Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-02-01
EDITORIAL NOTES.

has reached the age ot fourteen, ana s'l jays fertile eggs.
 f.. ]. Simpson has been appointed gereral manager oi the Aztec Cattle company, headquarters at Holbrook, wee Henry Warren, resigned.
 \ genuine case of leprosy, in white family. a, Marysvlle, California, has t-cn discovered The family has been 5cated n an isolated spot outside c: tae town by the authorities.
 ihe National Noman's Suffrage has issued call for an in ternaiional council of women. to cele- bF'te their fortie:h anniversary ot the woman suffrage movement Of th's coun- try, March 2Sto April [, 1888.
 Partially successful experiments m signalling Dy means ot electric hshts
 '-s'.ed on clouds h-He been made oy
 Bn;lsh officer at Singapore 4 message oi iolr words was read from an outgoing
 vessel at a distance of sixty knots.
 Rev. Charles A Vissari, Of New York, IS preparing 4 great pilgrimage ,f Amer I-Hn CathollcS to Palestine for the spring
 1859 The pilgrims will go by the way
 'i rals and Rome. and Sili probably re-
 c-~s Aeclsl audience from his holi- n-s, Pope Leo XIII.
 I bitter fight prevails Tn Sherman c3unty. Kansas, GooCland and Eu!is o 'iag the contestants Shortly after the recent election 200 Gcodlar ders armed wth Winchester, fell upon Eutis and carried offt5e county records to Good land. More trouble Is anticipated.
 \ comissiontr of the Paris academy of medicine finds tha, hy!roflourlc acl6, iS highly sntiseptIc, has therapeutic action when lnhaled IT dISsentS, how ,ver from lhe oplnion of glaSs-workers that inhalation cures consumption, bu; considers that they may be useful m diphtheria.
 It will soon be time for the territorial
 republican central Con.mi'tee to take some acton in reference tO calling a. = convention to elect delegates to the naiion1i fepnblican convention. Pre- vous ,o the campaign of 1884 the con- veutiou to eject dclrcates to the national conventop was held m Phen;x in Apri.
 Thire new vessels m the Italian navy Re Umbe 10, Stella and Sardegna- gre each in be provided with engines 10 the cnurmous force of c2 500 indicated horsc-poNcr Previous to 1881 the 4reatrst powtr put into one ocean vessel wa. about S,ooo indicated horsepower, but the Il'tlans TOW have two vessels of IS 900 indicated horsepower,
 ia an sgpegatc population of Ioo,- p1oOto m Russia, according to Dr. sIbnof, there are only about 5000
 ,dical men, while no working sanitary
 ss,lm can be sad ID exist m the em-
 ie In some districts the death-rate ges from Co to So per 1000, and IT slIe of A high J't1S3,.-v .v.71- -.a71- Tarrrlo''on E vhy lncreaslos lt the rate ot per cent. That fIishttll penalty.n human Yes IS pad for neglect of ihoiIc health Is shown by the fact tha, of the total of some 2, 800 GOO yearly ttaths, something ike 100000 may fairly be trace to preventable causes
 Statistics are sgalnst the few persons anp insist that vaccination IS useless and u- nt,.ess2.,. \ compulsory vaccination l.A nad entirely driven smallpox from /arich, So that not case occurred Tn lS6, The law was repealed m 1883, anj m every 1000 deaths that year 2 vee caused by smallpox; in ISS+ there ~c ,; in 1885, I7; and in the first fut-r of ISS6. S5. In England the d 4;hs from thls disease in ISSS-IS4c
 fe 57.2 per 100, 900 living. but Tn the 1 q, years ISSo-ISS4 the death late was .u., 0. } per 100000. NacoInaton has 9 on3y vastly reduced the number of uc'ans directly, but seems 10 have had aa indirect influence in rendering the olj ning ot vaccinated parents less liable 1 70 rse disease.
 Miners who have shipped ore recently l .o ,he Sampl!ng works comPaln of an advance in the frleght rates, ah the Pres ] cou X Auzona Central railroad of {, SO | per ton. Taking advantage of thIs | u-e .hl merchants ot Phenix are using sh>if best cEor.s to secure the shipment | f th5 CreS from the suuihcTE and south l western pat of the county and secure the tra3e ot these important mining camps. Take Martinez and Antelope districts, Prescott Is the natural source ot supplies for them. but owing to the tact that grain snf hay are nuch cheaper m Siit river valley than here. freighting can he done a 1out as cheap tc that point as to Prescott. |, becomes the duty of our merchants and railroad officials 10 encourage to the utmost possible limit the miners of the various districts fl they desire 70 hold their trade
 \ band of robbers IS located at the summit of the trail passing from Ame- cameca 10 Pueblo between the volca- noes of INaccihuatl and Popocatepetl. | They are robhinG almost daily the nuleteers whose vocation takes them through this mountain pass. They re- ,entlv attacked and wounded the pro- p,ietor of the Amecameca starch factory who was returning from Pueblo Last Monday they killed Mir Florencio Lo- ,ez, a respectable citizen of Ameca- ; neca, and wounded Messrs Hermene- lido Castro and Lorenzo Flores. The