Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-08-28

Now that Ecuador has joined in the Colombia-Venezeula scrap, it may be called a game of cooked hat.
 Germany's proposed new tariff is now regarded as nothing more than a bluff, made to help along the negotia- ton of reciprocity treaties.
 The Pennsylvania republican State convention was entirely harmonious, thus radically differing from the democratic convention.
 The Spanish minister is trying to find out whether the strike agitators driven out of Tampa, Fla, were Span ish subjects. If they were, he will ask damages for them.
 Nj. Constans, French ambassador to Turkey, is well named. By his con stancy and persistency in pressing the French claims against Turkey, he has succeeded in compelling the Sul- tan to settle.
 Although Congress specifically de- clared several years ago that the working force of the library of con gress should not be under civil service rules, the civil service commission in its annual report recommends that the library employees be put in the classi- fled service.
 Atlantic City, New Jersey, hotels never were so crowded as the occa- sion of Carrie Nations visit there found them. There was not single hotel in the place that could find a spare room for her accommodation, and she was compelled toseek accom- modations in a lodging house. Those Jersey hotel keepers had heard of the Kansas woman of hatchet fame.
 Thieves broke into Mark Smiths domicile at Tucson, recently during his absence in California, and stole about 500 worth of his congressional clothes. The senatorial toga which he has had on cold storage for several years, awaiting Arizona's admission as a state, was untouched except that fresh piece of ice was put on it to keep it in a good state of preserva tion until Marks return.
 Senator Plat declares that the sue cess of the anti-Tammany movement in New York City depends upon tho selection of an unobjectionable demo crat as a candidate for mayor. Hi: opinion is likely to have weight.
 A favorite expression of NJ. Legoure the oldest member of the French Aca demy, reads: 1t is often said tha God condemned man to work. This is absurd. God condemned man tC live, and gave him work as a mitiga ting circumstance"
 Reports to the war department in dicate that the system of military tel egraph in Alaska will be completed during the present season.
 Great Britain has spent in Missour and Kansas S5,OO0,OOO for horse flesh as result of the Boer war. Anothe illustration of the correctness of tn adage, ''It's an ill wind" etc.
 Carrie Nations hatchet was a milC sort of weapon compared with the dy 'namite bomb that was exploded in Chicago saloon the other night, kill ing one man and injuring several.
 Hon. Thomas B. Reed hardly con sidered the suggestion of his becom ing candidate for mayor of Nev York complimentary to either his poll tical or business judgment.
 The village of North Perry, Maine is just half way between the equato and the north pole, and an officia shaft of stone has been erected t record the fact.
 A St. Louis doctor has separated himself from his wife and fourteel children forever, to take charge of Chinese leper patient for the sol purpose of studying that disease.
 Eastern democrats are getting up political ''essenfest" at Omaha anC are particularly anxious to get thu attendance of David B. Hill. A Omaha is located in the state whicl claims Bryan as one of its citizen, they did not know but David nigh have some delicacy about attending They accordingly solicited William J to send a personal invitation to Nh Hill, soliciting his attendance. Thi request had about the same effect O the Commoner man that shaking red flag in the face of mad bull ha, MT. Bryan in answering the reques fatly and emphatically decline being party to try to induce Nil Hills attendance and further inform