Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-05-22
PITH OF THE NEWS!.
Miscellaneous Matters of Interest Of Daily Occurrence From All Sections Briefly
 Told.

Apricot pits are selling in Califor mia towns for S9 a ton. They ar superior to coal for heat.
 Edna Wallace Hopper is said tt have refused Sl200a week to go on th' vaudeville stage.
 San Francisco seems to be on tn, verge of a strike. Machinists wall out today. Union men in all lines art expected to follow.
 China is paying Sl0,000,0OO a month for troops now in China, and thi: sum will be added to the of lump in demnity.
 The British have run up against a number two DeWet, a man named Kritsinger. If the British really want to end that war. they will enlist few Texas men.-El Paso Herald.
 Brig. Gen. Grant, who has just re- turned from two years active service in Manila says that Bryan is alone re- sponsible for the continuance of hos tilities in the Philippines, as he sane toned the spreading of the Atkinson literature throughout the islands.
 The people of the Gila valley are anxiously awaiting the reply of Presi- dent Hays of the Southern Pacific as to the cause for the increase in freight rates from Bisbee and other points, while the old joint rates from Phenix and Salt river points, on the same commodities were left undisturbed.- Cochise Review.
 It is said that the reason the Chi nese court doesn't come back to Pekin is that the chief eunuch is making more money were he is, in Singonfu. Possibly also he has an unreasonable preference for an unperforated epider- mis and doesn't care to meet General Count von Waldersee socially. The general goes calling with Mauser.
 England spends about S6OO,OOO an nually in the purchase canary birds.
 Six thousand cigarmakers struck for higher wages at Tampa, Florida.
 Tears are like raindrops of our own natuIes and bring to bloom the flow CTS of pity and tenderness.
 It takes time, care, labor, study, pa tience, energy, application, persis- tence, to build the structure called character, but one may destroy it in a moment.
 There are 75,00G young people in New York City who play policy" !" and many of them steal the money required to play it.
 There was a plot laid to kidnap the Sultan of Turkey, but the plan failed. They should confer with the Cudahy kidnappers if they want to make it a success.
 A "healing" fakir of Denver de- clares that he is a kinsman of Jacob and Moses, which is a mean way of slurring two venerable and highly re- spected gentlemen who are not in a position to send a card to the news papers.
 A New York woman who murdered her husband, a veteran of the civil war, has applied for a pension as a soldiers widow. There are some in stances of nerve" in the presence of which one feels like reverently taking off his hat.
 Yesterday at Albany the rioters were faced by the militia. They were driven back several blocks and com pelled to remain there. The militia placed guards at every corner and at noon the strikers called a conference for 3 o'clock p. m. to discuss the sit uation. There was no blood shed.
 A dispatch from Topeka, Kansas, May 13, says: After conference with the committee representing the Inter national Union of machinists of the Santa Fe railroad it was agreed to raise the shopmen's wages along the entire system. The machinists threat ened to strike on May 20. The ma chinists who heretofore got P cents an hour were raised to BOG; those get ting 219c to D.
 The police and principal citizens of Guadalajara, Mexico, are looking for well known priest of that city, who was treasurer of various local religious fraternities and guilds. He was held in the highest esteem and was the confessor to many of the most aristo- cratic families. Now he has decamp- ed. taking, it is estimated, nearly Sl00,OO0 belonging to different religi- societies. And that was not all. He carried of the young daughter of one of the leading families.
 Fully S5O,OOO.OOO in gold will be taken from the Klondike this year.
 Berkeley is to have an alumni hall to cost Sl00,00O.
 The bootblacks of San Francisco have formed trust and raised the price of shines to 10c.
 With snow storms in April and sun strokes in May the east can at least make the truthful claim that its eli mate has the spicy flavor of variety.
 Mrs. Lyman J. Gage, wife of the secretary of the treasury, died at her residence in Washington last Satur day.
 Yesterday the Troy strike was set tied and they are to receive 20c per hour This good news was received by the strikers with cheers.
 On May 17, in the United States court, suit was started by the U. s. government to recover from the Mar GUS Daly estate some S600,00O for timber cut on government land since 1891.
 Being an emperor in the United States is somewhat different from be- ing an emperor in Germany. Over there they hurl slugs of iron at the imperial carriage; here it is lombard ed with roses.-Kansas City Journal.
 A sheet trust has been form ed. But 1t Is no monopoly, because there are so many other kinds of music. There is no chance, for ex- ample, of driving out the piano in the next door fiat, or of eliminating the noctural competition of the cat Portland Oregonian.
 Kansas farmers want 20.000 strong men at good wages to harvest the sea sons crOO The rva alona .rouIJ