Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-05-29

Chief Begay of the Navajo Indians has been shot by his fellow redmen because of his turbulence. There Is no more in an Indian name than in any other. Why could not Begay be jovial and docile.
 Perhaps the three best novels of the season are "The Helmet of Ma varre," "The Heritage of Unrest" and ''The Making of Christopher Ferring- ham," They were all written by women.
 A San Berdarino girl who was at tackled by an unknown assailant, stabbed him a dozen times with a long hat pin before he could escape. He must have thought that he was all wound round with a barbed wire fence.
 Bakemen are usually smart about some things, but you can get them to pay $40 for S20 watch by having an engine engraved on it.
 It is by education that man first be- comes truly man.
 West Point is in the throes of an other insurrection. Please pass the tobasco sauce!
 A Chicago man proposes to kill off mosquitoes by the liberation of liquid air. How would this work on the Arizona flies?
 Bullfghts are to be held in Buffalo at the exposition. Swinging around the circle" from New York and Wall street, chi
 There is a man in Atchison, Kan, who keeps himself awake in church by watching woman chew gum. He who stands with arms akimbo set, And waits to have his task laid out Will die and leave his errand unful-
 filled.
 Another formidable defender has been added to Uncle Sam's navy in the launching of the battleship Ohio. Who will be the first foe to receive a pill from her big guns7
 A dairyman in Indianapolis is sup plying his customers with what he calls 'noiseless milk" His wagons have rubber tires; his drivers wear rubber-soled shoes, and each patrons can is set upon little rubber mat Exchange.
 At Yokohama, three Russian officers have been sentenced, in default, to six months imprisonment for mapping Nagasaka harbor in the vicinity of the Notifications.
 Percy l.. Johnson. an attorney pleaded guilty in the superior court at Bridgeport, Ct., to embezzlement of S50,000 from the United States Trust funds, and was sentenced to six years imprisonment.
 It is currently reported at New York that the Universal Tobacco com pany, which increased its authorized capital last week from S100,000 to S10000,000, is to be an active compet- itor of both the American and the Continental Tobacco companies.
 A late dispatch from Peking says the ministers meeting today was very unsatisfactory. No power was willing to accede to the American idea of reduction of the Chinese indemnity of S40,000,000, though Great Britain 1 recognized the advisibility of some reduction. There will be another l meeting tomorrow. The last of the | American troops have left there with the exception of the legation guard. !.
 On May P President O'Connell, of | the International Association of Ma chinists, estimated the number of ma chinists engaged in the strikeat 10000. 1 He claims that he is satisfied with the | situation and has confidence in the 1 result. By next Monday morning." O'Connell said, probably 90 per cent | of the men who went out will be back at work with their demands granted ! Tho other 10 per cent are mostly on the Pacific coast and in several Ohio 1 cities. San Francisco is the only place . where we look for protracted strike. The strike may last there for several | weeks. Reports from all other sections indicate that negotiations are pro gressing and agreements are in sight" President Mulholland of the Allied Metal Trades association, comprising semi-skilled men in machine shops, has notified machinists headquarters that he is ready to order out his men whenever the latter body deems it l.