Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-03-11
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ported woolen goods during one year of the Wilson lava loss of fully Sl5OOO,OOO to American labor, aad an estimated loss of hundreds of thousands of votes for the demo- cratic nominee this year.
 Kansas City man has a collee- tion of Spanish flags. In order 10 show his sympathy for Cuba he publiclv burned one the other even iny. and announced that he would c.emato one each dayuntl the supply was exhausted. Some people have the happy faculty of making them- sslves extremely ridiculous over small matters.
 Los Angeles has an ePidem,c ol measeles. It is estimated that there have been over 2,0OO cases in the city and the mortality has been from one to five per cent. In add ton to the deaths which occur, con plications of various kinds follow this disease, which increases the death rate for a year or twJ after an epidemic of this kind.
 Tucson has arisen from a sort o Rip Van Wrinkle sleep, and hnds herself right in the midst ot a threatened boom. It is estimated that over SlOO,OOO worth of new buildings are now in the course ot erection, and are being built Of lum- her instead of adobe, as heretofore.
 The Catholics there are prepar ng
 to build one of the largest and
 finest churches in the southwest.
 The sale of bonds to keep up the
 reserve fund in the treasury IS one
 of the howllng financial fsrces Of
 the age. Purchasers go to the side door of the treasury and draw out the gold and then go 10 the front D door and draw out the bonds, put ting the gold back. This IS ststesmanship with 8 vengeance. A
 fair illustration of a man pulling , himself up by his boot legs.
 |. An exchange comments on tho fact that recently 8 jockey diec
 leaving a torture of S250,OOO. Int same day an old newspaper write - of ability and thirty years exPerl
 ence. together with a splendid repu = tation for honesty and sobriety, diet
 in Philadelphia and was buried b
 the fraternity. Nothing particulari
 strange about this. The newspape
 man had the same avenue to lam
 and wealth open to him, no doub
 as the jockey.
 The English press manifesis
 wondrous solicitude for affairs % the United States over the Cuba ," question. The editors over thel
 seem to fail to comprehend fully th'
 there was a war between that coui in trv and a few struggling colonies ey this continent, something over es hundred years ago, and that Il H. struggling colonies licked the O. mother country, and has been a In
 and independent nation ever sine ny and has no longer to say to EngiSI rt- ..by your leave" on any proPosiIio ~ Citizens of Flagstaff have WIT
 to the president of the Senate O ? iecting to the passage of the seho
 land blll, stating as their reas'
 that when the timber on th u' Der yersitv land is disposed of, 1t shou ar be by sale and not by lease. lte grave and reverend senators will al doubt smile at the ignorance oi ch committee drafting that resolutl' Tor as well as at he meekness ot
 who signed the objection, as In- bill does not provide for disPos' tic of timber by ease, but, on the e .ch trary, prevents i'.
 re- Senator Elkins, in his spec ad' against the private sale of bon ous gave utterance 10 the following m
 excellent doctrine: "Mr. Preside ch- there is no surer way, no matter b bat pure the motive. to plaut the se' gar of discontent, unrest, lmpauel the and suspicion among the Peo ied, than private arrangements auth Ter ized by high officials by which a
 persons get millions at the eIpe to of many. The safety of the rePu' gbt rests upon the respect, the ateeil the and the loyalty of the plain peo his for our Government and its adH to istration. Nothing should be d' end to take from them this respect O esi- forfeit their confidence"
 In his debate on the AHz' Of school land bill MT. MeRse Sd his .'So, MT. Speaker, authority is gi 'rse by this act to this board to lease nall school lSuds under regulations h' iar- tofore pre-cri0.l 5s the secrets' olty the interior for tue time sPecihet law the bill unless 1t sooner 0econl' uld state Now, 1 assume, althoug
 have not seen a copy ot the dep ates ment regulations, that they dge amply protect the government s a the territory so far as the hm6e .bly concerned. I feel certain | not the regulations would not per lich the use of the timber on the la Iary I hope no discrimination will
 made against the Territory Of vas zona in the matter of leasing