Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-11-29

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 Failing to be elected governor Golden Rule" Jones wants to go to congress.
 The Tennessee regiment has been mustered out at San Francisco, be- ing the last of the state volunteers 10 be mustered out.
 Admiral Dewey has deeded the Washington residence presented to him by popular subscription, to his wife.
 A returned soldier from the Phil ippines says that many American soldiers convicted of crime and dis honorably discharged have joined the Filipinos, being placed in com mand of troops.
 The sword turned into a plow- share receives an up-to-dste appli- cation in Or. Gatling, inventor of the death-dealing Gatling gun, who has just invented sn automobile blow.
 A resident of Atlanta has present ed to Admiral Dewey an autograph letter written to Admiral Fsrrsgut in which occurs the phrase: That young Dewey is a very promising chap
 Cardinal Morgan, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Sydney, Australia, seems to be an up-to date prelate. The angeias bell of his cathedral is now runs by electricity.
 A woman iu Linwood calls her big gray eat ''Oom Paul. Not on account of his whiskers, but be- cause he has scared the life cut of the English bull dog that was the terror of the block.
 General Funston looked out of the car window at a small town in western Kansas and saw a seething mass Of humanity st the depot to do him honor. Turning to his wife, he said: Two years ago lectured to an audience of seven in this town
 The heaviest rainfalls so far ob- served with scientific accuracy oc- cur in India. At Cherrapunji, in the Khasi hills, the mean annual precipitation is thirty-nine feet six inches; st Debuudja. thirty feet ten inches. and at Bihundi thirty-tour feet four inches.
 EX-COngressman Jerry Simpson, who has again taken to farming and stock raising, sold 250 head of cat tie tE- other day and as be pocketed the cash he remarked to a friend Nho accompanied him: That out does life iu Washington. think, don't youi
 The official returns Of the Trans vaal since the outbreak of the war, as given out by the Boers, show that 90 men have been killed and 2UO wounded, of whom a number have recovered and returned 10 he front.
 The next move of importance in the Philippines IS to be made by General Wheaton, who will go up the coast by transport 10 Vigan, at the month of the Aboa river. This will land hi- forces far 10 the north of where Aguinaldo is supposed to be. tn" intention being to cut of his r., relt to the north.
 Tho town of Adrian. Mich. is Over-Tun with cats, and the local council is seriously thinking of of- feriDg bOunties for the surplus Toms and Tabbies. At a recent meeting of the council the town clerk stated that a conservative esti- mate placed the number of cats within the borough limits at $500, or more than three times the human population, which is HOO. The residents engage in cat shooting bees twice a week, but the animals multiply more rapidly than they can be killed.
 Three Hanson, King and Holland-hsve each been sent enced to two months imprisonment and tO pay a fine of S65 and two thirds of the costs of the proceed Ings for placing over their sa- loon in the city of Havana, a sign reading: I've Cater to White People Only." Their place had beeu closed in January last by order of the civil governor, because they had refused to serve a colored Cuban general, but they had been allowed to open the saloon again on promising to serve the public with out distincti of color.
 The Examiner, of San Francisco quot-s General Funston as saving in an interview: Some of the rank est towards in the army were officers of the Twentieth Kansas regiment. And they were far from being non- commissioned officers, too. They left the firing line without permis- sion during the battle of San Fer nando and went to town. All ef- forts to get them back to their places were of no avail Had I not allowed sentiment to interfere with l my duty at the time I should have preferred charges against them for cOwaTdice. There were five of them, some of whom were staff officers, l and It is this same class of skulkers 1 that Is now making contemptible 1 and uuder-handed attacks upon | Colonel Mstcalf and myself.r