Arizona silver belt., 1900-01-11
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Brief Mention of Interesting Facts
 and Happenings.

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 The Yaqui Indians are concentra'- ing their forces and threaten to attack Guaymas.
 Miss Margaret Long, daughter Of .ne secretary of the navy, is medica student at John Hopkins university.
 The boring of tunnel thoul h Chikoot pass has been began for a 37 mile electric road, to cost sI5o O00. It is expected that there will be a big rush to Alaska this year, aud especially to the Cape Nome districl.
 With two foreign wars in progress and coming political blttle at home, the American people will have ample entertainment the coming year.
 The city of Juarez stands seventh in the list ports of entry in Mexico, with a revenue for November of si47,- 593.s2.
 J. Hodge Tyler, the governor of Virginia, is the first farmer to fiji the gubernatorial chair of that state in forty years.
 w J. Millsap, st1cknln on route to Mexico to buy cattle. was robbed of SIP. 900 one day last week at Walser- burg. Colorado.
 Colonel John c. Moore has been selected to write history of the sei- vices of the confsderats army of tLe soldiers who went from Missouri.
 The total catch ofseals ny Canadian sealing vessels during the p,st season was 3j.3i4 as compared with tot. for the preceding year or 2S,552.
 Nothing shows he sweep of modern industry more distinctly than the fla, that the worlds production of he. sugar the past year was 5,51O,O0O tons.
 Mgr. Algernon Stanley, brother of Lord Stanley of Alderly and formerly an Hlglican clergyman, has been made a prothonotary apostolic by the pope.
 The common school fund of Texas owns in round numbers 2S.000. .0O0 acres of unsold lands. One-fourth of these are leased for grazing purposes at four cents an acre.
 The British government recently sent ship to New York to load and transport to South Africa 3,0OO.000 pounds of canned meats. Most of the goods were forwarded from Chicago. The Rev. Thomas Loxham, who for 47 years has been rector of church near Bolton, England, hls given s6n,- 900 to part of his parish for the erec- ton of church and school. Friends of General Joe Wheeler ex- pect him to return soon and resu me his seat in congress. He is dlsap- pointed because he has had no chance at the fighting in the Philippines.
 Julius B. Frederick, member of the Greedy expedition, is in lndianap- oils and has taken issue with almost every every point in Dr. Nansen's re- cent lectures and pronounced them false.
 There is rattling of dry bones in the national baseball league. several of the magnates having broken loose from the league, and announced their purpose to form an independent organ ization.
 Dom Paul demands Natal and an in demnity of one hundred million dol lars from Great Britain to stop slaugh- tering the British armies. The de- mand has almost knocked the breath out of John Bull.
 Last year there reached the dead- letter office G, ,S55, ,9S3 pieces. Included in this large number were 25,S2i let tsrs which were absolutely without an address, and of these 12,443 con tained money.
 Several earthquake shocks occurred in southern California on Christmas m rning. Six squaws were killed on the Saboba reservation in RiversiGe conunty, and there was much damage to property in the San Jacinto valley.
 Something like forty amendments to the constitution have already been offered at this session of congress. They relate chiefly to poly gamy, mar riage and divorce, trusta, and labor, but there are a number relating to other subjects, such as altering the