The Clifton clarion., 1885-07-01
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

Al pA oeO ShS hstAhO VI h'ASASOA was beating his wife at Cave City, California, and his 10-year-old son took a shotgun and blew the old mans brains out. Served him right.
 Eugene Aram, late of Pima, and member of the fighting Thir- teenth, an attorney by profession, has located in San Jose, Califor- nia. He did not have the cheek to face his constituents after the adjournment of that notorious as semblage of imbecility.
 Ex-Deputy State Treasurer Arthur January, of Sacramento, California, has been sentenced to San Quenten for ten years for embezzlement of State funds. He will not be imprisoned until the motion for appeal is decided. In this case money nor political in fuence availed to save the guilty from the wrath to come.
 The contract for building a bridge across the Gila at Florence has been let for S13,460 to the California Bridge Company. The bridge will be sixteen feet wide and consist of two spans of the the Pratt combination, one of which will be 1S0 feet in length and the other 50, with $50 feet of trestle-work, making a total length of SS6 feet. This will be the first bridge on the Gila.
 There is a superstition that thirteen is an unlucky number, and some are so much lmbued with that belief that they would leave the table hungry if it was discovered that thirteen only were seated. The superstition is that the thirteen would never dine together again. We do not be- Eeye that thirteen is an unluckv number, except as to the Flight ing Thirteenth," the "Thieving Thirteenth" the Thirsty Thir- teenth."
 The rumor is abroad that the notorious hoodlum Denis Rear ney, who so seriously afflicted California some years since by his fanatical harangues at sand lot meetings, will be candidate for Governor of that magnificent State at the next election. He expects to pose as the candidate of the workingmen's party, and slide into official position through the ignorance of his dupes. From such a calamity may California be delivered.
 Ex-Delegate G. H. Oury left Tucson last Friday for Washing ton, via New Orleans, for the pur- pose of laying the true inward ness of the Indian troubles before the President. He carried with him the resolutions recently adopted at the several meetings in this Territory on the Indian question, and we can but hope and believe that the voice of the people so unanimously expressed will be needed by the administra- ton, and the relief so long sought be granted.
 Much excitement prevails at the county seat of Apache county because Sol Earth has been ar rested by the Sheriff of Yavapai and taken to Prescott. MT. Earth is one of the Wealthiest merchants and largest stockmen in our neighboring county, and an ex- of the Legislature. He is charged with perjury, raising county warrants and other crim- inal offenses, for which he must answer before the District Court, now in session. He was arrested by the Sheriff of Yavapai, the Sheriff of Apache declining to do so.
 The voice of the press of New Mexico was so emphatic that it was heard at the Department of Justice in Washington, and Asso clate Justice Wilson has been officially decapitated, in accord ance with the prayer of the com plaint against him. The charge urged was of a serious nature, to which he dId not demur nor plead, consequently the allega- tions were taken as confessed. The papers of our sister Territory have done well to bring about the removal of a lecherous judicial official and his harlot, so-called neice. W. B. Fleming, of Ken lucky, has been appointed to fill