Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-12-02

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 before sun up
 THE social sessoa IS on in full fore and effect about Phoenix
 THE HERALD offiea vii now be foun' atnumbere 31 sDd B North Ffstesreet nearly opposite the old ofice.
 SURVEYS of pubic lands ia Afiz7n' have been accepted by the lsId dspsrs ment during the past fiscal year to th' amount of 3O9, ,443 acrss-
 FLAGSTAFF hae 8 new newspaper witt sbe sensational heading "The Sky llgh Kicker which euphss' 'zss the quest'o' -"Wbat's in 6 nsme"?
 FUNDs have bsen subscribed for { new theater building up to within soOC of she amount desired. The new build ing is practically assured; thers are not however, enough companies booked to supply San Francisco. foF yesr.
 PASSENGER rate wzc IS threatened ;besvsen Chicago and tbs Pacific coest, similar to that of 1887 when rates went so low ss to cause sn enoRDoue Passen- GET traffic end really precipitsted the .ssboomn sbout Los Angeles ss that time
 WAR. pessilencs and famine have lorg heen written in the books ts the sum nation, the condensation nf devastating tayrors but the man who first gathered that desoIatipg trio into 6 single thought he'd never moved printing es- sablishmsnt.
 IT has been reserved for woman' Lsurs De Force Gordon, to circulate 8 oesision to Governor Budd,, of Caiifor- als. for the pardon of the deud, Dur rant. who outraged and murdered two of her sex withous doubt, though the evidence is allIcircumstsutisl.
 ONE of the fool moves which can scarcely be credited to sepsibls busl- ness men and witch we believe ca nsrd, is the proposition to make an ali gold. life eized etstute of the Pres- ident fog the Paris exhibition. Mckin- ley would never consent to such prop osision of competing for notoriety with Ada Rshan.
 A MORNING cotempoFary announces that the Government lost s13.OOO,OOO on the Union Pacific railroad. The an nonncement indieeses the up-to-the- times character of the scribe who has not yes learned that the Union Pacific WAS sold few days SEQ by the Govern ment for every cent. principal end in- teress, it owed ths Government.
 EDITOR STEAD of London announces that he has no opinion oa Richard Croker, his adopted countrymsn who runs Greater Nsw York Democracy. Editor Stead has mighty few opinions demanding the attention of anybody under any circumstances since he wrote that ecandalous advertisement for the dsmi-mcnde of Chicago some years ago.
 "SENAToR HoAR ssys sbst when he was a boy In Worchester, Mass, cat echism was in use, Of which the follow ing ie a sample: Where is hell? Un- der the earth. Who lives in hell? The devil, his angels and bad men. What do they do in hell? They curse God and ia in continually. Do you deserve to 20 to hell? I do." Such a cstechism is out of date now, but it would fit nun ber of men in public life yet."-Ec.
 PHOENIX is having something like building boom this fail and the beauty of it Is the buildings ers in demand. One of the secrets of the matter, so far ss business buildings are concerned, is , that the new buildings cost far lees shan the old ones, are of modern eonven- sencss and renb for much less. High rents have done much to stimulate the construction of the new business blocks on Adams strest and slseR here
 TIE horrors of the starvation of hu- man bsings in Cuba by the Weyler syetem sre not understood in this coun- try, much es we have heard about it. As sn indication of whst is really going on authentic information is nov given that at the City of Msteuzae, where 13,OOO concen trades were gathered, there is today not mors than 5000 persons left and raeny of those ID A dying con dislon, Tnink of itI Ten thousand per-