Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-09-03
NEWS. NOTES AID COMMENTS.

Durb gave DOlu III tut sun Ol S1.OON for his appearance in court.
 President Roosevelt's order to Gen eral Miles to visit the Philippine: has reached the war department General Miles is instructed to pro ceed about September l5 to the Phil. ippines to inspect the army there with reference to instruction, dlscl- pline and supplies" It is the under standing that General Miles will not interfere in any way with either Gen eral Chaffee or his successor, General Davis, in the direction of the army oi the Philippines.
 A telegram from Cheyenne says s H. McCumpsey, mechanic, his wife and two children and two other girls lost their lives in a fire at Gehriug Neb., caused by the explosion of a can of kerosene with which McCump- sey was starting fire.
 Frank Mccormick, years of age, shot Jimmy Walsh, aged 9, in the head, in Denver, with a revolver, in- flicting a fatal wound. The shooting occurred at the Colorado house, kept by Mrs. William Power, Frank Me Cormick's mother. The lad found the revolver in his mothers bureau, but did not know it was loaded, and the shooting was done in play.
 Sheriff Christensen of San Juan county, has made formal appeal to | United States Senator Rawlins for the relief of the Navajo Indians in southern Utah and the latter has telegraphed the situation to the Indian commissioner at Washington. Sheriff Christensen confirms the re- ports that the Navajos are in des- perate condition, and he predicts that unless immediate relief is given serious results may follow. Thirty thousand Navajo Indians are actually at the point of starvation in southern Utah, New Mexico and Arizona, " said the sheriff today.
 P. E. Barker. San Francisco man, shot Mrs. NJ. J. Moss in her apart ments in Oakland and then con- mitted suicide. Barker was jealous of Mrs. Moss, to whom he had been paying attention. Mrs. Moss, who was shot above the left breast, will probably live. The bullet came out of her back. Barker shot himself in the mouth. Policeman Sill heard shooting and rushed for Mrs. Moss apartments, Barker falling dead into his arms at the head of the stairway.
 According to statements more or less official, brought recently from the north, the output of gold from the Klondike will not be as large this year by several million as was the clean up during last season. So far a little over S7,0O0,000 worth of gold dust has been shipped from the in side, being sent to Vancouver and other points on the coast. There are perhaps S3,00O,OO0 more, either still held by the miners themselves or kept in Dawson awaiting shipment, making a total production to date of something over Sl0,000,000.
 Mrs. Michael Noonan celebrated at the home of her son, two miles south west of Chester, Iowa. her one hun dred and eighth birthday Tuesday She is the oldest person in the north west. Born in Ireland, August 22, 1794, she has seen five successive monarcbs rule over her native coun- try, George III, George ", William ", Victoria and Edward VII. ''Aad I just think I'll outlive Edward, too she says, cheerily. She rises with the birds, makes her own bed, eats at the table with the family, walks about the house supported only by a cane, sews without glasses and talks as in telligently as any of her descendants. She spends much of her time doing fine needle work and one of her pieces of fancy work took first prize at the Howard county fair of 1901. She owes her long life, she thinks, to the eating of plain food and the blood of ancestors who passed the hundred mark. She has never had a really sick spell in her life. She was Julia Lynch and was married Sl years ago. She has had one son, three daugh- ters, thirty-four grandchildren living and twenty great grandchildren.
 United States Minister Bowen at Caracas, Venezuela, advises the state department by telegraph that a gov ernment warship recently arriving at La Guayra reports that for two days she bombarded Ciudad Boliver, after which she withdrew, having ex- hausted her ammunition.
 Fever continues to rage in the thickly populated districts of Chi cago and as yet there is some differ ence of opinion as to the real cause and exact nature of the disease. As to the former point, one of Chicago's leading physicians advances the theory that the epidemic may pos sibly be traced back to the eruption of Mont Pelee. This enormous ex- penditEe of heat affected atmos- pheric conditions by lowering the earth's temperature he said. ''The moisture easily condensed, and hence the frequent rains we have endured. This unusual rainfall has contributed the important factor for the develop ment of typho-malaria.
 Chicago and Louisville capitalists have leased Sand island in the Ohio river and intend to ake it the Coney island of the mddle west. A com pany with a capital of S100000 will be incorporated tomorrow. George Tebeau, owner of the Louisville ball team, will be the president. A big hotel and summer theater will be built, and patrons will be conveyed from the Kentucky and Indiana bridge by movable sidewalk.
 Although the official report of Lieutenant Winchell, who was de tailed to accompany the oil-burning steamer MaripOsa on her recent trip from San Francisco to the Society islands and return, for the purpose of making a comprehensive report upon every feature of the Oil-burning devices used by that steamer, has not yet reached the navy department, unofficial data having arrived, which are considered very satisfactory to those interested. The run from San Francisco is 3,43S knots. It was made by the Mariposa at the rate of 19I2 knots per hour for the whole run, lasting eleven days. during which a little over 400 tons of oil were consumed. The number of pounds of oil per knot used on the