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The oasis., 1912-01-20

This Company shall keep it's office at Mowry, Arizona, and may keep other principal offices and places of business at Kansas City, State of Missouri, and at such other places as the Board of Directors may establish at which places all incorporators', stockholders, and Directors meetings may be held, and all corporate busi- ness may be transacted.
The oasis., 1912-01-20
ARTICLE l
ARTICLE II.

The name of this corporation shall be SKIBO MINING AND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY.
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railroad to Greenbrier, and there our
troubles began. We hated to leave home
until we had to, we took the last car
that would get us to Greenbrier in time
for the boat. About half way over the
car broke down and we were stuck in the
woods We could hear the boats whistle
as she left our landing. There was moth
ing to do but wait until the next day.
Tuesday we took the boat for Petoskey.
Some evil genius was pursuing us. The
boats boilers or something were wrong.
and we were late. We just missed the
train for Mackinaw City, and another
day was lost
"wednesday we took the train for
Mackinaw City-and the train was late! 1t
arrived just In time for us. by great
effort, to miss the last ferry trip that
would land us on Mackinaw Island in time
to take the Buffalo boat. There was no
other boat until the next day.
Thursday we boarded the Buffalo boat
and thought our troubles at last were
over Vain thought! There was a strike
of freight handlers on in Buffalo. so the
boat stopped at Erie to unload her freight
before going to Buffalo, and she stayed
there nine mortal hours. By this time
we were thoroughly exasperated, and had
decided to go straight on to Washington,
and so try to rid ourselves of our hOodoo.
But 1t still clung to us. When we reached
Buffalo the cabby told us that he could
get us to tho train by making a hurried
trip. We rushed to the station. Wonder
full to relate we were In time. thought
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is not as active an agent in inducing
consumption. at least, as Is the dust
which the workers among other MN
erals must inhale.
TIP to the present very little mas peen
done in this country toward tracing IN
dustrial diseases. and I understand that
il is now the intention OF the bureau
of mines to go into this subject Win
the thoroughness which it's importance
deserves.
Talk about nerve. why women nave
got men skinned mile, said George
Wood, superintendent of rural mail. But
for unadulterated gall. commend me to a
woman | met on a Pullman last week.
had been to Atlanta on my vacation, and
was all tired out. so I leaned back in my
seat and closed my eyes.
About two hours later I heard wom-
an arguing with the conductor. 'Conduc-
tor. YOU must find me lower berth. l
cant. / positively won't climb up there.
II am very sorry, madam, but it is
the best | can do
L think that is mean. The company
ought to reserve lower berths for ladies.
If my husband were along he would
make you give me a lower one.
After much eXpostulation on her part
the conductor assigned her to the upper
berth above mine. When she was seated
she began a TRADE on the railroad in
general and this conductor in particular.
Then she had in idea-she would caJole
me into giving her mine. She changed
her manner completely. She smiled at
me in a most Woebegone way and began
telling me how much she hated to ride IN
an upper berth | had made up my mind
to give her mine, but was having too
much fun watching her fish so evidently
for it that I just had to wait before tell
ing her. | Just listened. From my man
ner she decided that she was pleading
with Il block of stone
Then her manner changed again
She looked at me sharply. nay. defiantiy.
and said: In my country no gentleman
would let "A lady take an upper This was
too much for me- and | mentally resolved
not to give up my lower. / got up and
went into the combination car for a
cigar, I stayed there about an hour then
decided to turn in.
We'll, when | went back to my berth
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stepped up, his attitude certainly defiant
and slightly contemptuous.
We'll he declared defianliy i
woulC 1t a been 'er. and Henry Wouldn [
"a been 'er. and John wouldn't neen
'er and-why,' he added with Wither-
ing glance, You don't sposc none OF US
fellows would a been 'er. do YOU"
And that place has reminded ever
since the who d. ebeen-' er house with
US
There is never question of where to
go for a summer vacation when NJ. G.
