Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-08-09
IL takes a car load of beer per day to quench the thirst of Phenix.

him one for a long time.
 The passengers injured by the wrecking of a Cleveland street car, with explosives, can hardly be eX- pected to take sides with the strik CTS.
 Would-be anti-B Bryan democratic presidential candidates are all sui fering from an attack of that tired feeling,
 The Hawaiian volcano is patri otic. It began to erupt on the morning of the Fourth of July and has kept up the celebration ever since.
 The school house at Needles, Cal ifornia, which was built in 1889 at a cost of S22,OOO, was struck by light ming recently and totally destroyed. The insurance is S70O0.
 The American Mica company, with q capital stock of S3.0O0l0O0 which will control the output of mica in the United States. has been incorporated under the laws of the New Jersey.
 It IS now reported by wire from New York that General Eagan ex- poets to be recalled from Honolulu by President Mckinley and again put at the head ot the commisssry department
 Phenix is becoming slow and weary in journalism As yet the press of that city has not electrified the nation by stating that Dewey was to take a run up Salt river on the Olympia.
 The worlds production of gold is steadily increasing. The product of the Witwatersrand district of South Africa for the month of June was valued at nearly S9,OO0,O0O. the larg- est in any single month since gold WAS discovered there.
 The government is trying to ob- tain 6 tract of land on the ocean beach south of San Francisco, on which to locate Notifications, the in- teution being to erect massive build ings and forts for the protection Of that part of the coast against pos sibIe invasion by hostile fleet.
 The Phenlx Gazette says that Prescott should get move on her self and prepare between this time and next June to welcome at the latter date about lOO0 Phenicians who wIll come there for the sum mer." Prescott IS now and has been able to accommodate l000 or more Phenicians whenever they desire to come.
 In Tecest issue ot our contemp- orary, in reply to the JOURNAL MINERS defense of Governor Mur- phy, the aforesaid contemporary worked otf its usual amount of bile against this paper speaking of "com- pulsory acts, free passes" and such other choice epithets and false as sertions as characterizes its efforts at arguing any question.
 Bill" Whitney will lose his repU- tation for shrewdness If he goes on many more such wild goose chases as his alleged visit to Admiral Dewey for the purpose of trying to persuade him 10 become a candidate for the democratic presidential nom- ination. Dewey's hOnors are too substantial for bim to be tempted to grasp at such an empty one as the democratic nomination will be, next year.
 Those who are professing so much astonishmenl because the admlnis- tration has declined to take any official notice of the round robin of the newspaper correspondents, at Manila, jump all over General Otis for his method of conducting the campaign against Aguinaldo and his censorship of what they sent to their papers should refer to a file of any of the big newspers during the civil war. They will find that President Mckinley is following the example of Lincoln, under similar circum- stances, leaving the correspondents and General Otis to settle their diff culties themselves. The round rob in's' charges against General Otis were mild compared with charges that were made time after time against Generals Grant, Sherman, l Sheridan. Butler. Burnsides aud others by newspaper correspondents The general who can conduct a campaign to please the war cores pondeuts has yet to be found.-Ex. ]