Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-07-15

standing bonds that are pafaDie, anu to redeem all outstanding warrants, thus putting the county on a sound financial basis. The remaining S7a,- 0o0 of bonds will be held by the county and the interest accruing on them will be realized by i;.
 A dispatch from London says that adyices have been received by the foreign missionary society from Shanghai to the effect that the Christ ian mission houses at Nankin and other places have been attacked by natives and pillaged. the mission aries and their families, both Eng fish and American, escaping with their lives with great difficulty. The movement against foreigners is spreading with great rapidity and serious apprehension is felt for the safety of foreign residents st all the treaty ports of the Ysngtze river.
 Ever since it first started into ex- istence the Phenix Republican. a professedly republican paper, ha. waged war on prominent republicans of the territory. l, has its guns trained now on Governor Irwin and Acting Governor Murphy. in its fight against these officials it will meet with as little sympathy aS it has with those who have been the subjects of its malice before. The JoURSAL-MINER has always been friendly to ex-Goyernor Wolfey and still thinks that he did not deserve the treatment he received at the hands of a portion of the territorial press, and if these little slurs that are being east upon the above of- ficials receive his sanction and ap- proval. as he is now the managing director of the Republican, they come with poor grace from him.
 X mammoth cave has been dis covered in Josephine county, Ore gon. \ party of explorers recently visited it, and report that two open ings in the cave were discovered. These openings look like small ifs Issues in a great limestone bluff. This limestone extends for miles and appears massive and solid out side. but is honeycombed within with cracks and crevices which ex- tend for miles without any apparent order or system. Many of the pas sages within the cave are described as of great beauty, containing m them semi-transparent stalactltes, giant milk-white pillars, and pools, and streams of pure clear water. A creek flows from the main opening to the cave. and it was here that the party entered. They spent a week exploring the cave, found innumera- ble passages and chambers, and several miles from the entrance they discovered small lake of water and waterfall thirty feet in height. All kinds of grotesque figures were found in the various chambers. \ large number of flash light photo graphs were taken. The only sign of any animal life was found short distance from the entrance, where a few bones indicated that bears had used it for lair and carried their prey there.
 Notice will be found elsewhere in this issue calling for an election to be held on Monday, August 3d. for the purpose of submitting to the qualified electors of this district the question of issuing bonds to the amount of Sl7,Oo0 for the purpose of raising money for purchasing school lots and for building or otherwise acquiring a school house and fur nishing the same with necessary school apparatus. The election h called in pursuance of authority given under act No. l6 of the sixteenth legislature. While it cannot be so stated legally in the call for the election, the purpose of the trustees is to purchase the city hall for school purposes in accordance with n pro- position recently submitted by the city council to the school trustees. The question involves simply the transfer of the city hall from the city authorities proper to the school trustees, the owners in either ease being the same tax payers. The city hall bonds draw eight per cent. in terest while the new bonds proposed to be issued draw only six per cent. The large increase in the number of pupils of the district. the census this year showing an increase of over twenty-five per cent. over the last school census, makes il imperative to provide additional facilities for their education. The city hall at present is a rather non-remuneratiye institution and by this transfer it could be used to a good purpose and citizens and tax payers saved the ex- pense of erecting additional build ings. The proposition seems to meet with universal favor from tax pay CTS.
 MT. l.. H. Wilson, of New York, has very kindly furnished a genea- logical sketch of Arthur Dudley Vim ton in the morning paper, Tor the benefit of the JoURNAL-MINER. Much of the information, however, is not new and the JoURNAL-MNER could add some that Mir. Wilson has omitted. Our inquiry concerning Nr yinton was not intended as one