Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-01-11
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Small pox is spreading in California.
 Sam Fike, an Albuquerque dog catcher, was bitten by a vicious dog recently and is now sufferer from hydr ophobia
 Los Angeles, San Diego. San Ser nardino and other southern California towns continue to complain of the iDsuf- ficiency of postal facilities.
 A member of the British parliament re- gently said .As am an Englishman I am in favor of free trade. If l were n Amerlcan I would be protection ist."
 Mexico deals severely with her coun- terfeiters. For the first ofense they ann putate the right arm, for ,he second the left arm, and for the third they shoot him.
 The custom of answering charges against the Fourteenth legislature. dem- ocratic, by recoun.ing the dcings of the Thirteenth, is getting to be very stale chestnut.
 Our old time friend, Tom Hughes. is sued very creditable Christmas num- Der. of the Albuquerque Citizen. MT. Hughes announces great improvements for his paper for this year.
 The thirteenth legislature, which was atie politically, may have been as claimed by certain democratic papers the most corrupt that ever assembled m Arizona-- except the democratic fourteenth.
 There is no doubt that Phoebe, the labor candidate tor congress, defeated Carlisle and that the election returns were doc;ored. There IS just as little doubt, however, that democratic congress will do justice and give him the seat.
 Arizona beef cattle are in great de- mand at present in southern California. In addition to two or three local shippers from here. there have been two or three buyers from California in this section recently to purchase ain load lots.
 Locomotives and not newspaper ad- vice is what the railroads need to enable them to furnish stock cars to ship pers. If 1t were the latter that they stood in need of, we could furnish enough to secure two trains of empty cars day.
 San Francisco last year had 4I7 di- vorces. ST suicides, and 27 murders. It has the small pox pretty badly now, and Denis Kesrney has just returned from a trip, while the first four days of this year has yielded crop of two sui cides. Nice place, good climate. IS San Francisco.
 The beard of supervisors of Maricopa county opened bids recently for county printing which shows that there is pretty lively competItion among the newspapers there for the work. The Herald had the ,. lowest kid, being $1s5o for the entire work, including the printing of the great register, which of itself is worth nearly $I,ooo.
 Mention was made some weeks since in these columns of well sinking enter prise carried on by Joseph w. Coulson, three miles from New river station on the Black canyon road. MT. Henwood, who assisted Mir. Coulson. says that at depth of from I3o to TAO feet they un- earthed a lot of ancient pottery, talk irg out large pieces. The query is where did it come from, to get imbedded in the bowels of the earth at that depth.
 An anonymous correspondent writing to this paper asks why poll taxes have been raised from &. .oo to $a.5o. It is a "luien sabe" case, unless 1t IS for the purpose of paying the extra interest on county warrants. The same legislature, which by the way was democratic, that raised poll tax twenty-five per cent, raised the interest on county warrants also c5 per cent for the benefit of money lenders and warrant brokers. When poll taxes were $,, interest on county war rants was per cent. Nov, that poll taxes are $a.5o, interest on county war. rants are To per cent; or, in other words, raise of $ per cent. per capita has been made on poll taxes on the poor for the benefit of the rich. And yet the claim is made that the democratic party IS the poor mans party.
 To the thousands of Arizona readers and to hundreds of eastern people, who read the ] J,URNAL-MINER each week we call the attention in this issue to the advertisement of F. NJ. Fowler 6 Sons, real estate agents, Phenix. Parties de- string 10 invest Id Sal, river valley agricultural lands will find in the pub hshed list of property, just what they want at prices to sut them. The Salt river valley IS now attracting the attep- ! ton of the people from all parts of l the United States. and there is no sec iion of the country, which offers the l inducements. of, fertility of soil adapted l to raising all kinds of vegetables, cereals and fruits, (the latter including semitropi- cal varie,ies,) at the low price offered by Salt river valley. The advertisements of two thoroughly reliable real estate agents appear in these columns.
 The following bit of news was pub iished recently m the New York Ledger, and equals in interest of thrilling de tail some of the "Whipple Barracks" selegraphic reports, sent to the associated press in California ''Saerif Mllveuou. of Yavapai county. Cal, was fatally wounded in recent fight with outlaws at Tonto Basin. Ansonia. Five of his deputies were also wounded. Eleven of the outlavs are reported killed The