Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-06-06
THE PITH OF THE NEWS
Most Important Features Of the
Worlds Daily DOiHgs Boiled
Down for Busy Men.
II is Spiesd With Brief Comments Of MaT
and Their Actions, and Public Events.

ter. largely composed Of tls speeches
Of congressman.
The Tennessee state board Of health
has adopted resolutions declaring
tuberculosis a contagious AMI infec
rious disease
New York has formidable string
Of candidates for TIE vi, presidency
in the persons of Nlr>~rs SHlzer. Ne
Clellan. Coogan. Belu,ou- and Hearst
\ suicide WAS found in Georgia with
bullet hole in the back of his head
Remarkable. must have stood on his
head and shot al himself in rpe look
ing-glasS,
\ man has died IA ,re't,rl NIa~Sa
chusettS al The age or ~. leaving
ninety-nine descendants He was a
member Of the smith family and helps
10 explain itS dis.-uriInu-
Kansas farmers. according to re
ports. have in sight the greatest wheat
crop in its history exceeding that of
1892. when they harvested 100000
bushels Of wheat.
American trade with Hawaii since
1898 has increased from S11-50O.OO0 To
S3.5OO.OO0 a year which makes an
other handsome item TO be credited to
republican administration
An eastern society complains bitterly
of being short of funds. owing TO a
falling of in legacies- Come 10 think
of il. that seems TO be the trouble with
nearly all Of Us out this way. also,
In less than a decade Mexico has
doubled its revenues. doubled its ex-
ports. likewise its factories. and tciDled
its banking capital. and prosperity in
this rejuvenated republic is just as
pronounced as ever during the decade
4 total of over S4O.OOO.OOO will be the
aggregate exports and imports of the
Philippines this year When peaceful
conditions are fully restored the trade
of the group will 90 far beyond its
former figures
\ Nebraska democrat has mon
Strosity in the shape of fOur-leg-ed.
double-headed chicken. which he calls
fusion chicken" Most all fusions
have had the peculiarly of being mon
strosities-
HOllanders have petitioned that The
Star-Spangled Banner be adopted as
their national anthem Very natur-
ally \ peaceful and righteous queen.
peaceful and upright peopIe-wI:y
shouldn't they: Share it with Us and
welcome Wflhelmina,
The value Of TransvaaI mining M
ehinery is not far from $1,000 900.
Most of the machinery about SIC 0s'C,-
600 worth is on the Witwatersrand.
There is a young woman in Washing
ton society who sells her wardrobe as
soon as she finishes with il aud yves
all that Is obtained in this WY To- her
favOrite charity.
San Francisco parties are having
built at Seattle. Washington a raft Of
logs which. when completed. viii He
go feet long and contain I4-.00coo
feet Of lumber TO be lowed 70 Japan.
Some one has discovered That air Is
lubricant Perhaps this accounts Ior
the fact that prize fighters jaws never
wear out,
During the month cf May the minis
of the ,-nIte.l States coin, over S1t.
100000. and SS.252 O0a o. = WAS III
gold The printing minis referred
10 in Bryan's Sioux Falls plato III
will not be started up until Bryan Al
len. AItgeld. Towne Petrigrew and
Tillman take charge Of the govern
ment-
The capital invested in the United
States in manufacturing playing cards
is S5.OOOOOO and the annual output 30
100000 packs. Nine-tenths of these are
made by two concerns. which send
them to every country in the world
save France and Italy. where govern
mental monopoly controls their manu-
facture- -
The Rio Grande valley needs 4 half
dozen big beet sugar factories The
consumption of sugar in the United
States during the year 1899 embraced
roundIy 100000 tons of domestic sugar
100000 tons of imported beet sugar
and 5000 tons Of imported refined
Only 100000 out of a total Of over .
OOO.OOO tons consumed was of dones
tic origin. that i. roughly, about l.
per cent.
The fears Of the destruction Of the
gold mines in the TransvaaI are hap
PLY turning out 10 be baseIess- The
destruction could bring no benefit tc
anybody or any cause. while it would
bring disaster TO thousands of innocent
persons who hold stock in these prop
critics. but who had not the faintest
influence in bringing on the war Al
the present outlook mining will be re
sumed in two or three months and per
haps in 1901 the output of the Soutl
African gold fields will be as great
as it was in the year Immediately be
fore the conflict In any case the
worlds available gold stock Is going
to keep on increasing. for the mines
of the United States will yield more
in the present year than they con
tributed in any previous twelve
months
After duly caucussing on the subject
the democrats in congress have just
given out as their reason for not sup
porting the antitrust bill that it is sim
ply a trick of republicans. The fact
that the majority of those democratic
statesmen are not wanting antitrust
legislation so much as they want po
litical campaign thunder