Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-02-09

act of the Arizona legislature authorizing the erection Of a capitol building.
 Frederick Emory, chief of the Bureau of Foreign Commerce, De pertinent of State. Las been tem porarily designated as director of the Bureau of American Republics, vice J. P. Smith deceased.
 The Teller resolution to make government bonds payable in silver was defeated in the house by a vote of Is2 to 132.
 Los Angeles journalism is cer- tainly in a prosperous condition. Every paper in the city but one has a libel suit on its hands.
 Phenix proposes to pave some of her principal streets and thereby incidentally pave the way to a sum mer of progressive activity.
 At Great Falls, Montana, the other day, dashing school marm Of 26 married full blooded Piegan h. dian. And still the country is full of eligible bachelors.
 Financially South Carolina's dis pensary system, whereby liquors are soli by state agents, has proven a failure. The state is now short ! SlO0.OO0 on account of it.
 The Paris teacher who proposes to restore the art of blushlng should come west.S kIts successful operation op some of the sterner sex who claim they want home rule for Ari- zona would hand the blush discov- erer down to fame.
 The democrats and populists who are constantly declaring that Will fam Jennings Bryan Is a Jackson man, are taking advantage of the respected dead If Jackson were alive the assault would be vigorously resented.
 Senator White, of California, oc- cupied the attention of the senate yesterday in a speech against tho annexation of Hawaii. Mr. Whites opposition practically is in the in- terest of California's beet sugar in dustry.
 The Hawaiian annexation treaty is gaining in favor in the senate and the foreign relations committee are confident that they now have sixty votes or the necessary two thirds to carry it through. Friends of the treaty are working to secure an early vote on the measure. Arizona may have an occasional touch of few degrees below zero during the winter, but We have no snowy hurricanes that destroy life, wreck telegraph and telephone lines and leave our cities in darkness as IS now the case with the city of Boston. The storm which swept the Atlantic coast Tuesday is the worst known in twenty-five years.
 Experiments with the growing of sugar beets and tobacco around Pheuix prove conclusively that these two industries can be made emi- nently successful in that section. All tests so far have been very satis- factory, and the near future will see considerable activity in this line of agriculture.
 Actual results are the only true basis upon which to draw con- cluSions relative to public matters. The cry that a protective tariff would ruin our trade abroad is dis proven by the official figures for 1897, which show that American ex- ports reached the enormous total Of ! SI,099I29,5l9. or an increase of S93.2OO,OOO over 1896. The actual excess of exports over imports fer the same year amounted to S35G, 49S, ,664.
 Because the Phenix Republican opposes the B. O'Neili-M Smith idea Of home rule, our contemporary deYotes considerable space this morning to its customary abuse of i Governor McCord. This is fine Democratic logic-meet argument with personal abuse of the man ad- vancing il aud include in the abuse all of the friends of the man as we'll That may be convincing to some people. but 1t would seem u grow tiresome to intelligent people. The newspapers announce another revolution ID Costa Rica. Col. F. | c. Hatch who Is a; present ID Phe- nix. and who has resided in Costa Rica for the past year or more states these revolutions exist only ' in the newspapers. He was in that country during the last alleged one and states that if he had not re- ceived papers from the outside he would never have known of it, as the existence of it was not mani fested there. Col. Hatch is engaged in railroad construction there and expects to return soon to that country.
 The bill introduced in the New York legislature for the abolition of the tramp nuisance by the adoP- tion of the wo,k cure provides for an appropriation of S1OO,O0O by New York City to establish aninstitution to be known as the Farm Colony fer yaerants. 4 board of five managers to be appointed by the mayor, is provided for. to establish and man age the colony, which s to be located in any county in the state. Tho santenca shall ba an Inleter-