Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1886-03-03
Editorial and miscelI elIaaeous Items.

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 A bill has passed the lower house C Congress annexing the norther part c
 Idaho 10 Washington territory.
 Senator Payne is said to be soreIy dis
 tressed in mind over the investigation
 now m progress in the Ono legisla,ur,
 of the methods used for his election,
 Senator Logan has introduced a bil in Congress, reducing the price of gas ii Washington to $I.25 per thousand feet and granting franchise to a new con- pany.
 It is asserted that claims to the amount or over Ssoo,ooo. for damage. to property of Chinamen, have been filed at the state department. The govern ment can hardly be held responsible having done all in its power to protec, the Chinese.
 Frank Cannon, son of the arch apos tie of Mormonism, and Angus Cannon, a nephew, together with another hired assassin, attempted recently to assassin ate United States District Attorney Dickinson at Salt Ike. The favorite Mormon methods are beginning to crop out again
 Ella Wheeler Wilcox says there is a great deal O: poetry and sentiment vast ed in this world on the peaceful, con- tented lives of the people who dwell in
 he county, out of the strife and turmoil of the city, away from the distraction of fashionable life and all its trials and annoyances.
 "With my own eyes," said Dr. Theo- dore D. Cuyler to some Yale students, the other day, "I have seen MT. Glad stone kneel by the side of common street sweeper and pray for the salvation of his soul"
 The city of Paris has appointed lady as medical examiner of girls throughout the local schools. It will be her busi- ness to see that the girls are net over worked and that they get through their studies under sanitary conditions.
 Senator Jones, of Florida, is in love with $Io, 900, 900 Detroit girl and is on the verge of insanity on acoonnt of it. He is absent from the Senate without leave, and his mental condition has ex- cited sympathy.
 Governor E. s. Slower, of Albuquer- que, brother of Councilman Slower, of Apache County, has been elected con- mander oi the Grand Army Of the Re pubic. of the department of New Mex leo.
 Congressman ]. ]. O'Neil will attempt to secure the passage of a bill looking to the settlement Of all differences between capital and labor by means of arbitration and thus prevent strikes.
 The Polish residents of New York have undertaken a plan for assisting those of their countrymen who 6 com ing 10 America since the recent edict expelling them from their homes in Prussian Poland. Thirty thousand of them have been driven from their native Iand, ard majority are seeking in this country a refuge from persecution.
 John Kelly, the Tammany chief is said to be rapidly sinking and it is thought by his physician to be only question of a few days until he will cross over to meet the other great democratic leaders who have so recently passed to that "oourne from whence no traveller e'er 
 The Chicago Herald says: Mexico has not yet given a satisfactory explanation of the killing of Captain Crawford. The case affords good ground for the asser- ton of the principle that our southern neighbor must be taught to treat our country and citizens with respect
 The Epitaph says |. C. Bean has been in congress over one whole year and has done nothing The Epitaph must be troubled with failing memory, else 1t would know that congress has not been in session a whole year. Its editor is also influenced by sectiona feelings ard has given Governor Zulick, who passed through Tombstone on two or three occasions before being made governor, credi, for many things which was effected through Delegate Beans efforts.
 The only woman whom "Chet" Arthur ,ver pad any marked attention 10 while president of the United States has just lied. She was Mrs. Craig Wardswor;h l very beautiful woman, who during he last two winters of the Arthur ad- shone a,ihe White House ,eing always invited to stard with the la lies of the cabinet. There was a belief t one time that she would grace th xecutive mansion as Mrs. Arthur, but , was never realized
 Miners in the gold fields of New 'outh Wales years ago discovered tin re, but inthe search for the yellow met 1 the baser metal was neglected The l ,istake. however, has been discovered,