Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-07-03

If every battle ship constructed continues to break the speed record, as they have done for some time, we shall eventually have something very swift In that line.
 That we buy as well as we sell out side United States is shown by the fact that we paid in 1900 for imported agricultural products the tidy sum of S42O,OOO,OCO.
 Senator Depew has no reason to l feel chagrined. He did the country a service by giving President McKin- ley quickly grasped opportunity to lay out the third-term ghost for good and all.
 Mai. Gen. John c. Bates, who re- gently returned from the Philippines, said of the condition of the army: "Our troops are in excellent condi- tion. We had no more sickness than one would naturally expect from tropical climate, and I think no more than we would have if our troops were stationed in the Gulf States here."
 As soon as quiet is thoroughly re- stored all over the Philippines the census bureau will take a complete census of the islands, which will be the first ever taken, as under Spanish rule the population was always esti- mated.
 Speaking of the suit brought in Montana to set aside patents for 10,- 900 acres of timber lands purchased by Senator Clark on the ground of frauds, the senator says: q was an innocent purchaser of these lands for a valuable consideration and I main- tain the government cannot cancel the titles nor interfere with my rights. That doctrine was clearly established in the case of the United States versus Budd."
 According to repo rts, Mrs. McKin ley has acquired a comfortable fortune through some old mining claims in Nevada, inherited from her father, as well as her usual health. We trust the reports are true. No good fortune is too great for that little woman.
 Mir. Bryan should send few mark ed copies of the Commoner to the Virginia Constitutional convention, which voted down a proposition to in- vite him to address the convention.
 The democrats didn't extract the satisfaction from the Ohio republican convention that some of their moutby rainbow chasers had led them to ex- pect, and they will get even less satis- faction out of the election returns.
 West Virginia folk could very well have dispensed with such visitors as the Elkhorn valley flood, with its many fatalities and large destruction of property, including the town of Keystone.
 Bryan says he is not candidate for office and has no candidate in his mind for any office. This need not prevent Keane St. Charles though from continuing Bryan's name at the head of his paper.
 There are always a lot of people in every community who can't bear to have anything said with which they cannot agree. These men always do right, always say the right thing in the right place, and always object strenuously when they are disputed. They do not consider that men can honestly differ with them. The men who do differ with them are rogues and purposely bad.
 Attorney General Knox is having quiet investigation conducted to as- certain whether the Sherman anti trust law is being violated. If it is, some of the trusts have trouble ahead of them.
 The holders of bonds purchased from the Cuban junta, for a small fraction of their face value, may find that Uncle Sam will object to their payment in full by the new Cuban government. It will be one of the duties of Uncle Sam to prevent the infant government of Cuba from be- ing robbed.