Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-12-13

country votes for Mir. Bryan next
 year. For every republican anti who
 votes for Mir. Bryan. there will be
 from four 10 tsR, democrats who will
 vote for President Mckinley, on &C.,
 count of his foreign and financial
 policies.
 4 certificate of election was on
 Saturday issued to William $. Fay
 Tor, whose plurality was a little less
 than 4000. Goebel still talks con-
 test but his talk ;n this direction is
 growing more and more faint. Mir
 Goebel knows better than any one
 that the frauds peFpetrated in that
 state were committed by democrats
 in his interest and then he failed to
 make a showing of plurality.
 General Gomez shot off his mouth
 in Havana the other day, saying that
 the Cubans had fought for inde- pendeuce before and would fight
 again if necessary-this time they
 would sweep the island. If those
 Cubans go to fooling with the
 United States, they will sweep the
 land" into the United States. But
 sside from the threats of the
 Cuban fire eaters, it does seem ss
 though it is about time that the is-
 land wss turned over to them and
 let them make the best of 1t. 4 telegram from Hong Kong says
 that Aguinsldo is willing to sur
 render, provided he is permitted to
 do SO in his oNn way. He wants to
 turn himself over to Consul Williams
 at Manila. Of course if the United
 States would furnish a brass band
 or two to play an accompaniment,
 the performance would no doubt be
 to his liking. The telegram in ques-
 tion adds that the Filipino iunta ss
 Hong Kong was in communication
 with Aguinaldo last wsek and ad-
 vised him then to throw himself on
 the mercy of the United States.
 The JOURsAL- MINER has hereto fore called attention to the freight
 b,ocksdes on many of the rall-
 roads of the United States and
 the necessity of increased switch
 capacity at many points. One of
 the roads which has been "sui-
 ferer" from this evidence of pros perity is the Erie. Officials of the
 road wrote to one of their superin- tendents asking: "How can we avoid the constantly increasing freight blockadesi' The superin- tsbdent's terse answer was right 10 1 the point: "Vote the democratic . ticket"
 Governor Murphy has commuted . the sentence of death of Eugenio Msta to life imprisonment. Msts shot and killed a girl named Wall in Apache county. The act seemed to be deliberate one with murderous intent. Mats claims the shooting was accidental, as be says he did not know the gun was loaded. The hanging of few fools of this kind, where the result is the taking of a human life, would not be amiss, as it might be warning to others, but of course in law the intent to con- init murder is absent.
 Our contemporary this morning , the right of Governor Murphy to defend the reputation ( and good name of the territory by { rebukiDg a sheriff for his very indis- , erect manner of issuing invitations l to hanging. Of course the usual l amount of Journal-Murphy is sand I wiched into the screed and we may s now expect the rest of the expres- sions about American ignorance in mileage statesman" etc. The disappointing feature of this issue was that they did not appear, and that only one and B half columns were devoted to the subject, the JOURNAL MINERS men ton of Saturday being usually pro iuctive of three columns.
 Santa Cruz, California, issued V s360,0O0 in bonds to improve its 3 water works. The work was com pleted and the town got value re i seived for the amount, but there was 2 'cme technical irregularity in the . ssue of the bonds, some conditions . ,f city ordinance not complied V with. The town saw its opportunity = or repudlation, failed to pay in- q crest on the bonds and suit was brought to recover it. The United g States circuit court has just decided ' he bonds invalid, and the town gets a, ts SS60,0OO worth of Improvements c or nothing. 4 telegram from Santa a }ruz tells of the glee manifested " here over the success in repudiation V l the following words: There is ir rest rejoicing here over the victory b -on by the city iu the refunding p ond cases in the United States ircuit court of appeals, which gave .JI verdict in favor of the city. The b mount of bonds involved is S360,- a DO. and SlO,OOO interest" bi A great many citizens of the f, nited States are wondering why b. 1mestic rates of postage are not 10 Iade applicable to the Hawaiian 3' P lands. It has been over a year m nee these islands became a part of ot le United States, and while Post pii aster General Smith has formally Pi aclared all mail matter passing be- ;p veen the United States and Porto of leo, the archipelago, and Guam, or Er etween these island possessions of