Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-04-14
THE LATEST NEWS!! General Happenings Throughout Hany
 Points of tho Country.

LONDON, April 7.-There is a sen sation among the volunteers aud militia of the country over the dis banding z today, by or1er of the secretary of war, of the fifta battas- ion of the Scottish Rifies, eight hundred strong. The disbandng is the outcome of report made by Sir Francis Grenfell, who was sent by the war office to inspect the bat talion, the latter being given twelve hours notice to appear on parade. The report In question reads more like piece of exaggerated Amerls can humor than a serious official statement to the government. lt was shown that some of the men appeared for drill in their slippers, that during the drill the officers and privates addressed each other by their Christian names, that the swords, rifles and other accoutre- ments were in an astounding eondi-
 ton of rust and general uncleanli- ness. that three of the officers kept saloons and took turns in supplying liquor at the shooting ranges, that another officer was a plumber who repaired the targets. One colonel was shown to have sold eighteen thousand rounds of ammunition furnished by the government to a rifle club. One officer, when or dered to put the corps through bat tallion drill, was found to be ignor- ant even of the words of command. The dishsnding of so large a bat tallion, and under the circumstances is without precedent in the history of the war department of this country.
 NoRFoRK. Va, April 3.-A bottle was picked up at Washwood's life saving station yesterday containing what purports to be message from the iii fated White Star line Naronic. The message read: "On board the steamship Naronic, at sea, 500 miles miles east of Cape Hatteras. steamer been struck by cyclone; now sink ing. As We push off in only boat left we toss this message overheard in the hope that it may reach lsud and tell of oar fate. Good bye. The White Star freight steamer Naronic sailed from Liverpool for New York on February II, 1898! From that time to this nothing has been heard of the craft. 1t was b, lieved that she turned turtle and sank. Tie steamship Coventry, which arrived at Bremen on March 20, 1893, from Fernandins, passed two life boats while on the voyage from Florida. They bore the name of the Naronic, but did not show any evidence of having been occu- pied.
 When an official tells you he has resigned because he is too good a democrat to sip sugar out of the re- publican sugar bowl, put it down that he is either scared or he has re- ceived miSsive from Washington. The democratic officials of Arizona are too patriotic to surrender the absolute control of the government to the republicans uatil they have to. They are too much interested in good government to ask to be TO- lieved from office and its responsi- bilities. They will continue to patri. otically serve tho government, even under a republican administration, rather than show the white feather by running away from the salary, perquisites, and the worry of wear ing the crown. No, the Arizona democratic federal official, as a rule, is not built that way. He will stick until the last ditch is reached and only let go when his rations are cut off.-Tucson Star.