Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-06-15


 & raise his regiment, and has sent an
 other hurry up" telegram to Secre- tarY Alger.
 Our people haven't the slightest
 objection to to the winning of Span ish victories on paper, so long as
 our boys come out on top in all the T. real fighting.
 Our navy seems to be fighting sverything in sight-Spanish war
 ships. forts. artillery, infantry and
 cavalry. So far, it has made suc- '' cess of annihilating or scattering everything it has tackled.
 Events of the past few days are a
 sufficient refutation of he charge
 that our naval command are ham pered by orders from the strategy
 board They have task to perform and are given the fullest liberty as to the manner in which they shall accomplish it.
 An Austrian colonel of artillery was killed at the Santiago engage
 ment on Monday. It is stated that
 he excited the admiration of the
 Americans by his bravery. It was
 a case where his valor got the better
 of his judgment, else he would have
 been athOme.
 Miss Evangeline Cisneros, whose
 romantic escape from a Spanish
 prison in Havana several months
 ago Is recalled, has married, in Bal
 timore, Charles F. Carbonel who
 assisted in her rescue.
 With the wreck of the Maine staring them in the face, in Havana harbor, one would think the mention of Spanish honor would bring a blush of shame to the cheek of a Spaniard. It certainly would 10 any one possessed of honor.
 Whenever our navy fails to sink fleet every day, or fails to lombard a fort, the cry is immediately raised by a few "know-it-alls" that it is restrained by the strategy board.
 Admiral Cervera has now had an opportunity to discover that ! the bravery he so much admired in ia Lieut.. Hobson is not exceptional in either branch of our service.
 Lieut.. Carranza, who was an at tache of the Spanish legation at Washington. and who has been in Canada since the war opened, may exchange condolence with Senor de Lone; he also has written one letter too many.
 Those critics who find fault with the delay in the shipment of troops, until proper protection from the navy is secured, woul1 be the grea. est howlers in the country, against the administration, if the govern ment were to lose transport load oi soldiers through lack of proper naval escorts.
 The governor of Virginia did the right thing when be decided to turn the negro troops over to the Federal | gorernu snt with their own officers. This wa in marked contrast to the action of those governor who ap- pointed white officers for the negro troops. Suppose some g. ernor had .ppointed negro officers to command ! white troops; what a howl would have gone up
 Hon. Rich~rd W. Thompson, of Fudizna, ex-secretdTy of the ns~y,r-l celebrated his eighty-ninth birthday at his home in Terre Haute, on Thursday. June g. It is claimed that Uncle Dick Thompson has written more state and national platforms then any other living man. He served in Congress in the early forties. |
 The Spaniards did not capture he New York Inurnal,S t-s-.ss- -hs--t, .he Buceaneer, as reported some l .ime since, but it is reported that a ( United States corporal and three !. soldiers were placed in charge of , Ter st Key West a few days since The cores poudents on the vessel Ire suspected of having obtained gov 'rnment plans and documents, and intended to sail for some port where hey could send the matter by wire
 Kentucky bas long be en noted' mong other things, for its hand F ome women and fine horses. It is lso noted for its fine fighters. Dur l ng the civil war, it was said, Ken lucky keeps her quota full on both ides." She has kept up her reputa- V ion in this line during the present -ar. as she has filled her quota un O CT both calls and has another regi- T, lent or two of men who are anxious ) take part.
 Opposition to Hawaiian anuexa- " on, at the present time, seems III W 1Eised. While there Is au appar- 1t majority in Congress which al vors it. there is a minority there 2. hich has successfully adopted tac- cs to prevent it. The country i, Iv st as solidly behind the efforts of Mckinley to get action pm Congress for the annexation of .s avail as it is behind his efforts to nip Spain, and if Congress fails to Ca t. It will endorse the seizure of awaii as a military necessity. H Lieutenant Hobsou aud the six neTican sesmen who assisted him 0h sink the collier Merrlmac iu the Ar annel st the entrance of Santiago -bor, have earned cou picuous Tn