Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-07-24

A Flagstaff paper boasts of 10000 acre forest fire in the San Francisco mountain reserve, The boast of the people of this section is that the forest supervisor and his rangers never let lire get 10000 acre headway, but are always promptly on the scene to check its progress. The telephone line of the Prescott Electric company, which runs over the reserve, is a great benefit in getting prompt notice to the supervisor of the existence of forest fire in its incipiency.
 J. A. Fillmore, who has occupied the position of superintendent of the Southern Pacific company for years, has been retired by the company on a pension. Steven T. Gage, who has been connected with the same com pany for over forty years, has also been pensioned.
 Our antipodes in Australia afe com plaining of a cold winter, while the rest of the world, apparently, is swell: ing in the heat.
 Schwab and Shaffer are the names of the men at the head of the respect i've forces engaged in the labor strug- gle in the east. Schwab represents the money trust and Shaffer the muscle trust.
 Physicians say that there is no cer- tain cure for the smoking habit. Even death sometimes fails to stop it.
 Why not let Spain decide who it was that licked her?
 At any rate mosquitos certainly do carry the germ of profanity.
 Those scientists who declare that the sun is losing its heat, had better keep away from Kansas until next fall.
 King Eddie is getting into the pa pers so much nowadays as to warrant the suspicion that he is employing press agent.
 Prof. Bell of telephone fame says that houses can be cooled cheaply by compressed air liberated at the top. Liquid air would be better, but so far it is too expensive.
 Mir. Bryan is keeping away frcm Nebraska a good deal new. You see Nebraska has big crops and needs tTamps to harvest them more than the tramps need Nebraska at present.
 We would like to know what Eng lishman invented the term English Fair Play" He deserves to rank with Annanias and other great profes- sors of mendacity.
 Both Hawaii and Porto Rico are be- 1 ginning to agitate for statehood, prob ably not with any particular hope of | obtaining it soon, but as preparation for the future. It is of course only a question of time, just as it is with Oklahoma and New Mexico.
 General Gomez says that Cuba will be annexed to us sooner or later Why should it bel We have all the advantages of the island now, without the worry that would inevitably spring from outright an nexation.
 Miss Susan B. Anthony has been telling how she would manage hus- band. The way is much like that in which an old maid thinks she would baby. Neither allows for the attitude of the party of the second part.
 Steps have been begun to test the Grandfather" clause in the Lousi ana constitution in the courts. It is high time that this question should be fought to a finish and that the country should know whether the south has right to make ancestry a prerequisite to the suffrage.
 The list of marriage licenses pub Iished in California will not contain the ages of the parties except in rare ,ases. A law went into effect in that state July l whereby only minors are 'equired to give their ages when ap- plying for marriage license. Adults need not give their ages, unless they ;hoose to do so, of course.
 With the Val Verde smelter and | he American Smelling and Refining f concentrating plant in $ operation on the Agua Fria, the dis :overy of oil or gas in Lonesome val ey, would give mining in this section I uch an impetus as it has never had Y 'efore. With cheap fuel and facili- ies right at home for the reduction f ore this section would have veri- a able boom in the way of develop nent.
 Mrs. Nation, it is said, is cutting Ieeply into NIT. Bryans lecture re-