The daily morning oasis. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1917-1920, 1919-11-30
THE PIONEER NEWSPAPER OF .NoGALEs'
~ HERE haint no SIGH animile" Neither, daily
nor weekly.

nor weekly.
AS a newspaper entity "The Oasis" has
been published in Nogales through period OF tWer~
tyfive years. and with this issue the daily edition
completes it's second year. 1t is now nearly twenty
seven years since the first issue OF The Oasis ap
peared in Arizona Journalism. witty Arizona
newspaper man described it's advent asserting that
ga tenderfoot had set up press under mesquite
tree down in the Casa (rande country and was run
ming newspaper on the desert" But he asserted
the tenderfoot newspaper man.
However he did not know that the newspaper
man was no tenderfoot. Che first experience OF
'"The Oasis" man in Arizona goes back to 1880. ie
was a mining s.pel ,nlenGe't.
But this article is wandering from the mark
It was projected to say something about the plon-
eer newspapers in Nogales. Theer had been SO many
of them before "Ohe Oasis" came to the Line City
that the place was known the grave yard OF news
papers.
AS near as can be learned the pioneer newspaper
in Nogales was established about 1884, by a mining
man named Wambold The editor was John
l. CHM, veteran of the quill who had run
newspapers and been employed nthe min Nevada
and California When this editor superinten
dent of copper mine in Mono county, California
between experiences in Arizona) Mr.. CHM was run
named Lundy in the high Sierras.
Hon. D. G. Chalmers, w. N. Cumming, Paul
Crawford, and many more conducted newspapers
in Nogaes in the first decade of the existence OF
the town.
There have been published here also, number
of newspapers in the Spanish language. Mexican
newspapers and newspaper men have come and
gone with the same celebrity did those who essayed
to run English newspapers. When "The Oasis" ap-
peared on the scene Roberto Bernal ran Ell Heraldo
At the same time there was another Spanish paper
here conducted by F. T. Davila, writer of merit
who wrote and published also a readable history OF
the state of Sonora. They both returned to Mexico
The pioneer daily newspaper In Nogaies,' was
the newspaper which Hon. James j. Chatham esta-
blished about 1893. 1t was good newspaper. 1t
was named the Nogales Daily Herald. But it had
been dead about twenty years before the present
Daily Herald was started. Then some years later
Ted Healey started the Nogales Daily Times. That
paper passed into the hands of A. L. and E. J. Pee
grim the first assayer, the other jeweller. The
newspaper venture busted both of them A. j. Pelle
grin went out of town broke, and receiver had
charge of the JeWelry store r. j. Pelegr1n hung on
with the daily newspaper about five years; but as
soon as the receiver turned back the ewelry store
he fastened to sell it. suspended publication of the
Daily Times, and fastened out of town.
And George K French, limb of the law, under
took to establish the Nogales Daily News. He had
the Times for short time under lease from the
Pellegrns-but not long; and after terminating his
connection with that he started the News 1t was
short lived. ..
The Border Vidette was established in 1894 by
Harry j. Wood, it went through various vicssitudes
with number of changes in ownership Among
those who had whirl at OF may be named Frank
M. King, now running the Arizona Cattleman IN
Tucson; j. R. Southworth Frost Hickman, and 9TH