Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-09-30

NJ. NJ. Estee is talked Of Tor a cabinet position.
 Triple R" Burchard, he of Rum, Romanism and Rebellion fame, IS dead.
 Who knowsi It may not be long until we shall have the State of Hawaii.
 Chile is said to be getting her 'back up" towards the United States.
 In some sections of Kansas the republicans and democsats have combined to give the Alliance peo- pie political drubbing.
 The constitutional convention Is working up an instrument which will prove very expensive should Ari- zona be admitted as a state.
 Through the influence of the Prin- cess of Monaco, the Monte Carlo gambling rooms are to be closed and converted into home for con sumptives.
 Major Mckinley receives an en- ;husiastic ovation wherever he speaks. The political atmosphere in Ohio looks very blue for the democratic party.
 Major Mckinley spoke recently to 5000 people at Piqua. Ohio. He was decorated with tin badge made by a Piqua manufactory out of American tin.
 Oklahoma will knock at the door of the next Congress for admission as State. She now has popula- tion of over l0o,OO0, and is scarcely a year and half old.
 The Tucson Star suggests Senti- mel peak, near that city, as favora- ble place for using explosives for rain making. How would Thumb Butte answer for similar experi- ments herel
 Every county in the territory should have superior court, the salary of the judge of which should be fixed by the board of supe rvisors of that county" is the idea that Phenix paper has of an economical state government.
 American train robbers and bank robbers will have to get move on themselves if they do not want to lose their reputation. English rob bers have broken the record by get ting away with Sl l,250,000.
 The Kansas woman suffragist, who is lobbying at the Phenix constitu- tional convention, is Mrs. Johns and not Mrs. St. Johns as heretofore re- ported. Her husband. like that of the latter, is an apostle of prohibi- ton and is featuring in St. Louis.
 The Prescott Courier and Tucson Star are each pulling for the land court to sit in their respective towns. Their "pull' is not long enough. as Denver and Santa Fe have been decided on as the places for holding the court.
 4 new explosive called terrorite has been invented. It seems to be correctly named, as one eighth of a pound of it has the same destrac- tive energy as pound of giant powder. which is the purest form of nitro-glycerlne.
 Hon. Geo. W. Cheyney, of Cochise county, has no superior in the con stitutional convention. He was the first to introduce the silver question in that body and made an able speech on the subject.
 Fresno, California, has miniature artificial volcano. It consists of a 3,00o-ton pile of coal on fire, all efforts to extinguish which have proven futile. Spontaneous com bustion is supposed to have been the origin of fire.
 Secretary Foster has issued cir cular giving public notice that the time within which the 4 per cent bonds will be received for continu- ancy, with interest at per cent, will expire on the 30th inst, and that bonds received at the Depart ment after that date will be redeem ed and not continued.
 Campbell X Baker, of Phenix, have been retained by the widow of the late J. D. Walker, in her suit against her late husbands brothers. NIT. Walker left an estate valued at Sl,- O00.000. of which there is S67 900 in bank. It will make nice rich pick ing for the attorneys.
 The editor of the Phenix Republi- can has long head on him on some pyopositions at least. He has made a proposition to photograph and electrotype all the members of the constitutional convention. Whether the members will permit themselves to fall into the trap remains to be seen-
 While visiting in Oakland recent ly, Los Angeles man named J. H. Bacon wandered into lake Mer- ritt at low tide, and became swamp ed in the mud, remaining there all night with only his head above the mud. He became so chagrined over the affair that he committed suicide by hanging.