Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-10-27


 for Grand Canyon railroad. Should the road be built, it will not be five years before you will hear howl go up from her citizens cursing the subsidy.
 A terrible wreck occurred near Garrison. New York, just after day light on Sunday, when a passenger train was precipitated into the water and several passengers were drowned.
 Oar contemporary jumps on Gov. McCord this morning with its hob nailed shoes, because the governor, in a recent speech in Phenix, adyo- cated the doctrine of compelling railroads to make just and equitable freight rates. It is difficult to please some folks.
 Phenix is still agitating for a shelter. If shelter is to be es- tablished in the territory, Prescott Is the natural place for it, as it is in the center of the great mining sec ton of the territory.
 Carl Decker. who rescued Miss Cisneros from the Cuban prison, has been commissioned brigadier general in the Cuban army. It remains to be seen whether General Decker will take the field or CD joy his honors on the safer soil of the United l States.
 Spain very cautiously, but firm ly, declines to accept any mediation from the United States on the Cuban question. She declines to fix any date for the pacifcation of Cuba, which she proposes to bring about as she sees fit, by force of arms and political reforms, culmin- ating in autonomy combined.
 4 telegram from Fresno says that a rain storm there last Saturday did great damage to the raisin crop. The loss IS estimated at 1000 car loads of ten tons each, and the fruit has been selling at $50 to S75 per ton, which would make the total loss from S5O0,00O to S75O,OOO.
 The late Charles A. Dana was an accomplished linguist. He could not only read and write, but fuently speak, and with the utmost accuracy, the German, Italian, Spanish, Portu- gese, French, Danish, Swedish, Morse and old Morse tongues. He was also master of Latin and Greek and of the English language.
 London Figaro, commenting on the alleged intimacy between Dick Croker, of New York, and the Prince of Wales, says that Croker never | progressed further in intimacy with the Prince of Wales than on one occasion to offer him light for his cigar. Figaro adds that on account of some suspicion in regard to the running of Croker's horses, he was dropped from the royal circuit like a hot potato.
 The supreme court of California has just decided that a railroad company which contracts to carry freight from one point to another, is liable for damage sustained by the same on connecting lines. The Colfax Mountain Fruit Company shipped a car load of fresh fruit to | New York over the Southern Pacific, The fruit reached its destination in a damaged condition. The Southern Pacific was sued for damages in Placer county, and a verdict against the company was rendered. This has now been sustained by the St. preme court.
 The King of the Belgians has caught the Kaiser's disease and started in to punish editors for lese majestic. The people of this country should rejoice constantly that they have a free and untrammeled press, which exercises at all times its right to criticise those m power. No country is free without free press.
 Women cyclists in England carry a package of cayenne pepper to protect themselves against assaults from tramps. They find its use very successful. This might afford hint to women in the Southern States, where assaults on them are of ire quent occurrence Pepper them with cayenne!
 The Loan Commission yesterday funded some of the NJ. & P. railroad bonds of Maricopa county. These bonds are Of identically the same nature as those of Yavapai county. The bill providing for their issuance was passed by the same legislature as that of the latter. The bonds were issued for the same purpose, and one set of bonds is just as legal or just as illegal as the other. | President Mckinley has no oc- casion to worry over the comments of the opposition on his having l allowed it to become known that he favored the election of Gen. Tracy to be mayor of New York. It would have been strange, indeed, il he did not favor Gen Tracy, who is