Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-10-30
NEWS, NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NEWS, NOTES AND COMMENTS.
 In GreatBritain the ratio of widow:
 to the adult female population is 7t
 in 1000. The ratio of widowers tC
 the adult male population is 35 to tho
 1000.
 The United States navy now com
 prises some 1900 officers and men
 but this is not enough to furnish 6
 reasonable quota for the ships which
 are in commission. In his annual re.
 port Admiral Crowinshield, chief oi
 the bureau of navigation, places the
 inlistments during the past year al
 9,S90, and the assertions 3,15S.
 Owing to indications that the Texas
 fuel oil wells at Beaumont are ceasing
 to flow and that pumping must be re-
 sorted to for further supply, E. H
 Hartman has issued an order stop
 ping the work of converting Southern
 Pacific locomotives in that state from coal to oil burners pending a more careful study of the fuel oil supply situation.
 A petition asking that Cuba be an nexed to the United States is being circulated among the Cuban business men generally, it is alleged and is be- lieved that the reciprocity movement will amount to nothing. A meeting has been arranged for Wednesday next, at which, it is said, the first gun in the campaign for annexation will be fired.
 The Dalziei news bureaus Berlin corresdondent states that the police of that place are searching for an Italian anarchist named Napoli, re- ported to be en route for Berlin to as- sassinate the kaiser.
 Missionaries who are operating from Samakoy, Bulgaria, are at last in touch with the brigands who ab- ducted Miss Stone and Madame Tsilka, according to news received to- day. No statement was made as to the negotiations for the ransom, though the missionaries expected to conclude the matter with the utmost dispatch.
 Czolgosz, the murderer of Presi- dent Mckinley, will be electrocuted at ' a. m. Tuesday, Oct. g, at Au- burn prison. Warden Mead selected Tuesday so that final arrangements may be made on Monday. The wit nesses will assemble at the prison at 6.30 Tuesday morning. Twenty six invitations have been issued and they are non-transferable. Each witness must present his ticket to the warden and be identified.
 A New York woman has purchased the Grand Canyon Asbestos mine for S6,0O0. It was owned by c. H. Me Clure, John Hance and the estate of the late W. H. Ashurst. The pur- chaser will work the mine with John Hance as superintendent.
 The American Girl mine, situated twenty miles north of Yuma in Cali fornia, has been bonded to an English company for S2yOC0,0O0. The Ameri- can Girl is one of the richest proper ties on the Pacific coast.-Yuma Sen tinel.
 The supreme court of California, like the courts of other states, has ruled that if work is resumed on a mining location but not completed to the amount of S10o before the first day of January, on which forfeiture would occur, the claimant by continu- ing the work into the new year, and working continuously until the Sl0O value of work is completed, protects the claim against forfeiture. The work so performed, however, is only valid for the year it was commenced, and does not count for the year it was completed.
 , A Paris telegram says: All the newspapers of the city with one ex- ception, clamor today for justice to be done Santos Dumont, who has fairly won the Deitch prize. They denounced the committee for refusing to give it to him on technical grounds. His airship rounded the Eiffel tower descended and accomplished the dis tance in thirty minutes ana a few seconds. The time limit was half hour. It is claimed that nearly whole minute was occupied in set ting and that the prize was fairly won. Dumont. although not rich, has spent forty thousand francs and risked his life twenty five times in solving the problem of aerial navi- gation and he should have the honor he so hardly earned. This is the sentiment of all France today.
 Mrs. William Mckinley has proba- bly, been left more wealth than is mentioned in the will of her late hus- band. News is received from Ely, Nev., where the Mckinley mine is lo- cated, that outcroppings show lead of ore that will go S10O to the ton. Rich surface indications at both the Saxton and Mckinley mines show that large body of ore must exist in the region and that the shares held by Mrs. Mckinley in various claims near Ely will soon become very valu- able. That there is a great deal of faith placed by capitalists in the mines, which include the Mckinley properties, may be judged by the fact that William Edgar Sheppard of New York has left for the east to confer with monied men who are interested in Nevada investments. Orders for mining machinery have been placed and work on the mine will soon be commenced in earnest.
 Postofice Inspector John P. Cum, formerly postmaster at Tombstone, Ariz., has returned from a trip of in spection through Alaska. He has re- ported to the department that the service generally is in excellent con dition, more particularly in the Yu- kon Valley, where the various towns have a mail service of once a week in each direction. Mir. Cum established the northernmost postoffice in the United States and what probably is the northernmost postoffice in the world. This is at Point Barrow, where Rev. Dr. Fl. Richmond Marsh, the missionary at tht little settlement was appointed postmaster. This place, where the northernmost news paper in the world is published once a year, will receive the mails once year bv a United States revenue cutter.