Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-06-24
EDITORIAL NOTES.

soldiers.
 A New York man committed
 suicide the other day on account o
 the extreme heat. He must hay,
 been receiving aweather report iron
 the other world
 Postmaster General Wanamakel
 came out of the Keystone bank fail
 ure investigation unscathed. The
 attempt to connect him with it in $
 dishonorable light proved an igno-
 minous failure.
 Camp Verde military reservation
 Tn this county, recently abandoned,
 contains several hundred acres oi
 good arabic land, and should be
 disposed of to settlers at as early a
 date ss possible.
 Governor Irwin has appointed
 the following railroad commission
 ers: F. B. Gage, of Cochise; G. W.
 Beecher, of Mohave; H. B. Light
 hizer, of Maricopa, and John s. O'Brien, of Pima.
 W. A. Clark. of Butte. Montana
 who IS also lessee of the United
 Verde Copper company at Jerome,
 has offered Sl 600 reward for the ap- prehension and conviction of the murderers of Editor Penrose.
 As the result of the big irrigation edition recently published by the San Francisco Chronicle. Agent T. E. Clark. of the Tulare irrigation district, telegraphed that 'he had been enabled to sell S320,000 worth of bonds of that district. being half the total issue, none of which had been sold heretofore.
 Secretary Proctor hss prepared a statement showing that assertions from the army are less now than at any time since the war closed. Deser- tions for the month of May were less than half what they were for several years past. This rate of decrease Is constantly increasing
 \ Georgia undertaken recently held little girl as hostage for the payment of the funeral expenses of an old lady who died while taking her to her relations in Georgia. Habeas corpus proceedings were in- stituted and the girl recovered by friends of her mother in Albuquer- que.
 An interview with Thomas s. Bull lock or L. H. Wilson in which they could give their views of the rail road situation here might prove eqally interesting, as those quota tions from eastern papers. Wonder why our enterprising contemporary | does not secure onei
 Hon. J. J. C. Abbott, the new premier of Canada, was director in the Canadian Pacific railway at the time of his appointment. On his appointment Abbott cabled to Lon don ordering his broker to sell all his stock in the Canadian Pacific railroad. President Van Horne also received Abbott's resignation as a director of the company.
 \ Missouri man, whose name is withheld from the public, offers to furnish the Worlds fair manage ment with Billy the Kids" famous and deadly gun. Billy was only twenty-one years old when he died, but the stock of his gun contained twenty-one notches, cut there by the owner to represent the number of the weapons victims. X recent telegram from London : contains little tariff sermon m it. self and indicates some of the bene- fits derived from the Mckinley bill , to this country: Owing to the de- I creased demand from America forty t three Welsh tin plate works will shut | down during the.whole of July, lock I ing out 26,0O0 men. It is feared the I stoppage will extend beyond July. | 4 mass meeting will be held in Swan i sea to protest against the lockout. il The Prince of Wales is now CO., T in a divorce suit, institu- U led by Lord Brook against his wife. U .h.lc the pathway of this particu- Il Ter s,ion of royalty has generally II supposed to have been strewn with s' roses, he is just now beginning to Il -ealize that they were not thornless o 1nes. The prediction is freely made u P England hat he will never sue b P .. io thc throne If England. and u fs saouarchy self seems to be rc
 ag there. e'
 rrcpo@i,ion fo purchase the =,
 a by the school trustees, if |. ccssrp plisbed, vili feet saving to -, b. tax payers of com siderable money ;n in the wsy of interest. in 'hile in reality the ownership will tb main, in the same tax payers. they Ii. III oygn inc building as a school al, istricr and not as city. The city all bonds are drawing eight per fin mt interest. Should this sale be sa, the bonds ofthe school ,r strict could be issued under the ,h sw bonding law at six per cent and m, ie money received for their sale ap- th. jed to the redemption of the old oIT 'nds. The question of making this ro, ansfer will be submitted to the =: ople soon to vote on it.
 The Albuquerque Citizen says that wh he Prescott papers are marring pl, cir usefulness by petty pickering. wb,