Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-02-15
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The anti-mobile truck company expect to have their horseless omni- buses in operation in Los Angeles within a very short time,
 The duties of the committee ou mines and mining, of the legisla- ture, have become SO arduoHs that 8 clerk has been assigned to it.
 The recent cold wave extended oyer to California Almond trees were in bloom and 1t is thought that the crop has been destroyed.
 The latest revised estimates of the Filipino loss is 25O0 killed, over 5000 wounded and several thousand prisoners. The American loss was 6 killed and 275 wounded
 A telegram from Colorado says that Leadville had seveuty-One con secutIve days of snow storm. The winter is described as being the worst in twenty-five years.
 The war Investigating cou mittee has concluded its labors and sub mitte1 its report. It finds that Miles complaint about the beef was unfounded and censures him for his action in the matter.
 The bill reducing the rate of in- terest on territorial warrants from ten per cent to seven per cent per year has become a law. The owners of warrants will pay the difference ip all probability in the extra dis count ou the warrants.
 When Senators Stewart aud Clark hear of the sweating of blood and the smashing of parliamentary rules that was done to get those congrat- ulations to them, they will scarcely appreciate them.
 The staxless toots" of tax eIemp- ton railroads owned, operated or managed by a democrat or demo crats, do not have such a harsh sound to certain ears As those which are not managed by democrats, hence one never hears mention of them.
 Councilman Goldwater has intro duced bill providing for the semi annual payment of taxes. While we have not seen copy of this Psrtie- ular bill, the principle embodied in it is an excellent one and We have no doubt but the bill is all right, too.
 The most amusing sarcasm, m connection with Miles and his meat charges, is the talk of Miles friends that he looked after his men, any way, simply because he libeled otic- CTS who took part in the war.
 
 Out of the thirteen officers quoted by General Miles as complaining of the bad beef in Porto Rico the com mission found that not a single one of them was in Porto Rico. Thir- tesa proved an unlucky number Tor Miles on this occasion.
 A bill was introduced in the Cal ifornia legislature permitting the killing of editors under conditions for defaming the character of public men. It has been modified now 60 that the editor can retract and save his life, at the discretion of his vic tim.
 General Miles is just commencing to realize that he has permitted his jaw to wag a few times too often ID regard to the Cuban campaign, and he hastens 10 compliment the Amer - ican troops at Manila for their valor.
 After gettting thrashed twice Agunaldo sent 6 messenger to Gen. Otis to inquire if he did not have some proposition to make to cease hostilities. HTell hIm I have no message for him. was General Otis brief answer,
 Washington dispatches hint that General Miles may be relieved of the command of the army, and Gem eral Merritt placed in command. When Miles rose above a colonelcy he got into deep water and has been foundering around ever since with a job too big for him.
 There were forty-eight trials for lese majeste in Germany in January, and sentences totalling seventeen years in prison were inflicted. A socialist paper calculates that 26OO years of Imprisonment have been pronounced in the German courts for lese msjeste during the past ten years.
 Wake island, little lonely, iso- lated. needle point of land, way out in midoceau between the Hawaiian islands and the bsdrones, IS de- clsred by an eminent authority not at all suited for 8 landing place where a transpsei6e cable may maintain 8 necessary station. He is sprobably afraid that the continued tension of the cable might pull the island up by its roots.
 A democratic politician, who is also an experienced legislative lob byist. and who has had more or less to do with the last three or four territorial legislatures, has just re- turned from 8 visit Co PheniX. Dur ing his visit he sized up the situa- tion there and gave 1t as his very decided opinion that there are several good sized legislative sacks in Phe nix. but the "durn" fool legislators