Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-12-22

AAA lnt nAOlc stIuc- ture knocked down.
 II the sugar trust only agreed to furnish the money to run the demo cratic campaign of '9S and 1900, if the annexation of Hawaii is de- ieated, 1t will not be called on for the cash; annexation will not be de feated.
 The grand jury at Phenix has Submitted its final report. It in Eestigsted forty-seven cases and re turaed twenty nine indictments. Among the latter were three or four newspaper men.
 MT. Livingston, a democratic con- gressman from Georgia, in a speech a few days ago, denounced the civil service law as a humbug. The JoURSAL-MMER heartily agrees with ''the gentleman from Georgia"
 Congress has officially decided to take recess from Saturday, Decem- Der Is, to Wednesday, January 5. This means that our national states men will resume business again abo& January 10.
 Murders have increased so much ID South Carolina-doubling in a single year-that on last Sunday all of the Episcopal ministers in the state preached sermons from the text. Thou Shalt Commit No Mur- der"
 One would think that some of the Mrs. Luetgerts who have been dis covered in different parts of the country, might be lassoed and brought into court. It would be a mighty relief to Adolph to see his wife brought into court.
 One ofthe interestingitem in the agricultural bill is the provision for Sl0,OO0 for an agricultural experi- mental station in Alaska. Now if they will add another $I0,00O to this U provide snow shoes and fur cloth lag for the experimenters they may b. able to skate around and raise Cain.
 4 bankruptcy bill will be intro duced in congress soon. It will pro- vide for both voluntary bankruptcy and involuntary bankruptcy. By its provisions any one may go into bankruptcy, except a corporation. The latter may be forced into it, but not otherwise. Wage earnels, laborers and farmers cannot be forced into it. All others are subject to involuntary bankruptcy, for cer tain designed causes. On general principles, the involuntary causes relate to fraudulent conduct on the part of the bankrupt.
 Countess Casterlaine, nee Miss Gould, is experiencing domestic in felicity, and separation from her worthless spendthrift of husband is talked of very seriously. The young lady will receive but little sympathy in her troubles from the people of this country. She sold her self for foreign title, and such bar gains have rarely proven beneficial 10 the parties, and marriages con- tracted on this basis have invariably turned out to be very prolific of un- happiness, sorrow and tears. Even the purse of 8 Gould was not big enough to satisfy the sPendthrift proclivities of this young scion of so called nobility.
 The supreme court of the United States has sustained the decision of the supreme court of the Territory of New Mexico, in the case of the Springer Land Association vs. Pat rick P. Ford. The opinion was by Chief Justice Fuller. The question involved was whether a mechanics lien upon the irrigation system GOV cred only the ditches and rivers, or, in addition to these, land under ditch. The court held that the lien applied to the lands held under ditch, as well as to the ditch itself, in this case, involving S22,000. "To limit the land upon which the lien was given on 8 strip of land six feet in width and twenty-six miles long, which was actually occupied bv the ditch, and exclude the tract of which the ditch was constructed to benefit by its continuous opera ton, would" the chief justice said. .bs unreasonable and circumscriS4 the meaning Of that statute"
 Aman worth s5O,OO0 was shot and mortally wounded recently at Shelf field. Iowa, while in the act ot com hitting a robbery. It has developed since the event that he has been en- raeed in this business for the past len wears while passing as a rePu- table business man. He piled his gagged ID day time in a respectapie calling. He was an excellent lock smith and gunsmith and his shop was equipped with every description of tools for either purpose. There were also kits of tools such as burg lars use. Upward of twenty-five cIgar boxes were filed with keys and key blanks. In the hundreds Of robberies he committed in the last ten years be never broke open a door. He had key to every store in Sheffield and all the surrounding towns. He never robbed a store except on dark, windy nights, went dressed in a garb of black rubber from head to foot and never used 6 light under any circumstances.
 
 The JOURNAL MINER had no idea of provoking a discussion o1 the slavery question, in its reference to that threat of the Courier, that in