Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-10-30

cup, Sir Thomas Lipton will nCw de- vote himself to lifting loving cups.
 Ex-Governor W. S. Taylor and Charles Finley of Kentucky have ac- cepted business appointments which will take them to Europe. They will have charge of the agencies for the o. B. Wilson Manufacturing company Of Indianapolis.
 Next week is the time fixed for the execution of Czolgosz. No date definite was fixed and it is thought he will be electrocuted early in the morning of the 18th instant.
 Under American direction the Philippine bureau of forestry paid a net profit of S75,OOO last year as against a profit of S5,000 under the Spanish regime.
 A western congressman says some of his constituents like rural mail de- livery so we'll that they have quit coming to town and consequently the merchants are going to turn him down" for voting for it.
 It is pretty hard on General Wade Hampton to ask him to become the colleague of Ben Tillman.
 
 We exported last year 2lO,O00,OOO bushels of American corn and re- ceivee for the same SS2,OOO,OO0. Our shipments to Cuba have tripled in three years.
 The part taken by William Jen- nings Bryan in the fall campaigns is something fierce
 Seth Low promises that after the election Croker's vantage in New York will be larger than his vantage in England.
 Henry Watterson might claim the democratic nomination in 1904 on the ground that he is past master in bluff game.
 Josiah Quincy, democratic candi' date for governor in Massachusetts, seems to be running "for the good of the order
 The republicans will not regret to see Senator Jameski Jones retired from the headship of the national democratic committee.
 Presidential prophecies for 1904 have suddenly ceased to bloom. 1t will be just as well to warehouse all such plants until next spring at least.
 The Albuquerque Citizen says that the New Mexico auditors books shows that there has been a decrease in the assessed valuation of the terri tory of over S40O0,000 from that re- turns of 1898. This decrease is made in the counties of Bernalillo and So- corro, each of which have returned property for S2,0O0,000 less than in 1898.
 The country is commencing again to feel the need of rain. The summer rains while they were good as far as they went, and better than we have had for several years, did not thor ougbly saturate the ground. They were followed by high winds, too, which sucked the moisture out of the earth.
 Those Beaumont oil wells are not so sentimental as they were a few weeks ago. They have ceased gush- ing.
 Women are attaining their equality with a vengeance; an Ohio Judge compelled woman to pay alimony.
 It is somewhat doubtful if Emperor William would take beating as man fully as Sir Thomas Lipton. The former would probably call it lese majeste.
 Secretary of Agriculture Wilson is exploiting the chayote which is no re- lation to the coyote, but a kind of squash.
 Senator Fairbanks is said to favor a Monk for the Indiana supreme bench and Senator Beveridge to champion Baker.
 The Los Angeles Times of last Sun day contained forty-six newspaper pages and thirty-two magazine pages. Nineteen linotype machines and nineteen hand compositors were em- ployed in producing it.
 A Washington telegram, published in the Examiner, states that r. NJ. Murphy had called on President Roosevelt and was assured that there would be no change made in the gov ernorship of Arizona until the expira- tion of Governor Murphy's term of office
 Inquiry at the railroad offices in Prescott in reference to the rumored sale of the s. F. P. S r. railroad to the Santa Fe company, eiicited the answer that nothing was known there of the alleged sale as reported in the Railway Age, and that no meeting of the stockholders was set for today Following, however, the information published in the Rai,rway Age, as copied by the Journal Miner in its is sue of October B, comes the follow ing Associated press telegram from New York: "A circular has been is sued to the stockholders of the Atcbi- son railroad saying that at its next meeting in December, they will he asked to ratify the purchase of the capital stock and bonds of the Pecos Valley and Northwestern Railway company, and the capital stock and second mortgage bonds of the Santa Fe, Prescott S Phenix Railroad com pany.
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