Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-09-01

bed and killed in Chicago the other l day. A man never knows when be is safe in Chicago. The man W ho estimates the Alaska output of gold for the next year at S7,OO0,0OO is certainly of a very san guine temperament
 France and Russia have come to an understanding, but just what the nature of it is, is not given out. 1t is said that it wll insure the peace of the world.
 The analysts of beets grown in the Salt river valley showed sac chsrine matter varying from : to 15.3 per cent. The best beets analyzed were grown on Che Fowler ranch, giving l5.2 and l53 per cent.
 Prescott propertS owners are new compelled to pay 8 tax of S4.30 on the SI00 Of this, S340 is county and territorial, .75 city, and .15 special school tax. This item is not a very good immigration induce ment, but is fact.
 The opposition in England to President McKinley's bimetallic commission, comes very largely as a retaliatory measure against the administration for the passage oi the Dingley tariff bill. Our cousins across the waters have no limit to their imprecatious against the tariff bill.
 The new Spanish premier ex- presses the fullest confidence in General Weyler's Cuban policy. Personally, he says, that he is aware that the instruction in Cuba is approaching an end, and fl the United States makes any demonstra tion, which he hoped would not be the case, Spain would dc her duty.
 Some of the states occasionally send bank wrecker to the peniten- tiary for a term of years. Wonder what the Massachusetts authorities viii do with the fnanciers who wrecked the Massachusetts Benei t Life Association, thereby robbing thousands of women and children all over the country of benefits they had sOlemnly vowed to bestow on. thsmi
 We have failed tc. notice any jubilation from republican papers over the decline in the price of silver Republican papers have re joiced, however, that the farmers, about whom our democratic friends expressed so much soiicitude three years ago, are now realizing their hopes for Sl % wheat under a re- publican administration. It would be subject for equal rejoicing if silver miners were realizing Sl00 per ounce for their product.
 Phenix gets her supply of vege- tables from Chinese gardens located at the mouthio of her sewer system. The newspapers down in the Capital City, which are never so happy as when stirring up some sort of st-ench,-political or otherwise had SO much to say on the subject, that the city council. visited these gardens just to see how the vege- tables were raised. They left their appetite for Chinese raised yege- tables at the sewers mouth.
 The ''Wholesale Grocer" a busi- ness barometer of the home con sumption of. the people, has com pleted canvass of grocery sales in twenty-seven states, and the result indicates clearly the increasing capacity of the people for home consumption. Seventy per cent Of the total number of grocery jobbers in these states report a marked and definite improvement in this line of business. In the east 65 per cent report "good times" in the south 6I per cent make the same report, in the west 70 per cent and Tn the cen tral states 95 per cent report a good condition of business.
 A thought, which has often i'm pressed itself on fhe mind of the writer, is given expression in the following from the Phenix Herald: No one can go oyer the Santa Fe, Prescott & Phepix road, no matter how often, without admiring the pluck, energy and business ability that constructed that road amidst the natural and financial difficulties it encountered at the time of it's building, and the ability with which it is managed and run nov that it is built. More than any. other road in Arizona it has sefred to unify the people oi the territory, eentralize our business by enabling us to ex- change great commodities, and thus keep Arizons's money at home so far as it is possible to do so."
 The Tucson Star, which is recog- nized as the true exponent of Jeffer- sonian democracy in Arizona, is i'm Pelled to make the following con fession: "With the immense crops of wheat which have been harvest ed, and the failure of crops on the eastern hemisphere, ! which las caused the pFipe 0f yvhaat to doubIa