Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1886-03-31
Editorial and MisceI Iaaeous hons.
New Mexlco has struck oil.

INSW 0tCAlCO HAS SSLuC8 Oli.
 Lordl how the repudiators do squirm.
 ExPresident Arthur is seriously i'll and it is feared will not live long.
 Albuquerque celebrated arbor day on March 24th by planting trees
 Albuquerque Congregationalists will erect new church shortly.
 The rum fellows" and ''repu diators,' say they ''never done nothin, "now.
 Governor F Parrish" is the latest. It originated with the Daily Tombstone.
 IL is a peculiar fact that not one out of ten sailors in the merchant service can swim.
 The telephone operators throughout the west are reported to have joined the Knights of Labor organization. The wife of U. s. Grant, IT,, inherits $I,ooo, ,ooo from the estate of her father the late Senator Chaffee.
 That part of the United States lying west of tho Mississippi river could be carved into 35I states the size of Massa- chusetts
 Chas. P. Matthewson, president of the NorioIk National Bank, of Nebraska, has deserted his wife and five children, and skipped to Canada
 Thirty carloads sf wine have been shipped to the east by California wine merchants since the railroad war began. A nephew of Jules Verne, took shot st that celebrated romaccer recently. Beyond giving him increased prominence however he didn't harm the old man.
 An exchange asks, "What is the natural term of carps life% That depends somewhat on his opportunity and inclination to take held of the worm which conceals the deadly hook. Senator Jones of Florida has at last determined to abandon temporarily at least his pursuit of the Detroi: heiress. and will return to his seat in the United States senate.
 The county jail of Lexington, Mss ouri, contains only four cells each ot which has an occupant, charged with murder. One of them will be vacated on Friday, April ad. by the execution of Jeff Wilson.
 The United States Supreme Court has a bible that has been in use since I8oS, and all the justices of the court and attorneys that have been admitted to the bar have clutched its pages slnce that year.
 The repudiators are beating the air wildly in their vair efforts to secure the confidence of the people after the dam age done by their false statements in regard to territorial finances.
 There are queer times in American cour. rooms when Mississippi "bench" has a hundsed and ,hirty-fve bullet holes in i,, and Gloucester, N. J., jus tice of the psace has to protect himself with horse pistol.
 The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the surveyors on the extension of the Atlantic and Pacific to Santa Monica have crossed the Southern Pacific track at Ballona. The terminus Of this exten- sion has been fixed at Santa Monica
 Judge Reynolds of New York has just declared from the bench that hotel keeper has no right to burn his registers. After while the public will begin to realize as the criminal classes do now, that hotel registers are more prolific of "evidencer than any other one source
 The Governor of Florida has been as ked to appoint commission to deter mIne the sanity of Senator Jones. This is the first indication of respite for Miss Palm of Detroit. who still wisely refuses to be borne a bride to the senator's home ID the frozen Land of Flowsrs. Pa ms don't flourish m cold countries.
 The daily Tombstone thinks that Cochise county is entitled 70 the Joint Councilman this fall from the southern district. For heavens sake, Nash, if you are going to furnish the Joint Council man this year, try and give us better one than was furnished last session as the territory is poorer than it was then.
 Those "fggers" published by the repudiators have delayed the commence ment of building our railroad but MT. Bullock and his associates hope to be able 10 overcome the difficulties, and build the road yet Copies of the l JouRNAL-MINER, containing . truthful showing of the financial condition of the territory, taken from official records have been sent freely to eastern capitalists and to Mr. Bullock.
 The Jackson. Clarion, the leading weekly democratic paper in Mississippi, and for the past ten years the state organ edited by Oliver Clifton, late chairman of the state democratic committee, in . double-leaded leader, characterized the shooting of negroes at Carollton a mas sscre, wholly unjustihable and without mitigating or extenua,ing circumstances,