Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-12-20
EDITORIAL NOTES.

General Leonard Wood has been assigned as military commanded Of Cuba and governor of the island.
 Brooklyn papers are booming Lieutenant Governor Woodruff Tor the vice presidency next year on the republican ticket.
 IL is fortunate for Mir. Roberts that the gentlemen after him do not have three wives apiece to urge them on.
 The Hon. Bill Goebel Is nos giv- ing the country an excellent il- lustration of a man caught in his own (election-law) trap.
 Delegate Wilson has introduced his bill for the admission of Arizoaa as a state. Just hold your breatb, now, until it is passed by congress
 Now that Colonel Hare is fore, mos, in the hunt after Aguiuaido, be ought to be able ts catch up to him, If there is any virtue in 6 name.
 The sugar crop for ls99IeoO, 1t is estimated, will amount 10 about s.OO0.Gc0 tons, of which the UHgtsd States will consume enc fourth.
 We wish the Manila censor would let us know what was done with Mrs. Aguinaldo's wardrobe. Not necessarily for publication but merely as an evidence of good faith
 If there is anything ih the con tention Of the democrats that an administration cannot produce good or bad times, what excuse have they to offer Tor the eandi6acy of Mir. Bryant
 The friends of Mir. Macrum, re- cent consul at Pretoria, says that the gentleman IS coming home To stop the war between the BOers and British.
 Mabini, said to be the head and front of the Philippine insuuection, has been captured. AguiHaldO has been only a fgure-head manipulated by Mabini.
 Secretary Gage has decided 10 an- ticipste the January interest on the United States bonds outstanding. The interest amounts to S5,5 1000 and payment was commenced today, December l5.
 Governor Poynter, of Nebraska, has appointed ex-Senator Allen to fill the senatorial vacancy caused by the death of Senator-elect Hay ward. Senator Quay can probably give MF. Allen ''poyuter' on the subject of gubernatorial appoint ments of senators.
 Senator Pettigrew introduced a resolution in the senate the other day intended to give comfort 10 the Filipinos. It asked for information as to whether the flag of the Philip pine republic had ever been saluted by the American forces in the Phil ippines. 1t was promptly tabled by
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 Former Senator Edmunds will ap- pear before the en committee to argue against the seating of NIT. Quay. When he does so, Senator Chandler will ask him some inter estiug questions about the case oi former Senator Blair of New Hamp- shire, when Mr. Edmunds took dia- metrieallY different ground.
 In Europe the habits of those m authority, in connection with the use of stimuiants, are subjected to the closest scrutiny. So fierce has popular criticism become that today abstemiousness constitutes the pre- dominant tone at every one of the royal aud imperial cour.s of the old world.
 For the first time in many years New York city is an active compet- itor for the national political con ventions. The business men of that city seem to realize that no city can grow so big that 1t will not be bene- fitted by advertising; a fact long since realized by those who manage the worlds largest business institu- tions-
 Roberts is in good company. Achilles wasted years with the daughters of King Lycomedes; Hercules wss the slave of Omphale; Psrseous passed some years m s Ikea daliiance; Ulysses yielded a ike to Gree, Oaisicaa and Calypso; aud Jason was more or less embaT- assed by his vsrious attachments.
 Austin. Texas, sends out a report b. telegraph of a fight between the Mexican troops and Yaqui Indians which lasted a day and a night. The Mexican troops are said to have numbered 1000. The singular part Of the news is that it should travel so many miles over mountains and resch Austin before 1t could be learned in the nearby towns.
 If proof were needed to demon strate at this late date ths kindly heart which beats Tn the presidents breast, the recent decision to aP-| point the son of the brave Captain . GridIey, who died shortly after the . victory at Manila, where he was Dewey's flag officer, 10 l;euJeuapcy in the marines, would be sufficient His mothers neej aud his fathers . courage, as well as this youths merit, won for him a P.1re such as many another m.ght well covet.