Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-03-11
EDITORIAL NOTES.

General Sherman's estate is valued at only $2,5oo.
 Clifton estimates her damages by the recent flood at $lee,ooo.
 Governor Irwin has withdrawn the nomination of Colonel Wm. Herring as attorney general
 A bill has been introduced in the leg iilature to move the territorial prison to within two miles of Benson.
 The council reconsr.deed it's vote whereby it passed the female suffrage bill and then defeated it.
 Stevens and Baudet the two Minne- apolis census conspirators, have been sentenced to fines of $a, ,ooo and $I,eoo respectively.
 Dr. Booth and his jnnior partner Booth of The Needles, have changed the name of their "Booth's Bazoo" paper to ''Ehe Needles Eye"
 One of the biggest wrestling matches Arizona has ever seen is predicted when the respective boards of Yavapai and the new county of Coconino tackle the financial settlement required to be made between the two counties.
 A coroner's jury has found that the officers of the New York, New Haven < Hartford Railroad company were re- sponsible for the HarlemEunnel disaster In accordance with their decision Chauncey M. Depew has been arrested and placed under $25, 5,ooobonds to an swer the charge.
 Now that Prescott IS providedwith am pie hotel accommodations, we would suggest to our friends of the Prescott & Arizona Railroad company, that they try to secure some of the overland excur- sions to come to Prescott. It would af- 1 ford business for the company, pleas ure for the tourists and would be a good | way to advertise our climate and re- sources.
 Albuquerque comes to the front with curiosity in the shape of an bsco nder. instead oi skipping out to Canada wirh lot of money belonging to other peo- pie be took contract to perform cer- tain piece of work for $5ooo. He completed about $so.oo worth of the job, drew $.o.oo and then skipped out leaving his employer in debt to him for the balance. These westerners are al- ways getting up some new scheme.
 Coconino is not supremely happy even now that tthehabiliments of new county has been legislated to her. Flagstaff has been designated as the county seat until the special election IS held in May, and she thinks that it belongs to her by right permanently. Her smaller sister Will- . jams, however, is ambitious fer the same honor and the contest between the two promises to be quite interesting, with the odds of course in favor of the former town.
 While we would not like to be consid- cred as attempting to dictate to Governor Irwin, we would respectfully recommend for his favorable consideration the name of ". O. ONeill for reappointment as adjutant general of the territory. There is no man who would take as lively an interest in our territorial mili- tia as our present adjutant general, to whose energy the existence of an organ ized militia in the territory at present is due.
 News of a horrible massacre comes from Madagascar. Ramiasatra, gover- nor of the province of Belanond, resent ing petition from the popuIace to the government to defend them from cruel ties, massacred a7S persons, including men, women and children belonging to the leading families. The slaughter continued for several days. The agonies of the victims were in many cases pro- tracted. Sometimes their limbs were gradually dismembered, their heads were sawed of, and their bodies thrown to dogs Many of the women were out ragged. The survivors were forced to erect trophy composed of the heads of the victims. Popular fury has caused the government 10 announce that the offender will be punished.
 The recent flood in the Verde river se- riously damaged irrigating ditches again. Not only this but property belonging to those owning the ditches has been washed away leaving them ID poor clr- cumstances to rebuild the ditches. As the reservation has been turned over to the interior department for settlement settlers there are anxious that some dis position may be made of the land at the earliest possible opportunity so that par ties who may secure land in the reserva- ton may join with those below in taking out ditch. In fact this seems to be the only solution to the agricultural sit nation there at present. By dividing up the expense in the matter it will be possible 70 rebuild the ditch, whereas if left to themselves the settlers below the reservation will be unable to rebuild alone.
 The JoURNAL-MINER having had a narrow escape on, account of the flood from being compelled to issue an edition or two on brown paper was just about to IL. ll- Ia |