Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-09-09
GENER AL NEWS.

for California reports the Chine
 sugar factory now at work with
 capacity of 60,OO pounds daily
 The product of the three beet suga
 factories now in operation in tha
 state will be 100000 this year
 Edison has an idea that whel
 electricity is so thoroughly utilized
 as to banish darkness from the esrtl
 mankind will quit sleeping. WheI
 he is busy amid his lights he can ge
 along with fourteen hours sleep 1
 week.
 The Louisville Times says that
 if the democratic national conven
 ton next year were delegated tC
 nominate the republican candidat,
 for president 1t would not be Blaine
 and If the republican national con
 yention were delegated to nominate
 the democratic candidate it would
 not be Cleveland.
 The latest idea in regard to regu,
 lating the liquor traffic Is one em.
 bodied in bill recently introduced
 m the Kansas City common council.
 1t provides for the licensing of drink
 ers-that each person who wishes to
 indulge in liquor shall purchase a
 license, to vary in cost from SD to
 $50, according to the responsiveness
 of the liquor indulged in.
 The American steamer George E..
 Starr, plying daily between Port An
 geles, Port Townsend and Victoria,
 has been seized by the revenue cutter
 Wolcott for smuggling Chinese into
 the United States from British
 Columbia. Several Chinese were
 found aboard, who said they were
 taken aboard by officers of the vessel
 at Victoria.
 Many business men of any given
 locality expect their local press to
 make an every day fight for the en- couragement of home industries by patronizing the same, go right square back on their newspaper by having their advertising and commercial printing outside of the newspapers they expect to do their fighting, The trouble Is they don't think what they are doing.-Ex.
 "Jerry Rusk's management of the weather may not be giving satisfac- tion to every one" says the Chicago Herald, but it plesses the marine 1 men at Chicago. They assert that | his predictions are much more re- liable than they were when the Signal Service was run by the War Department. The latter used to | predict rains that never rained and | nor'easters that never blew, while now, they say, the weather is gen orally what Jerry's man at the top of thes Auditorium prophesies that 1t will be.
 Artificial fuel for locomotives is to be used by the Southern Pacific Co. according to the San Francisco Ex- aminer: "A plant for the manufac- ture of artificial fuel brick from coal dust and asphaltum has been pur- chased in San Francisco. It will cost S75.000 and have a capacity of five tons of brick per hour. At pres ent coal IS very large item of ex- pense to the Southern Pacific Com pany, it being nearly all brought from Victoria by steamer. The use of this fuel is stated to have been quite successful in England and the experiment of the Southern Pacific Company will be watched with interest. Fix.
 A Catholic priest, Frther Alyward, of the nativity parish, made a raid on Chinese opium den in Chicago. Passing along Halstead street, not far from the church. he saw two young girls enter apartments kept by Chinese named Wan Chung. The priest suspecting something wrong, went to the place, and being refused admission promptly knocked the door down, took revolver out of the hands of Wan Chung. the proprietor, and found the girls in a little back room smoking opium. They confessed being frequenters of the den, and implicated many of their companions. The priest re- ported the case to the police, and issued for Wan Chung, who, in the meantime, however, had es- capped. An inconsiderable portion of the Oemocrotic press of the Territory have opened their batteries on Su- McInernay, charging him with various bad practices and with disregarding the law in his of the Territorial prison. It appears that the agita- ton was started by Democrat who ! was disappointed because the Su- i failed to give him champagne supper on the expiration f of his sentence. This is hard on the ! Democrats, but it is likely they will a have to worry along under the dis s From all accounts, MT. Mclnernay is making an honest n effort to reduce the enormous ex- . penses of the prison, and for this he ~ will receive the endorsement of the f, .axpayers regardless of politics. i, Nogales Herald.
 A farmer of Silverdale township st who keeps few sheep, was feeding sr his flock a few days ago when he Il noticed black spot on the body of c, ,ne of the animals which disap- f, oeared while he was looking at it. F He looked closer and was amazed to st zee three mice come from some where down in the sheep's thick 'oat of wool, jump to the ground z md run away. Putting his hand g Town into the wool the farmer found (, hree snug and cosy mice nests. each U new born litter of young Il mes. These colonies were at once II 'roken up and an investigation be- t' ,un which unearthed similar nests Il n the wool of a dozen sheep. The r nice were enjoying a snap in the e' e ray of cheap rents, and the sheep U nd not appear to mind the presence ~ I their strange tenants.-Denver News.
 W. J. Chamberlain X Co.'S Denver 2 ircular of September 2d, says: The utlook for future business has at