Hazen the District surveyor. makes his
plans for the hot weather. For, about
three miles from Nokesville, Va, lies
Wesley farm. his summer home. 1t is
a farm but the turnips and carrots would
certainly not be the first consideration TO
the visitor if only a glimpse OF the
stables might be obtained. Here the
horseman would have most interesting
time for Mr.. Hazen owns a number OIL
blue ribboners. and not least among ms
possessions is the famous morse Rlcil-
mond. Mr.. HaZen has attended any num-
Der of horse shows and has frequently en-
tered his horses here at the Capital city.
His fund of horse stories is larSe, Tor all
of his vacation is spent among them
Among other funnN INCIDENTS thdt "
Cured at a horse show this summer.
remarked Mr.. HaZen, Il recall an oc-
casion on which the humorous resources
of a friend of mine were displayed IL
was nearly time for the show to begin
and he was entering his horse in the first
class The horse show ring was located
at one side of large race track that
was of course, used for exercising the
horses. In the few minutes to spare tins
man started out to drive his
horse around the race course.
AT a point i'll the course about the far
thest distance from the judges stand
the animal took it into his head to balk
and even good horsemanship had no ell
feet upon him. 1t was at this critical
iuncture that the order went out to line
up. but it might have been given in South
Africa for all the effect it bad upon that
baking horse
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when I had a bite, so I threw the line
out again into the water, fish and all.
intending to catch him again in min
ute All . at once eent got no,d
pulled in my line and landed a pickerel
about two feet long. He had swallowed
the perch whole"
What did you catch with your
shark or a. whale?" inquired listener
at the post office But that, of course,
was entirely aside from Mr.. Thomson's
story.
Vacation? / haven't had a vacation
in years. remarked Maj Gen. George
l.. Andrews. adjutant general. United
States Army. But I'll tell you some
thing that happened to me the last one
l had. 1 was in Singapore and 1 hired
a Chinaman with a jinrickshaw to take
me up from the boat to the hotel. We
started off all right, but 1 soon saw
that he was going in the opposite direc-
ton from the hotel. I was no greenhorn
in Singapore and knew the general di-
rection of the hotel. so I called to the
Chink in my best pigeon English to stop
and turn around.
He shook his head and continued on
l shot a little stronger brand of my
pigeon English at MIN, With no better
effect that before. The only result was
that he went faster. We We're headed
straight for the country. Finally l got
tired Of shouting and assailing him with
verbal blows. He needed something more
convincing, so l took my umbrella to
him.
This soon brought him to reason and
he very peaceably turned round and
started back toward the hotel. On the
road back he stopped at a vender's and
ordered him several glasses of pink lem
onade, looking at me as much as to say:
OF course. you'll pay for this, but ! let
him pay for 1t himself.
1--WE finally got to the hotel, but I had
lost at least an hour through his foolish
ness, and. do you know. that rascal had
the impudence to demand payment for
the whole time When l tried to explain
to him that l had told him which way to
go and that the long journey was his
own fault he suddenly forgot again how
to understand me. l was determined that
he should not do me and called in the
landlord, who Strengthened out the affair
for me. He told me that this is a regu-
lar trick of the jinrickshaw men when
they get hold Of a foreigner who looks
new to the place. and added further that
! would probably have spent the rest Of
the day riding aimlessly through the
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he comes in remarked one of the by
ISLANDERS as he watched the man struggle
with the refractory horse. 1t was only
after the order to line up had been given
several times that the latter cantered in
to the judges stand. Everybody was
ready to kid the driver, and the judge
entered into the spirit of the occasion.
"'Why didn't you come in when the
order was given?' he asked.
"'Well, I presume, judge said the late
arrival, that it was the unusual distance
prevented your critical eye from realizing
that when the order was given | thought
it better to line up Immediately rather
than cause unnecessary delay by waiting
to drive into the ring."
'HaVe | had a vacation?" exclaimed
Assistant Postmaster Louis j. Robinson.
well, if you had been through what |
have, young man. you'd forget there is
such word in the English language! My
wife and I spent our vacation in our home
in Appleton, Wis. We decided to come
back by boat, and take in Buffalo and
Niagara Falls.
