Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-01-29

Assemblyman Bonnet has intro
 duced bill in the New York legisla- ture to prohibit street flirting.
 An American firm has just secured
 a contract for 100000 watches to be delivered in London within the next twelve months.
 The postoffice department has orr dered all postmasters to withdraw from politics. And yet the postmas- terless politics is much more unthink- able than wireless telegraphy.
 The science of happiness is to take the common, homely blessing close at hand rather than to make yourself discontented about the imagined good far away,
 It is remarkable that when a mans ideas go through two or three hands and appear in print, he says some thing entirely different from what he had dreamed of saying.
 The efforts to introduce the Darien route into the Isthmian canal prob lem is meeting with little success and the present prospects are that the Panama route will be chosen.
 The western men in congress are united on two positions, one to secure irrigation legislation and another to keep out the Chinese indefinitely. Special attention, is being given the question of the reclamation of the arid lands and it is proposed to make a concerted fight at this session.
 Wireless telegraphy is no longer such, it is now, as determined by the army signal corps as aerography. So, also, instead of speaking of wireless dispatches it is the correct thing to call them aerograms, the operator be- ing dubbed aerographer.
 The not distant future promised to 1 demonstrate the correctness of Presi- dent Roosevelt's view that it is the investor in the trusts rather than | their competitors that need to be pro- tected from them.
 The abstract of the condition of the national banks of Arizona at the close of business on December 10, as re- ported to the comptroller of the cur rency, shows the average reserve held at 37.97 per cent; loans and discounts, S1, 1,735, 1885; gold coin, S323,SSO; total specie, S274, ,796; lawful money re- serve, S336,705; individual deposits, 2,S72, ,251; total resources, s, 794, ,931.
 Delegate Rodey of New Mexico, in his interview of June 22, said that while no formal agreement had been made by the delegates of the territories to resign in the event of adverse action on the statehood bills, they agree upon the propriety of such steps as fitting notice to the country of the injustice shown to ter ritories fitted in every way for state hood.
 Irrigation of the arid west is not local issue. It affects the entire nation. Foreign countries are be- coming more and more every year de- pendent on America for their food supplies. We must be ready to meet his demand. It is in the power of America to avert starvation should { ,amine strike the less fortunate coun- iries. That millions of acres west of he Mississippi river are susceptible o irrigation; that millions of gallons 'f water go to waste every year, flow ng in torrents from the mountain , screams to the great rivers and de- ( troy sometimes millions of dollars { worth of property, are undeniable acts. That cultivation of these lands )y conservation of these waters will z make great thriving towns, cheapen i ood products and store up supplies or the worlds markets is eqully as ! |