Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-04-16

our mountain city will be the metro polls of the state of Arizona.
 The newspapers are making desper- ate efforts to crowd Secretary Hitch cock out of the cabinet.
 Kansas City elected a democratic mayor at the election held there yes terday, and the democrats made gain of several councilmen.
 Bisbee held her first city election on Monday and started of right by electing a republican mayor and majority of republicans in the council.
 Twenty thousand people attended the funeral of Wade Hampton on Sunday at Columbia, South Carolina.
 Rev. De Witt Thalmage died on Saturday, April F. He will be buried tomorrow, Tuesday, April 16,
 There is expressed in various pa- pers of the country a want for con- gressmen who will look after the needs of their constituents first, and after that those of the Boers and Filipinos.
 The steel trust earned last year Sll1, ,667, ,195, sum larger than the capital of any other industrial con- cern. The corporation makes its books public and does not seem to lose anything by it.
 President Roosevelt is visiting the state which produces the only Till mans. The president and his wife had cordial reception on their ar rival there. Among the first places visited by the presidential party was the old historic Fort Sumpter.
 Senator Hawley, of Connecticut chairman of the committee on mili- tary affairs, recently politely pointed out some of the interesting decora- tions in the committee room to party of rural visitors, who were evi- dently strangers to the capitol. As they left him one of the ladies slipped silver quarter into his hand, and when the astonished senator asked why she offered to pay a United States senator for an act of courtesy, she replied with perfect simplicity: ''Oh, excuse me; I thought you were doorkeeper."
 A Berlin doctor gave an exhibition recently of speaking apparatus of his invention, which enables patients from whom the thyro-cartilage, or Adams apple has been removed to speak quite distinctly. The appara- tus works automatically by inhalation or exhalation. Dr. Chuck stated that in twelve cases it had worked well where the entire apple had been re- moved, and in twelve others where half the apple had been removed. One of the latter was man "A years. Dr. Chuck said he had successfully treated cancer of the throat in this way.
 Governor Dockery's attention was called recently to an alleged British war supply camp at Lathrop, Mo. The governor said he knew nothing of the operations of the British there, but he did know that a market had been operated at Lathrop by private individuals for the past ten years. He says it is the largest horse and mule market in the world and SUD- plies the United States government as well as the British government with horses and mules.
 Cecil Rhodes will was first made in 1877, when he was a young man of twenty-four and had scarcely be- gun to amass the immense fortune he possessed when he died. The last will was dated 1899, yet the two are essentially alike.
 Russia, Germany and some of the other powers are issuing bonds to an amount equal to their share in the Chinese indemnity, thus converting it into ready cash. The payments from China will be in installments lasting over a number of years.
 At Bryan dollar dinner" in Ten nessee recently, an impassioned ora tor referred to "our peerless leader who has done nothing to forfeit our love except to die for us, crucifed on a cross of gold" The same day Mir. Bryan moved into a S3,OOO brick barn while his SS,O0O house was being completed.
 hdJOl hdll0l, Ol lnc Hldilhc COIpo, who was tried by court martial at Manila on the charge of killing natives of the Island of Samar without trial, has been acquitted. The court stood II to ?. The testimony showed pret- ty conclusively that Major Waller did not kill any one who did not need killing.
 Another change in the management of the Phenix Gazette is announced. ! The business disagreement of the