Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-12-18
NEWS, NOTES AND COMMENTS
The date of King Edwards corona ton has been set for June 26. 1902.

z The Farmers and Merchants banl offer a reward of S5,0O0 for the arrest
 of H. J. Fleishman the defaultine
 cashier.
 Two hundred houses were edestroyeC
 by an earthquake at Erzeroun, Tur key, Nov. 8. The American consulate
 was among the wrecked buildings. The Texas state board of equaliza- tion has just purchased S400,0OC
 worth of bonds for the benefit of the
 school fund of that state. The bonds
 bear five per cent interest.
 Prosperity has made shortage in female clerks in Chicago. With the
 good times young men have felt they
 could afford to marry and fathers have
 been able to send their daughters to
 school instead of out to earn living.
 Oil drillers at Eugle, New Mexico,
 at depth of 200 feet struck a strong
 flow of artesian water. Engle is sit
 uated on one of the worst deserts in
 that territory and the water will
 prove more valuable than oil.
 Mrs. Stanford has just made a donation to the Stanford University, which with former donations makes total of S30,0O0000 she and her hus- band have given to that institution. She has several millions left to con- tribute to her comfort during the bal ance of her days.
 The secretary of war has sent to the house committee on appropria- tions an estimate of a half million, for the construction of barracks at the army post in Manila, and also two millions for army posts in other parts of the Philippines.
 Gertrude Simpson, fifteen years of age, who shot and killed her father, Dr. A. N. Simpson. coroner of Min eral county, Colorado, on November 12, has been acquitted after her trial on the charge of murder. The girls defense was that her father abused her and threatened to kill her.
 A heavy earthquake was experi- enced at Mount Hamilton California observatory December II.
 Nelson Culver, during a fit of tenn porary insanity, ran away from his home at Hamilton, Michigan, and climbed to the top of tall tamarack tree. When he saw his friends at the foot of the tree trying to rescue him, he pulled a revolver and blew out his brains. His body dropped to the lower branches of the tree about fifty feet from the ground, and dangled there while his life blood ebbed away.
 A surgical operation said to have been performed at the Maritime hos pital at Cherbourg, France, is attract ing the attention of Paris surgeons. Gunner Robert lost three of his fin gers in an accident. The members were completely severed from the | hand at their second joints. The hospital surgeons merely joined the l severed ends of the fingers to the | stumps and, it is said, the wounds healed by first intention and Robert | will suffer nothing by his accident. Paris surgeons say that osmosis in this manner is by no means impossi- | ble, but it is rare, even when the blood of the patient is in prime con- dition.
 Central City, New Mexico, which is becoming notorious for its many shooting scrapes, added another to | its list early Sunday, when a young negro by the name of Wan Woods, was shot and instantly killed by a Mexican girl. The negro had been drinking heavily and had endeavored to get into the house where the Mexi- can girl lived and finally when she would not let him in forced the door open and went inside. The girl, who was alone except for her old grand mother and little sister, had secured a pistol and shot at him in the dark, but failed to hit her mark and the negro ran outside, but a short time afterward he returned and the girl fired at him through the panel of the door, The bullet struck him in the chest and pierced the heart and kill ed him instantly. The Mexican glrl bears a very good reputation in that Deighborhood, being employed in the officers mess at Fort Bayard. The negro is known as tough character. The girl gave herself up to the authorities and pleads that she killed the negro in self defense.
 A Washington telegram says: De spite the apparent desire of the pow CTS of continental Europe that the United States should intervene to stop the war in South Africa, admin istration officials express the opinion that these governments really prefer its continuance. This belief is based upon the fact that every days pro longation of the struggle weakens Great Britain and makes the conti- mental nations relatively stronger. It is true that unofficial suggestions have been advanced to the United States that it interfere, but these sug- gestions have always been met with the response that the sceneof the war is 5000 miles away from this country, and there is no excuse for interven- tion. Great Britain has been ex- tremely friendly with the United | States. She has without hesitation granted important concessions, not ably in the matter of the isthmian canal treat, and she has promptly | settled all questions which have arisen in connection with the South | African war.
 The marshy ground of the Ganges delta, its vast masses of vegetation, decaying under tropical sun, is the native home of the cholera. In that pestilential region the cholera aud plague are found every year and all the year around. Every cholera cpl demic which has desolated Europe, every visitation of the plague is be- lieved to have started from the mouth of the Ganges.
 According to the record of the court martial convened in the depart ment at Visayas, P. l., which has been received at the war department, Raymoundo Fonte, a native, found his working companion, Liberato Benliro, sleeping in his boat. They become engaged in a fight and Fonte killed the man with the blow of an oar, cut off his nose and ears, according to his own confession, cooked. and ate part of the body of