Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-12-18


 Why should China object to an ex- clusion acti She built a great wall to enforce one of her own some years ago.
 Arizona is a unit on the statehood question. There is no opposition whatever in the territory to its ad- mission as state.
 The United States drank last year sSOO,OOO,OOO worth of alcoholic liquor. This sum would establish a good many homes for the waifs which John Barleycorn creates every year.
 The re-establishment of Whipple would be good thing for Prescott; good for the entire territory and would be an act of sound judgment and wisdom on the part of the gov ernment.
 The opinion of astronomers seems to be reverting to the once discredited nebular theory of the formation of the universe. The idea of vast whirling mass of vapor throwing off rings as it condenses, which similarly condense until they form planets and moons, leaving the central mass to form the sun is certainly fascinating
 While in some respects the Fili- pinos are grade or two higher than the Apache Indians, in many other respects they are not whit better. News has just been received of the killing of two American prospectors in the mountains of Central Luzon by natives, who literally chopped their bodies to pieces.
 Cresceus (pronounced Creshws) will give an exhibition trot in Tucson, December 19. He will be driven by his owner, George Ketchums. Since leaving Columbus, Ohio, in tour of the country giving these exhibitions by this famous horse, which smashed the worlds record, MT. Ketchum has taken in over S3O,OOO. Prior to start ing on this tour, Cresceus had won for his owner on race tracks over s2OO,OOO.
 Two Colorado turkey raisers drop ped on what they thought a happy plan to increase their incomes from turkey raising. Just before killing their birds for market, they stuffed the birds with stones as full as they could so as to weight them down. They were successful in getting big price for their turkeys, but the one who sold the fowls has just been sen fenced to pay fine of S200 and to be imprisoned for ninety days in jail for obtaining money under false pre- tenses, and the society for the pre- vention of cruelty to animals is after the other one for cruelty to the fowls.
 Fort Scott, Kansas, has just passed an ordinance imposing a license of 5000 per year on preachers and from $500 to S50.00 per year on lawyers. The latter are divided into fSur clas- ses, the license depending upon the class the attorney sees fit to report himself. He must frame his license and hang it in his office. There is not single fourth class lawyer in the town, as every one prefers paying the S5000 to reporting himself as second, third or fourth class to obtain cheap CT license.
 The telegraph news of Monday an- nounce the death in St. Joseph, Mis- souri, on that date, of Col. John Doniphan, who for fifty years was prominent in public affairs in the State of Missouri. Col. Doniphan was one of natures noblemen, and all though he had lived to the ripe old age of seventy-five years, the an nouncement of his death will be re- ceived by those who knew him with a feeling of sadness. No man ever knew Col. Doniphan who was not at tracted to him, as he was a gentleman of the most kindly and sympathetic nature.
 A Michigan man has given 5000 | acres of denuded timber land to the state forestry commission for the pur- pose of having it re-forested.
 R. G. Dunn X Co.'S monthly review of trade conditions for November says that general business conditions throughout the country are satisfac- tory. Consumption is unusually | large and traffic congestion grows worse. Holiday trade promises to be Com is higher than at any time since 1901. and wheat has ! advanceI to the best prices of the season. Activity and strength are in wool market. Iron and steel are strong at the highest prices of the year.