Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-10-05
NEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS.


 " The Queen of Denmark died Sep tember 29.
 Manzanillo will be evacuated on g October :. The battle ships Oregon and Iowa i sailed today for Manila
 The army of occupation will 20 , tO Cuba not later than October 9. General Shafter is down with
 fever again at Camp Wikoh.
 General Merritt psised Port Said, | Egypt, September 2s, en route to
 Paris.
 7 Eastern railroads are discussing the question of doing away with commissions entirely in the sale of tickets.
 Col. John Hay askumsd the du- ties of his office as secretary of state today.
 President Mckinley will como no farther west than Omaha ca his ! proposed trip. ] The Spanish and American peace ! commissioners breakfasted together ! September 29. i The mayor ol DeadWood, South Dakota has asked for troops to help fight forest fires. The fifteenth infantry which wa stationed in Arizona during the var has been ordered to Cubs. Sir John Moore, partner of Moore brothers, tea merchants, has been elected Lord Mayor of London.
 The total number of deaths st Chickamauga has been AZ volun- teers and one regular. It is positively asserted that the Chinese emperor is dead, but for state reasons the fact is being kept quiet.
 The overdue transport e4stor, from Manila, has sr Ted lI San Francisco. She eneC ed | ty- Phoon, causing the delay
 The French people Ill shos their sympsthies for Spa. y treat iug the American peace commis- sioners with coolness.
 The latest charge against Score tsry Alger Is that he was . benef- ciary in a s3,O00000 swindle. Like others, it IS probably untrue.
 \ hot wave is visiting Kansas. Reports state that the heat is 60 intense that the rails of railroad tracks are warped, making it dan gerous to run passenger trains.
 Admiral Dewey's viegs on the Philippine question have been placed before the navy department. He positively favors the holding of the island of LuZon, and thinks the entire Philippines should be ours.
 Arkansas pOpulists in the of year of 1891 cast 24.041 votes. Their total this year is S-3l0. The missing bal lots are not found in the democratic aggregate of 1898. They seem not to have been cast at all. The returns show that the fusion of 1896 is at an end.
 President Mckinley has decided to establish in Hawaii, Manila and Havana, the same form of local gov eTnment that prevails in the District of Columbia, viz: Three commis- siOuers--One a republican. one . democrat, and the third high array C&Geer.
 SGSgeon General Wyman, of the marine Hospital service reports that there have been 317 eases of yellow fever, and 25 deaths were reported Go the department from the states of Mississippi and Louisiara. The infection has not made its appear ance outside of these states.
 The Indians are charged with having started the forest fires in Colorado which are doing such aa immense amount of damage. Live stock Is being burned up in the krs while thousands of acres of forssts are being consumed. The timber losses cannot be estimated As the forests cover the headwaters of the mountain streams where snows are retained for many months. From such source streams have been kspt carrying a volume of water sufficient to irrigate most of the lands of the state west of the divide. With the of timber the flow of the streams will be lessened.