The Arizona sentinel., 1885-05-23
EDITORIAL NOTES.

hon,per consequence, is squelched. His followers are throwing down their arms and coming into camp.
 Hon. John Boggs, of Colusa, California, who is an authority in such matters, says the grain crop of his State will amount 10 about one-half the average and forty per cent of last year. Summer fol- lowed grain will yield fairly in some localities but the Winter sown will not make hay.
 > A contemporary says that "Dr. Barker still maintains that the cancer Tn Grants mouth may run along for several months. but that there can be but one conclusion, which is death." Any damphool could have come to that con- clusion. Who doesn't know that Grant will have to die sometime. just like any other mortal?
 It is said that the admins . tration will turn over a new leaf by giving no information hereaf- ter to the public concerning ap- po1ntments until the appointees shall have been notified and have accepted the office. This will do away with the annoyance of per- slstent efforts to have the appoint ments reconsidered, by those who are to be left out in the cold.
 Miss Laura Gift, daughter of w. R. Gift, Warden of the Cali fornia State Prison, attemped suicide by shooting herself last Monday. She aimed at her heart, but a convulsive movement as she fired caused the ball to enter in the upper portion of the pectoral muscle on the right side. It grazed the brachiaI artery, struck the humerus and lodged beneath the shoulder blade, whence it was extracted. Disappointment in love affairs is assigned as the cause.
 The Superior Court of Califor. mia, a week ago last Wednesday, appointed three commissioner under the late act to relieve the calendar. Two of the other gen> tlemen named, Messrs. Temple and Cope, having declined, the Court has appointed 1. s. Belcher, of Marysville, Judge Niles SearIes, of Nevada, and H. s. Foote, of San Francisco, brother of Railroad Com missioner Foote. MT. D. B. WOolf, former Clerk of the Su- preme Court, was appointed Secretary.
 Col. De Alma, Timber Inspector of the General Land Office, made scene in that office the other day, and used abusive language to the Commissioner, because his accounts were not allowed, and was put out by Commissioner Sparks. He then had Sparks ar rested on the charge of personal assault, and the case came up in the Police Court of Washington on Tuesday. The court decided that all parties visiting public offices must be governed by their rules, and should retire when re- quested. There was no testimony showing undue violence, and the court was obliged to dismiss the case,
 Major Burke, who lately re- signed as Director>General of the New Orleans Exposition, has lost his entire private fortune in the scheme. In order to help make the Exposition a success he made himself personally responsible for debts contracted by the manage ment to the extent of $150,000. It was expected the gate receipts would cover this amount. This was not the case and holders of claims are now looking to him for payment. It is said he has sur rendered both his own and his Wife's property to satisfy these clalms. Nothing of his fortune remains except his share in the Times-Democrat. Much sympa- thy is expressed for him, espec> .ially as he declined the pav of