Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-12-29

loi stshs Ol Dau luck he nnQS them in everything.
 Cleyeland's civil service blanket has been torn into fragments by a decision of the United States court.
 Russia Is purchasing heavily of supplies from San Francisco mer- chants for shipment to the eastern coast of Asia.
 Pittsburg has actively entered the field 10 secure the G. \. k. encamp- ment of 1900, and the Smoky City denizens are hustlers who usually get what they are after.
 The situation over in China, is becoming quite interesting, as the war cloud in that direction is grow iDg quite rapidly.
 Governor McCord, it would seem, does not need to investigate and repoTt on the Navajo Indian trou- bles, as his enemiss have already done that for him.
 The Volunteers of America, the American of shoot oI the Salvation army, fed l2,OO0 poor people in Chicago on Christmas. This is practical Christianity.
 The lock out of the window glass workers-about l5,0O0 men-is over and all the factories will resume work, an advance of 13 and I5 per cent in wages having beeu agreed to.
 When John Bull agreed to that German grab of Chinese territory, there was probably another agree ment, not made public, under which John Bull will, when opportunity offers, gobble up a few miles of China.
 The sugar trust does not agree with SecretaI 7 Wilson's idea of the introduction of the beet sugar in- dustry in this country, but the peo- pie do. We can make all our sugar aud we should.
 The inter state commerce com mission has issued a circular to rail  roads promulgatIng an order ex- tending a wears time within which railroads shall equip their cars and engines with automatic coupling and driving brakes.
 II anybody has any doubt about the wisdom Of the choice which the people of the United States made in the election of last year, let '. m compare the holiday conditions of 1897 with the holidays during the past four years.
 What difference would there be between state banks, under national supervision, and national banks? Practically uone at all, if the super vision were actual; yet the project was endorsed by the Southern Bank CTS Convention, at Atlanta.
 The JOURNAL-MNER will observe the Christmas holiday tomorrow along with the rest of the world. hence no paper will be issued from this office. l., this Christmas eve, wishes a Merry Christmas to all the world.
 Yuma convicts have cut I,Stj cords Of wood, at a cost to the terri tory f II cents per cord. Hereto fore the wood for the prison cost S25O per cord. Thus it is that the McCOrd administration is robbing the tax payers-of the privilege they formerly enjoyed of paying a big price for wood.
 The average intelligence in New York is doubtless a. high as that in almost any other state, but the average of caretessness must be much higher, as the State Board of Canyassers found it necessary to throw out, for legal defects, more than Is per cent of the votes cast at the late election.
 Senator Wolcott threatens to resign bis seat in the Senate, on account of the attitude of Secretary Gage on the manetary question. The senator professes faith in the Presi- dent. but is widely at variance with Secretary Gage in the views recently expressed by him,
 The appointment of Charles Page Bryan, seems to worry some of the congressman and senators and suggestion was made to the presi- dent to send NIT. Bryan to Greece, and appoigt Woodville Rockhill to to the Ch.Ha mission. President Mckinley gave them to understand that Hr. Bryan was his choice and he was not contemplating any change.
 IL Is given out from Washington that the United States has been asked to join England as against Russia and Germany on the Chinese question. It is not likely that this will commit itself to a policy antagonistic to Russia, that has been the friend of this country and has demonstrated her friendship on more than one occasion. En- gland is somewhat alarmed al tie turn of affairs in the far east.
 Has any body heard any com plaints from the hundreds of thou sands of railroad men wEo voted for Mckinley and sound money last yearl The railroad earnings, which have steadily increased since the revival of prosperity immediately following the election in 1896,