Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-05-24
JIG. MARTIN. Editor and Proprietor

"Funston's Furious Fighters" line up alongside "Rooseyelts Rough Riders"
 FiDon't go into the past, neighbor, on men or anything else. The cheese knife might react.
 Since the legislature has ad- journed Phenix papers are selling each other out daily. We would suggest to Governor Murphy that he call an extra session and have an anti-cartoon law passed.
 Since a large proportion of sui cides are committed with carbolic acid, ike Illinois Homeopathic Med icsl association will use it's influence with druggists to stop its indiscrim- mate sale.
 Up to the present month the in- crease in the cost of the army and navy. covering the period of hostii- ites with Spain and in the Philip pines. including the payment to Spain, was S27O0OO,OOO.
 The fire loss of the United States and Canada for the month of April this year aggregates S9,2l3,OOO, an increase Of Sl, ,OO2,OOO over the same month in 1898, but a decrease of SI,62O,OOO from April, 1897.
 Four men were killed at Okolona, Miss, the other day, while eDdeavOr- ing to settle a misunderstanding over doctors bill, and the worst of it, from the doctors standpoint, Is that the bill is still unsettled.
 Tom Sharkey, who only a few years ago was 8 sailor in the United States navy and receiving about SIS a month, Is said to have made Sl35,- 600 out of prize fighting "business within four years.
 Thousands of Mexicans with their families have entered the United States from Mexico during the last few weeks. The object of the men iB removing to thls country IS to avoid being pressed into military service. 4 law soon to go into effect in Mexico makes military education in he standing army compulsory.
 Some of the Arizona newspapers a.. saying harsh things about the Press association because of the :: lomonville failure. The fact that tr~re were but two representatives @, that meeting is probably due to the fact that the rest of the fellows had no money with which to get there.
 Major General Henry W. Lawton, who is distinguishing himself in the Philippines, made a record as a fighter in the Indian country. His pursuit after Geronimo and his band of cut-throats in the Sierra Madres was a wonderful exhibition of energy and endurance. For three months he and his troop of the Fourth cavalry kept the hostiies on the move and fnsllyTan them down to Co surrender at Skeleton Canyon Arizona. Lawton's command ran out of rations and for a time lived on mule meat without salt or hard tack. This eventful campaign of 1886 IS historic in the annals of the war de- pertinent, It is widely known to all the bordermen of the west, where Lawton has been idolized in song and rhyme.
 The battleship Kentucky, recently launched, will have the handsomest silver service of any ship in the navy. Citizens of of the blue grass region have made a generous re- sponse to the appeal of the commit tee which has taken charge of the patier. and S6,OOO has been raised, all of which will be spent for the silver service, which is to weigh over goo ounces, or 225 pounds, and Is to
 nsist of seventy pieces, each of ex- quisite finish and workmanship. The punch bowl is ? inches in diameter, ard has a capacity of fourteen gal lous. IL Is decorated on one side wi,h a head of Boone, and on the other with the head of an Indian, both tipifying the early history of Kenturky.