Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-06-17
EDITORIAL NOTES.

James Corbett, the prize hghter is the son of wealthy California banker.
 President Hsrrison is said to have paid out S25,0O0 for railroad fares and train service during his recent journey westward.
 Notwithstanding he lost his case, Sir William Gordon Cummings emerged from the baccarat scanda in better condition than any others implicated in it.
 Arizona would. today, be howl ing waste, if it were not for our trancontinental railroads, which our contemporary says has done us more harm than good.
 Hon. l. ]. C. Abbott, not ''Caball, as enormously published in our con temporary this morning, is the name of Canada's new premier. He is said to be an able man.
 Bullock, Wilson X Co. charged the JOURNAL MINER full commercial rates for telegraphic report, and on this account its editor was compelled to stop receipt of dis patches" neighbor. Only this and nothing more.
 There will be forty lieutenant va cancies in the army this year to fill from private life. Under the new law providing for retirements a greater number of vacancies occur than there are graduates from West Point.
 A private of the late confederate army has been found in Santa Fe, according to the Albuquerque Dem ocrat, It says that Judge Thorn ton, of that place, in answer to a strangers inquiry ''ls this Col. Thorntont" sadly answered, "All but the colonel. I am the only surviving private of the one time numerous confederate army. All the rest were killed during the war"
 The prince of Wales thought that by his presence in the court room during the recent trial of the bacca- rat scandal case, lawyers would be intimidsted from making any refer ence to him in connection herewith, Counsellor Clarke. however, repre- senting the plaintiff, took occasion to criticise him somewhat severely, looking his royal highness squarely in theeye while delivering his speech
 Colonel RichardJ. Hinton, author of "Hinton's Handbook on Arizona" " and now connected with the govern ment department of agriculture, is visiting Phenix in company with Professor NJ. X. Downing, to investi- gate the irrigation problem of this territory. They are commissioned by the government to investigate the subject of irrigation vest of the 97th degree of longitude. including part of Kansas. Texas and the Dakotas. and all the country to the Pacific ocean, and have been at work since May 4th.
 The experience at to-day's fire in dicates that false alarm occasion ally, to call the fire department out for practice, would be beneficial. ss it would have tendency to keep their apparatus in order. While the Dudes hose company arrived at the scene of the fire to-day in ample time to have speedily subdued the flames, on account of some trouble with their hose They Were u~able to do any effective service. Happily the fire was located where but little dam age could take place, but had fl been in more dangerous place the results would have been different.
 The building of telegraph line from Ash Fork to Prescott, and through to Phenix, by the ;. F.. P. X P. railroad company. will prove great convenience to the town. The present line has been so imperfectly constructed that communication over it Is at best uncertain. It runs through a section of country devo- ted largely to grazing, and when an animals side itches 1t invariably uses telegraph pole for scratch CT" Pieces of barbed wire were wrapped around the poles about a year ago, with view of preventing this rubbing process, but the prick ly prongs of the wire seem to be more satisfactory to stock to rub against than the bare poles, al- though of course less damage to poles is done. Every one who has had occasion to use the telegraph line knows how completely unrelia- ble it has been in the past. The new line will use redwood poles from California, of regulation size, and will be placed firmly in the ground, making very substantial and reliable line when completed.
 Citizens of Prescott subscribed in round number S50.0O0 to aid in the construction of the P. & A. c. rail road. A very slight proportion of this amount was not paid by the subscribers. Those whe paid their subscriptions received bonds in ex- change, many of which were sold for 40 cents on the dollar. The cost of depot grounds, right of way. etc. for the $. F., P.& F. railroad will cost from sl5,O0O to S20,OO0. It will not require an expert mathematician to figure up comparison of the two, as to which requires the greater bo-