Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-03-05
NEWS, NOTES AND COMMENTS.

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 The Indian school football team has decided not to play any more games this season.
 E. J. Colnon, former harbor com missioner at San Francisco, and edi- tor of the Stockton Mail, committed suicide at the Pacific hospital in Los Angeles by shooting himself in the head. Continuous illness is supposed to be the cause.
 Between sixty and seventy men are reported dead beneath a snow slide which wrecked the Liberty Bell mine shaft at Telluride, Colorado. It is reported that there were between fifty and eighty men in the bunk house at the time and it was carried down into the gulch below.
 A man was placed in hypnotic state in Los Angeles last Sunday and buried six feet under ground with in structions to "lie low for week. The hypnotist intends to resurrect him next Sunday. His grave is pro- vided with all modern conveniences such as electric lights, ventilators, &c., and peep hole through which visitors can look and see him.
 A good example of modern non bigotry was afforded by the Second Presbyterian church of Paterson, which was burned out and. accepted cordial invitation of the Jews to hold services in their synagogue. The Baptists were guests of the Dutch Reformed and the Catholics had the use of a city armory.
 In accordance with instructions re- ceived from the war department at at Washington, the Twenty-ninth regiment, infantry, was started today from Fort Sheridan to the Philip pines, via San Francisco. The Twenty-ninth is one of the regiments organized under the laws passed a year ago. Its colonel is Theodore F. Forbes.
 While one of the big siI-inch oil gushers at Beaumont was being ex- hibited it blew out the section of pipe connecting the gate valve and went wild. It threw a solid stream of oil and in high wind the oil was being blown all over the field. The drilling rigs were ordered shut down and guards patrolled to prevent any one taking a light into dangerous proI- imity of the spray. It is estimated that the we'll wasted 2,0OO barrels of oil an hour.
 The passenger service was inaugu- rated today over the new Rock Island extension to Fl Paso, making di- rect line from Chicago to Fl Paso and cutting of 200 miles from any other route to the City of Mexico. ''The extension just completed" an officer says, 'is a section of fine rail road construction. Although new it is equal to the best transcontinental lines of today on which millions have been spent for betterments. In build that extension the Rock Island com pany built permanently.
 San Francisco experienced one of the heaviest southwest storms in many years on Tuesday. The wind at tained great velocity. Ships dragged their anchors or broke their moorings at the docks. A fishing boat was capsized, telephone and electric wires were down, and awnings, shade trees and fences were wrecked and pedes- trians were greatly inconvenienced. Telegraphic communication with the outside world is cut of. The full force of the storm was felt on the bay and the bar was so rough that vessels were unable to leave port.
 In response to an inquiry as to what action the Charleston exposition board would take in regard to Lieu tenant Governor Tillman's telegram to President Roosevelt withdrawing the invitation to present sword to Major Jenkins, Captain F. Wager, president of the exposition, said: 'None of the exposition officials has any connection with Colonel Till mans action and all look forward with pleasure to the proposed visit of President Roosevelt"
 A dispatch from Washington says } that an effort is to be made to have Fort Marcy at Santa Fe., N. M., . turned into sanitarium for the army Delegate Rodey of New Mexico will arrange for congressional action in the matter by introducing a bill pro viding that funds shall be appropri- ated for the repair of the buildings ol the fort and that it be immediately fitted up as a modern post of recuper- ation for invalid soldiers returning from the Philippines and from other points of army service.
 Hundreds of Illinois corporation. are in danger of losing their charter, because of their failure to comply with the law passed in 1899 requiring that each concern make an annual report to the secretary of state, giving the location of the principal office
 the nature of the business and the
 names of the president directors ol
 manager. There are nearly 12,OOt corporations doing business in th'
 state, and although the time for mak
 ing the report expired today only 5,436 have complied with the law. Owing to the prevalence of dip
 theria among the Pueblo Indians
 Superintendent c. J. Crandall of thu
 United States Indian school, has pro
 claimed a general quarantine among g the Pueblo Indians, and has warned them from coming into any of thu l towns or American settlements. H' ,, has also telegraphed the interior de g partment for authority to procur' e anti-toxin for use among the Pueblo q iu their twenty or more villages. II Q northern Taos county, New Mexico I the diptheria is very fatal among tn 3 Mexican children, scores of then
 having died the past few weeks. Tn t disease has not extended to the cite e nor to other counties. Miss Dlsette 1 supervising teacher of the Indians ] was sent to San Juan to close tn n school there on account of the dip theria epidemic.
 Prince Henry of Prussia journeye' V to Mount Vernon Thursday ant placed two wreaths on the tomb c Washington. He approached tn i grave of the first president with bare = head, and that there might be noth l. ing irreverent in the ceremony, aske'
 the holders of a dozen cameras wh
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