Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-11-03

week in excess of the amount paid out year ago. When commercial industrial transportation and agri- cultural interests are considered, there is abundant evidence that fully one million more wage earners are employed than just before the last presidential election, and this points to the distribution of more than one million dollars in wages daily in excess of the total so paid a a year ago.
 pr. Jos. Hirschfelder of San Fran cisco. announces the discovery of q lymph, which he says he has used extensively in the treatment of con. sumptive patients, and has accom- plishcd remarkable cures with it. He claims to have cured several pa tients wbe were pronounced incura- ble. pr. Hirschfelder stands at the head of his profession in San Fran cisco and the announcement, com ing from such a source, carries great weight with it. Dr. II rsch- fielder was college mate of Dr. D. McSwegan, at present stopping in Prescott, and the two were formerly connected with the same medical college as teachers. pr. J. $. Bar rstt of Prescott was also connected with Dr Hirsehfelder in his work ia San Francisco.
 The commissioner 0f pensions re- veals an abuse of the pension laws, which will be new to many people. That is the marrying by young wo- men of old soldiers for the purpose of getting on the pension rolls. He says: At the soldiers homes, young women will snap up the chance to marry decrepit men, evidently hop | ing that they will soon die and leave the pension, and in many of these ] eases the women do not even live with the men they marry. I hope to recommend to congress that a law be passed providing that women marrying soldiers hereafter shall not be entitled to any pension upon the ] death of their husbands. The law of 1890 makes this stipulation re- garding the pensions which are pay able under that act, but a great majority of the pensioners now on the rolls draw the money by virtue l of previous acts"
 Whats the matter with Kansasi We'll, from being a mortgage ridden community of bowling populists, under the Mckinley administration she is taking a front rank in the procession of prosperous people. Three hundred and seventy-four out of the three hundred and eighty two private and state banks have made their report to Bank Commis- sioner John w. Breidenthal, and they have ve d his prophecy that the increase in deposits would amount to S7,OOO,nO0. This is an increase over last year of 45 per cent. Mir. Breidenthsl attributes it to he wonderful cleaning up of private indebtedness under the squeeze of money loaners during the past five years, thus leaving the people with a surplus when their stupendous crop was marketed. The national bank reports have not yet been made, but it is estimated that they will show an increase of about ] S3,OO0000, making the entire in crease Tn deposits nearly Sl0,0O0,0O0 The entire deposits of the state are estimated at S42,OOO,OOO, which means $50 per capita in available cash, condition unprecedented, From this il will be seen that Kan sas is still on earth, despite her populist mlsrule.
 Henry George, the great apostle of the single tax doctrine and can didate for mayor of New York, died in the latter city yesterday morning of appoplexy. He made four speeches on the previous evening returning to his apartments about o'clock in the morning. Deceased was only fifty eight years old. He was a self made man and was par ticulaIly brilliant, and a forcible writer. Alter a somewhat varied career, in the field of journalism in 1. California, in which he made sev- eral failures, he succeeded m estab- fishing the tEvening Pest, which is st:ll in existence, and remained as its editor for a number of years. ] On retiring from it he was appoint | ed by Governor Irwin as inspector Of gas meters, a position he held until he left for the east to reside. He was the author of the we'll known l hook on pOlitical economy sPOvertv V and Progress" which, a few years ago, a democratic congressman in corporated Tn a speech delivered by him and thereby succeeded in get ting it printed in full in the Con- gressional Record. MT. George was ! also the author of "The Land Cues ! tion." Social Problems" "Protec- ton and Free Trade" and other works, but his master piece was the