Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-04-02

A single American company an nounces that it will buy at ono, 1900 steel cars and 260 locomotive, to accommodate its increased traffic No bounds are set on the industrial expansion of the republic.
 Chicago has the record number oi trains arriving and departing in on, day, with HOO. This supremacy will be overthrown when the Penn sylvania and Long Island railway terminals are finished at New York.
 A current advertisement in th' Commoner: "For dreadful dreams and other political ailments, take dose of the Commoner once a week: 52 doses for S1.O0." The CommoneI lives on political ailments and night mares.
 President Didz has Officially noti- fled the Louisiana Purchase Exposi- ton that, in response to the request of President Francis of the eXposi- ton, the Mexican government will send to the worlds fair detachment of that country's picturesque cavalry. known as the "rurales," also one oi Mexico famous military bands, anG permit them to remain during the ex position.
 A Deming citizen accidently bored an inch hole through his anatomy by discharging a revolver that wasn't loaded. How big would the hole have been if the gun had been loaded and the deed premeditatedi-Optic
 Christ's Hospital, or the ''Blue Coat School" where Coleridge and Lamb were educated, has just been removed from London to the country, being crowded out by the changes that are rapidly removing the last of ''Old London" The school was founded by Edward VI in 1858. It is coin cidence that Edward VII should found the new school $50 years later.
 From the siege of Troy to the oc- cupation of Peking the historian has not had to vary his comment on the "rapine of hcentious soldiery." There is a different commentary for the United States occupation of her new possessions. Witness Havana with 1,252 deaths the year before our troops went there, a rate that de- creased to S,153 under the first year of our regime and has now dropped to 5000.
 The Cunard company has wearied of being eclipsed by the German and White Star line steamships in the transatlantic passage and plans have been completed for the building of two new vessels for the Queenstown route whose contract speed will not be less than twenty-five knots an hour. The engines will possess A. 900 horse power. These two steam ships will be considerably faster than any passenger vessel afloat or being built.
 A meeting of twenty-six of the thirty two State Bankers association of the country was held in New York recently to consider the question of issuing interc manageable money orders to absorb the money order business of the postal department, which amounts to many millions annually. Then, the bankers are desirous of drawing the money order trade of the express companies, which is big source of revenue to the latter. It is proposed to sell at all banks in the association money orders payable to any of them.
 Los Angeles has one hundred cases on its court calendar of damage suits against the trolley lines of that city.
 As regards this country, Gen. Diaz occupies a unique position. He is about the only man in public life any where for whom every newspaper in the United States invariably has good words.
 Mir. Nixon missed the democratic nomination for vice president last time because he was a ship builder and favored ship subsidy. Now Mir. Bryan is having pleasant talks with this subsidy democrat who favor the contentious of Senators Hanna and Frye.
 When one gets to the bottom of the consent of the governed" talk it is largely rubbish. We do not ask the consent of paupers, criminals and i'm beciles-but that is beside the ques- ton. How about the democrats who have disfranchised the negroes in some southern states without the con sent of the governed?
 Vicent Carrillo, an Indian, aged IA years, died at Sonoma, California the other day. He was born in the Sonoma valley and was an old man when Gen. Vallejo laid out Souoma in the early forties. It is said that thirty years ago he was nearly six feet in height, but, remarkable to re- late. when laid out for burial his body was actually less than three feet in length.