Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-12-24

Ex-Speaker Thomas Brac ket Reed who has just died in Washington, worked his way through Bowdoin col lege and graduated at the head of his class.
 It is rather a commentary on Wash ington boarding houses that Dr. Wiley has to feed with ordinary fare for two weeks the twelve young men on whom he proposes to experiment in order to get them into normal condition.
 Clifton is just now agitating the question of incorporating. Typhoid fever has been epidemic there for some time, and as matter of sanita- tion corporation is being advocated. It is claimed that conditions are get ting worse each year and that unless some vigorous measures are taken typhoid will be more prevalent next year than it has been this.
 The four-year- town of Valdez Alaska is building up rapidly, accord ing to the Valdez Prospector received at this office. An electric light plant has just been installed in the town and the Episcopal church is prepar- ing to build a hospital. The Pros pector expresses the opinion that the town will have a population of 10, 900 within the next year or two.
 The hello girls of the telephone company at Indianapolis went on a strike recently. The general man. ager called them together to meet him for a conference and he purchased a supply of caramels and candy and took them with him to the meeting. After distributing the sweets, the girls without much persuasion were in duced to return to work.
 Coal miners in an Indiana town have gone out on a sympathetic strike. As a rule, but not always, sympathetic strikes are senseless things. Generally a strike occurs in one locality, who have no particular grievance, out of sympathy for parties in some other place. This sympa- thetic strike was of an entirely differ ent nature and shows that the men engaging in it have hearts of the pro- per kind. The mules worked in the mines in which they were employed were not properly fed, and were otherwise mistreated and the strike was for the purpose of securing proper treatment for the animals.
 TheCochise county grand jury, in session last week at Tombstone, thought it proper to call attention to the necessity for a territorial poor farm, and unanimously adopted the following resolution: ''We would recommend and strongly urge to the three elected assemblymen and coun- cilman to do all in their power to op- dlC NlNh OihCl OOuhllCc III for the passage of a bill to provide means of support of territorial poor farm, to be used by county poor and those able to do some measure of work, who are now inmates of the various county hospitals. An institu- tion of this kind would be the means of saving Cochise and other counties of this territory many thousands of dollars every year"
 E A telegram from Hamilton, Ohio, says that the Hamilton Ministerial Alliance has unanimously voted to exclude Santa Claus from all Sunday school Christmas entertainments. As one member put it, the churches are not justified in fostering even so in- nocent a superstition. This action oes not speak we'll for the m inisters. They have evidently read the history of Santa Claus and must be aware that there need be no superstition, innocent or otherwise about the indi- vidual. The original St. Nicholas, of which the later day Santa Claus is a type, was a reality, and not superstition and his acts in mak- ing those around him, and especially the children, happy is worthy of emu lation today. Every man who per forms a kindly deed to child, either by word or gift is a genuine Santa Claus and the man, be he minister or not. who would rob a child of the pleasures derived from the represen- tations of St Nicholas of old, is a misanthrophe and no genuine or real Jriend of children.