Arizona silver belt., 1900-05-17

| obd T loTtISH goNtriHithts anu puI cpases for electrical purposes are heavy. so that we may expect copper to remain firm for long time,
 The Paris exposition appears to have been losing money heavily since ! it's doors opened, the number of pay ing entries not producing more than an average of f.20,000 day, which is a mere drop in the ocean of general expenditure. This is only the natural and inevitable result of unprepared- 1 ness.
 w, C. Sharp, superintendent of the Pleasant Valley Coal company, made d report to the treasurer of the com | pany in regard to the mine disaster at | Scotield in which he says: Total 1 killed, 199; bodies recovered to date, l95; injured, :. Of those in the mine | l03 escaped alive and uninjured. i There are l05 widows and 20 or | phans
 ! President Powell of the Order of Railway Photographers has issued an order formally discontinuing the strike of the Southern railway telegraphers. | He says Tt is to be regretted that some of the purposes for which the strike was inaugurated are not entire ly successful" The boy cott on the southern will be continued by the order.
 A Washington dispatch of May II says: It IS learned from diplomatic sources that the negotiations between the United States and Denmark for the purchase of the Danish islands have been entirely broken off. This action was taken, 1t is understood, by the Danish government because of the unwillingness of the conservative party there to sell the islands to this country.
 The United States is now the worlds greatest producer and exporter of meat, which form one of the most important features of our export trade In 1887 Jhe total eXportation of pro visions and live animals was S102.- 774, ,9l0. and in 1899 their total was S20T, l05, ,627, having thus doubled meantime, and forming in 1899 17.2 per cent of the total exports of that year.
 There is a student at the Carlisle In- dian school whose father was leader in the ba tie of the Little Big Horn, where General Custer and his entire command were killed Some authori- ties tell that 277 men fell in that awful massacre and none lived to tell the tale. The opposing Indian force is set down at about 200. This student says his father informed him that there were no less than 5000 Indians in the battle.
 "The republican national convention will likely be in session the better part of three days" said Chairman Joseph II. Manley of the subcommittee. hay ing the arrangements in charge, at the Fifth Avenue hotel to a New York Journal representative. Originally it had been hoped that there might be a one-day convention. But there is much more to do than has been antici- pated. For instance, more contests have developed than we thought. The national committee will meet at Philadelphia a few days prior to the convention to listen to arguments on the contests"
 Another extension of the time al- lowed by treaty of the water boun- Mexico was arranged on May 9. ex tending the time limit one year from December 20 last The work of mark. ing the boundary is progressing rapid ly, but owing to questions encountered relative to sovereignty over lands which have been transferred from one bank of the cratic Rio Grande to the other, it has not been possible to com plete the work as soon as was eX- pected when the original treaty was drawn.
 The house on May 10 adopted the following resolution reported by the foreign affairs committee: ''Resolved, That the secretary of the treasury fur nish the house, if not incompatible with public interest, all information in possession of the treasury depart meDt in relation to immigration of Japanese laborers during the last two years. What the probabilities are as to such immigration for the ensuing year; what methods have been taken to enforce the laws existing against contract labor by return of Chinese laborers and the punishment of those unlawfully making contracts for Japanese laborers"
 A detailed statement sent to the sen ate of the cost of the Paris exposition commission from the date of it's or ganization to December 3l, 1899, shows that the total amount paid for salaries was S15I,IS6, and for travelling ex- n.-