Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-07-29


 of late in the east.
 New Mexico's public school sys- ,em will go into effect this year.
 Kansas prohibitionists have opened l war on the drug stores for selling | whisky.
 Senator Morgan, of Alabama, says | that Cleveland will not be nominated l in 1892
 The value of mortgages added to the assessment roll of the county amount to over S60,000.
 Senator Quay will shortly resign the chairmanship of the republican national committee on account of i'll health.
 Tennessee coal miners object to the employment of convict labor in the Knoxville mines and riot is threatened.
 The State of Washington takes the cake" for horse stealing. Five car loads. st time, is pretty good haul.
 General Jubal A, Early delivered the address at the unveiling of Stone wall Jackson's statue yesterday at Lexington, Virginia.
 A bloodless duel over the death of Mrs. Alice White occurred in Phe- nix. on Saturday, between Abram Humphries and man named Miner.
 China will turn the tide of her emigration now from the United States to Brazil, a treaty having been recently made with the lstter coun- try.
 Governor Campbell, of Ohio, says that Ohio democrats expect to carry | that state through the aid of Sock less" Simpson and Farmer" Petfer of Kansas.
 The entire state of Massachusetts Is s-Olasad over the fact that Grover Cleveland has chosen Cape Cod as place of residence during the sum mer months.
 Prof Koch has become so cha grined over the failure of his lymph to accomplish what he expected of it that he has resigned all public offices held by him.
 For about twenty-one years Gen. Butler, s. Nj. Allen and others have been engaged in collecting subscrip- tions for monument to Niles Stand ish and xs5,O00 has been raised.
 Phenix papers state that there is talk of lynching Abram Humphries and Dr. Scott Helm, both of whom were connected with the murder of Mrs. Alice White of that place.
 The death of poor Mrs. Alice White, a beautiful, and heretofore respected young lady of Phenix, was very sad affair. The old, old story of womsn's weakness and mans per fdy.
 Geo. F. Meek, the former editor of the Tombstone Epitaph, was as- saulted in Phenix recently while quietly sitting on a log in the street enjoying a moonlight smoke. His assailant was Constable Slankard.
 Democratic editors seem to be try ing to kill of Secretary Blaine. by writing him to death. In the mean time the latter's health continues to improve and he says that he will re- sume his duties September lst.
 The Phenix Gazette says: 1t is rumored that MT. Bullock started to | grading yesterday on the proposed extension of his line of road from Prescott to Phenix." The rumor arose, probably, on account of the amount of mud throwing" that has been done at the $, F.. P < P. rail road proposition. The question of procuring water | supply for Prescott is a very serious one and should receive the serious | and thoughtful consideration of the city council. Ii estimated that for an expense of 5000 the pumping plant can be moved to place where a | permanent supply can be obtained, and the additional pipe required can be secured.
 Acting Secretary Chandler has de- cided that the interior department has no jurisdiction over the Salton sea and refuses to interfere in the matter of attempting to stop the in flow of water. He says that the | matter must be determined in the | courts. The people want the water to be permitted to flow and make permanent sea. United States Attorney Wilson is not pleased with the disposition shown to treat the matter of selling whisky to Indians in an indifferent manner. He says that the law is not intended for the protection of the Indian but for the protection of the whites against drunken Indians, and If the people who should be most in- ferested in the law being enforced gre indifferent about it he is willing, | so far as he is concerned, to drop it. Albuquerque papers are praising l the Santa Fe railroad company for its liberality in giving rate of one cent per mile for passengers during the fair. The Prescott X Arizona Central railroad should not be over looked by them. as Superintendent