Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1890-06-25
EDITORIAL NOTES

DOkkORAAi< NO lES
Southern Texas is suffering from q
drouth, no rain having fallen for mere
than year.
The Inter-Mountain Review is the
name Of new paper devoted ,e the
mining industry recently started in Salt
Lake.
St. Louis democrats have endorsed
Grover for president in 1899. Clover
was bigger man than his party Ia 1888
and il locks as il he would hold his own
for 1899.
During the year ending May syst
there we're more charters granted fer na-
tional banks than have ever before been
granted in a single year since the one in
which the system vas originally essab-
lished.
Josiah c. Potts and his wife vert
hanged at Elko. Nevada, last Friday.
FOR the murder Of an old man several
months since. The woman was literally
beheaded, On account of her grea,
weight
The investigation of county affairs by
the grand jury disclosed the fact tina.
the treasurer is only sbou, eleven months
behind in the payment of warrants, a
fact indicating that they should be worth
at least OF to sS cents on the dollar.
Eastern papers accuse US of lying
when they read that strawberries grow
so large IN this state that "hve berries
make square meal" They should
remember that the Climate is so fine
here that we do not need to eat SO
heavily as they do on the Atlantic coast
or in the Arctic resions.-Los Angeles
Times.
The board Of supervisors of Mari
copa county have offered a reward of
$4,000 to any person or persons who
shall be FIRST in obtaining a flow
ing stream OF water by means Of an
artssian well within said county, in the
manner prescribed and required BY the
provisions of territorial law authoriz-
iLlg such rewards
The Phenix Herald says that the
meeting of the territorial repub-
iica,s central committee on Sat
urdaY last was characterized ~
the utmost harmony, which was sicken-
ing to the democratic heart. The ter
ri,orial Convention will be held on Au-
gus, 7stb, in Phenis. in ample time for a
thorough and vigorous campaign.
The last Of the Zulick holdosers have
been knocked out by the courts. When
they first refused to turn the Offices over
TO their legally appointed and confirmed
SUCCESSORS the JoURNAL-MINER desig-
mated them as usurpers for which it was
rounily abused BY democratic papers.
Recent decisions both of the territorial
and supreme courts have affirmed the
decision Of this paper and usurpers will
be the name by which these denocratic
'holdovers" will hereafter be known.
A recent telegram from Nicaragua
gives less rosy acccSnt of the condi-
SC. &C.. Of affairs on the new canal than
those of fermer reports. 1t says that |
little work is being done on the canal.
About s;ghty men are at work just above |;
where they started the town Of America.
clearing away brush along the route Of
the canal. A hospital is located there,
with about one hundred patients. mostly
Contracts for tive thousand |
Jsmaica negroes have been made. The
country is overrun with Americans and
Europeans who have no money and can
get no work, and all are trying to get cut
o. the country.
The Globe-Democrst says that al
though republican victory in Tennes-
see this year is not really looked for By
The country, yet such an event would
not occasion much surprise in the
minds Of well-informed persons. Intel
igept observers of political tendencies
nave noticed steady weakening in the
Bourbon held, on that state in the past
ew gears, and a corresponding growth
a republican potency. The old demo-
ratio majorities Of 10000 or 10000,
rbich were not uncommon in the decade
.nding with 1880, have given place to
Margins of less than half that magni
Hde.
Commenting upoc the present anti
,ugiis,ic crusade in California, the San
Diego Union says: "A spasm of virtu-
us indignation over the recent fatal pu-
ilistic encounter 10 San FRANCISCO is
weeping over northern California
'be governor has a touch o. it; the po-
ce authorities OF San Jose CAD scarcely
ontsin themselves, so impatient are
hey to manifest their zeal; they are !
auly splitting with desire to stop
fize fight. Ia fact all northern Cali
ornia seems to be in gripes about 1t.
might Dc an &C, OF mercy To get up
tile 6gh, just to test the sincerity Of the
uthorlties.
The community was generally disap-
ointed to-day on account OF receiving
le news OF the veto by President Har-
son Of the Msncopa County Subs;dybilI ),
1bile it was generally known that the
resident is sopposed to territories involv- =
g themselves in heavy Indebtedness was
believed that ,he:circums,ances attend
z the passage II this bill would afford c
N an excuse for giving bis approval.
he question ha already been sub >,