Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-09-01
NEWS NOTES AND OoNuENrs. SAa Salvador has adopted gold

Flour is being exported from San
 Francisco to Peru and China.
 The trial ef Sausage Maker Luet : geFt. ot Chicago, for the murder of his wife, has commenced.
 4 young negro named Bonner, ar rested at BslleSille, Texas, for, . criminal assault on Mrs. Schas, an aged white woman, was taken from | jail by a mob of 20O people and lynched.
 President !. Boria, of Uruguay, was shot and killed by au assassin dutine fete at Montevideo, Au- gust 70.
 Hugh Smith, governor ofthe Bank of England. says that feeling of distrust exists there in regard to. American securities of all kinds.
 \ San Francisco woman has ap- piled for a license us master of steam tug which she owns. 1T she passes the examination she will have the right to sail any vessel of 100 tons or under in tho Bay Ol San | Francisco, and will be the first woman to pass such an examination in California.
 Prince Luigi, Of Savoy, and party of Italians reached tho summit of Mount S. Elias on July 3l. at l2 o'clock noon. The altitude indicated by tho mercurial barometer is Is, 100 feet. It was the most successful expedition eyer undertaken. The party was lifty-one days on snow and ice without sickness or acci- | dent.
 Lieut. Gov. Jeter, of California, has declined to interfere with the the sentence of the court in the case of Benjamin Hill. the wife mur- derer, and therefore the petition f,r communication of sentence is denied
 The body of 4. 4. Ranconn, a board of trade operator of Detroit, who disappeared Thursday, has been found on Belle Isle. Around the neck was a handkerchief knotted and twisted with a lead pencil until the victim was strangled to death.
 Eight men and woman left West Superior, Wis, last Friday in a small sail boat after berries along the south side of Lake Superior, intend ing to return Sunday. Nothing has been heard Of them. but the captain Of the steamer Gilbsrt reports pass 1 ing capsized sail boat few miles i out, and a searching party will go l out in search Of them.
 While giving SI,OO0 for the aid of | the striking coal miners, the loco- | motive firemen of Cleveland refuse 10 engage in a sympathetic strike
 Gen. Azcarraga, the new Spanish l premier, desires to continue the | policy of hls predecessor, Senor Canovas, as far as possible and does not apprehend any complications.
 Senator Quay has just won vic tory in Philadelphia by getting one of his lieutenants nominated for treasurer. Quay was turned down by his party in Philadelphia a few years ago.
 A proposition will be made to the national Grand Army encampment to ask congress to raise tho ironclad Monitor, which defeated the rebel Iam Merrimac during the war. The Monitor foundered of Cape Hat teras December 31, 1862 It is said that it will require the expenditure of $50O,0O to raise the vessel.
 Ex-United States Marshal W. K. Meade will leave for the Klondyke country in November. Mir. Meade is an old Alaska pioneer, having piloted the Spangenberg party into the interior in the early sos. Next to midsummer, he believes that mid winter, to one who knows how, is the best time to get into the country. His former successful trip was made in the winter season. There were no mosquitoes to speak Of, no slush and mud, nothing but cold, against which one may always fortify him self. The frozen rivers are admi- rable thoroughfares compared with the almost impossible trails.-Re- publican.
 The steamer Portland has arrived at Seattle from St. Michaels. She brought down less than $l,00OOO0 from the Klondyke country. Par ties returning sound strong note of warning against people attempt ing to go in there this winter. unless supplied with provisions, as they all agree there Is sure to be suffering.
 Captain NJ. G. Bolton, boOhkeeper for the Los Angeles Lighting Con- pany, committed suicide on Tues day. August 24, by shooting himself with revolver. w. R. Blackman, late cashier of the company, is under arrest, charged with embedding ten thousand dollars of the compzny's funds, and it is not known whether Bolton was connected with the affair or not. Bolton was a we'll known society man and polo player.
 It is stated that there are 5000 people at Skaguay, with but little hope of getting over the mountains towards Klondyke this winter.
 Ben Hill, the California wife mur- derer, who was to have been hanged at San Quentin today, has appealed his e So to the supreme court of the United States. Hill was at one time weNlthy but ruined himself with whiskey.
 Manager J. J. Lesson, of the New Mexico exhibit at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, writes from Nashville to the New Mexico Terri torial Bureau of Immigration, that he has been overwhelmed with calls for seed of the seven headed variety of wheat. of which New Mexico has a large display at the exposition, along with IF other varieties of nrain Anonrdinrr kn Mr nrn,n thia