Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-10-09


 evidenced in the following letter, under date of June IA, to MT. J. A. Mullin of Atlanta, Ga, in which Mir. Roosevelt says: "I am extremely proud of the fact that one of my uncles was an admiral in the confed- crate navy and another fired the last gun aboard the Alabama I think the time has now come when we can all of us be proud of the valor shown on both sides in the civil war. In my regiment I had more men whose fathers fought in the confederacy than I had men whose fathers fought for the union. I am anxious to visit Roswell and if I get the chance I am going to stop at Atlanta some time next fall" Roswell is a Georgia town where Mir. Roosevelt's mother lived.
 The famous Mason and Dixon line is being relocated. The eastern part was originally marked by stone monu- ments at equal distances of one mile. many of these stones have been re- moved or destroyed. The western portion, owing to the great difficulty in traversing the region was marked by wooden posts, cut on the spot and secured in place by mounds of earth CT stone piled around them. These posts have disappeared, but some of the monuments remain. It is be- lieved that enough of them can be recovered to enable a relocation of the boundry with ease. The Penn sylvania legislature has appropriated S7,0OO and the Maryland legislature 5000 for this work of relocation. The new markers will be of iron in stead of stone.
 An item appeared in the Journal Miner yesterday in reference to an application for a pardon for a man named Rose which might be con- strued as reflection upon the court but certainly not intended in this way. The paragraph in question says: "Under the elastic conception of Arizona criminal matters if a miner in the hill in broad day light has to shoot and kill two men who not only threaten his personal safety, but drives away his burros, he re- ceives life sentence" Only to out siders could this be construed as meaning that the court had passed excessive sentence, as in this territory it is well known that under the law the jury affixes the penalty. This was done in this case, the court hay ing nothing to do with fixing the penalty but to pronounce sentence in accordance with the verdict. Mir. Rose is also responsible to a certain extent as despite the fact that he was reputed to have money in the bank, he refused to employ an attorney to defend him.
 Kentucky is short of school teach CTS. 4 large nnmber of schools are without teachers.
 It is said that President Diaz works sixteen hours a day. Did not know any body on earth except the editor of country newspaper had to put in such hours as that.
 Upon the authority of the London bookbinders that did the ''job," Hall Gaines latest literary output took twenty-two miles of cloth for the first hundred thousand copies.
 4 settlement of the San Francisco strike has been effected but only a few hundred of the thousands who were on a strike have secured employ ment, the places having already been filled with non union men and it will probably be some time before lar ger number of strikers is reinstated, so that the settlement seems a very hollow affair for the strikers.
 Most of the tacks we step on in the dark are income tacks.
 Tempe has voted her water bonds. Work will be commenced at once on the construction of the system.
 The south is about to pick the lar gest cotton crop in its history, and all without the fertilizing fruitfulness of free silver.
 A lot of impecunious politicians who couldn't strike office have really struck oil. This is the reward of bor- ing the earth instead of the people.
 The fellow whose voice is all for war while it is brewing is usually the first to denounce the fracas when it happens.
 The Southern Pacific company re- ports the arrival in San Francisco, of 5000 people, over its route, to attend the Episcopal convention in session there.
 Mir. Bryan says that he has not iu- vested in oil wells. The punctilious:: ness with which the public is inform: ed of Mir. Bryan's movements are more impressive than interesting.
 Deroulede calls the president of France d monkey on a stick. Of course, it does not do any harm for a gentleman to amuse himself in talk ing that way if he likes. What did somebody say about the stingless in- suit of coward?
 Some people who are familiar with the promise that the meek shall in herit the earth are wondering if there are any hidden and unobstrusive qualities of meekness about Pierpont Morgan.
 Major Williams, special Tammany agent in Paris, says that millionaires wives are the worst of all smugglers.