Arizona silver belt., 1899-12-28

in his efforts to get through the line, and was unable to proceed or to turn the dispatch over to another courier.
 By vote of to 5 the Denver board of aldermen adopted a joint resolu- ton expressing sy"pathy for the Transvaal republic in its war with Great Britain and hope for tLe sue. cess of the Boer arms. The resolu-
 tion was supported by every demo- crat but one in the board.
 Se~ator James k. Jones, chairman
 of the national democratic committee,
 to be held at the Raliegh hotel, Wash
 ington city, on the 22d of February
 next. The purpose of the meeting is
 to fix time and place for holding the national democratic convention next | summer
 Up to noon of the 2lst instant the
 treasury approved applications from
 national banks for deposit of public l oohuo uuNti d iSccho ohSi eo pho amount of about Sl5,000,0O0. Up to
 that time no application had been con sidered from banks which do not own or control the bonds they propose to deposit as security.
 The Louisiana democratic state con yention has nominated Senator Esto- ! piDal for lieutenant governor, and John T. Michael for secretary of state.
 The resolutions adopted support the Chicago platform, denounce trusts, favor federal control of levees, build ing of.the lsthmiIn canal and deepen Ing the passes of the Mississippi river.
 Fl Pasu, Texas, is on the brink of a coal famine occasioned by the arbi. trary action of railroads in confiscat ing and approprIating to their own use coal ordered by and shipped to dealers in that city. The Times en. ters loud protest and says: "A rail- road has just as much right 10 con tiscate a merchants carload of cloth. ing as it has to appropriate coal dealer's coa.n
 Burdette O'Connor has commenced suit against the Anaconda Copper Mining company ana the Washoe Copper company at Butte, Mont, to enjo,n the defendants from trespaSs in the copper trust lode claim and to recover tine sum of S2,0O0, ,OO0, alleged to be due for 100000 tons of ore ex. tracted by means Of underground working from the Anaconda. St. Law renee and Never Sweat mines.
 A. J. Twoomey, president of the Pennsylvania Milling and Export com pany of New York, sent protest to Washington against the seizure by the British of flour sent to South Africa by his tirm. He received information by cable that the ship Beatrice, with cargo, had been seized in Delagoa bay and sentto East London, whi.e another ship, the Maria, had been sent to Port Natal.
 The department of agriculture will begin it's distribution Of seeds a little earlier this year than last year, ship. ping them south the beginning of January, and perhaps sending few shortly before that time. Thi4 year the seeds for distribution to all parts of the country will consist of 13,00O,- 900 packets of vegetable and l,5O0, GOO of flower seeds, besides field and lawn grass seeds.
 Carefully compiled statistics of the casualties of the British armies in South Africa for the first two months of the war, beginning October 15 and ending December l6, place the killed at I72, wounded 2,S40 and missing and prisoners ,. l65, a total of err. It is fair, probably, to assume that the Boer losses have been at least as great, so the cost this far has been from IA 900 to l5,000 men killed, wounded, missing or captured.
 A City of Mexico dispatch of De- cember 20 says: General Bernardo Reyes, governor of Nuevo Leon, whose name has been brought forward as a for She presidency by a local paper, is out in letter in which he denounces the effort to bring his name into publc notice in connection with the chief magistracy. There will be no other candidate put forward by the liberal party than that of General Diaz, who will be nominated by the national convention of that party in the early part of the coming year. Delegates are being chosen all over the republic and there are no other candidates
 The British are beginning to realize what it is to fight blueeyed people, However, their losses gre trifiing in comparison to the casualties during the American civil war. At Peters burg the First Maine heavy artillery lost 70 per cent of it's men in seven minutes. At Antietam the First Texas lost S2 per cent during the