Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-12-09
EDITORIAL NOTES

Speaker Mills.
 Train Robbers are said to have realized over Sl00OOO in the recent robbery near St. Louis.
 It is estimated that the majority in the territory for the Constitution will amount to from 2,500 to 5000.
 Earl Russell says the reason his. wife is applying for divorce is that he restricted her to six cigarettes per day.
 Arizona should be represented at the Fl Paso silver convention which meets on Tuesday of next week, De- cember 18th.
 4 recent telegram from San Fran cisco contains an important item of news. It says: "John l.. Sullivan has sobered up"
 The Paenix Republican boasts of having sunk S25,OO0 in addition to the earnings of the office in an at tempt to get ''on its feet" financially.
 George Wheaton Allen, better known as "Land Bill" Allen, originator of the homestead act, died, aged S3, at Columbus, Ohio, recently.
 An associated press telegram from Washington says that Arizona and New Mexico will be admitted as states during the present session of congress.
 Train robberies are becoming very numerous of late. The latest was at Birmingham, Alabama, last Friday, when two masked men rob bed the express car of Sl,0O0.
 A democratic paper published out in Iowa has made the discovery that Boies, of that state, is the first choice of the democracy for the second place on the democratic ticket for 1892.
 There is one fortunate circum- stance in connection with the car rying of the constitution. Dr. Hu ghes has promised not to oppose the endorsement by Congress of the Worlds Fair appropriation.
 One of Sockless Simpsons constit uents called the other day at the United State treasury in Washing ton and expressed desire to bor- row some money from the govern ment.
 The killing of one man and the wounding of another in the south eastern part of the territory, which was attributed to an Indian out break, turns out to have been the work of white man named Fay.
 By a recent decision of Secretary Noble about 570,OOO acres of land in New Mexico will be thrown open to settlement which was previously claimed as a grant. The land is in the vicinity of Las Vegas.
 Calvin E. Whitney, a prominent business man of San Francisco, and a son-in-law of Marcus D. Boruck, had just completed and moved into a new residence, when he went out on the roof to remove some rubbish | left by carpenters in the rain gut ters. He missed his footing and i fell through a skylight and down the light we'll to the basement, be- ing killed instantly.
 Albuqu erque has divided her graveyard into town lots, and resi- dences are being built upon the graves. The Citizen says that a few people complain of this state of affairs, but it seems to indicate pretty healthy condition in any way you view it, when a graveyard is no longer needed and when the requirements of the town are such that it has to be used for building houses.
 Some one has very kindly sent a copy of the Financial News of Chi cago to this office. On opening it the first thing that attracted the atten- tion of the editor was a flaming headline, marked, which reads, "Is wealth failurei" While appre- ciating the honor of having this interrogatory referred to us, We are compelled to decline to answer at present. If asked whether poverty was failure, we could reply from experience that it was very incon- venient. A Washington telegram pays the following compliment to the admin istration of the general land office at Washington: The land division , of the interior department has never worked so hard as this year, with the result that the work that has been so I far behind for many years-to the great detriment and annoyance of = miners and settlers-is in fair way to be brought up to date. The record s for rapid work has just been beaten, ] the division having issued in four I and one-half days 14,252 patents, {; 3,010 of which have been transmitted \ to the local land offices. In the subdivision s2O mineral en- f. tries were approved for patents and t. all will be issued within ninety days. ti Bre'r Bagg, of the Prospector, is becoming unduly excited over the arrival at Huachuca of el he company of Apache soldiers. He P ays these Apaches were so unruly F hat they could not be kept at Whip . z ,le, which is a mistake. No greater Y,