Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1889-10-30
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Samoa has had an earthquake in ad- dinon to two rival kings

oition to two rival kings
 Citizens of Colton, California, pro- test against the location of an insane asylum at that place.
 The ubiquitous Tascet has been arrested again in t~o placss-Denver and Philadelphia
 PsstmasterGeneral Wanamaker has under contemplation the establishment, of postefhces on ocean steamers.
 Mrs. Crocker. widow of the late Charles Crocker. died suddenly of ap- oplexy in San Francisco on Sunday.
 A boiler in the steamer Cephalonia of the White line, exploded just after the steamer left Liverpool. killing two en- gineers and four firemen.
 A masked robber entered the Santa Fe and A. P. office at San Antonio, Texas. and held up the agent He robbed the office of a.ooo and escaped.
 General Mahone's chaaces of success are 60 fsttering in Virginia that . third ticket has been placed in the field to defeat him. It is called the indepen. dent republican ticket.
 I've. Iowa families who have been hating each other for twenty years, met at barn raising the other day and commenced shooting, and being joined by friends several were killed.
 A faster transcontinentaI mail service will go into effect November 10th by which the time between the two oceans will be reduced one day, the new time from New York to San Francisco being IoS hours and 45 minutes.
 A horrible tale of cannibalism is told by the survivors of the lost ship Earne- more. Surviving members of the crew subslsted for days on meat cut from the dead bodies of their former comrades.
 Speaking of the mineral wealth of this section, the Tucson Citizen truth fully remarks: "There is more money ts be drawn frem the mines of Ysvapai county than ever fell into the lap of Prescott from the Territorial capital"
 Our contemporary has three candi- dates for governor on its copy hook, whom it wants appointed when Gov ernor Wolfley's term expires. When it comes to piling up candidates three deep our contemp. can get there every time.
 Sheriff Morris, of Blount county, Alabama, with posse. cornered Rubs Barrows the outlaw. and his gang, near Oneonfs. A desperate fight ensued. Deputy Sheriff Aidenton and Citizen Penn Woodward, of the sheriff's posse, were killed Barrows escaped to . swamp.
 A Brownsville. Texas. special says: "Sheriffs Bute and Dougherty, and their deputies. and Capt. Brooks And his company of rangers made a rad on Hidalgo county and captured thirteen bad characters. The Americans were assisted by Mexican troops from Mata- moras. The captured men have long been terror to the good people of the frontier"
 The sinking of wells in Klngman is no longer an experiment. The windmill erected by W. E. Frost at his residence was attached to the pump and twenty four hours run of the mill failed to di- minish the supply of water in the we'll. The we'll is an ordinary six inch drilled one, and about % feet deep. and was put down by w. ]. Webber, the doucer and well-digger. who, together with MT. Frost is very proud of the success of the experiment. -Mohave Miner.
 The ordnance department at Wash ington will shortly make some interest ing experiments with . new smokeless eunpowder. IL has made very favor able impression upon European war experts, but there are objections to it. One sample when exploded lo0sened a stench that would drive a regiment to shelter, and several of the samples show uncertainty of action. They hang fire. and sometimes altogether fail to ex- plode.
 Pustmaster-General Wanamaker has awarded the contract for furnishing ad- hesiye postage stamps fer four years, beginning on the first of January next, 10 tue American Bank Note company Of New York. The new stamps will be one-eighth smaller than those in present use. The I-cent stamps will continue to be printed in blue. The scent stamp. now printed in green, will be printed ln bright carmine, and changes vii be made in some of the other de- nominations.
 Major Poxell's engineers have report ed that the reclamation of the Colorado Desert by irrigation from the Colorado river is quite feasible, but that the river must be tapped at point south of the American line in Lower California, a fact which has for some years been known to California engineers. This is said to have revived talk at the capital about the annexation of Lower California. By tapping the river in he vicinity of the Grand Canon a large portion of desert land in Arizona md California can also be reclaimed. It may not be in the present generation, put the time is coming when such an enterprise will be consummated.