Arizona silver belt., 1900-04-05

been giving n scathing denuneiation of Mckinley through Paris news
 paper She has just returned from
 ;he United States. ~nu is talking vol
 ubly to Paris reporters. She charges
 Mckinley with having outraged the
 sentiments of the Irish in America by
 his pro- British policy against Boers.
 She tells France that this anti Boer
 attitude will prevent his reelection.
 Workings men in California are be-
 coming alarmed at the steadily in
 crtasing number of Japanese immi-
 grants l. is stated that since January
 l. 1899, no less than 3,42 laborers from
 Japan have arrived m California and
 the immigration bureau is informed that 100 II ore are due at San Fran ci-ro April :. According to the labor e. -@mlssioner of that state 1000 pass ports have been obtained in Japan for labortrs intending to come into this country.
 Pneumatic transit of mails is attract l ing increased attention in all the large American cities. and it is working well wherever it has been introduced ! One line is working well in Boston and two others are prop ,-ed to cost. respectively, S3j 000 and $30 GOO a year \ pneumltic tub- service for parcels will be constructed in Boston by company this spring, leading from the m ,in retail di-t"ict to the su- burbs. Ten.iuch tubiug will be used for the irce delivery,
 Fourtr'n thousand people have en- gagged passage from Pacific coast ports for Cape Nome, Alaska. on the first fleet of steamers, which sail about May l IL iS stated that fOrty-two steamers will leave for Nome from San Francisco, Puget Sound port, and Portland, practically at the same time. Many of these steamers will make two trips, and it Is estimated that upward of 20,00O people will leave Pacific coast ports for the new gold fields during the season.
 The incorporation at Trenton, N l., of the American Sheet Steel company completes. it is said. the 'sheet-steel trust" The incorporation fee was Sl0, 100. This fee and that of S32, 900. paid n day or two since by the Car negie company, make sum sufficient to pay the annual salaries ot the gov ernor, secre tary of state, state treas urer. state controller, clerk in chan cery, clerk of the supreme court and state librarian of New Jersey, leaving a balance, even then, of S400 in favor of public eXchequer.
 The question of extending the pncu- matic tube serve tD number of post offices throughout the country Was considered at special meeting of the house committee on postoflices on March 2s and an agreement was reached to insert SIPS, ,000 in the post office appropriation bill for the devel. opment and extension of this service. This is a considerable increase over previous appropriations. which have been sufficient only for experimental service in a few cities.
 The vacant public lands ofthe United States comprise about 9S0,337 square miles. or one third the total area of the United States exclusive of Alaska. Indian reservations, including Indian territory, comprise I.43 per cent of our area, and forest reservations los per cent. The state Of Texas. comprising S.S3 per cent of the area of the United States, owns all the public lands within its borders, so that there remains Va cant and open to settlement more than one third of the area of the United States, exclusive of Alaska, Texas and the islands.
 A shipment of s1 ,303, 080 for the pay ment of soldiers in the Philippines left the New York March 2S. There were $500, 900 in gold coin, packed in wooden boxes. each containing S20- GOO, the same sum in bills, packed in three iron safes, and the remainder, consisting of minor coin, packed in cartridge boxes. The money was hauled down Broad street under guard of eighteen soldiers. The de- tachment was cheered by brokers re- peatedly along the route. The two trucks containing the money were driven to the United States transport Sumner, which will leave for Manila this week.
 The personnel of the naval policy board is as follows; Admiral Dewey, president: Rear Admiral A. s. Crown inshield, of the navigation bureau: Captain Charles D. Sigsbee, chief in telligence officer; Captain Charles II. Stockton. president of the war college, and Captain Asa Walker assistant chief of the war college and the as- sistant chief intelligence officer. Captain Robley D. Evans. at present attached to the light house