Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-11-27

took effect July I, the treasury sur plus for the last four months has been S22,OOO,OOO, and promises to be larger for the next four on account of the reduction of war department ex- penses.
 A reduction of 10000 troops in the Philippines makes those democratic editors who have been predicting an immense standing army and perpet ual war feel tired.
 Editor William Jennings Bryan says that "the Commoner fills long felt want" We don't doubt it, but Mir. Bryan forgets that he is the only one who felt it.
 The progress of American manufac- lures is due to their having received protection from foreign competition in the critical period of their estab- lishment.
 New York is getting civilized. She has developed so strong an opposition to the slaughter of live pigeons that the American Handicap will probably be shot of elsewhere.
 The rnited States is producing her own Sumatra wrappers and will soon be growing her own Havana filters. Foreign tobacco growers can put this in their pipes and smoke it.
 As a result of the recent election in New York it is estimated that the pat ronage which ]'ammany has lost will be little short of S4S,000,0O0. Cover ing the four counties embraced with in the present municipal limits of New York Tammany has distributed offices to 45,344 occupants, most of whom will probably step down and out when the new administration is ushered in.
 In the trial of W. G. Hesser in San Diego last week, for the murder of Mexican, the defendants attorneys set up as their defense drunkenness and Responsibility on the part of defendant. The judge held that vol untary drunkenness under no cir:um- stances was an excuse for the commis- sion of crime.
 The action of the management of the S. F., P. & P. railroad yesterday in making a donation of a months extra salary to its employees for faith full service was certainly very com mendable one. This road has been in operation for about eight years and during that time the most amicable feelings have existed between the management and the employees. Sub stantial recognition in the manner in dicated above tends to cement the bonds of friendship more firmly be- tween them.
 As an example of peanut politics. the bringing of the recent suits against Governor Murphy and ex- Auditor Vickers at the instigation of Senator Ives, is a most brilliant one. Ives has no idea of winning the suits, but was prompted in his action solely from partisan motives, and just what he can hope to obtain from it is not apparent. No man in the territory believes that either the auditor or governor has sanctioned the issuance of a warrant which was not strictly in accordance with law. Mir. Ives, it is alleged, aspires to become a United States senatorand this suit is brought as a sort of stepping stone to it.
 President Roosevelt, it is claimed favors the re e-enactment of the Chinese exclusion act.
 The pretty typewriters and stenog- raphers of Los Angeles are talking of organizing union. They are in the work for business and want to stop the reckless cutting of prices which have prevailed there heretofore.
 Jerome democrats are commencing to talk politics already. Charley Hooker, prominent saloon man of the town. is being talked of as sheriff. While Mir. Hooker may wish to be- come the democratic nominee for sheriff, there are others.
 The Commercial Pacific Cable com pany, recently organized in New York to lay cable from San Francisco to the Philippines, has awarded the con tract for the manufacture and laying of the first section, from San Fran cisco to Honolulu, to an English, | company, which guarantees to com plete it in ten months. The contract price is nearly S3,OOO,OOO.
 A recent telegram says that Mir. Dickinson, the United States diplo- matic agent, will leave on Friday for Constantinople, and that there is ob- viously no prospect of a settlement with Miss Stones abductors. The departure of Mir. Dickinson will prob