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THE COCONINO SUN. he QDocimtttP mt, FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA. Entered In the I'ostolBce at Flagstaff ax second class matter. Issued every Saturday. Subscription price, two dollars u Tear, In ttdvancj. Every paper U stopped nt the explratjon or the time paid for C M. FUNSTON, Editor. Flagstaff, Satohday, Jan. 7, 1899. FIFTH in the production of gold is whore Arizona stands among the states of the union. T would probably please the Arizona Democrats belter if N. O. Murphy did not make so good u governor. Tub expeditions sunt out in quest of the lost Professor Andree have found that task about as difficult as Andree doubtless found his search for the North Pole. From reports from the Philippines Dewey should cut thocable again while he gives the insurgents a thrashing. TJio, Washington authorities want moral suasion tried on tho insurgents. Old Glory has now been fly ing over Havana. for .cvcn days, and ali the Spanish troops have left the city and In u short timo all the Spanish troops will have left Cuba never to return. miles of the ro.id was built. Tho bonds were issued and pi need in the hand of the promoters, who speedily disposed of them and abandoned the road. It is pietty tough on the people of Pema county to be made to pay handsomely for something they did not get. North Dakota is weary of bcinu, called the divorce Mate, and will en deavor to amend tho ftatutcs this win ter so that tho matt imoufal noose will be a little harder to untie. It tuny, be that thoticd will turn to Arizona for relief. THE supremo court of the United States decided this week, that $289,9G3 in bonds Issued by Pema county in 1894, for building a railroad from Tucson to Globe, are legal. Tho opin ion of the court Is based on the authori ty of the Act of Congress of June 6, 1896, which law validated theP.& A. C. bonds. The Tucson and Globe railroad was the purest fake, as only three A COPY of u letter written by Presi dent McKinley's mother, and found among her papers, is in reply loan In quiry concerning liur system in bring ing up childieti. "I hal six of them," was her answer, "and 1 had my own work to do; but I did simply the best L could." The outlook for the continued pros perity of Flsigstair in 1899 is flattering. With an excellent system of water work completed, the completion of the largest and best saw mill plant In the west, and, with tho prospect of the' building of a railroad to tho Grand Canyon, the year will le a prosperous one for Flagstaff. JurxiE Doan, sajs the Globe Time, at the adjourned term of our district court, expressed the wishes ofuho American people when he said: "In"' the future the services of an interpreter would not be required in naturaliza tions and that the applicants must be ' able to speak and understand the English language." Had this ruling been made by our former judges tho late defeat at the polls would not have been so bad. , t.