Arizona silver belt., 1899-12-14

cabinet, and public opinion approves the presidents course.
 Contracts have recently been exc cuted for exhuming the remains of the dead of the battleship Maine, buried at Havana. The remains will be re- inferred in the national cemetery at Washington.
 The largest city in the world is Lon don, which has population equaling the combined population of Paris, Berlin. St. Petersburg and Rome. Its streets placed in row would reach around the world, leaving bit over long enough to reach from San Fran cisco to London.
 The United States revenue launch service, established at Port Townsend, Wash.. four years ago to prevent smuggling from British Columbia into the United States, will be discon- tinued.
 In short time the United States
 
 will have for use on the Pacific its own stanch and especially constructed transports, the Grant, sherman, Sher- idan, Thomas, Meade and Logan. Several of the transports hired have been anything but satisfactory.
 The Chinese Six Companies of San Francisco have decided to donate S4,OOO to the state board of trade in their desire to bring about closer busi- ness relations between China and the United States. This is the first time in the history of San Francisco that such action has been taken by the Chinese.
 Y The German imperial chancellor, Prince Hohenlohe, announced in the reichstag last Thursday that the fed eral government had assented to the repeal of the law prohibiting work mems associations. The reichstag passed the first and second reading of the bill repeating this law. It was op- posed by the right.
 It has been many years since so much public land has been sold in the Rocky mountain region as the gen eral land office reports disposed of in the past fiscal year. New Mexico and Arizona have each made a fine record. Prosperity among the stockmen made them ready to buy and fence lands heretofore they could not purchase, and farming has become more profit able.
 The western classification commit tee, representing the freight depart ments of eighty western roads, met | in Milwaukee on the 9th instant for the purpose, it is said, of advancing the classification of Q number of com modities, principal of which are gro ceries and hardware. Representative business men from many cities of the west were present and argued against advances on less than carload rates.
 The Emilio Nnuez Patriotic Club of Havana, composed of Spaniards and Cubans, has issued manifesto to the Cuban people which says that Cubans are unnecessarily anxious with regard to the intentions of the United States government; that the facts do not war rant their suspicious; that heretofore the Americans have kept strictly to the terms of the joint resolution of congress, and that recent declarations of Secretary Root bid fair to fulfill the desires of Cubans, who are now to be thoroughly united
 It is estimated that there will be re- auired for the taking of the census 50. 900 enumerators, aver 2,500 clerks, and over 1000 special agents. The entire office force now numbers 1S2, mostly women, employed as skilled laborers. The report concludes with a financial statement, showing that out of an appropriation of S1, 900 but Sl03, I46.SS has been expended and there is a balance in the treasury of sS05, ,S53l2.
 A corrier has arrived at Ortiz, Mex, from the scene of the Yaqui war with dispatches from General Torres for the war department. He reports that fighting between the Yaqui Indians and General Torres troops ceased on November 2S, the Indians retreating toward Tonichi Several hundred Yaquis who have been in strongly fortified position near Sahuaripa, it is thought are preparing to join the main body of the braves driven back by General Torres. Signal fires indi- cated that concentrated movement by the Indians was being planned. The Yaqui losses during the ten days engagement is estimated at POO; the Mexican losses fifteen killed and thirty wounded.
 At Maysville, Ky, on the 9th in stant Dick Coleman, the negro mur- derer of Mrs. John Lashbrook, was l = cp a~.,. I,r n ,S~nh 0c