Arizona silver belt., 1899-11-16


 deaths from wounds in our armies since the outbreak of the war with Spain. The war department figures show that 197 officers and 2.164 men were wounded, and that but 10 officers add 192 men subsequently, died of their wounds
 It is reported that within the next month all the stoneware factories east of the Mississippi river will be conSol- idated under the name of the Ma tional Stoncware company. The plan is to incorporate a company under the laws of New Jersey, with q capital stock of Sl ,OG0,000. The headquarters will probably be Akron, Ohio.
 New York authorities on the sub iect declare that about 30 per cent more gold and silver will be used in the arts and manufactures this year than in any previous year. The mint report for 1898 says that Sll,S70,000 in gold and Sll, POI GOO in silver were used in 1897 by jewellers, manufactur- CTS, artisans and dentists.
 There is at present, and will be for some time to come, opportunity to enlist in the army of the United States with prospect of service in the Philippines, Cuba or Porto Rico. The present force of recruiting officers, numbering 100 or more, is to be re- lieyed and 42 officers are to be detailed from as many regiments now in ser vice, who will establish 42 recruiting stations, at which all eniistments will be made.
 The official figures in the report of the bureau of statistics, treasury de- partment of the United States. show that there were imported last year into this country i,539, ,O5G, 75O grains of quinine, CT about twenty grains to each inhabitant. More than l25,O00,- 600 were consumed by the United States soldiers during the last year, and it is stated that the people of this country consume one-third Uf the quinine of the world
 By the arrangement recently made between the governmental the United States, Germany and Great Britain the United States becomes possessed of all the islands of the Samoan group which lie east of the Hist meridian oi longitude. These islands comprise Tutnila, where is situated the harbol of Pago Page, and further east Manua GlooSinga, OfOo and Rose islands Outside of Tunila in this group there is no harbOr, and but one anchorage situated on the northwest side oi Manua.
 Army officers at Washington are in. clined to believe that an American graduate of West Point and an eX. officer of the regular army, J. Y. Fill. more Blake, is responsible for the BOer strategy which has had such SC. rious results for the British on the borders of the TranSyaal. It is known that Blake, who was q lieutenant in the cavalry after his graduation from West Point, and who resigned and left the country after quarrel with his wife. is now an officer in the service of the Transyaal, and officers who knew him think they can see the signs of his work in the movements of the Boer army. Blake is an Ar kansas man, and is described as hay ing unual ability, combined with a restless, adventurous and ambitious spirit.
 The exclusive right to transmit messages in thls country by wireless telegraphy is claimed by Prof. A. k. Dolbear, a well-knOwn inventor and member of the faculty of Tufts col lege. and his associates incorporated as the United States Wireless Tele- graph company. Moreover, this mo- nopoly is claimed by virtue of So- called broad-gauge patent, which, it is asserted, covers every possible method of communicating to distances beyond the sound of the voice, in which connecting wires are not used. The packers of Sig. MarcOni were threatened with a lawsuit in case he should report the recent yacht races by means of his system of wireless telegraphy, it being claimed that, SC far as the United States was con cerned, the foreign inventors system was an infringement upon the DOlbeal patent. Be this as it may, the fact remains that Sig. Marconi did mol proceed with his exhibition until ht had obtained permission to do so iron the owners of the American patent.
 Rev. Robert McKinnon, the "soldiel priest, who returned from the Philip pines last August, has great deal tC say in General Otis favor, but wh! | shouldn't he, since he held very goO( position under Otis, as superintendent of the public schools in Manila, whicl he says he established on the American basis. To the great majority of Amer jeans nnnuCo1 to h9yinp thp uubli,