Arizona silver belt., 1900-04-12
Brief Mention of Interesting Facts and Happenings
 of the Universe.
THEY OCCUR WEEKLY.
A Condensation of Telegraph and Cable Messages, Giving Prefer red Space to the News of
 Our Own Land.


 A Utah postmaster has been dis charged by the government because he is polygamist.
 Ey-President Grover Cleveland has come out in support of the Hay Paunceforte treaty
 Professor Frye reports that on March 130,000 pupils were enrolled in the public schools in Cuba.
 Millions of pr ,irie dogs are reported to be destroying range grass in the Smoky Hill river valley Kansas.
 The first Ildiln schools were e.tab- lished about twenty years ago. Today there are over 200 of these schools
 Three Prlssian army officers trav- eled in military balloon from Berlin to Prague, u distance of 800 miles in three hours.
 The Texas yellow fever quarantine is being rigidly enforced and Yellow Jack will receive setback from now on.
 The steamer Aloha sailed from Va,.- eOuver, B. O., on the 9th instant for Cape Nome with 324 passengers and a full cargo of freight.
 The latest accession to the process slon ofQueen Victoria $ grandchildren raises the number to thirty-ive. That's 2 record for any grandmother to be proud of
 Both political parties of Alaska will hold conventions in May. the republi- cans on May F and the democrats on May 2S, to name national convention delegates. All representatives will go specially instructed.
 .Admira, Dewev has leased a sum. mer nome near the Naval Conserva- tory. It will prove n frosty recluse for the admiral when the ides of No vember come with chilly blast and freeze the crysanthemum of his dream. Commencing April Is rural free de- livery will have authority to register mail. Also the third assistant post master general has announced list of 2j6 cities in which house-to-house reg istration by carrier system will be es- tablished on the same date.
 The Audit orium at Kansas Gsy, in which the democratic national con- vention was to have been held, burned to the ground on April A. The build ing was insured for s150,000. Plans are on foot to rebuild the hall in time for the convention.
 The French unanimously denounce Sipido's attempt on the life of the Prince of Wales as detestable crime, and declare that Englishmen must not hold ''Enrope's feeling of indignation against Great Britain's policy in South Africa responsible for the cowardly act of demented anarchist"
 An attempt was made to assassin ate the Prince of Wales at Brussels, Belgium, or the 4th instant. As the train was leaving the station man jumped on the footboard of the princs's car and fired at him. The would-be. assassin was arrested.
 A cablegram from Berlin says: Dur ing the March quarter 3l persons were convicted of lese majeste. The sen tences aggregated l76 months of inn prisonment. Prince Lynar, who mar ried an American and who was form erly attache to the German embassy at London. was sentenced to one years detention.
 President David Starr Jourdan of Stanford university is quoted as say ing that Governor Roosevelt told him: Mckinley has as much backbone as a toy chocolate man." Teddy indig- nantly denies the candy story, and does not believe his friend Jordan said it.
 Lord Curzon says the losfes to h. dia by drought this year are ES,O0O,- 900 to GlO, ,000,00 on the wheat crop, cotton crop G7,OOO,0O0, and the oil Seeu CTop usually SVNOAinS ~AOiov"' 900, is practically non-existent. ltis difficult for the mind to grasp the un- told misery and death from that means.
 The president congratulated repub' lican senators who called at the white house, upon the passage of the Porto Rican bill by the senate. Senator Col lom was among them. As he came out he said: "We did exactly right ir the light of all facts and have no hes itation in saying the people will so re gard our action."
 Admiral Dewey has sent his collec ton of trophies of the civil and Span ish wars to the Smithsonian institu tion, and they will be installed there as soon as place has been fitted uI to receive them. This includes all O the canes and swords which have beer given him, the sword recently voted him by congress, and the loving cuE