Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-04-23

longs to that political species com monly designated "a roorback"
 The Chinese government has is sued decrees giving mining conces- sions for foreigners, but the tax bur Gens are so great that they practi- cally amount to prohibition.
 The next thing one may expect to hear is that the British have estab- lished a camp at Phenix. The Dem- ocrat says that agents of that govern ment are in Phenix for the purpose of purchasing horses for England.
 Siberian butter of an inferior grade is beginning to make an impression on European markets, the output having trebled in three years. A special butter train on the Siberian railway gathers up the product once a week.
 A Russian paper has had to sus- pend publication because it said that the freeing of the serfs, accomplished forty-one years ago, had done less for the peasants than was hoped for. The government will not tolerate even such mild criticism.
 The government has put a higher valuation on gold in the Philippines than ever before by lowering the ex- change rate of silver. This was neces- sary because Chinese money changers bought up gold coins and turned them into bullion at large profit.
 The committee on militia of the house of representatives has favorably reported a bill 10 reorganize and equip the national guard of the coun- try like the regular army and to pro- vide for its calling out by the presi- dent, to become part of the regular national forces. Heretofore the state militia was not subject to service out side of its own state.
 In the English courses at the North western University, ,'Evanston, Illinois, a spelling test proved that 66s per cent of the classes failed, in spite of two months drilling in orthography. The greatest number failed on the words heterogeneous" judgment" and thorough" The professors at the Northwestern say that the same conditions hold in all the other col leges of the country.
 According to the census there are l,600 shoe factories in the United states, employing 143,000 men, using S170,000,000 worth of material in year, and turning out a product worth S26l 100000. The wholesale price of d pair of shoes represents about P per .cent in wages, 65 per cent in materials and 13 per cent in minor expenses and profits.
 The Kentucky legislature passed a bill prohibiting the docking" of horses tails, but it was vetoed by the governor as its provisions were all aimed against the sellers of "docked" horses. He was unwilling to dis criminate against Kentucky dealers, he said, but would gladly sign a bill aimed at the faddists who bought and drove the mutilated animals.
 When the Journal-Miner, in 1900, accused the management of the United Verde company of spending money with lavish hand to defeat the republican candidate for sheriff, it was subjected to considerable abuse from the democratic papers of the county. While on the witness stand in New York the other day, if the associated press is to be believed, and it is always considered reliable, Senator W. A. Clark admitted that S10,000 of the funds belonging to the company were disbursed with this object. in view and by his orders Mir. Clark spends money lavishly to attain his political ends, as was evi- denced in this case.
 Santos-Dumont, "the wizard of the air, who is now en route to St. Louis to confer with Worlds fair officials on the subject of the airship races to take place during the progress of the Louisiana Purchase ex- position, may find warmer compe- tition among the American areonauts than he anticipates at this time. Many American inventors, with plenty | of money to back them up, are laying plans to dispute the Brazilian's title to being the "all of it" when it comes to navigation in the clouds. The | dirigible airship is M. Santos-Du- mont's special hobby, and his sail around Eiffel tower, and the latter successful flights over Monaco bay have no doubt created a general i'm pression that he will probably have an easy time of it walking off with the S200,0O0 prize offered by the the Louisiana Purchase exposition for this sort of flying machine. That impression is an erroReous one. There are others, and there are Americans among them. When the airship races at the Worlds fair are over, Nj. San tos-Dumont and those who expect to see him any easy winner may find themselves on the wrong side of the guessing contest. They may have another guess coming. It certainly looks that way at this distance.
 Unless I. T. Stoddard is a different sort of man than the Journal Miner thinks he is, he must have a good sized disgust towards certain class of papers in the territory, which, in