Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-10-28

ALos Angeles man has been sue cessful in the culture of bananas.
 Arizona should be we'll represent ed at the Fl Paso Esilver convention Stage robbers are having things all their own way in the vicinity of Redding, California.
 N. A. Morford, of Phenix, was elected one of the vice-presidents | of the Omaha convention.
 Ignatius Donnelly, of Cryptogram fame, has just been awarded dama- ges for Sl00 in libel suit against certain Minnesota papers.
 Governor Murphy has issued his proclamation calling special cleo ton for December 1st, to vote on the new constitution.
 Hon. James Sias, of Graham county, died last week. NIT. Sias was a member of the fourteenth legislature of this territory.
 President Harrison has directed that peremptory demand be made on Chile for the punishment of the murderer of the American sailor.
 Decorator Searles has won his suit to sustain the will of his millionaire late wife. Timothy Hopkins attor- news have given notice of an appeal.
 Claus Spreckels has reduced the price of sugar to four cents per pound in Chicago. The sugar trust there has commenced to buy at that price.
 A paper which keeps the run of eastern politics pretty well says that, as we approach the ides of Novem- Der, the Democratic nose begins to blush and the cheek to pale.
 Victoria Woodruff, who has evil dently tired of English aristocratic life, and pines for American noto- riety once more, is billed to deliver a series of lectures in the United States on Social Reform"
 The Phenix Gazette accuses the JouRNAL-MNER of jumping onto Tom Parish" for his article on State hood, published in the Tucson Star. We thought we rather compliment ed the gentleman by stating that we supposed his article would set tie the question.
 The Phenix Republican manifests very small souled disposition, as we'll as degree of jealousy unwor- thy of newspaper in its abuse of Governor Murphy for appointing MT. Morford, of the Herald, as dele gate to the Commercial Congress at Omaha.
 Chief Justice Gooding has decided that counties are liable for services of assistant district attorneys where those services were necessary m the enforcement of the laws, and could not be rendered by the district at torney in person.
 It is not infrequently that grand juries refer cases that come up be- fore them for consideration, to their successors. In imitation of this GUS tom the constitution makers referred a number of subjects which should have been decided by them to future legislative enactment"
 The constitution adopted by the convention at Phenix appears in the WEEKLY JoURNAL-MNER to-day, and will receive the attention of the editor of this paper, from time to time. A full discussion of the instrument should be had, and any one having anything to say for or against it will be given the use of these columns.
 Gen. William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, who died at his home in Fair ax county, Va, last Sunday, was son of the late Gen. Robert E. Lee, and great grandson of Martha Washington. He was an ex-Cou- federate officer, member of Con- gress, etc.
 The pill editor of the Pheni1 Ga zette, in facetious manner, remarks that, sthere is some talk of voting on proposition to allow the Enter prise, Citizen and Journal-Miner men a pension, when Arizona is ad- mitted as aState." The editors of the above papers are abundantly able to thake care of themselves in either State or Territory.
 The Phenix Gazette has been so abusive of Judge Kibbey and other officials who differ from it in regard to statehood that it has disgusted many of its readers. If the Gazette has nothing better to offer in sup port of the new constitution than to abuse those who do not favor it, it would seem as if the instrument possessed little merit, or that the editor of the above paper has not sui fcient intelligence to present its strong points if it possesses any.
 "The Arizona Journal-Miner, a back number sheet that is opposed to any thing progressive, doesn't like the manner in which the Ga zette advocates statehood and the adoption of the new constitution" Mistaken you are, MT. Gazette. We have no objections to the manner in which you advocate Statehood, as 1t is in perfect accord with your advo- cacy of everything else. That is, to