Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-12-20

stated that Andrew Carnegie's donations to public libraries throughout the country now amount to over S3.O0o000
 The refusal ef the democratic state commitiee oi Utah b endofse Roberts disposed of bis claim that the opposition to him was political.
 Back ia Kansas, the home of the p5pulist and the nes woman. school superintendent. has forbid den his teachers to wear golf skirts Perhaps be thinks they are aB iH- vention oi the money devil.
 Andrew Carnegie aud his maE- ager, II. C. Prick, have had a lai.i5g out aud the latter w1ll retire ss manager Of tLs Carnage Steel Company. Mr Friek waated to join tho trust, bat MF. Caraegis oP- posed ii. Mr Frick also wanted 10 hold portion oi their product f0f advanced pr.oes, bat Mfr Garnsgis coutend=d that immediate Fetnfus we're better than prospective profits Mr. Fuck siiil holis a controlling interest in the Prick Coke Company, the largest coke eompssy Do the United States.
 4 Jerome justice of the peace has decided that a saloon is a sa-Fed place, and that tb- o-capsnts oi .t may fght. eat aud sRssr sad fsiso all the paad-mouium they wish, 4 aO officer has a right t1 inteTieFe eI- cept oh Invitation oi the proprietor oi the place. F1vy may bs shoot ing each other down while the -b0ss" i- sb-eut Ia ted, but before an officer eau enter aud stop 1t th@ proprietor must De hunted up and consulted. Justice courts are great educational institutions, when in the hands of the right parties.
 An important step ID electric lighting IS made known to the state department in q report from United States Consul General Mason at Berlin. He states that a young German professor, after a long course of experiments, has managed 10 find q substitute for the carbon iilament used in the ordinary bulb light, in the shape of a rod compOs- od of rare iniusible earthy oxides similar in composition 10 those used ID making msntles Tor incsu- descent gas lights. This rod has the advantage of requiring less than 20 per cent of the current demanded by the carbon flament. and besides it affords a perfect light, free from the faults of all other artificial lights and of great value in pho tography.
 John D. Rockefeller, Jr., son of the coal oil magnate, took a notion recently 10 take a turn at stocks After conferring with his papa 1t was decided that the young man should be put under the tutorship Of James K. Keene. Now 1t so happened that the young man selected leather for his manipulation, and it also hap pened that his tutor, unknown 10 the young man. however, had moldy leather to sell. The deal was start ed and leather went up like a rocket, Mr. Rockefeiler, Jr, buy ing all that was offered. It sud denly came down with a crash, leay- ing the ambitious young man S5,- OO1000 wiser and his father with that much less cash.
 A Washington paper of recent date contains a lengthy editorial, dilating ou the troubles the admin Istration IS having over anticipating Aguinaldo's surrender. The paper says that the administration would prefer Aguinsldo's escape Co his surrender. It is dollars to dough- nuts that the article in question is pure imagination of the mind of the writer, and that the adminIstra- ton IS giving itself no concern whatever as to the disposition of the willy Az should he be captured. If it really Is, the advice to ''hever cross a river uutil you reach 1t" would be very appropriate
 A Washington telegram says that Representative Bailey oi Texas IS ready to protest against General Joe Wheeler's admission to congress should he return from Manila and present himself t) assume his pos,- tion as representative from Ala bama. Mir. Bailey will contend that MT. Wheeler cannot hold two posi- tions-major-general Of voiuuteers and member of cougress-at the same time. MT. Bailey. 1t IS d. legged. las maia 8 canvass of the democratic side and received promises of support from nearly one hundred members. General Wheeler. 1t would seem from this, is to be turned down by ms own party.