Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-12-25
NEWS, NOTES AND COMMENTS
General Alger is seriously ill.

Congress has adjourned till Janu-
 ary 6.
 The Pacific mail steamer San Bias,
 which left San Francisco Nov. 29 for
 Panama, was wrecked Dec. IT off La
 Libertad. The passengers and crew
 were saved.
 Dispatches from Copenhagen de-
 scribe a growing agitation there
 against the sale of the Danish West
 Indies before a plebiscite has been
 taken. The correspondents consider it very doubtful whether the Danish parliament will approve the sale of
 the islands.
 Three men killed and twenty five injured, twelve seriously, resulted
 from a head end collision December 19, between two passenger trains on the Southern Pacific railroad near Uplands. The collision was caused through failure of an engineer to obey orders in regard to meeting point.
 The University of Chicago has been made the recipient of Sl,625, 900 in gifts at the hands of friends of the institution. John D. Rockefeller was first among the givers with Sl 100000 | for the general endowment fund of school. He also contributed S250,000 for the general needs of the univer- sity during the school year of 1901-2.
 Los Angeles is to have the finest theater in the United States. It is to be located on the west side of Broad way between First and Second streets. The structure is to cost S2S00O0 and is to be built by John Mason, a Los Angeles young man, who recently came into possession of an immense fortune.
 General Smith has recommended George Heinz, of the medical depart ment of the army, for a medal of honor as a reward for his heroism at the battle of Ganda river in the is- land of Samar. Heinz fought as long as he was able, while shot through both arms and with a bad bolo slash in his back. After recover ing from a fainting spell, with both arms in sling, Heinz directed the work of carrying the wounded until their arrival at Calbayog. Surgeon Calhoun recommended Heinz for a certificate of merit, which was ap- proved, but General Smith thinks the mans heroism is worthy of a medal.
 Buried in a shallow trench along side the Rio Grande tracks at Salt Lake, the body of James R. Hay, secretary of the Pacific Lumber com pany was found Wednesday morning. Monday night Hay called at the home of Peter Mortensen, contract tor, and collected S3,S00, 1 which Mortensen owed the Pacific Lumber company, and winch late in the afternoon Hay had refused to ac- cept, not caring to leave that amount in the office safe over night. He gave a receipt to Mortensen for the 1 money and left the latter's house with the remark that he was going to take the money to manager C. E. Romney of the Lumber company. Since that time nothing had been | or heard of him until his body was found Wednesday morning. The money was gone and in the back of Hays head was a great, jagged wound. If is the theory of the police that some one saw Hay receive the money from Mortensen, followed him when he left the house, murdered | him and then buried the body in the hastily dug trench.
 James w. Reynolds has been reap pointed secretary of New Mexico.
 The Pillsbury Touring mill at Min neapolis broke the worlds record the other day by turning out 12,464 bar rels of four in twenty-four hours. The value of the product is S50,0OO and it would fill about eighty-hve freight cars.
 Pittsburg Boundaries and machine shops will equip the London under ground railways with the biggest cleo tric central station in the world, gen erating minimum of 10000 horse power with a possible maximum of 100000.
 The register of federal officehold- | ders just published contains 222,OOO names, not including army and naval officers. The Washington depart ments contain B, 160 employees, against 19, ,446 two years ago.
 Prof. Samuel A. Harker, occupying the chair of mathematics and astron omy in the University of Indianapo- lis, has given out a statement that he is a convert to the theories advanced by Sir Robert Ball, Garrett Serviss and others, that the planet Mars is inhabited and that its people are ex- ceedingly intelligent and enterprising, but 1t is impossible to communicate with them. Prof. Harker further says that ''the Martians are people of stupendous power and engineering skill. Were it possible to signal to them, there is little doubt but that they would understand and reply, as they are a race of enormous brain de- velopment" Prof. Harker further adds that in all of the thousands of years of the earth's history its peo- pie have not succeeded in chang ing the face of the planet to any such extent as the people of Mars | have changed theirs, but he sees no | way of signaling to them. He does | not take kindly to the theory ad- vanced by Tesla, of electric signals conveyed through the ether, as Prof. Harker believes it an impossibility to develop the necessary energy to trans init the waves so far.
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