Arizona silver belt., 1899-11-09
General News Items.

some Of his most intimate friends the 1 fact of his engagement to Mrs. w. E. Hazen, of Washington, D. c. Mrs. Hazen Is the widow of General Hazen, formerly chief signal officer of the army, who died about ten years ago, and is sister of John k. Mclean, the democratic candidate for governor of Ohio. Mrs. Hazen has no children, and since her husbands $ death has made her home with her mother. She is a woman of large means, about 10 years old, and popular in the best society circles of Washington. The date for the wedding has not been fixed
 F General Fred Funston has instructed his attorneys to institute libel pro ceedings at once against Archbishop Ireland of St Paul because of state mentS attributed to the archbishop wherein he is credited with having accused General Funston of having footed Catholic churches in the Philip pines. The charges alleged to have been referred to by the archbishop were made by the editor of the Mon itor, soon after the landing of the Kansas troops in san Francisco, when the paper stated that the general had taken two magnificent chaliceS from a Catholic church in the Philippines and had sent them home to his wife. Both criminal and civil proceedings will be instituted against the editor of the Monitor, whose place of business is san Francisco.
 Tine TrauSyaal war will at least have the credit of being the first campaign in which bicycles has been employed by regular troops, says the London Telegraph, and from the frequency with which they are mentioned in the telegrams, it is very evident that the riders are doing good service. This fact, coupled with the order of Sir RedverS Butler that departmental officers at bases might have the op- tion of using their cycles instead of horses, and receive an allowance in lieu of ratons, leads one to hope that the military authorities are at length beginning to perceive the practical value of the bicycle in warfare. For years they have sighted and Snubbed it, strangely enough in face of the de- clared opinions in its favor of Lord Wolseley and other distinguished officers. And it has been left to the volunteers tn do what little has been done to show the military efficiency of the bicycle. Year after year, in the mancuyors cyclists have proved them selves of very great service tO the reg imentS to which they have been at taChed; in spite, too, of the fact that they have in many cases been placed under the command of officers of the regulars who had only the most ele- mentary idea of the capacities and linn itatiOns of bicycles. Yet it is only within comparatively recent time that the authorities have recognized the cycle as practicable vehicle for mil itary purposes.
 In view of the Northern Pacific railroad bringing suit against large number of settlers in the vicinity of Fergus Falls, Minn., the clerk of the district court wrote the interior de partment to find out if there was any possibility of the government defend ing its patents in the courts. The re ply indicates that government pat ent is by no means warranty deed, The acting secretary writes as follows You ask ll) if there is any danger of settlers losing their land, and t2 if the government will not sustain what loss and expense such settlers may be caused on account of said oiiNc III JUDY gou diO th'ioNu oiid' your first question is one for the courts and not for this department tc answer. AS to your second question, you are advised that the government has no interst whatever in these con. troversies, patents having issued for the lands, and it would be utterly i'm. possible for the government to defend the title conveyed by it in every in. stance where it is attacked. The title conveyed by the government is not warranted and the patentee gets nc better title than the government itself may have at the time it patents the land.
 First Lieutenant Willis Uline of the Twelfth regular infantry, arrived in San Francisco last week on the trans port Tartar as passenger from Ma nila. He is on sick leave and is has tening to his old home in Indiana, from whence he was appointed to West Point in 1886. He is the officer whom the Manila papers published for dead and who the dispatches de- clared was probably mortally wounded. A Mauser bullet passed clear through his head. It entered the middle of tine hack of his neck and came ont