Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-12-26
EDITORIAL NOTES.

EDITORIAL NOTES.
 John Leischman, of Pennsylvania, now minister to Switzerland, has been nominated minister to Turkey. Hewiil assist Lloyd Griscom, charge de af- fairs, in the collection of that S90,000 from the sultan.
 Gila county has paid out over S3OOO for scalp bounties this year. The tax payers are commencing to find fault with the law, which makes such a drain on their treasury.
 The San Francisco Chronicle says that W. A. Clark has just completed d purchase of S1,OO0,OOO worth of red wood timber land in Humbolt county, that state.
 Fl Paso, Texas, has gone into the midwinter carnival business and will hold one on January I7, Is and 19, 1901. In the announcement sent out it is stated: ''We are going to have one of the biggest times ever held in the metropolis city of the frontier. Merchants and citizens have sub scribed the necessary funds to meet the expenses of the 20th century event which will probably far surpass that of any former festivity that has ever been held in the southwest" The management advertises bull fights among the other attractions. They will be given just across the line in Mexico.
 American locomotive builders knocked out British competitors for the government railroad in India, by bidding about 20 per cent lower and offering to deliver in six months in stead of nine.
 Butter constitutes nearly one-half of the agricultural exports of Den mark, and there is no reason why it should not figure proportionately in the export of the U. S.
 Orders for 100000 tons of steel rails at S26 ton have been placed by the Vanderbilt railroads, which indi- cates belief in the continuance of prosperity.
 The London judge who sentenced a man convicted of bigamy to only three days imprisonment, because his last marriage was a civil one, must have an idea of making bigamy a ri val of divorce by making it cheaper.
 Governor-elect Dockery, of Mo-, wishes to succeed Senator Vest, but as the latter's health has greatly i'm proved he may change his mind about retiring in 1903, when his term will expire.
 Monsignor Seton, pastor of St. Jos eph's Roman Catholic church in Jer- sey City, surprised his parishoners at a recent mass by announcing that he is strongly opposed to all kinds of parties where the young people in dulge in kissing under the mistletoe on Christmas. He advised parents not to allow their children to attend Christmas parties.
 Not even England ever gave out contracts at one time for warships az gregating S5O,OOOOOO in cost. That is about what the six armored cruisers and five battleships, authorized by the last session of congress, the bids for which are now before the navy department, will cost.
 Democrats do not consider it incon- sistent to shout about extravagant appropriations and then quietly pull wires to get some creek in their dis tricts put into the river and harbor bill for an appropriation.
 Oom Paul is either extraordinarily pious or great hypocrite. He re buked the crowds which cheered him when he was returning to his hotel from church, in The Hague, for desc crating the Sabbath.
 Acting Secretary c. H. Akers has appointed Judge R. E. Sloan as a member of the code commission, vice c. W. Wright, deceased. A more worthy appointment could not have been made, as Judge Sloan, from long experience on the bench, as well as in the practice of law, is pre-emi- nently qualified for the position.
 If the inheritance of S23,OOO by an Albany business man, because of ''his uniform kindness and courtesy" to the testator, results in increasing kindness and courtesy in business it will be a good thing all around.
 Kansas is always on hand with a new idea. Her latest, fathered by F. D. Smith, a member of the legisla- ture which will meet January l, is for state commission to propagate ''jack hares." Well, it is better to raise hares than some other things that begin with an h.
 In discussing the Nicaragua canal the St. Petersburg Novoe Vrema says that Russia is not interested,fn the matter, but naturally sides with America.
 Statehood democrats are very anx- ious now to secure republican aid to obtain admission as a state, and say there is no politics in it. If they read he history of the admission of terri tories they will find that there is poi tics in it. They had an opportunity before election of demonstrating what they now assert, that there is no politics in it, but many of them failed to do so.
 Senator Thurston has bSen com Pelled to announce that there was no string attached to the statement of his intention to retire at the close of