Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23

Austin. Texas. hns 6rdered a quar- mites against San HfanciscO on ac count of the plague
 The street car strike epidemic has reached Berlin. About 5000 men have gone on a strike there
 The pneumatic tube proposition in the post office appropriation bill Ina been defeated in the senate.
 A rumOr comes from The Hague that the BOers are ready to sue for peace at any cost. Kruger and Steyn are said to be discouraged.
 The result of the investigation at the Havana post office is the suSpen- sion of Postmaster Thompson. who was installed in April of last year.
 Charles H. Allen. the new governor of Porto Rico was president of his
 lass at Amherst, and besides being one of the best students in the place was also the best billiard player.
 A Pietermaritzburg telegram of May 20 says that many fleeing BOers have gone to the Free State by way of Mil Ter pass; others have gone to Wal KeerstrOOm: but most of them. now ever have gone north as a disOrganized mob.
 New York republicans will have a second choice for vice-president in the event that Roosevelt declines. Frank $. Black. who was elected governor when Mckinley was elected president. is now being grOomed by his friends to enter the field.
 Englishmen at the Paris exposition on hearing the news of the relief of Mafeking. sang God Save the Queen. g A crowd of Frenchmen surrounded them and shouted "Vive le BOersr' A row immediately started and serious trouble threatened when the police in terfered and dispersed the crowd.
 Senator SpOOner has. according to the understanding in Washington. secured the honor of presenting President Me Kinley's name to the Philadelphia con vention. Among the prominent men who will make speeches secOnding the nomination will be Governor Roosevelt of New York.
 The largest smOkestacks which have ever been manufactured in the United States are now being built in St Louis They will be 70 feet in circumference at the base and gradually taper to 10 feet in circumference at the top. They will be 200 feet high, and will cost about S20,OOO apiece.
 Last month 2011 head of cattle were imported fOm Mexico through the port of NOgaleS and the sub port of Bisbee. as against 6SJ at Fl PasO and % at San Diego. California. The bulk of the cattle entered were steers. At San Diego 93JO sheep were admitted during the same period.
 While holding a wake over the SUD- posed corpse of Mrs. Hannah Carr. in Philadelphia. her husband and child Ten were informed that the remains were those of Mrs. Anna Butt. who had died in q hospital and sent to their home in mistake for Mrs Carr. who iS still alive in the same institu- tiOn.
 In Newton. Massachusetts. the other day. a mans $5 bill was blown out of his hand and he could find it nowhere A friend cut q piece of paper just the size of the bill and liberated it at the place where the man had lost his money. The paper blew down the street and around into an alley. and there the man found the 8 bill
 A number of wool growers have leased from the Union Pacific Land company nearly a million acres of land in Colorado. which will be used as winter range for sheep grazing. This is the largest transaction of the kind which has. been made in this cOun- try.
 A woman passenger who rode on one of the cars of the Nassau lectric rail road company of Brooklyn has been awarded S230O damages for injuries re- ceived by being sat upon by a very fat man. The fat man had been standing and lost his balance as the result of a sudden application of the brakes.
 ChicagO's health department officials are considering the advisability of re suming the use of sulphur as a disin- fectant and abandoning fOrmaldehyde. There is no doubt about the efficiency of the latter. but it is believed that it's use iS attended with danger on the part of those employing it.
 -AANNpuAl dDllltS llldL udNt DttH ktDl in cold storage since early last fall have been repacked and shipped in re frigeratOr cars in New York. There the fruit goes into the cold storage end of a steamer. It is supposed that cold storage will keep the apples until they are wanted at the Paris eXpOsi- tiOn.
 The aggregate salaries of the SSS1 officers of railroads in the United States amounts to the large sum of 2j.O64962. which is four times as much as the total salaries of civil off cers of the United States, states and territories in 1898. and considerably more than the appropriation by con gresS for the support of the army in 1897.
 The town trustees of Benton. Ken lucky. have granted license to a citi- zen to open a saloon on an agreement that he shall keep his doors open all the time. use no screens whatever. and that no one shall be allowed to treat" or ''set 'em up" in his place of business. Every man who takes a drink must pay for his own liquor.
 bTullSWlck, Mdllle, iONn or dDOuJ 1000 inhabitants, is probably the first in this country to under take forest planting on a large scale. The town owns a tract of about 1000 acres of what once was pine land At q recent meeting of the council S1O0 was appropriated to improve this land by planting it in white pine. Seed will he purchased and a nursery estab- lished to raise young trees. At the pro per age these will be transplanted in rows and set in the positions they will finally occupy.