'On Monday we took an interurban
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entirely to the city and the office My
vacation last year covered a great deal of
the western part of the United States and
such places of interest as the Yellowstone
Park and the Grand Canyon of Colorado
Among the incidents of that delightful
trip We had the rather unusual experience
of seeing bear killed in Yellowstone
Park. So strict are the laws regarding
the destruction of any of these beasts out
of season that a man who uses gun on
them is almost put on trial for murder.
In this particular incidence one of the
guards stationed near the garbage leaps
at the back of the hotel where the
bears come to feed, felt that his own dan
ger required him to kill large black
mother bear. She advanced toward him
showing her teeth and looking as fero-
cious possible.
Those who witnessed the scene testified
that the guard had waited until it would
have been foolhardy to delay any longer
the shot that did the work. but one of the
officials was quite certain that the guard
had not been justified in actually killing
the old mother bear. and he proceeded to
prove his theory Advancing from the
point where the soldier had stood his
ground, he paced the distance between
that spot and the place where the body of
the bear lay. That is. he almost paced
it, for, just as he reached the olds bear
her two eight-month-old cubs sat up on
their launches and showed their teeth.
Mr.. Official looked doubtful as to what
matters In their own hands by rushing
for him. He did quite little rushing
himsef-in the same direction-and, after
reaching the group on the hotel porch, he
spent the remainder of the afternoon di-
lating upon the dangers that attended the
work of a guard and how they were JUS
titled in using their guns when there was
no other means of safety
When DIR. Charles L. Parsons, chief
mineral chemist of the bureau of mines.
went to New Hampshire this summer on
his vacation he carried with him a great
mass of material bearing on occupational
diseases for the purpose of a preliminary
study Of this question, which the bureau
Is now about to investigate exhaustively.
AS far as miners are concerned, said
DR.. Parsons yesterday. Il find that they
are great sufferers from dust poison,
which predisposes them to pneumonia and
consumption. This is especially true of
rock miners. and. to a limited extent, Of
coal miners also. though there seems to
be some element in the coal dust which
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streets. getting thoroughly hot and tired
out and piling up my mans fee. if |
had not brought my umbrella into play
In the course of his vacation this sum
mer. DR.. Albert Mann of the bureau of
entomology gathered a large number OF
specimens of nematodes in the pine-bar-
rem districts of New Jersey, and the gov
eminent is now carrying on series OF
Investigations into this creature, which,
although nearly microscopic i'm size has
greater economic Importance than many
other creatures which bulk vastly larger
The nematode, sometimes called the gall
worm, is a tiny worm which gnawS the
roots of crops, especially of the sugar
beet to such an extent as to do millions
of damage to agriculture annually. They
have been so prevalent and destructive
in Nevada particularly that California
and some other states have had to estab-
liSh a quarantine against the movement
through their territory Of all Nevada 5
root crops.
Aside from the nematodes which menace
agriculture there are other species which
infest the intestinal tract of mankind,
and still others which burrow in the
brains of sheep, while further varieties
also provide the 'wigglers" found in vim
eSar.
II got back recently from southwest
Texas" said DR. Alonzo u. Melvin, chief
of the bureau of animal industry.
They've had an awful drought down
there. It's been dry for five years and
water is getting mighty scarce. Most of
the springs have gone dry. | was riding
down a dusty road when ] met farmer
driving along. his wagon loaded down
with barrels of water. With my innate
faculty of butting in where farmer is
concerned, stopped to talk with him and
asked:
How far are you hauling that water"
From the river, bout six miles.
Why don't you dig well?' l asked,
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a train for Brownsville. We were due
there about 10 o'clock at night. but
the train was late and it was nearly
midnight when we got in. An English
man was aboard, one of the kind you
read about in books. He 'Bah-Joved'
and 'Bally led everything he men
toned ] suppose all the Brownsville
draymen had gotten tired of waiting
for the train: at any rate they had all
gone off Not transfer man was in
sight The Englishman became very
much excited. He wanted his bag
gage.
I'VE finally got up to the hotel and
while I was standing there waiting TO
register the Englishman signed his
name and asked, say, isn't there
any way a man can get his luggage
tonight:' Not tonight. sir politely
replied the clerk.
