Arizona silver belt., 1900-07-05

the Yukon meal.
 Af,er Washington, all the early
 presidents of the republic had long
 lives, Adams reached the age of 90;
 j iferson. S3: Madison, Sj: Monroe, B;
 John Quincy Adams, SO; Andrew Jack
 son, 7S, and Martin Van Buren, 70.
 Wireless telegraphy has been tried
 in Honolulu and proved successful.
 Communication has not yet been ex-
 tended from one island to another,
 but the work of establishing stations
 is in progress, and it is expected that
 inter-island communication will be es-
 tablished within a month.
 After selection of the honest me.
 chanics of Kentucky had worked un-
 successfully for weeks to open the
 safe in the state treasurer's office they
 sent to the penitentiary for man
 who knew his business, and he swung the big door open in twenty minutes.
 The platform of the prohibition party includes a severe arraignment of President Me cKinley for his attitude, both personally and officially, toward the liquor question and the army can teen, and closes with an appeal for a | firmer stand of voters upon basis of moral citizenship as against all parties and factions which acquiesce in the | perpetuation of the liquor traffic. l The most expensive capitol building in the United States is the statehouse at Albany, \. Y., which cost S24, ,2i4,- l02 up to date, and is practically com pleted. The Philadelphia city hall, however, will exceed it in cost. when finished. The Penn Holder" as it is called, had cost up to Jan. l, 1900, the sum of S22 ,50l, ,556, and it is esti- mated that additional appropriations of S4,0O0,O00 will be needed to carry out the plans of construction and elaborate decoration. The national capitol at Washington has cost thus far about SIG, 1000, 900.
 Director Merriam of the census calls attention to the fact that the census law declares that an enumerator who communicates to any unauthorized person the information he gains in the performance of his duties is guilty of a misdemeanor and liable to fine of not ,,,pra tbop S,nl ThiS al h ,p haa,, included not only to prevent neigh borhood gossip about details collected by the enumerators, but also to insure some system about giving out the re suits of the various districts.
 The newest and most important underground electrical railroad, run ming from the Bank of England to the western suburbs beneath the central portion of London, was opened by the Prince of Wales on June 2 in the presence of distinguished gathering. The prince rode the whole length of the line under ground and greatly ad- mired the handsome American cars,' similar to those in use on the New York elevated rrilroads, and the elaborate elevator service, from the streets to the station platforms, eighty feet under the ground.
 It is not quite seventy years since ] there was no school house in the limits of Chicago. The first school house | was built by woman, at her own eX- pense, in 1881. Ten years later there were four district schools, with four | teachers. each receiving s400 a year. For the last school year the total ap- propriauons were over S7,000, 900. | There are 250 public school houses, with 5000 teachers and over 255,000 | pupils, including eight high schools, with $500 pupils. There are three universities, one of which has an en- dowment of s4, 900, 900 and another of Sl1, 100000. Nearly all the leading de- nominations have theological semi number of technical and special schools.
 Associated Press correspondence of recent date, from Manila. says: The theory that the Filipinos outside of the Tagalog provinces were friendly to American rule has been deeply shaken by recent events. All of the northeastern coast beyond Dagupan is in a state of war and there are ire quent fights with heavy losses to the Filipinos. All of the southern prov inces inhabited by the Visayans are also turbulent, and in the Camarines, Nueya Carceres and Albay provinces the Americans control only the ground within the picket lines of the garrisons in the coast towns, whie these gar risons are the objects of frequent att tacks from large lnsurgent forces. With the exception of Negroes, which, being the wealthiest island of the Phil ippines, is the most friendly to Ameri- can rule, the Visayan islands show similar conditions. Panay is overrun by the insurgents outside of the Amer ican garrisons.