Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-04
"Ir- combat deepens" in regard to the water question.

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 will be taken by Russia.
 Pheaix is agitsting the question of fiesta for the purpose ot attract ] ing winter visitors. To make a sue eess of such sn affair, would require Al S1JO.
 ' ant1st for the sheEi6s office l Of aa,icopa county has closed. The official count gave D. L. Murray majority of g. The recount in- creased his majority to p
 The only logical outcome of the only real argument yet put forward by the aaii-eXpansionIsts would be for us to abolish our government and ask Great Britain to take us back as colonies.
 If he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew is a public beneisctor, what title is it. ting for him who makes kind feel ings take the place of bitterness in the breasts of thousands of his fei- loE-citizensi
 Mir. Bryan is frank enough to ad- init that the sentiment of the coan- try is now overwhelmingly for eI- psnsion. If his party platform de- clares against it, he will learn in 1900 that the sentiment is the same. 1 If tslegrsms are true Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, has all kinds of money. He has been reported to have made loan of several millions st different times from nearly every nation in Europe, the latest being from his own countrymen in Spain.
 Joe Letters t5.OO0,OO0 experience in wheat seems to have simply whet ted his appetite for big deals. He is now at the head of 6 xl0,00O,00O milk trust aud is also working on a scheme to introduce compressed air motors which is calculated to do away with horses, largely.
 If the democrats in congress, who admit hat we are bound to have VI ,re soldiers; clAmor for the imme- date ischarge of the volunteers, and oppose the bill for the increase of the regular army, could see them selyes ss the country sees ll sm they won .. once accept the Darwinisn he All monkeys don't have to nave s.
 American girls, according to Dean Smith of Barnard college, are grow jug taller with startlIng raPidity. BJgn Nawr has kept statistics Tor 2 ] years, and the figures indicate an in- cress., ID the height of students of 1 two or three inches. The average ae;gr' of girl of 's5 was five feet tha .ches. and ot 'sS five feet four
 ., The students st Vassar are 5e, to be taller than in any pre- vic .L
 Judge Days brilliant success at the head of the peace commission, where he had for opponents some Of ths most skillful 5ir' -...s a. Tarar ss rA.se5 the term ~aaaa-. try 'awyv~. which wss sallsilz- sppi.ad 1o -A.z.. sba7 he s.s- catered p pa1fs Htg, Co oae ot -Aa highest honor. lt bas a.so shown tLa, PEssi- don't Mckinley bas the kssck of gs- . c1Eu izIng extEao11aasEy ability when 1 he comes ia contact with it.
 A recent letter from Washington says that quite autter of excite> ment was raised when CUmmisssry General c. P. Eagan stated in effect in his testimony before the war in vestigation commission, that Gen. ] Miles had no sense. lt was in con- nection with the complaints because of the bad beef furnished the sol diers during the Porto Rico cam paign that the incident occurred. Gen. Eagan said that be had pur- chased first class beef, bat that after it was on the ships. to be carried to Porto Rico, Gen. Miles telegraphed him that be could get all the beef needed on the island, and added: 'No one with any sense could hes itste to favor refrigerated beef as against native Porto Rico beef"
 The sale of the Hull mines, ad- joining Jerome, 10 6 wealthy eastern syndicate, and the operation of the Jerome Copper company on rather extensive scale, means the building up in few years of the largest mic irg camp in the southwestIat or near .'a pr ant site of the town of s,-an- Should the litigation over t.- Copper Chief and other mines
 wned b: G. H. Schuermal, John Duke and others be fettleG means he cPaning up of their properties ilso. ''ining experts have expressed ae on that this group of mines ,..ll tu,l out even greater than the I famous United Verde property. | Should this proye correct, the oper- ation at these mines slone would | cause he building of 6 grester town ] than Fe-0me. l