Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-11-13

President was not at all annoyed, but with characteristic good sense, or dered that it be fattened and served on the white house table with the Thanksgiving turkey.
 In a recent divorce case in Louis vile, Ky, the judge declared that tes- timony of eavesdroppers is unworthy of belief, and on this ground he dis missed the petition, as there was no other evidence. This is dropping the eavesdroppers hard, but it will meet the approval of many good people.
 Lii Hung Chang, who died on We'd nesday, was China's most brilliant statesman and most progressive citi- zen. His death will be a great loss to the Chinese empire.
 A London telegram says that the Bulgarian brigands will not abate the ransom originally demanded for Miss Stones release. In Macedonian circles it is maintained that Miss Stone will be murdered in that terri tory in order to remove all traces of the original Macedonian instigators of the capture.
 The Standard Oil company on November 6 declared a divi- dend of s per cent, payable in December. This makes a total of 4S per cent for this year, which means an aggregate distribu- tion of S4S,000,0O0 on capital stock of S100O00,O00. John D. Rockefeller has been gradually picking up the floating stock of the company in Wall street. A year ago he con trolled B per cent of the stock. It is now said that his interest is 40 per cent. If this report is true, his share in the dividend next month will be -O,zOO.OOOs W llH tnlo hOChtltllcI has drawn flom the Standard Oil company in dividends S19,2000,000 during this year.
 The overfowing treasury, factories running overtime, farmers receiving unprecedented prices for their crops, bankers reporting decreases in mort gages, exports breaking all previous records, abundant employment, good wages, full dinner pails-in a word, universal prosperity and everybody Happy. These are the conditions after six years of republican admins tration. Is it surprising that an in telligent people desire no change9
 The grand jury did expeditions work last week for which they de serve to be commended. They were in session only four days, during which they did large amount of work. The district attorney, by hay ing his witnesses on hand promptly, helped to expedite the business. District Attorney Ling has been re- markedly prompt with his witnesses during his term of office as four days has been the limit of a grand jury's session.
 An exchange says it is gratifying fact that in the struggle between decency and debauchery in New York the entire press of that city, with a single exception, enlisted on the side of public morality and private virtue. No matter what their politics or their economic views, no matter whether printed in English, German, Polish or Italian, they called upon the voters to cast off the rule of Richard Croker and Tammany.
 California jaspers are commenting on the fact that Charles Moebur, an Alameda policeman, has built schooner single handed. Building schooner single-handed is certainly feat worthy of mention. We have never heard of a Prescott policeman building a schooner, but in times past they have been known to unload schooners handed and per formed the feat in short order.
 Speaking of President Roosevelt's recently entertaining Booker Wash ington at dinner the Anglo-American of the City of Mexico says: "Presi- dent Roosevelt is being criticized by certain idiotic newspaper man for having dined Booker T. Washington, full blooded negro, at the White House. While personally I am not fond of colored blood, yet there are all sorts of negroes. There are white negros and black white men. B. T. Washington is white negro and man. He possesses more brains than any two dozen of his critics. I ad- mire Roosevelt for his nerve and take no exception to his judgment. A great many people have sat around the White House board who are not worthy to unlatch the shoes of Wash ington, the colored man."
 Corporations in Illinois are alarmed over the recent decisions of the su- preme court of that state in reference to taxing the capital stock of corpora tions. John J. Mitchell, president of the Illinois Trust bank says: If the law is to be enforced in the way de- handed by Mayor Harrison, then, in my judgment, it will amount to con fiscation. There are many corpora tions in Chicago whose stock, if it be assessed in that way, will be worth less. Whether enough of them will be ruined in that way to constitute a calamity, I cannot at present say, but it is a well known fact that, even be- fore this decision, the unfriendly atti- tude of the supreme court hld driven many large corporations out of the