Its a blooming shame that I cawnt
get my luggage when / want it in this
bally town. How can chap sleep
without his luggage. eh, what
The clerk hesitated moment and
then answered, with perfect gravity:
You might try going to bed. That's
the best way l know of, sir.
''Ths summer" laughed DR.. w. {.
Woodward, health officer of the District.
This summer has been confined almost
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from his ablutions. 1 saw him striding
toward the lifeguard and hurried up to
see what was going to happen The. tide
had gone out and the waters haL re-
coded far down on the sandy beach. The
farmer looked very much puzzled. He
looked far off to the water then turning
to the guard he exclaimed in sheer Won
der:
'Golly, mister. hut you've sold pow
erful sigh of water since morning."
II spent my vacation fishing up in
the lakes of Minnesota" said George
G. Thomson, chief clerk of the Post
Office Department. Yes. it's a fish
story I am going to tell, but you need
not sigh. It's brand-new one, and
true one, too. Well, our bait was
live minnows. l picked out an especi-
ally lively little fellow and put him
on my hook. No sooner had l thrown
my line in than it began to wiggle.
thought it was the minnow. My side
partner said. Tom, you've got bite.
No. ! haven't, | insisted, It's that
blamed minnow.
Another jerk. I pulled up my line
and there was perch about three
inches long on my line. He had swal-
lowed the minnow. / didn't want my
partner to see that l did not know
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had lost the jinX, but-now listen to
this:
After l had bought the tickets and
attended to the baggage l decided to get
shaved. ! had Just thirteen minutes be-
fore the train time. That ought to have
been a warning, but l failed to heed it.
] had not had shave for three days. and
| looked a sight, SO ! walked into the
station barber shop and asked d barber
If he could shave me in ten minutes. or
course. he said he could. | put my suit
case down and took my seat in the bar
hers chair.
We'll, about the time he was half
through the train got ready to pull out.
My wife rushed to the door. Hurry,
she called, the train is pulling out Up
/ jumped the lather and three days
beard still clinging to one side of my
face. and rushed for the train. l made
it all right, but in my hurry 1 forgot my
suit case. Yes that was all that hap
pened. but-goodness sake, isn't that
enough?'
while I was awaythis summer, down
in Texas" said DIR. \. X. Fisher of the
Department of Agriculture, Il boarded
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out only at this season OF the year ana
then slips away for another year. 1t is
While ! was away this summer
.Nnd behold straightway ii is uttered II
brings forth a perfect avalanche of other
phrases. sentences and even two-hour
discourses. In a trice the tongue of every
listener is loosened. provided he has been
away on a vacation, for. be it known,
this glib little phrase falls from the lips
only of those who have something to tell
Of, something that happened to them
while they were rusticating or jumping
the waves or climbing winding mountain
trails or rushing from one summer resort
to another.
Occasionally the while ! was away
this summer is the preface for the mar
ration of an event in no sense trivial or
fippant. and often partaking of the ad-
Nenturous and thrilling. OF whatever
sort the anecdote may be, however, II
brings home the realization that Wash
ington is the cosmopolitan city of Amer
lea In many instances the Washngto-
mans vacation is spent in some far-OH
land. or at least in some inaccessible
wild of this country and even ii he re-
mains close by civilization 1t nearly al
WAYS seems to be his fortune to run into
some odd acquaintance good story.
So here are a few of them gathered at
random and set down because of their
intrinsic interest:
Maj. Gen. f. NJ. Weaver, L. :. A, mar
rates a wonderful tsh-or is it a snake
story. At all events. it begins: While
] was away this summer on months
fishing trip up in Vermont l caught a fine
trout for a snakes benefit. One morning
along the trout stream / found what
considered an ideal place to fish. threw
my line and Immediately hung beauty.
In trying to land him my line became
entangled in the limb of tree in the
rear, and there was my trout hanging
in the air beyond my reach.
Finally he wiggled off and fell to the
ground ! started after him, but the
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vegetables raised on these island fields
of the best quality.
