Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-04-12
EDITORIAL NOTES.

parents of each Of the contracting
 parties were separated after raising
 their families to manhood ana
 womanhood.
 Up 10 date the Filipino warrior
 have been hampered by a deiectiv,
 few.-Gazette. The Filipino flew
 seems to have been the most perfec
 part of their campaign, and not |
 defect observable in 1t.
 Every departmental commander II
 Cuba. Porto Rico, and the Philip
 pines has been ordered to make de.
 tailed report 10 the war department
 of existing civic conditions. These
 reports will be valuable, because
 they will be authentic.
 J. Ham Lewis, the Washington
 ex-eongressman, says the lower
 classes in Cuba are disappointed and
 restless because the Americans have
 not allowed them to massacre the
 upper classes, and con6scat- their
 property; that anarchy and not good
 government, was what they wanted.
 Lord Salisbury has accepted the
 plan proposed by Germany for the
 settlement of the Samoan trouble
 by the appointment of tri-partite
 commission. The acceptance is on
 the broad principle only and the de-
 tails of the arrangement are yet to
 be agreed upon.
 The president has named the
 twelve new warships recently pro-
 vided by congress. as follows: Bat
 tleships, Pennsylvania, New Jersey
 aud Georgia; srmored cruisers, West
 Virginia, Nebraska, California; cruis- CTS, Denver, Des Moines, Chstta- noogs, Galveston, Tacoma, Cleve
 land.
 Our contemporary either wilfully makes a misstatement, or else dis plays gross ignorance in stating that Governor McCord was dePosed by any one. It is a well known fact that he resigned his position to raise a regiment of volunteers and old copies of the Courier will reveal a whole lot of insinustiOns against him in reference to it.
 As Governor Murphy has for years been one of the most ardent, 1 active and outspoken advocates of statehood in the territory, having recommended it in his reports to the . secretary of the interior, having ad- vocated it on the stump and through 1 the press there could not possibly be any reflection on him, or any intend ed, in any reference 10 secret or trescberous opposition to 1t.
 The TaIless Footing Howler evil deutly relies on its footing, "Tax- less" blacklist" and the American ignorance in Arizona" of its readers in trying to convince itself and its readers that thIs great Assfican union is not more prosperous under President Mckinley than 1t was dur ing the dark period of '93 to '96 under democratic president.
 The following from the San Fran cisco Examiner, good democratic authority, is respectfully referred 10 the calamity shriekers who affect to belieFe that the country IS going to { the demition bow VOWS, under Me [ Ktnley's administration: During S the past few months there has been ( an unprecedented increase in the volume Of exports and imports at ] San Francisco. The business of the { custom house has reached such that the present force of i is wholly inadequate, and c Collector Jackson has petitioned the q treasury department to at once sp- { point twenty additional customs in- a ,pectors. During the last month ! many vessels from foreign ports l were delayed in discharging their c cargoes because the custom house t had not sufficient men to perform ] he work required by the United V States import laws" r
 The present administration has made some remarkable improve nents in the mail service of the country. The experiments with rural F nal delivery have proven quite sue ,essiul and promises to eventually become a prominent feature of the a nail service of the United States. s \ new experiment. m this line IS be- >' ng tried in Maryland, which the u post office department IS watching ' with much interest. In addition to V simple delivery service the new nethod is designed to perform all of r. he functions of a travelling post m .fice. Daily trips are made along n hirty mile route. Mail IS collected ,. rom boxes placed at half-mile iu- II eryals while deliveries are made al tt q residences and in private boxes R laced al convenient points. Stamps CT re also sold. and in addition, the ra os. al wagon Is provided with facil- h, res for selling and cashing money M rders. II the new method proves a W, .tisfactory and practical adjunct to in le msil service. it will, DO doubt, be ia nitated elsewhere. hi The recorders office for March br lows the largest volume of business bs lat has been transacted there dur m .g Recorder Johnson's incumbency pr the office and .t is doubtful if the "N cords of the office will show as ol. .rge a business for sny other one ru onth. If the pace which has been ca | for the first few dsys of April is fe, ,pt up for the entire month, this SD,