Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-03-19

 signed and Congressman Moody of Massachusetts has been appointed to the position.
 The senate has passed Warren's bill to refund tLe first payments made on desert land entries where the en- trymen, from causes not fraudulent, were unable to make final proof.
 In a recent speech Governor Adams of Colorado, said; "A government can never be better than the people whose representatives compose it. A people can never be better than the newspapers they read"
 Ex-Governor Altgelt of Illinois talked himself nearly to death re- gently on the Boer question. At the end of his speech he collapsed and remained unconscious for several hours.
 A telegram from Washington con- veys the pleasing information that Judge R. E. Sloan was confirmed as associate justice of the territory March F. While the appointment has been held up in the senate for some time, it was not thought at any time that the senate would refuse to confirm the appointment.
 Col. R. c. Clowry, vice-president and superintendent of the Western Union Telegraph Company, has been elected president, succeeding Thomas T. Eckert, retired. Col. Clowry made a tour of Arizona recently looking af- ter Western Union interests. He is thoroughly familiar with every detail of the company's business.
 4 smokeless coal and coke com pany has been incorporated at Har- risburg, Pa. The new company pro- poses to supply a quality of coal that, when handled by competent firemen, will be almost free from smoke. The company has 120 acres of coal land near Berlin, Pa, and about 800 tons of coal a day are being mined. The coal is found at fifty feet beneath the surface and is said to be of a differ ent quality from the ordinary coal.
 Utah is at her old tricks again, and wants a slice of Arizona. On the 18th instant Representative Suther- land of Utah introduced a bill pro viding that that portion of Arizona lying north of the Colorado river be annexed to the stateof Utah, provided that the state shall within one year after the approval of the act by legis- lative enactment accept the said land as a part of the state and establish ol extend county government ovef the same.
 There are some weeks when the world seems to make news and other: when the news making is done only by the yellow journals. The one just passed, with the visit of Prince Hen ", the dramatic scenes in the senate the final ratification of the Hay. Pauncefote treaty at the state depart ment, the Mckinley memorial ser vices and the action of the railway merger, has been one of real news.
 The inscrutable and devious ways of economies: The wane in the ust of the bicycle has tended to lesser sickness. The decreased demand fol rubber for tires has made cheaper crude rubber and therefore cheaper overshoes; more persons bought then and there was less sickness. This il a fair sample of the syllogistic teach ing of cause and effect that the aver age college graduate acquires, rathe than facts based on experience,
 The whole question of reciprocitl is being watched with great interes by the representatives of foreig1 countries. Already the German am bassador is considering whether tn, proposition to reduce the duty or Cuban sugar would not be an uujust discrimination against German sugar It is understood that the state dt partment is considering the question with great anxiety, for if the German government should view the discrim nation against German sugar as ar unfriendly act, the labors of the state department to obtain favorable actiol by Germany on American farm pro ducts would be unavailing. Here i nice little international question and one in which the farmers are par ticularly interested.
 The determination of the Presiden to have the so-called merger" of tn Northern Pacific and the Great North ern Railways decided in court i neither a play to popular prejudice against railroads nor a desire t hamper large legitimate enterprises He is, however, desirous of havin, the question tested by the Fedora judiciary of the country, so that if tn railroads are guilty of any violation )f law they may be punished; on tn other hand, if they are not, a speed. stop will be put to the populisti cries against legitimate corporate en terprises.
 Whitelaw Reid pays S20,000 ren for the house he will occupy durin, the coronation. If there's anothe roar left in NIT. Wheeler of Paducah | tb;e eboul1 b,-ip,, # ont