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

The Southern Pacific company has decided to build a SlOO,01O hos pital m San Francisco.
 The recent grand jury in Phenix seemed to try to discourage art in with the newspaper busi- ness.
 IT an election were held in Mex leo now Bryan would probably carry that republic.
 Mrs. Luetgert is turning up ssnu- merously and iu as mary different parts of the United States as ;he Emanuel church murderers-
 The grand jury, now in session m Phenix, seems to be keeping the people of that town in ''hot water" according 10 reports in the papers there, and many of them will heave a sigh of rslief when it Sdjourns.
 F. NJ. Murphy has been putting in some telling work for the reten- tion of Whipple and the prospect IS good for its success. Mr. Murphy secured influence on a former oc- casiou to have an order for its abandonment rescinded.
 Durrant has requested Rev. Gib- son to tell all he knows of the Elm anuel church murders. He says: "If the Rev. J. George Gibson knows anything either in my favor or against me, 1 now ask him to speak the truth. l unseal bis lips and give him my full permission to talk"
 If the populists carry out their announced intention to nominate q presidential ticket in 1900, they should not overlook the claims of MT. Legrard Larow, of Lamar, Mo-, who is said to have the longest whiskers ever worn by man.
 From the numerous motions, ap- peals and objections generally inter- posed in the Durrant case, 1t mig ht be said that Durrant had reached 'the end of his rope" But he has not. If something new does not develop, he may reach that point January 2.
 A new form of train hold ups" has developed in Louisiana. Two negroes committed a murder at St. Gabriel and the sheriff, fearing a jail delivery, put the blacks on the Texas and Pacific train to be taken to New Orleans for safe keeping. The people stopped the train six miles below Plaquemine, locked up the conductor and sheriff, took the negroes of and hanged them in the woods.
 President Mckinley on Thursday made the following appointments: Joseph McKenna, associate justice of the supreme court of the United States; Charles G. Dawes of Illinois, to be comptroller of the currency; John Reed, to be chief justice; Thos. Nj. Many of Tennessee, Thos. c. Fuller Of North Carolina. Henry c. Straus of Kansas, and Wilbur F. Stone of Colorado, to be chief jus tices of the court of private land claims.
 C.C. Randolph of the Phenix Re publican has been indicted for libel for publishing a picture of pr. Hughes. The JotRSAL-MINER has warned its pieture-pIint- ing contemporaries of Phenix that they were treading on dangerous ground in their production of alleged pictures of individuals and were liable to prosecution for libel. They have produced lots of worse pictures though than that of pr. Hughes and have seemed to escape the pen- alty of it.
 Not content with the laurels he won in the conduct of the recent which resulted in suoh important reforms in the practice before the Patent Office, Acti! g Commissioners of Patents Greeley, is working to bring about other re- forms, not the least of which Is swindling on the part of certain alleged patent attorneys, who get money from investors under pretense of procuring and selling foreign patents on their inventions, knowing that no valid foreign patent can be obtained for the inventions, and that they have no means of sell ing them. Complaints from numer- ous victims of this kind of patent are in the hands of MT. and if he can drive them out of business, it will add to the enviable record he has made in connection with the admidistra- ton of this important branch of the Patent Office.
 About Mexican Cattle.
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