Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-01-23

very general the operation of any re- striction of representation on account of reytriction of the suffrage would be. All foreigners and even all convicts all women, all insne and all children would have to be deducted.
 Thomas NJ. Patterson, editor of the Rocky Mountain News has been elect ed United States senator from Colo rado.
 The allies continue to dicker, and the empress continues to organize armies.
 What on earth does Mars want-if he is really signalling us. Can it be that he wants to tell us where Aguin- aldo is.-C Citizen.
 The democratic press of this terri tory affects to sheer at the assertion that the result of the election last fall has anything to do with keeping Ari zona from being admitted as a state. All the sneers and scoffs of the entire democratic press of the territory, how ever, will not change the facts, which are apparent to every intelligent citi- zen. Outside of all political consid- erations, there is a very strong opposi- tion in the east to admission, and it has been the history of the democratic party as well as the republican party, to oppose the admission of territories politically opposed to it. In opposing admission to Arizona, the republicans in congress are only following pre- cedent established by the democrats.
 A pretty good start at suppressing hazing at West Point would be made if the officers in charge there were once convinced that it was possible to do so.
 The street car drivers in Pensacola have won their strike for stools on which to sit. If this goes on, pretty soon everybody on the cars will get seats except the passengers.
 The attempt Of Rathbone to ascer- tain the facts of the government case against him by getting the Democrats to press a resolution in the senate di- recting the secretary of war to send the Lawshe report to congress has failed. Those who backed the at tempt, no doubt in all innocence, should thank Secretary Root for say ing them from their error.
 Of nine cases already heard, and to be heard in the supreme court, in con nection with insular subjects, only one will deal with the status of the islands after congress has established a civil government in them. This is the case of s. R. Downes vs. the United States in which F. R. Coudert appears for the plaintiff. It is by far the most l important of all.
 Beer, it now appears, is wilfully adulterated by the brewers with ar senic to check fermentation at certain point. Why doesn't con gress make regulations for testing it while they have the subject under consideration in the pending war tax bill.
 The Montana legislature on We'd nesday elected W. A. Clark as sena- tor from that state.
 The papers have been printing long lists of people who claim to have seen three centuries. The fact of the mat ter is that many of those old folks de ceive themselves, The census figures show that there are only 5000 cente- narians in the United States at pres, ent.
 Senator Cullom, of Illinois is said to have free sailing for a reelection. Senator Quay has been reelected to the senate from Pennsylvania and took his seat Yesterday.
 Spain is progressing in civilization A movement is now on foot to put a stop to bull fighting in that country.
 The plumber is the hardest kicker about the drouth. The scarcity of water, and its consequent absence from the pipes, leaves nothing to freeze in the latter, hence cuts in on l his business
 Dr. Geo. E. Howard has been com, pelled to resign from Stanford uni versity on account of his untimely re= marks about the Ross episode.
 Just as Cheng and Chang, as repre- sentatives of the Chinese empire. af { fixed their signatures te that agree ment it was discovered that the Chi , nese seal was lost aud its impression could not be placed on the instru- ment. The Chinese are certainly adopts in art of tardy diplomacy.
 Dr. Herbert H. McCauley, of Chi cago, who was in the Red Cross ser vice in South Africa, has returned from there recently and has presented ! demand against the Portugese gov ernment for S1OO,OOO indemnity for false imprisonment at Lorenzo Mar ques while en route home. The doe tor was thrown in jail and kept there for several days without any apparent cause.
 While the democratic members of the Pennsylvania legislature were vot- ing for Col. J. M. Guffey. of Pitts burg, for United States senator, the colonels associates in the oil business struck a lake of oil down in Texas which has been flowing 25.OO0 barrels of crude petroleum Ter day. This