Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1890-11-26
EDITORIAL NOTES.

There hss been land boom around Yuma since the organization of the new water company.
 Com IS selling for forty cents bushel ID Kansas instead Of fifteen cents year ago. The Mckinley bill no doubt did ii.
 It IS said the Louisiana. Lottery com psny, will wind up its business or is do- ing so, aud will qais the field.
 The case of the pugilists. SIavin and MoAulife have been dismissed in Lon don. The court ordered the prisoners released on bonds to keep the peace.
 Wallapai Charley, a Big IDjun" in the Mallapai tribe, says that she Messiah craze has caused the greatest excitement and restIessness in that tribe 0 f Indians.
 Ex-Postmaster Jones, of Cleveland, Ohio. died Thursday from the effects of fall on Monday. He was brother of Senator lenes. Of Nevada.
 Jay Gould has obtained control oi the Paci6c Mali Steamship company and George Gould has been elected presi- dent Of the company.
 Advices from Honduras state that among the killed in the recen, revolution was Colonel Alder H. Baker. a gallant eX-contederste soldier attached to the staff of President Brogan. He vas a brother. Of the managing editor of the Tlmes-DemecIst. of New Orleans.
 In his annnal report to the secretary ot the navy, Chief Constructor Wilson, referring to the gradual disappearance os t5e old wooden fleet, says there are new eleven new s'ee, vessels and one trsi-clsss torpedo boat in commission srr5 only eighteen wooden vessels.
 str. Ss7iIh, the leader of the French faction ;n be French versol feud, Kentucky, and the murderer of dozen men. was admitted to bail in the sum of ,0oo at Winchester. Smith is said to be going insaEe from remorse for bis numeroas crimes
 The prohibitionists os Nebraska have subscribed SIo,ooo and ihe Allian C candidate for governor has employed seven attorneys to contest the election oflhe demoeratic governor. Boyd. II ihe p5ohibit;onists and farmers, had stuck bY their party instead of s,rsying of afteF strange gods, Boyd would not be n position 10 be contested.
 The Flagstaff Democrat nomina;es J.c. Herndon as president of the coun- oil. While i ;s none Q. cur pie whom the democrats may see ii to elect we can truly say that ot all the members of the next counciit the dem- aciats will have none in the body equal to Mr. Herndcn in point of sbilty, and while he would prove ex- tremely partisan in every question of ,he slightest political nature. we believe he would be fair end just We just ven- ture the assertion that Mr Herndon is liule too good and honest to suit c. Meyer Zulick aud few other demo- cratic schemers who will be n the coun- cil and predict tha; he will not be elected to il ibeposition for which the Demo- era, nominates him.
 The Oregon Board of railway con- missioners have submitted a report of l their findings in the matter of the late train disaster at Lake Labish. The re- poH says Il found that two reasons were assigned for the disaster: First, ths. he rail had been removed from tbe track by some person or persons un- known. which was said to be the pri- mary cause of the wreck; second, that | the structure had fallen on account of age and the weakness of its parts Alter hearing the testimony of numer- ous Ritaesses and giving personal in- speciioa of 3he wreck, the board finds tbat thete Is 10 satisfactory evidence in s1ppogi of the- proposition that s rail had teea rem0rcd. that the train, CO., sisting Of eight csss, ran on the trestle al the rate of twenty miles per hour; tba; J!ts air brakes were Grmly and sud- denlY applied. which caused the s,fuc are lo Gise way |