Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-08-20

Okld0Omd UenOcrdBS VIII SNo | O,OOO republican majority" IS the prediction of Delegate Flynn.
 Prescott's two democratic papers Ire just now furnishing some inter ,sting reading for democratic voters.
 Texas has seventv-six counties where local option forbids the sale of iquor. This may account for the argo number of Texans in Arizona.
 The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad have advanced the pay of 5000 of their men from , to 15 per ,ent, which is additional evidence of prosperity.
 A dispatch from New York states that more than half of the S65O,000 needed for the national memorial to President Mckinley has been rdised by the national association.
 If any one has any doubts about the democratic methods of running affairs in this c5Inty, all they need to do is to req, .he statements in the democratic napers of Prescott.
 After the repeated warnings which had been given Charles. L. Fair, the death of himself and wife by means of the automobile was little less than a murder and suicide on his part.
 Minister Wu will undoubtedly re- main in Washington until next year on account of important duties con nected with the state department in connection with the payment of the Chinese indemnity.
 A telegram from Muscatine, Iowa, says: W. J. Bryan, in an interview here today, said positively that he would not be a candidate for presi- dent in 1904. He said he was satis- fled to live as a private citizen.
 Twelve per cent of the manufac lures Of the United States are pro duced by trusts, and against one ot those the administration is conduct ing a suit with every prospect of sue cess. The actual figures make demo cratic agitation look insignificant.
 Arizona democrats will be ingrate. if they do not renominate and re-elec Delegate Mark Smith to congress- Albuquerque Citizen. The republi cans of Arizona will have say il the matter when it comes to electins a delegate, no matter who the demo crats nominate.
 The American Shipbuilding com
 pany, of Chicago, announces that tn
 various yards of the company i' filled to overfowing with orders fo
 work. Twenty nine orders for mod
 ern steel steamers have been re
 ceived, aggregating a money value
 nearly S9,OO0,0O0.
 Poor men may sometimes be OF
 erated on for appendicitis, but W
 never seem to hear about it. Is tn , vermiform annex on everybody, or
 it merely on the well-to-do, we'd lik , to know?
 The Iowa state convention decide
 for Roosevelt for president in l9O , and in favor of tariff revision to tt extent of reduction of the tariff c those products handled and col trolled by the trusts.
 A vote cast for the republica
 party is vote cast for known DO
 icy and one that has proven its wi dom. A vote cast for the democrat } party is leap in the dark and an eI l. dorsement of a policy no one can d fine.
 : The able men which the repub
 can party has sent to the senate are
 sufficient guarantee of the ability
 the party to meet every emergenc
 To contrast them with the senate
 who represent the democracy in t
 upper chambers of congress would
 rough on mediocrity.
 l. A colored woman in New Yo 9 state has just discovered that she ,, no longer a slave. She had be . brought from Kentucky by an o soldier, upon his return from t .t war, who, it is alleged, sold her .s one Silas A. Shell. An attorney h o brought suit to recover S2,000 for h r. services.
 ,s The newest thing in ordnance is
 shell that does not explode until u ~penetrative ability has been ( J hausted," or until it has reached T. final destination. Its penetrati ls power is said to equal fourteen iucf D. of Krupp armor, two inches thicl A7 than that used on any battleship n the world.
 E The Water Motor and Powei co T. pany, with a capital stock of Si,OC n 900, will soon begin the erection k- an extensive power plant at Gre Ill Falls, on the Virginia side of the l -d tomac, about eighteen miles ab' P' Washington. It expects to supp if practically all of the Washington he dustries with power. d. On an average, 800 persons are ai nually killed by lightning iu 1s United States. The chances il d, any one of our 76,OOO,000 people V ns meet death in this form are 1 in : ,1 GOO. This surely is a nerve-soothi
 rejection for those who too mt al dread the thunderbolt.