Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-12-05

ular army was accentuated by the fact that, owing to a hostile move ment of the Apache Indians, near the Mexican border, there were for time only nine soldiers at San Carlos. Ari- zona. to look after a reservation upon which were 3O0o Indians, known to be restless.
 Our export trade requires 20 per cent of the worlds sea going tonnage, and there Is no reason we should not own the most of the ships. It is to | give Us an equal chance to do so that the shipping bill will be pushed at this session of congress.
 Gertrude AK, of Oakland. has sued her husband, John AK, for di- vorce. She says he used to fly off the hand le and call her cutting names. The judge has the case under advise ment, and the chances are that AK will get it in the neck Los Angeles Times.
 Lydia E, Pinkham is dead. His thousand friends will be interested to hear that he was a man of mature years, in view of the fact that he posedfor so long as an image of com fOrting womanhoood in the advertis- ing columns of our daily press.
 The agricultural department is hard at work spreading harmful epidemics among insects. Pretty soon the farmer who is troubled by any parti- cular pest will have only to apply to the department to get a package of germs with instructions for applying them.
 Secretary Ackers has canvassed the official vote of all the counties of the territory except Pinal. The official canvass of the returns received and the unofficial returns from Pinal county gives Mark Smith a majority of 997.
 Prof. Thomas R. Bacon, of the Uni versity of California, in an address in San Francisco, at the Yale alumni banquet, closed with the following. evidently aimed at the Ross incident of the Stanford university, although 1t was not mentioned:
 "The general public has miscon- ception of academic freedom. A col lege professor certainly has not carte blanche to speak and teach everything he may happen to believe. I think you will agree with me that there is a limit to freedom of speech" Prof. Bacon went on to say that the uni versity has a governing board which had a right to take cognizance of what the professors were teaching. Simply because d professor honestly believed a certain thing was true, was no req son why he should be allowed to spread that particular idea, There are many considerations. moral and otherwise. to guide the governing board of university, if for any req son it saw fit to ask a professor to re- frain from this or that thing. "There Is much transformation floating around" the professor went on to say. "Thirty-siX hours ago I was a misin- formed man. Let us suspend judg- ment. It is always best to withhold final judgment until all the facts on any proposition are clearly known"
 Ii is natural that Minister Conger. after experiencing that terrible siege at Peking, should believe in more drastic measures toward China, than officials at Washington. BIr. Conger would be something more than hu- man. not to have that experience in fuence his feelings toward the barba- rian hosts.
 The United States battleship Ken lucky, dropping anchor in the harbor of Smyrua on the day before Thanks giving, was enough to arouse the ire of the Turks, who are evidently aware that Turkey is the natural prey of Uncle Sam on Thanksgiving.
 Democrats are already figuring on what will happen should a serious di- vision, among republicans, occur in congress. IL is useless waste of en- ergy, as nothing of the kind will oc- cur.
 It was significantly suggestive and approximately appropriate that Je rome should find that petrifed man in Deception gulch. A telegram says that it was found in lime formation and it has the appearance of lime rock. The corpus delicti was an un- accommodating stiff" to turn into lime stone, when in that highly min eralized section he might just as well turned into a statue of copper.
 The champion liar of the United States has just gone insane at an Arizona asylum, and will probably die. in this event the mantle will be cast about the shoulders of the illus trious and notorious Jim Creelman. of New York Journal luridism.-L. 4. Times.
 THE DANGER VERY REMOTE.
 One of those patent" Washington