Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-03-21
EDITORIAL NOTES.


 Marshal Meade and posse have re- turned to Tucson.
 Denver will have a big dog show. commencing March 18th.
 The strike of engineers extends nov from Los Angeles to Chicago.
 Mex, Monday will be arbor day n Albuquerque in accordance with proc lamation Of its mayor.
 Is 1t not about time the republican central committee issued its call for a territorial convention to elect delegates to the Chicago ConventiOn1
 Newspaper editors are about the only class of workers that are not thoroughly organized as mutual protective assocl' a,ion. Why not organize national ed'- torial union
 When told of the result of the fight between her husband and Mitchell. Mrs. Sullivan remarked that she was glad of 1t and wished the latter had killed "my brave John L."
 The telegrams ''gravely" assert that Sullivan's failure to whip Mitchell was on account of his party meeting funeral procession on the way to the battle ground.
 A circular has been issued from the democrats headquarters requiring all postmasters to report the names of all persons at their resepective offices with their political complexion.
 A California Chinaman has received from Washinton 5000 back pension and was granted $S month. He was in a United States vessel when gun exploded, causing him serious injury.
 The fellow that looks like Tascott, the murderer of Shell, in Chicago. is be- coming as numerous as Pete Olsen. oi California, was recently. A man has been arrested in Pueblo on suspicion oi being Tascott.
 The Globc-Democrat Omits the name of Robert Lincoln m its list of possible candidates for president. He may, how ever, Bob" up serenely at the Chicago convention, as there IS strong senti ment in the party favoring his nomina- tior.
 The postmaster general IS quoted as saying that the mail service throughout the entire west is entirely satisfactory MT. Dickenson should come out an( stop along the line of the Atlantic ( Pacific for couple of weeks, and ther report.
 We are m receipt of ten-page edl- tion of the Yuma Sentinel. four pages O which are devoted exclusively to the re- sources of Yuma county, by Col King commissioner of immigration. The edl ton is a capital enc, and will no doub be of great benefit to Yuma county.
 The Inter Ocean very truthfully says that the candidate who does the leas in tearing down the good reputation O his opponents and arouses the least an tagonism, IS the one-all other thing. being equal-that gets there. Attempt ing to reach high honors by pullint others down is always a mistake whiCt has been verified a thousand times.
 With its true instinct to "hog" every thing in sight, Maricops county wants the capital removed to the Salt riveI valley. It has the insane asylum and normal school now. Its next ambition IS the capital then the prison to be re moved from Yuma. after tha, the univer' sity from Tucson. This Is as far as the programme has been made out at the present date.
 The cause of the present strike on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy is to com pei classification of wages. as stated to the JoURNAL-MINER man by member Of the brotherhood. A rule has hereto fore been adopted by that company that all employees should work three years be fore receiving first-class wages. and after having worked for two years and eleven months they would be discharged
 Democratic papers are bewailing the fact that Neal Dow, whomthey affection. ately designate as 'the father Of prohib- tion," m the United States was recently defeated for mayor of Portland. by the republicans. The great trouble with thls prohibition daddy" was that he ran on the democratic ticket and prohibition and democracy are a good deal like oil and water. they won't mix. so it was really Meals democratic goose that was cooked.
 Mir. Grady. of the "New South" has donned his democratic var paint, and says: "This campaign against cotton oil IS scandalous and outrageous, and it must be stopped, or else Mir. Hatch must go In other words, the cotton-raising busi- ness IS one of the greatest of American agricultural industries, and if 1t receives a cruel stab from the chairman of dem- ocratic agricultural committee there will be abundant opportunity for revenge"
 The Tombstone Prospector exultingly says that as the strike embarasses the Santa Fe system we are content This is one of those soulless corporations which treat their customers as we'll as their emplyees with utter disregard. Overcharges. delays in forwarding freight and the contempt with which they an- swer just complaints of their patrons, has made the Santa Fe many enemies among the merchants of Tombstone