Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-09-23
EDIroRIL NOTES.

querque far aggregated about S,UU
 for the week or an average of nearl
 H,000 per day. The largest receipt
 were on Thursday, q. .Ss4, and tb
 smallest on Saturday, $i00
 The government rainmakers hay
 reached Fl Paso and everything vii
 be put in order for the grand test ol
 September 17th instead of 18th, be
 cause materials from New York vii
 not reach here until then.
 A San Francisco dispatch say
 that Col. William Harney, killed il
 the Tehachipi collision, was ono O
 the best known citizens of the south
 west and member of the Board O.
 Education. He arrived there 1T
 1859 from New York.
 The woman suffragists of Pheni,
 are at it again. Mrs. Johns, oi
 Kansas, is their champion, ably
 backed by Mrs. Hollenbeck and
 Mrs. Goddard of Phenix. This
 trio of the petticoat ballot system
 divided skirt movement, recently
 addressed the Convention in very
 pleasant manner, but their logic
 failed to catch our wary senators.
 The two Chinsmen recently sen
 from Tombstone to China, says the
 Epitaph, are located at the jail in
 Tucson. The Citizen says that one
 of them told other prisoners in the
 jail that Chinaman similarly sent
 to China some weeks ago first ex-
 pressed his ready money to China from Mexico, where he had been
 working for years, then crossed over into Arizona for the purpose O . ing arrested that he might take passage to China at the expense of the United States.
 Dr. Hughes, of the PheniI Gazette, does not seem to appreciate the kind ness of the JoURSAr-MiSTR, in re- commenting him for the position of physician to an Indian school. In fact he is SO ungrateful as to permit his paper to apply uncomplimentary epithets towards us on account of it. When one so far forgets the in- stincts of a gentleman, and betrays his lack of good breeding, by resort ing to vulgar epithets, in newspa- per controversy, it shows a weakness either of mind or of the cause he represents as to excite pity. Our sympathy is hereby extended to the Gazette man.
 A petition is in circulation ad- dressed to the Honorable Secretary of the Interior asking for the survey and sale of the land embraced in the late Camp Verde military roserva- ton. It should receive the signature of every citizen to whom it is pre- sented. By order of President liar rison, of October 2d, ls90 the reser- vation was turned over to the in terior department, but as yet noth- ing has been done apparently to- wards opening it up for settlement. Agricultural land in Ysvapai county l is comparatively scarce at best and | the opportunities for settlers are small. Hence the importance of | having this opened up to settlers. We believe that when the matter is properly presented to Secretary Noble that it will receive his prompt | attention.
 The last issue of the St. Johns Herald contains smother column of | in regard to the Hrning case. The above paper seens de- termined to exercise the jurisdiction usually accorded to courts. We have no desire to enter into the dis cussion of this case further, prefer ring to allow 6 jury to decide it. The Herald's reference to le JoUR- SAL-MNER's misstating facts in re- gard to the Bevans-Huning perjury case, however, is erroneous, as every one who heard the testimony in that trial knows that case was made against Col. Bevans, he having ad mitted getting the money, and that the only thing that saved him was the statute of limitations.
 Yuma is steadily recovering from the floods of last winter, says the Tucson Star, and her new buildings are of modern type and generally brick, which indicates that her peo- pie have a just appreciation of Yuma's immediate future. There is no doubt that the little city on the Rio Colorado must soon begin to assert itself, for it is surrounded by vast area of the most produc- tive soil; a soil and climate which produces the finest citrus fruits in the world, and where grapes, apri- cots and other fruits ripen from four to SIX weeks earlier than in Califor mia, and garden truck is grown every day in the year. The health i'm parting climate of Yuma is another consideration which will add much to its future. The pres ent indications are that Yuma will be a railroad center of considerable These facts, taken in with the additional fact that two large irrigating enterprises, which will reclaim many thousands of acres of land 10 agriculture, are about to be inaugurated at points tributary to Yuma, ought to be sui fcient evidence upon which to base a safe opinion as to its immediate future.