Arizona silver belt., 1899-11-09

IL may not always succeed in the ac- complishment of it's purpose,
 The new town of Billings, recently i opened in Oklahoma, has set an ln- usual precedent by drawing a strin- gent color line. The self-conStituted leaders have declared that not a single negro shall live in Billings. Saloons banks and hotels employed colored porters, but were notified that their places of business would be boycotted if they persisted in employing negroes. The whites have given the negroes three days within which to get out of the town.
 General Nelson A. Miles arrived at Omaha OF the 2ith, where he was warmly received. From Oma he will be will be accompanied by Colonel William r. Cody on hunting eXpedi- ton. Colonel Cody has had a 60-mile telephone line constructed from the hunting fields to the railroad line, that the general may keep in touch with the outer world General Miles is making a western tour of inspection and will visit Arizona before his re- turn east
 A dispatch from Juneau, Alaska says that, at AlaSka'S first territorial convention resolutions were adopted expressing the uncompromisiug oppO- sition of the convention to the sur render to Great Britain in any matter of any territory acquired by the | United States from Russia, and call ing upon President Mckinley to re- sist all efforts of any foreign power to the dismemberment of Alaska.
 Louisiana young men are Hooking to New Orleans and seeking positions on the British transport Montczuma as mule feeders. The vessel is loading 2,O00 mules for South Africa. A. w, Davis, of one of the most prominent families of New Iberia, will sail on the Montezuma. He goes for the eX- perience. Scores of others are apply ing for these jobs. The work is rough, and the men are only allowed sl5, with the round trip passage and board.
 Librarian Putnam is putting the library of congress abreast of the times. Strangily enough, it has heretofore been impossible to consult in one place in Washington the leading newspapeS and periodicals of the world, and many of them are not to be found there at all. Now one of the largest halls of the new library building is tC be equipped as newspaper and peri odical room, and it will be conducted on the lines laid down in BOston'S public library, which has the best ia cilitieS of this character to be found anywhere.
 The arrangements for the marriage of Mrs. w. B. Hazen and Admiral Dewey are yet incomplete, says a Washington, D. C., press dispatch, The date of the wedding has not yet been set. As to the wedding cer. emOny, it would seem that a high dig. nitary of the Catholic church will be selected to ofliciate-either Cardinal Gibbons or Archbishop Keane, former rector of the Catholic university. Mrs. Hazen, who was raised a Presby- terian, afterward attended St. Johns Episcopal church, and some six or seven years ago became convert to the Roman Catholic faith.
 The troopShip Hancock, which came oil the dry dock at San Francisco on the 1st inst, is said to be the finest vessel of its kind in the world. An additional deck has been built the entire length of the vessel, and an isolated hospital with fifty beds and accommodation for nurses has been fitted up between decks. A refriger ating plant has been added with 8 daily capacity of fifty tons of ice, pro ducing 600 gallons of water and fur niShing ample cold storage. The sol diers quarters are supplied with all the comforts that could be desired.
 The naval test of the MarcOni wire, less telegraphy was not success, as il was shown to be possible for any in strument located within the circum scribed radius of transmission to de strOy the effectiveness of other lnStru ments at any time. While the bat tleship Massachusetts, for instance was telegraphing to the New York the operator at Nayisink sent a mes , sage at the same time, and the result , on the receiving side of New York'' , set was mass of unreadable char acters, caused by the two series o , electrical impulses reaching the in l strument at the same time.
 : The steamer Humboldt arrived il | Seattle on the lst instant from Ska quay with forty returning Klondyk CTS, who left Dawson City October 13 rpbnty x,yilI b1U I,n tho IaCf tn ar