Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-09-29


 Dr. A. s. Loyelace, health officer of San Francisco, died Thursday morning of appoplexy. He was a native of Missouri and forty. two years of ago.
 The newspapers of Jackson, Miss, have suspended on account of the yellow fever.
 United States Judge Kilgore, ex- Congressman from Texas, died at ArmorA Indian Territory, on Thurs day afternoon.
 A national guardsman of Califor- nia named Captain Jenks has just been sentenced to six months in jail for cruelty to animals. He is preb- ably no relative of Captain Je0ks, of the horse marines, who fed his horse on corn and beans.
 The steamer Monao. which was dae to arrive in San Francisco on Thursday, had on board $i.0O0.000 in gold to pay for wheat shipped from there to EnglAnd. This is the second payment from tho same source for this seasons wheat crop Is is estimated that S25, ,0O0,O00 will be received for the whole season from that source.
 George Williams and c. ". Sla gel, charged with an attempt to bold up the Los Angeies express at Mo Eano, on tha ith instant, have been held to answer to the grand jury.
 On Thursday morning a posse Of officers, hunting for two men, near Silver City, New Me1i ico. who were wanted for the murder of a cattle man, discovered Mart Grinders lcav- ing the White House ranch. X Gght ensued and Cbilders was killed. The other man escaped, but the oin cers are in pursuit.
 There is a report iu Japan to the effect that ihe Pacific Mail steam ship City of China msy be seized to secure the Mikado's claims against the Hawaiian government. The vessel IS now under the Hawaiian flag. and in case of annexation. she would sail under the American flag.
 Over 1000 Japanese soldiers have been landed at Hawaii as laborers.
 An epidemic of diphtheria exists in Chinatown, San Francisco.
 Mrs. Rizal, widow of Dr. Hozae Rizal, tho leader of the Philippine islands revolutionists, who was shot to death in June, lSss6, is in Phlla- delphia buying arms and ammuni- ton for the insurgents on the above islands, aud proposes 70 return aud head the troops in person.
 Trades union reports show an ia- crease of 3i per cent m the number of working people employed lu New York compared with one year ago. 1t is believed that the increase in other parts of the country Is even greater.
 The San Pedro mine, in the Car rilitos group, twelve miles from Fl Paso in Mexico, caved in Saturday, killing seventeen men who were at work in the mine at the time. The unfortunates were buried alive un- der fifty feet of rock and dirt. The San Pedro is one of the oldast mines in the group, and rich with silver. lt Is the property of the wealthy Carrilitos company, the principal stockholders of which re- side in Now York.
 Yellow fever is increasing at Mo bile.
 According to telegram from Sau Diego that town promises to play an important part in the de- velopment of the Yukon gold fields, and in addition to the organization of a substantial prospecting com pany, comes the organization of a transportation company to carry freight and passengers across the snow and ice from St. Michaels to Dawson City during the winter months. This company wilt use snow and ice train, which will be operated under patent recently applied for by Charles ShelTgeu. The plans of the motor are now made. The motive power is a gaso- line engine. The wheels are pro- pelled by sprocket and chain. The cab and cars are carried by short sleighs at each end of the car, like flat-ears on railroads. These sleighs are so constructed as to run on top of the snow as well as tho ice. A train of cab and two cars would have a capacity of ten 10 twelve tons of freight, and tho cost of complete would not exceed 5000. The company has been organized, and has alreadyap- piled to tho United States govern ment for contract to carry mails up the Yukon river.