On the shore of the lake is situated
an old Aztec village. one of the few in
existence today. The village is only
about fifteen miles from Mexico City it
self, and contains some 1850 people,
mostly of the old Aztec stock. While in
the neighborhood DR.. HrdliCka made care
full studies of the natives, securing six
plaster casts of Aztec heads. which are
pronounced to be excellent types of the
modern aborieines.
On his return from Europe this sum
mer. John L. Wilkie, chief of the divis-
ion of special agents. Treasury Depart
ment. brought back with him new type
of revolver, with which the secret service
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what had happened and asked him what
in the world he meant by putting me in
the room with woman.
Just at that moment q stringy, ugly
old maid rushed up and began to talk
before she got to US. a man came into
my room-there he is-that's him. Then
she began to lecture us soundly.
1.-The purser listened to her TRADE for a
few minutes. then he opened his book and
asked, You reserved your berth by letter.
did you not. madam She agreed. And
signed your name DR.. A. Smith? Now.
will you please tell me how l was to
know that DR.. A. Smith was woman?
Why did no tyou sign it DIR. Anna Smith
1t was your own fault. If you women
persist in trying to be men you are very
apt to be treated as men, And followed
up his text with the finest anti-suffragist
sermon I ever heard"
while 1 was away this summer" said
DR.. John r. AIohler. pathologist, II saw
something mighty funny II was down
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more nearly akin To state pride than 10
any other feeling lsndsmen know any
thing obout.
Il was on the flagship Illinois and the
Kentucky was following along about two
miles behind us one daN one ~ our
sailors fell overheard The Illinois inn
mediately put ont small boat 10 pick
him up and flashed the signal Man over
board 10 the Kentucky. She. too. launched
a rescue boat Both ships were going Al
top speed. and by the time the two small
boats We're launched the kentuckN'S boat
was nearer the sailor than was ours.
Her boat soon picked him up lie Was in
a rather dazed condition. thanks Ia the
force with which he had struck the water
and the amount Of il he had absorbed.
AS soon as he began to feel better lie
raised up and looked about him aud sa W
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she was in it. She pretended to be
asleep. What could I do? ] couldn't pull
her out by the foot, so | crawled into the
upper like a nice little boy. In the morn
ing she smiled at me maliciOusiy and
said in her sweetest tones:
1T was so nice of you to offer me
your berth.
INV vacation furnished me with an eX-
perience that l won't soon forget said
Joseph f. Ralph, director of the bureau
of engraving and printing. II was coming
down by water from Boston to New
York I got down to the boat rather late
and when went to get my stateroom the
purser informed me that he couldn't give
me a room alone. we are nearly full,
he explained. You'll have to have
roommate I'll put you In with DR..
Smith He's doctor, and I guess he's all
right
II deposited my suit case and went out
on deck Immediately. After dinner
Joined in a little game of cards down in
the saloon and 1t was nearly midnight
when l went to my stateroom. / opened
the door and walked in, but stopped has
tily when l heard a woman scream ana
saw dimly a figure in the lower berth
hubble itself up in the bedclothes. L
backed out and after glancing at the
number above the door to assure myself
that l had not made a mistake as to the
room / went down and told the purser
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feed them; want to go down and see
them fed?' That was my invitation to
be present at the fish dinner, and l ac-
copied 1t. Now even II this is fish
story 1t is the truth.
1.-THE man took some meal in one
hand and big cow bell in the other.
I wondered what on earth he was go
ing to do with that cow bell, but not
wishing to betray my ignorance l kept
quiet. When we reached the pond he
began to ring his bell and to throw
the meal into the water. And, do you
know, that the minute those fish heard
that bell they made mad dash for the
spot, hundreds Of them, almost as thick
as they could swim. jumping over each
OTTER. sometimes 1eaping up into the
air in their effort to reach the food
first.
Eyes, think that every fish In that
whole pond must have known when the
dinner bell rang. At any rate they were
present in shoals. and seemed to enjoy
it as much as any fish dinner ever
saw was enjoyed. But the fish were
the eaters and not the eaten.
81
THE only vacation I have had this
summer was a cruise with the feet" said
Admiral Nathan c. Twining, Y. S. N.
''Whiie we were at sea an incident &C.
CURED that illustrates petty Well q sail.
ors love for his ship This Is q feeling