes times., 1912-06-13
n. Y. BETTING FAv0RS TAFT
MANY PLUNGERs MAKE SUB ROSA
COMPACTS.
Roosevelt Money More Than Covered
by the Presidents
Backers.

New York, June s. - They can't
bet any more on the curb. There is
law now against betting. But when
two persons are interested enough in
Roosevelt's or Taft's, or any other
candidates chances in the presidential
conventions, or the elections, and they
can't agree about anything except
what is real proof of the solidity of
their convictions, they exchange mem.
oranda. A memorandum will read
something like this: After Roose.
velt's election will pay the bearer
$500 (Signed
(Signature indorsed by Blank & Co..
The market has begun to look up
and $4,000 was placed even against
Roosevelt's getting the Republican
nomination.
Then there was another bet-an ex,
change of memoranda, that is-of $45O
to $500 that he would get the nomina.
ton. On the stock exchange a we'll.
known trader bet $4,000 even that
Roosevelt would not get the nomina
ton and tried to get takers for any
part of $4,000 more
The accepted authority on betting
on the curb,' which is the nom dc
guerre of the man who acted as in.
termediary in the $4,000 transaction
and $500 to wager against $1,000 that
Roosevelt would get the nomination
A Taft man took $3.50 of this. That
same authority was trying to find TAX.
ers for these other proposals: $500
even that Roosevelt is not nominated
on the first ballot. $1,000 even that
Roosevelt will be elected president
$1,000 to $1,000 that Taft, If nominal
ed, will be defeated. $500 to $500 that
Taft will not be the next president.
Here are the odds he quoted on the
Democratic candidates for nomina
ton. Against Clark, to S. Against
Wilson, 3 to 1. Against Underwood
3h to 1, Against Harmon, 4 to l..
Against Bryan, to 1. Against Gay
nor, 10 to 1.
The Oakes times., 1912-06-13
TAFT TOTAL IS
z DELEGATES
NEW AWARDS, 8 IN ARKANSAS, 12
IN FLORIDA AND 20 IN
GEORGIA..
TEDDY's CONTESTS FAIL
Indiana Cases May Come Up Before
Board at an Early Date-vio.
lence and Fraud Are
Charged.

Chicago, June 11.-Forty- y-eight dele.
gates given to the Taft account by
the Republican national committee in
Its decisions in the Arkansas, Florida,
and Georgia contests, makes seventy.
two additions to the Taft total
No cases have been won by the
Roosevelt contestants.
Ten of the Georgia districts, 20
delegates, went to Taft in one blanket
decision, both sides agreeing to their
being decided upon the arguments as
had served in the case of the four
delegates-at-large, which had just been
given to Taft. The two remaining
Georgia districts with their two apiece
soon went the same way
The cases passed upon were those
of:
Arkansas-Third, Fourth, Fifth and
Seventh congressional districts, two
delegates each, eight in all. The Sixth
district was not contested; the dele.
gates are listed as "uninstructed"
Florida-The six delegates at large
and all three districts-the entire
state representation, IL in all.
Georgia-The four. delegates at
large and all of the 12 congressional
districts, each with it's two delegates,
% in all.
This clears the docket for the tax.
ing up early this week of the cases
upon which the Roosevelt people are
laying far more stress than upon those
from the South, such cases, for exam.
pie, as those from Indiana, which prob.
ably will be taken up early.
There still remain, in alphabetical
order before these, the cases of six
delegates at large from Arizona and
two delegates of the Fourth congress.
sional district of California.
The Indiana contest cases involve
the four delegates at large and two
each from the First, Third, Fourth
and Thirteenth districts
In every case thus far decision has
been reached after full hearings of the
facts in the cases; and in only one
instance did the Roosevelt leaders ask
for full test of strength.
In the Fifth Arkansas district where
charges of violence and fraud were
made by both sides, Committeeman
Burnam of Kentucky asked that both
delegations be seated with a half vote
each.
He secured ten votes for his mo.
tion; those of Knight of California,
Burnam of Kentucky, Wight of Louis
lana, Kellogg of Minnesota, Littauer
Representing Flanagan of Nevada)
Duell Representing Ward of New
York;, Capers of South Carolina, Thor
son of South Dakota, Loose of Utah,
Rogers of Wisconsin.
On roll call, of the others who hith-
erto had usually voted with the anti.
Taft contingent, Dupont of Delaware
voted with the Taft people and Lyon
of Texas and Bieber of the District
of Columbia were recorded as pres.
ent, but not voting"
Not all of the viva voce votes were
unanimous. Negatives were heard on
many of these but there was no way
of surely identifying the voices. In
such other cases, when the roll call
was asked for, especially by the Taft
men, it was desired in order that
the committee might go unanimously
on record in favor of the seating of
the delegates.
The Oakes times., 1912-06-13
ONE KILLED IN PRISON RIOTS
coNvIcTs ARE REPuLsEp WITH
STREAM OF LIVE STEAM.
Leaders Of Mutiny Are Promised Very
Severe Oisciplining by the
Warden.

San Quentin, June 11.-A continue
tion yesterday Of the Grub strike
demonstration, in San Quentin prison
developed into a riot in the genera
mess hall as a result of which one
prisoner was shot and killed and two
were wounded.
The dead:
II. l.. Linwood, a naval prisoner
serving term Of six and one-hall
years for desertion and impersonating
an officer.
The wounded:
Frank Taylor, negro serving 20
years for robbery committed in San
Francisco; shot through the hand.
H. A. George, struck in leg by q
glancing bullet.
Nineteen hundred prisoners were
sitting down to dinner shortly after
o'clock when 200 or 300 of the men
began concerted demonstration.
Not content with voicing their pro
tests with shrieks and cat-calls, the
demonstrants began throwing dishes
and food. Some made a rush for the
adjoining kitchen and began hurting
heavy pots and pans about the room.
The men We're driven out with hose
spouting live steam, several Of the
rioters being severely burned.
No sooner had the mutiny started
than the prison bell was sounded with
the Lookup" signal.
The majority of the men, who had
taken no part in the demonstration
and were anxious to escape from the
hall, made rush for the doors. Al
two of the doors the men passed un.
molested. At the third several OF the
rioters gathered and endeavored tc
block egress, their purpose being tc
keep the men in the mess hall and
prolong the demonstration. Lynwood
one of the leaders of the mutineere
was shot down. Taylor also tried to
block the passageway and he received
a bullet through the hand. The bul.
let glanced from the floor and struck
George in the leg. George had taken
no part in the disturbance.
Only these two shots were fired.
The prisoners quickly were marched
to their cells, but the rioters, even
after being locked up, continued theil
shrieks of defiance and kept up their
shoting at intervals until late last
night.