Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-12-19
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Perry Belmont has been appointed minister to Spain.
 Apache county as they were prior to election.
 Charles E.. Vandeveer, of Indiana, has been appointed agent for the Navajo Indians.
 Senator Reagan. of Texas, has lntts- duced a bill in the senate for the free ceinage ef silver.
 The present mining outlook for this section justifies us in predicting a second Denver tor Prescott within the next few years.
 Vlce president-elect and Mrs Levi F. Notion were given brilliant recep- .on in Indianapolis on the night of the Ith instant
 The house committee on invalid pen sions has authorized favorable report on the senate bill granting pension of S3,sooo 10 the widow of General Sheri dan.
 The old handana has disappeared from the busy walks of life. As nasal con- venience it was success, but as party orifi ime II was a hewling failure Alta.
 The republican state central commit tre of Indiana Intimates that Senator Mcdonald exaggerated the expenditures made by them on election day by SSco,o or soc per cent.
 Democratic coneressmen have been discussing in caucus the question of ad- mitiIng the territories as states. The ma jority seem opposed 10 1t on partisan grounds, fearing they will be republican.
 ATkansas, Arizona, Idaho and Utah are now the only states and territories m ibe Union without active mlItia sufficient -nrilIe theufto receive ordnance and flaitS -sEAsLNt , sul'l' htth tIN Sc'N'" saoni
 Oul cou.s lporary seems to have but hnle faith m the democrat majority ,n ihe house, m the matter of noncap ital removal Democratic though 1t be. II looks to a republican council to pre- vent 1t.
 rdInX-~s.>-remocratic authority lt'.'rtc~ will be only 10000 democratic rascals to turn. out of office, out of I2o,ooo office holders, the ether so,ooo places being filled already with honest republicans
 We are in receipt of copy of the Hartford Evening Post, in which the an nouncement IS made that every line of reading matter in the paper IS set with type setting machine, a cut of which ap pears ID the paper.
 The New York Commercial Adver- ,iser publishes an interview with Depew, ID ~h'oh he states that he will not ac ceai l r ,I,ion Tn the cabinet. He would acoeR position as minister to Eng sanC i'd il be offered him:
 ,uus~ Cooley. of the interstate com mcrce commission, had talk recently m Chicago with railroad officials in which he tried 10 frighten them by tell ing thea of his discovery of violations
 ..Ge law. and threatened that if they did not quit they would be prosecuted.
 The Phenix Arlzonan, at the request of a number of citizens of tie Salt rlver valley, has been under the necessity Of explaining that the Gazette does dot rep resent public sentiment when 1t said ths only interest people there bad Tn terri iorial progress was in the prosperity of that valley.
 Ii is barely possible that Phenix has raised that $Io. 900 corruption fund with out asking the newspaper men to contrib ute or even letting them know about IL ], may also De desire to ger hold Of the sack string, thas makes them howl so loudly, about the IoURNaL-MINER'S expose of the little scheme.
 The democratic press Is jus, now shouting itself hoarse preaching civil ser vice reform. Of course the object of this | IS ,e retain democrats in office. The true civil service reform is to neither place Gr retain any political opponent in office and appoint enly good and competent persons to official positions.
 The second robbery within 8 few months is reported in the national treasury department. This time some body got away with $500 bundle of bills while it was passing from one counter to another. Never before in the history of the country has open bbc-, to, treasury occurred. Turn r tascais ae.
 fl } the poet stage robber of Ga...osn.a, a..er term ID the peniten- t.ary has taken to the road again. During bis incarceration m prison it was learned that he has wife and family living in St Louis, which he promised to return to on leaving the prison. He, however, failed to keep his promise. pre- ferrlng, 1t seems, to return to his old business.
 ]. ]. Chatham, member-elect of the legislature from Pima county. in his Nogales Sunday Herald says: "In view of the fact that Phenix is making a desper ate effor, to secure the territoria! capital, it would be we'll for her citizens