Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-12-22
Facts, Figures and Fancies Found
 Floating All Over the Country.
Events Told in Btief Paragraphs the Information of Our Readers.
Spain Is improving her navy.

. Over 1000 men left Dawson in the early days of October 70 escape
 starvation.
 ! Nicaragua mas passed a law ex-
 cluding from that country all l classes of Chinese.
 Los Angeles has a church for every 2.OO0 of population and sa- Icon for every 1000.
 The senate adjourned on Tuesday on account of the funeral of Presi- dent McKinley's mother.
 The estate of the late C. F. Crocker has been appraised at 7,0O0,000.
 The county commissioners at Car son refuse c. offer a reward for the ! lynchers of Uber.
 Patrick Leahy and five children were burned to death at O.awa, Oklahoma.
 The engineers of six Of the Amer ican line steamers now at Glasgow, have struck.
 J. R. Johnson, sheriff and tax col lector of Mendocino county, Cali fornia, has sbscOnded with 5000. Bryan is being feted in Mexico A prophet IS some pumpkins" some times when he gets away from home. ! Bakersfield, California, will hold an election January f to vote on the question of incorporating as city. ] The Chino. California, beet sugar factory worked mp 100000 tons of
 beets this season, for which they paid SllOOoO.
 A masked robber attempted to mold up" a railroad agent at Shin gle Springs, California. The agent refused to hold up and he was knocked down" by the roOber. Frank ?. Thompson, formerly connected with the Santa Rosa. California. Democrat, and ex-state printer of California, died recently at San Salvador.
 Xa.sssss -A~-GeI3~-s,-ck-G who Is said to have spent $500 try | ing to get a government position worth Si, ,5U0 q year, refuses to talk about it.
 The condition of Mrs. Herman | Oelrichs' eyes has become alarming and it Is feared she will lose her sight entirely. She is a daughter of the late J. G. Fair and resides in New York.
 Senator White of California has introduced a bill providing for the enforcement of the eight hour law on government work by imposing a penalty of a Si,000 fine. Charles C. Brown, veteran sport and old time resident of Sacramento has fallen heir to an estate in New Orleans valued at Sl00000. The estate belonged to bis sister. Wm. Carr, the Missourian who thought he had too many children and who weighted one of them down with stones and threw it into the Missouri river, was hanged on Friday at Liberty. Missouri.
 Seventeen below zero at St. Paul; 20 below at Winnipeg; Is below at Huron and Bismark; 30 at Battle Ford and below at Pueblo and Denver is a part of the weather re port for December l7.
 The comptroller of the currency has issued a cali on national banks for a statement Of their condition at the close of business, Wednesday, De cember l5.
 The lower house of congress has passed bill extending for two years the time for the construction over the San Carlos, Arizona, reservation ol the Gils Valley, Globe and North erd Railway.
 James Cave, a printer living at Paterson, New Jersey has been notified that he has fallen heir to a fortune of SS0,000 by the death of his grand father, James D. Cave, which occurred in Western Missouri on Thanksgiving day.
 Sandy Ryan Of Greensboro, North Carolina, murdered his wife on the night of December 9th, and was tried, convicted and sentenced to death in fifteen minutes. Ryan plead guilty to murder in the first degree and refused to accept coun- sel. He was hanged December l7.
 An opinion was rendered by Jus tice White of the United States su- preme court last Monday in the case of Thomas Bram, under sen tence of death in Massachusetts for a murder at sea. He was accused of murdering the captain, mate and captains wife of vessel bound for South America. The opinion re versed the decision of the court be low on the ground that Bram's tes- timony should not have been ad . mitted.
 The Valley Road of California has secured right of way through Bakersfield. It is thought that the company intends to build on and connect with the Santa Fe at Mo- fave. The grade is now twenty-five miles from Bakersfield and IS being completed at the rate of five miles a week.
 John [. Frost, land commissioner of the Atchison, announces that the land for the first BOoth-Tucker col onv has been contracted for, and that the first colony will be estab- lished in the spring in the vicinity of Holley's, Colo, four miles from the Kansas state line and but six miles from Coolidge, Ksnsas.
 The state supreme court of Colo rado, in an opinion handed down Saturday, upheld the tax assessed upon the cars of the American Re frigerator Transit company in use in Colorado. Under this decision cars of the Pullman Palace Car com pany and the various meat and fransDorf atiOn cOmDanies are liable