Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-18

out being smothered, with kisses.
 "The mistakes l made in 9S, " would just about it truthful lec- ture by Col. Bryan on his experiences last year.
 The committe on foreign relations has reported favorably on the peace treaty. There was no opposition to it in the committee.
 Carter Harrison knocked Altgeld out in the contest for the control of the Chicago democracy. or the two men Harrison is much the superior of Anarchist Altgeld.
 The president has appointed the following as ambassadors: To Eng land, Joseph Choate, of New York; to Russia, c. Tower, of Pennsylvania; to Austria Hungary, Addison Char rIE, of Indiana
 General Egan plucked the plum age out Of General Miles seif7con- ceit in great shape in his testimony before the investigating committee. He injected some pr-tty strong em- balming fluid into the statements of shs self-conceited Miles, hich will keep them fresh in his memory
 France has now a law by which marriage may be dissolved without cost to the applicants. The Paris divorce court devotes Thursdays to gratuitous decrees. On one day r-- gently 294 couples were divorced during a session of fur hours, au average of more than one divorce minute. This beats Chicago or North Dakota.
 The JOURNAL MINER was the first paper in the territory tO suggest Hon. Morris Goldwater for presl- dent of the council. It is gratifying to learn that the prospects are good for his election without opposition, except that the republican members may cast a complimentary vote for J.H. Carpenter of Yuma
 "I firmly resolve that if go into the newspaper business during the year will speak respectfully of the president of the United States and the governor of any state. even though they may differ from me in politics. will not publish anything that I know to be untrue. "-Ex-Gov. Woodbury of Vermont.
 Judge Dosn has done a very sensi- ble thing in connection with the naturalization of citizens, in doing away with the use of interpreters The fact that interpreters were ever used, in the process of making an American citizen of man, seems ID itself almost incredible though, but such seems to be a fact. Judge Doan will not admit anyone to citizenship who cannot speak and understand the English language.
 A proposition will shortly be sub mitted to congress to take the Pan ana canal and finish its construe- ton. The proposition might be good one If offered at the actual value of the work done, and not on the basis of money spent. or the millions of dollars "blown in' on this enterprise, about three four. .hs was stolen. the work on the canal representing only about twenty-five per cent of the total amount spent
 The Rock Island railroad com pany has put a passenger train on its line between Omaha and Chicago which is scheduled to make the run in eleven hours and forty minutes the distance being 503 miles, making the average run per hour, including all stops and slowing down m pas- sing through towns Of i3 miles pei hour. To order to make this time it is necessary to make speed of 6 miles per hour over a portion oi The road.
 The language used by General Eean in reference to General Miles uttered in Europe by one army officer against another, would mean A duel, one uf those harmless, ID offensive things whereby personal honor is vindicsted. The two gen erals would retiIe to some lonely spot and after few jsbs st each other with swords. in which one oi them might be scratched, the thing would be settled. It may mean ln tbi, case q court martial.
 According to a telegram from Helena, Montana, W. A. Clark i' making an active canvass to get elected United States senator from Montana. A state senator turned thirty bills of the denomination oI SIOO0 each over to a bribery invest ieatinR committee, alleging that he had been given this amount of money for the vote of himself aud two other seustors. This transaction shows that Legislative votes come pretty hlgh up in Montana. On the hrst ballot Clark received one vote m the senate and three in the house, a very insignificant showing. The afore- said S3OOOO was deposited in the .,sts treasury subject to the action of the legislature.
 Had Judge Dosn's recent h7ldlng tbst no man unable to speak Eng fish be admitted to citizenship been applied to New Mexico before the recent election. it is very doubtful if that territory would have gone re publiean.-Ceurier. How about New Me1ieo two years ago, when 1t elect ed Ferguson, democrat, delegate by -----k ol,,s,r, rnaiorrfvF Dnes