Arizona republican., 1902-03-09
NOTE AND COMMENT.

Chairman Oliver w. Stewart. of the prohibitionist national committee an nounces that S19 persons have given $4.2S7 to the party's 1902 campaign fund.
 The leading citizens of Trenton, N. J., visited the police court last week and paid g apiece for their negligence in leaving more snow on their side walks than the law allows.
 Menelik. Negus of Abyssinia, may be one of the attractions at the big S. Louis show. It is reported that he has expressed desire to see it and to sec the United States incidentally.
 Mrs. Sarah Staten of Sauk county. Wis. alleges that David q. James : hugged and kissed her three times against her will, and now she's suing him for S15,0OO.
 Sunday. February 16, Rev. Alexander Macintosh of Honolulu and his con- gregation. excluded from the cathedral by Bishop Willis and the trustees, were the guests of Chaplain Frank Thomp- son, |. s. N on board the transport Solace
 Of the 17,962 persons committed in the year that ended September 13. 1901, to Massachusetts jails, etc. for drunk enness. 6.S74 were Massachusetts born. The other states of the Union contri- buted 2415 to the total, the Dominion 1881. Ireland 5,012. England 956. Scot land SS7. Germany 76.
 An editorial paragra ph in the current issue Gf the Army and Navy Journal begirs as follows: I've regret exceed ingly to learn from a most excellent source that it is the intention of Secrc- tary of the Navy John b. Long to tender his resignation. in the near fu- ture as a member of President Roose- velt's cabinet"
 A. NJ. Fletcher owns and runs d farm in Marlboro county. s. C. Last year, on a ten-acre tract of upland he raised, successiveIy. 800 bushels of oats and 4,200 pounds of cured hay. These crops he sold for s627-s267O per acre. That s better. he says. than cotton ever did by him.
 Colonel sam Parker's wife has been buying $1O,00o worth of new furniture in San Francisco for her house in Hon. ululu. Many statues. pictures etc., bought in Europe for the house, arrived before her. The understanding in Homo lulu is that Mrs. Parker intends to en- certain laVishly. whether her husband gets the goVernorship CT not.
 Ex-Governor Jim Hogg of Texas and the Oil Gushers has been having tho time of his life in London this winter At Mrs. HOgg's dinner party in Cado- gan Square he was introduced to the kings private secretary, the paymaster of the royal household, Lord and Lady Stavordale. and the Marquis and Mar chioness of Northampton. It's q great change from the old days of calamity bowling.
 The corner stone of the Carnegie li- brary ct San Jose. Cal, was laid on a Sunday, and against the protests of the pastors, by the local lodge of Elks. Thi: inscription was engraved on the stone. Laid by San Jose Lodge, B. P. Q. F.. No. 522, by Request of the Mayor ant Common Council" The pastors arj their sympathizers returned to the at tack with q memorial in which they denounced the inscription as ''calcu- lated to advertise a special interest, of fensive to refined taste, a lasting mutt lation oi q public building. misuse and perversion of Carnegie's gift t San Jose and a reflection on the tultur, of the community The Inscription has been removed.