Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-07-26

nounceS the death at Dobbs Ferry Of Robert c. Ingersoll.
 General Miles refused to be inter viewed recently in Cincinnati. The general has learned that be who bridleth his own tongue IS greater than the commander of an army.
 Recruiting for the ten additional regiments for service in the Philip pines is progressing satisfactorily. Over two regiments have already beea enlisted.
 Correspondents iu Manila of yell low journals, recently sent a com munication to the war department asking that the press censorship st Manila be removed that they may be allowed full liberty to send in all the pessemistic stud they might de sire.
 FlagstaTs telephone company has just installed an electric fire alarm for the use of the town. It is given in exchange for a license charged the company for its tele- phone business, costing the city nothing.
 The board of supervisors of Co conino county are at loggeTheAds with their legal adviser, District At torney James Loy. It seems they do not rePose implicit confidence in Mir. Loy's legal advice and secured the advice of Attorney F. s. Clark on a certain matter and now Mir. Loy has instituted proceedings to restrair them from paying MT. Clark.
 The man who never takes a hint until brick wall falls on him was discovered in Phenix few days ago. The falling brick wall hint, buried him completely and he was dug out more dead than alive. The owner of the building and the city author ities will be the ones who will take the hint in this case as they will be called on for damages for permitting such a dead fall to remain in posi- ton to jeopsrdlzs human life.
 Since the United States senate has now a clean republican majority, 1t will probably be in order next winter to have a slight reorganization of its employees and officers. During the last six years of Demo-pop control of that end of the capitol, things have been manipulated and switched around from time to time until now there is only one republican official connected with the entire body.
 Mayor Harrison has declined to deliver an address of welcome to the guests of Mir. Al.geld's democratic love feast. He gives his political enemy, Anarchist Altgeld, a direct slap in the face by saying: "I can not but think 1t would be an ab- surdity to welcome these distin- guished men under the auspices of self-constituted committee whose personnel is too obscure to be known even in their home city"
 The organization effected by the youag attorneys of Prescott can be made to be one of great benefit to them. Its object is for their mutual improvement and for maintaining the standing and dignity of their high and honorable calling. lt IS their purpose to secure the services of older and more experienced member of the bar to deliver lee lures occasionally to them on special subjects. The JoURSAL-MNER con graduates the young attorneys on their enterprise.
 Lady Curzon, formerly Miss Letter of Chicago, wife of the viceroy of India, has . very severe attack of swell head, according to advices from the Orient. She has adopted a code of etiquette which comPels all the ladies to rise when she does at a social gathering and they have to remain standing until she re- sumes her seat or retires. She would have resided a long time in Chicago before sbe could have enforced such silly obedience to false etiquette.
 "It is sad that there Is just now incubating among the Arizona re- publicans a plan to send An anti Mckinley delegation to the next re- publican national convention Will the Star please mention the particular make of incubator" be ing used. It is a foregone cOuclu- sion that 1t will never batch such a delegation as the re-nomination of President Mckinley IS foregone conclusion, and Arizona does not have any fool" republicans who would be willing to go on record against his nomination.
 Our esteemed contemporary, the Phenix Herald, throws the following very beautiful boquet atitself: "The Herald fills a long felt want m Pres colt. As this IS an evening paper and arrives in Prescott early ID the morning following publication, and contains the latest Associated Press dispatches 1t is becoming very pop uIar." The time was when such a notice as the above would have con tained some truth. Since its tele- graph page has come to be padded out with second hand telegrams, three or four days old its popularity is on the wane. The retrogade of the Herald during the past month has been a subject of common com unent. Besides its second news it ar rives here a day late from two to three days in the week. it
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