The weekly Arizona miner., 1885-03-27

although there is an immense profit in the
 liquor traffic, nevertheless saloon men as {
 rule are poor.
 An old friend writing us from Mineral
 Park states that Judge Murphy,
 the newly appointed County Judge, had
 held session of Court, drawn quarter.
 salary in advance and gone on trip to
 California Such is life in the far, f.r West.
 We sympashizs with our friend J. J. Nash
 in his troubles over the name of his paper.
 Why not, instead of hanging to the Tomb
 stone Epitaph, call it the Dead Giant, or
 something else The better name would
 be Twenty-fve-ceRis a week. Brace up,
 Nashy, old boy. and stay with tho battle
 Mr. Patrick Ford is an aspirant for the pcstmastership of Prescott. When we were
 . by m suffers store, we knew Mr. F. and can testify to his loyalty and honesty.
 We hope he will draw into line his forces and raid the Postmaster Generals office
 with sufficient force 10 secure the appoint ment.
 The Messrs. Lawler Bros, of Santa Ma ria country, are among our must wealthy C'pper Kings. Ore from thsir mines shows a value of from 46 to 90 per cent. and the amount in sight actually ,ncompr.- hensible to the casual observer If copper Is to again come to the front their proper- ty nus, certainly make them very wealthy.
 Mr. Gould;ngs lecture this evening will be complete expose of the saloon business.
 He will deliver his last lecture in Prescott upoh this occasion, and it will pay all to turn out. His remarks are full of mirth. Wit and solid facts, convincing beyond contradiction Tie opportunity should not be lost.
 Hon. \. Ellis, in 8 plain, gentlemanly letter declines ,he honor his friends wished to bessow upon h,m by trying to place him Tn the Cover" CTS sea: ef this Territory. Although Mr. E. declines, We hope he may at later day think better If the matter and allow his many friends to use his name. We want an Arizonan, and there are none preferable to MT. Ellis.
 There is | wholesou!ed gentleman resi- ding in the City of the Golden Gate who seems to admire the Howard family, and in proof of his sincerity in the premises has forwarded a Gemijohn or two full of smiles" We believe this generous per- sons name is Kellogg. and whoever knew one that was not prince among men1
 J. L Fisher brough, in yesterday from tie Lynx Greek Hydraulic Works q, POO in gold amaIgum, the resul, of sixty hours run. The water supply as yet is sufficient to insure eady run for many days to come and the future yield of these rlch and d;ggings viii resultlmore profit ably thau has characterized them in any :orr mer year.
 There ars many of our citizens who be- lieve that Gen. Crook, upon the adven. of the celored troops into the Territory, will ask to be r.moved. The General has done good work with Indians, and should he now. that all is quiet along the entire line, ask for more pleasant station, it would be 10 more than right and iust to grant it, I'though Arizonans may not want to part with hlm.
 Chief Justice Sumner Hosard leaves to- morrow, Tuesday, morning with his fam ly, for brief visit t0 his home at Flint, Michigan. Judge Howard, during his hort rsdence in Arizona, by his many acts # justice t".all has endeared himself to the masses, and We believe that We but voice he sentiment of all Arizona when we say hat 1t IS the wish of the people that he be etained on the bench.
 MT. Meade, the gentleman who aspires to he governorship of thi. Territory, is ou iis way home to Tombstone from Washing of. People who gu to Washington for of> = ice, If they have any show, generally hang ( n day after day, week after week, until heir wishes are gratihed. Probably the CT tleman learned that there was to be no han.e for Year, and c'ncluisd the board Il. ~ould be rather 100 heavy.
 The Tucson Tsilines in a recent issue in 1 mated that the MINER had been guilty of great breach in journalistic etiqnet, that '' copying an article without giving the r roper credit We do not know anything bout the accusation, but we have been ! ,minded of the breach by an item which ppeared in the Courier in reference there z }, ana also by an editorial m that paper, eaded, "Democra'ic Simplicity which 'peared in the Examiner, and vas credited the Albany News