Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-07-17
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Emperor William has interested himself in the building of electric railways. He and others associated with him, intend to build road over which they can shoot trains at speed of 100 miles per hour. Emperor William Is said to be contributing to the enterprise several million marks from his private fortune.
 The imports of the Philippines were 36 per cent greater in 1900 than in 1899, and the increase in exports was also greater-in 1899, S10,273, ,3SO, and in 1900, S26,73l ,464. Even with the shadow of the rebellion over them the prosperity of the islands under American control could not be kept down.
 Tammany's big Fourth of July powwow was a sort of Belshazzars feast this year, with a shadow of com ing disaster cast big and black on the walls.
 Gen. Leonard Woods popularity in Cuba was shown by his election to membership in the Academy of Science, of Havana, a very exclusive organization with membership limited to forty.
 Kansas and Missouri preachers united on Sunday in praying for rain. The drouth in Kansas is reported greater than it has been since the famous drouth of 1860, when aid had to be sent there to keep the citizens from starving. While it will result in total failure of the corn crop, wheat had matured before the dry weather set in. Another serious feature of the drouth is the growing scarcity of water, many of the water works sys- tems in the state having given out, and ice plants being compelled to close down.
 Mir. Bryan chose an odd season for southern lecture tour. However, the box office receipts will probably convince him of the wisdom of making it his last.
 More calamity for Kansas farmers they are worrying over the probable loss of part of the crop because of their inability to get hands enough to harvest it.
 Comptroller Davis is making it plain to the managers of national banks that no sort of monkey busi- ness will be countenanced by him.
 By law passed last March, sol diers and sailors of the Spanish American war and those who served in the Philippines are given the same privileges in the matter of securing homesteads as those who served in the war of the rebellion. They can file declaratory statement on home stead and hold it for six months, and the term of service in the army will be deducted from the required term of five years residence on the home stead. Under this law a number of soldiers will try to get land in Okla homa, when it is thrown open for settlement August ,.
 Word comes from Los Angeles that Captain Clarence King, the mining engineer, has improved very much since gong there and he has decided not to return to Prescott.
 An effort has been made to get up some sort of celebration for the an- niversary of Prescott's big fire. Just what occasion there is for celebrating the anniversary of such a disastrous event as that, the Journal-Miner cans not understand. The celebration of
  the rebuilding of the town seems ap- propriate, but to celebrate its de- struction by any special demonstra- tion seems quiteinappropriate. With the number of mortgages which the editor of inc Journal Miner has plas- tered over his property as the result of that fire he expects to have a daily celebration of it for years to come, but he does not feel like getting out and whooping it up with music and frecrackers or in any other demon strative sort of way. From the num- Der of mortgages recorded during the past year he is of the opinion that .there are others" besides himself who hold similar sentiments. The first anniversary will occur tomorrow night, commencing at 10:45 o'clock.
 Judging from the casualty reports, how would it do to call it "The da, we mutilate"
 An Illinois horse ran o7era baby car riage the other day, killing himself but not hurting the baby. We wouldn't like to trust to the same thing happen ing again, however. |" "COm|DOD Sense !"