Show THE BRANNAN BUBBLE in regard to tho the brannan land grabbing scheme the alta cal says sam brannaka Bran nana nans grant is now dead without hope of resurrection it never had any cliance chance of being made operative it covered the tile valuable kalua ble land that has been held from ti time immemorial by the tile yaqui and other other lim industrious n dust rious but warlike indians the mexicans have wished to deprive the indians of this land and were willing to let americans do the necessary fighting ig hence the grant Bron brannan nall made no effort to survey sarley or subdivide the land which would have required a small army the grant lapsed the governor of sonora reported the fact to the central government and now noly president gonzales Gon zaleg lias has formally abrogated the contract which was made with castro a mexican it being understood der stood that he would transfer it to brannan it is not probable that brannan will secure another gra grant til in lieu of this lapsed one A CRISIS between betwee n the british ir house of commons and house of lords is imminent the former brat branch neli of parliament have rejected eal the amendments of the lat latter r to the irish land bill the of lords give no appearance a ap pp can nee afre of receding and there is a strong feeling 01 in favor abolishing of the upper house altogether As that would b be e a strong revolutionary move it is quest questionable lo whether england is yet ripe for it il we are satisfied however that the abolition of the lords is only a question of time the tendency of british politics being in markedly democratic SOME or the papers state that the infernal machine scare is keeping many american tourists at home they do not feel like running the risk of being divided into small pieces convenient for f or salting in tho the brino brine of the deep tempestuous ocean it is certainly nofa nota poetic sensation for one to feel as if at any moment domestic infelicity might bo be created among the shoals of mackl mackerel mac kezel exel in squabbling over the more succulent pieces of a persons person corpus idt a lyv THE SAN sax 11 til mentions the case casoff of J II 11 Clemet clementshaw shaw a character noted for general while ho be lived in salt lake city as follows appellants points and authorities on a appeal peal to the supreme court were filed lippell lIp yesterday in the case of J JIL ir convicted of perjury in swearing falsely upon a coroners inquest questin into the death cat akop chas DeYoung de young e and now undergoing sentence at sa san n quentin the most striking points of tho the appeal are that this ia is error for tho the court to charge the jury with respect to matters of fact that materiality of the testimony must not bo i presumed but must be shown by the evidence just as any other of crime rinie that tho the instructions Instruction sare aro confused uncertain and fail bisti distinctly z let to lay down dov n tho the law law while it e contains suggestions of the guilt of the accused court should not employ equivocal phrases to impress tho the jury with HIO the accused A republican form of government has been adopted by the boers they call it the republic of south africa the manner in which the roman empire went to pieces plem bids fair for a repetition in tho the decline of the british one dependency efter another threw off tho the restraint until the mammoth structure crumbled to ruin examples ani ples arc are contagious that of the boers is likely to be followed by other english colonies |