Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-02-06
News. Notes and Comments.

OuC Ol tuC IIob dCbS Ol It's ident Hays of the Southern Pacific company was to cut rates to S25 from the east to colonists.
 The cession to the United States of Sibulu and Cagayan islands in the Philippine archipelago has been off cially gazetted in Madrid. They were omitted from the Paris treaty, and the United States pays an additional S100,000 for them. The war department has received the following from Brig. General F'itzhugh Lee, regarding the Indian uprising: "Chitto Harjo" Crazy Snake) has been arrested without diff ficulty, and is now held in Henrietta No violence is reported anywhere and the people are going about the terri tory without fear. Have instructed Lieut.. Dixon to give the necessary protection and to prevent destruction of railways and bridges"
 Walter McAllister, Wm. Death and Andrew Campbell, who were found guilty of murder in the second degree for killing Jennie Rosschieter, October 18th, 1900, at Paterson, New Jersey, by the administration of chloral and subsequent rape, have been sentenced to thirty years each in the peniten- tiary. Geo. J. Kerr, who was with the party, but who pleaded non vult contender to the charge of rape was sentenced to fifteen years. The sentences were the severest the law provides.
 One of the leading newspapers of London announces that the friends of Mrs. Maybrick, who for more than a a decade have been tireless in their efforts to secure her release from prison, have reason to hope that the famous case may be reopened and the prisoner liberated shortly as result of the queens death. Among well in formed persons it has always been the belief that it was the queens preju- dice and her severe notions regarding erring women, that stood in the way of Mrs. Maybrick's freedom more than any question of law or inclination on the part of the home secretary.
 A damage suit for which no prece- dent in law could be found has been settled at Tuscaloosa, Alabama. o. B. Wilson was talking over telephone during a thunderstorm and was struck by lightning and killed. Suit was brought for damages and was settled by the payment of S1S00 by the tele- phone company.
 Rear Admiral Albert Kautz, in com mand of the Pacific station, was placed on the retired list on Tuesday, January 29, on account of age. He is one of the best known officers in the navy and has had an active and cred itable career. He is a native of Ohio and was graduated from the naval academy in 1858. He served through out the civil war, and was captured near Cape Hatteras by the privateer Winslow and incarcerated in the Hen rico county jail, Richmond, by order of Jefferson Davis, in retaliation for the imprisonment of privateers ir the Tombs, New York.
 King Carlos I. of Portugal and the kings of Belgium and Greece have ar rived Tn London to attend the funeral of the late queen.
 Twelve women of the w. c. T. U. at Author, Kansas, armed with ham, mers and hatchets, raided and demol- .-IA1 fA,,,- ,,A%DrfAr.a, kntrcae. fhnra Wednesday morning. The damage to property, aside from the liquor de- stroyed, was S2,0O0.
 President Mckinley was 59 years old January 29.
 c. L. Alvord, Jr., the defaulting clerk of the First National bank in New York, who arrived on January Is, to serve out his sentence, has been set at work making mats. The warden said Alvord seemed to take quite an interest in his new occupation.
 Queen ' Nictoria's explicit directions as to her funeral were written in 1862, '' says Truth, "and have not been al- tered in any material respect. It was her wish that the ceremony should copy that of Prince Albert's burial as far as possible. The queen will be the first English sovereign who will not be buried at night by torchlight."
 The state health officer of Texas threatens to quarantine against Ari- zona unless something is done to pre- vent the bubonic plague from getting in from California. It will also be noticed by readers of yesterdays dis patches that Colorado is preparing to quarantine against California. This is due to the fact that forty deaths have been reported from Bakersfield and ascribed to the plague.
 The Kansas state temperance union has subscribed over Sl00 to purchase a gold medal for Mrs. Carrie Nation. She said she would take the money and turn it over to a fund to aid her work, but that she would have no medal. Mrs. Nation called upon the sheriff, the city attorney and the pro- bate judge at Topeka and urged each to enforce the law against saloons.
 Death nf lohn S Warren