Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-02-24
EDITORIAL NOTES.

frequent in Arizona.
 Democrats in Congress talk of re- pealing the beet sugar bounty law.
 Congressman Fithian of Illinois has declared war on ocean msil sub- sides.
 Colonel James Chatham, of the Nogales Herald, speaks in terms highly complimentary of our towns man, w. c. Bashford.
 The democratic legislature of New York appropriated S,0O0,0O0 in Jan uary and it was not a very good month for appropriations either.
 Maud Helman, an eighteen-year- old girl of San Francisco, ran away recently because her mother wanted her to become Catholic.
 The action of the Commercial Mining Company in offering re- ward of $200 for the arrest of Henry Nj. Wilson is universally com mended.
 The Los Angeles Times with its we'll known enterprise now charters an early morning train to carry its edition as far south as San Bcrnsr- dino and Redlands.
 The government made about Sl0,- 100000 on the issue of the old frac- tional currency, as there was that amount of it that wss never pre- sented for payment.
 The Phenix G azette refers to the trial of Dr. Helm, at Phenix, as the case of Hughes vs. Helm. And this from the paper through whose col umns so recently Doctor Hughes was wont to vent his spleen and malice.
 Our contemporary has nominated W. A. Rowe for the democratic dele gate from this territory to the Hill convention which will meet in Chi cago in June. The party has no one in the territory who will serve them better than he.
 The Los Angeles Times explains that ''Chile" is the Spanish orthogra- phy, of the country which has re- gently been the subject of considera- ble discussion, while 'Chili" is the anglicised form.
 The school board of Butte, Mon tana, has taken a new departure in educational methods. Itinvites once 8 week some prominent gentleman of Butte 10 deliver a short address t. the stuients of the high school on 8 practical topic with which he is familiar 5y study and experience.
 l. is just possible that no election 1OT president will be held this year. There certainly will not if the coun- try at large could be induced to sc- cept A. c. R.'s estimate of his own importance. The selection of a president would be left to him and as matter of course the greatest man in the United States, according to his estimate would be selected himself.
 "As a whole" the Phenix Herald thinks, that Arizona has the best printed, best edited and most enter prising lot of newspapers to be found within the boundaries of like population of any part of the United States, the great cities ex- cepted." We coincide with this opinion. The fact speaks volumes of praise for the intelligence of the citizens of the territory and the en- terprising spirit of its business men, as without the patronage of these two classes the newspaper publish CTS could not make the respectable showing that they do. The credit of the quality of Arizona newspa- pers properly belongs to the public.
 A card, which we copy in this issue, from the Courier, which bears the signature of w. A. Rowe, seems to have been the subject of much speculation to-day, on the part of all who have read it. The language of the card seems clear enough, but its exact meaning seems to be in doubt. A good democratic friend of the author of the card, after reading it over two or three times, remarked: "The closing sentence leaves me in doubt as to whether the writer of it is democrat, while the wording of the entire three propositions stated leaves me in doubt as to whether he IS a candi- date for delegate to the Chicago Convention" They had big time up at Sand Point, Idaho, few nights since. Cduu Il Oiut iS icpoiOco So uc O ii'O- ly town on the Great Northern rail | road, and the result of opening a big dance house there, known as the Seattle Mug," seems to justify the claim of its being lively. "After the smoke of battle had cleared away" on the opening night, it was found that Cucumber Pete" and Steam boat Johnny" were both dead, while 3'Willocky Ned" was seriously | wounded, and two female guests of | of the evening, known as 'Irish Mol lie" and "Iolanthe" were wounded, probably fatally. Twenty-Five of the worst characters in the north west are now penned up in a stock ade and guarded by deputy sheriffs.
 Despite the historical facts con nected with Utah politics, demo- cratic papers outside of that terri tory continue to cry that "it is poll