Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-03-02

Hay has received information that the Japanese have negotiated treaty with
 Korea whereby it guarantees the in
 dependence and integrity of Korea.
 Paris, Feb. 9. Ut is the belief in highest official quarters that the pow
 CTS will support the Russian view as
 to- the invalidity of the Japanese
 treaty with Korea SO far as it creates
 a Japanese prote torate over Korea,
 owing to the emperor being under
 duress. But it is said that no imme-
 diate action on the part of the powers
 will be required.
 TokiO, Feb. 25.-The Japanese gov
 ernment today paid the famous white
 whiskey claim by handing United
 States Minister Griscom a draft for
 one hundred and fifteen thousand
 dollars in favor of the American Trad
 ing company.
 The claim arose from a customs de- cision rendered in nineteen hundred,
 holding the importation of eight
 thousand barrels of whiskey tc be al
 cohol. thus increasing the duty from
 forty to two hundred and fifty per cent.
 Japan at first rejected the claim for repayment of the amount alleged to
 have been overcbarged by the customs
 I,,.,-4r,o,,t I,,+ Ag,,,;-l~,. ft-;-1~,,, ~.,, arriving at Tokio renewed it, and pressed the case with firmness. His success in securing the payment is very gratifying to the American commercial men, as the settlement is regarded as another mark of the friendliness of Japan for America.
 Chicago, Feb. 25.-Aided by the strong English grain markets, wheat for May delivery moved two and one half cents above yesterdays closing, touching a dollar and nine cents a bushel.
 2 Biggs, Cal, Feb. 25.-Early this morning half of the residence portion of Riggs and the country for a dis tanee of several miles in ,nearly every direction is covered with water from an overflow of Feather river. The wa ter is from few inches to several feet deep.
 Looking toward Gridley and Marys- vile, to the south as far as the eye could reach, at dawn, the country ap- peared to be an open sea.
 Terre Haute, 4nd., Feb. 25.-Presi- ' dent George Hargrove of the Indiana district of the United Mine Workers 1 will take action to stop the collection of mohey from Indiana miners for the . aid of the mineral miners of the j west. A representative of the Western ( Federation of Miners, which is the or gaGization of mineral miners and which is opposed to the Gompers Am erican federation of labor, came into Indiana recently fully accredited by his organization to solicit aid. Presi- I dent Hargrave countersigned his ere dentials.
 Tbe first tangible result of the rep v resentative's work in the state was mass meeting of miners at Linton, l when it was decided that each man ( should give 30 cents a month. This a would mean $500 in the Linton field I Since the solicitor was here at the \ headquarters of the Indiana united ( mine workers the official organ of the I Western Federation of Miners has con- i .ained a severe arraignnent of John I accusing him of dishonesty. ( The fact that the Western federation F las decried the United Mine Workers Ii in the past and the off iial paper is now assailing Mitchell will be told to the Indiana miners, md that will put an end to the col ection of money.
 The strike of the coal miners in the L vest and that of the mineral. miners e Ire two events with no connection as a O employers or conditions of labor. L
 San Quentin, Feb. 2G.-Charles .u' T yardrip was hanged today in the state .n; n ,rison here for the murder of Hugh - Duffy of Sacramento.
 Washington, Feb. 26. 6.-Immediately1 A fter the criminal court convened to- at lay, Justice Pritchard charged the ot uIy in the postal case, and the jury Q. etired at eleven o'clock. Il
 Washington, Feb. 26. Secretary Hay c, nd Minister Bunau-V -Varilla this fore oi loon exchanged notifications of the d. 'anama canal treaty at the state de- |. artment.
 At II:j0 o'clock President Roosevelt igned the treaty putting the procla- nation into effect.
 Madison, Wis. Feb. 27.-The' Wis ci ousin state capitol building was dam it ged to the extent of eight hundred c housand dollars by a fire today. al The fire involves the building of ol ew capitol and a special session of ir he legislature. nj
 It will probably cause a renewal of hi he agitation in favor of rsmnving the ;r apitol from Madison to Milwaukee. e. The fire was caused by defective lectric wiring. The insurance is six te undred thousand dollars. WI The fire apparatus was sent from n, 
 The fire chief Bernard was overcome o' V smoke and fell from a ladder re- aiViuO spriOus iniurirs and k uOW