Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-12-07

Dr. Scott. father of the late Mrs. Harrison, died in Washington yes terday.
 The Yuma Sentinel has entered ts twenty second volume. The Sen tinel is one of the best papers in r the territory.
 Congress will meet next Monday. Then for free silver coinage and statehood for Arizona, which has been promised us by Mark Smith.
 As the democrats seemed to be inclined to repudiate their promises to the country on the subject of the tariff, what is the matter with the present administration doing it for them between now and March 4thi Governor \. O. Murphy will go to Washington soon, and will work for the admission of Arizona as State. Governor Prince of New Mexico Is already in Washington on a similar mission for New Mexico. The prospect is good for the ad- mission of both as States soon.
 A telegram from Long Island says the snow storm on Long Island is the heaviest since the blizzard of 1888. the fall being from Is inches to two feet. Heavy drifts have formed in many places, impeding travel on the roads. All trains on the Long Islandrailroad are behind time. The trains from Sag Harbor and Greenport are missing.
 The irrigation editor of the Phe- nix Herald says that an ''artesian we'll and a good pump will irrigate twenty acres of land, and there will be no cost of digging and keeping up canals, water rights, etc." If the aforesaid editor will read up a little on artesian wells he will prob ably discover that they do not need any pump. A genuine artesian we'll is supposed to land water on the surface of the ground without any assistance from pump.
 Heavy rain storms are reported from all over California. The Los Angeles Times says: "The first real rain of tho season started in yester- day morning between l and / o'clock and continued without in termission until after dark last evening, during which time some thing over three and half inches of water fell, the weather office re- porting 3.5l inches for the twenty four hours ending at o'clock yes terday afternoon, bringing the total for the season up to 3.97. inches. The rain is general throughout South ern California, aud as it is the kind ofslow, steady rain that thoroughly saturates the earth the result will be very beneficial to the farmers and horticulturists."
 The question suggests itself "What becomes ofvoters on election dayT" Of the 3.014 voters registered in this county, only 2,l62 voted. In the state of New York the difference be- tween the registered votes and those who sxerSsed the elective fran chise ran up into the hundreds of thousands. and it is claimed that if full vote had been cast in the state the republican electors would have received larger majority than was received by the democratic electors by ,the vote which was cast. In Pennsylvania it Is said that fully 3O0,OO0qualifed voters in that state failed to take part in the recent election. The democrats made slight gains iu that state over theiI vote in 1888, while the republicans scored large decrease from theii record in the last presidential cleo ton. The same is true in most of the other northern states, especial ly in New York, Ohio, Indiana, Hi nois and Wisconsin.
 During the recent election, the official ballots were printed with blank spaces for precinct officers and voters were expected to fill ir the names of parties they desired to vote for. In the Prescott precinct the names of candidates were writ ten on the ballot in many instances and the voter failing thereafter tc place a cross after the name writ ten, the ballots were not counted While the law provides that cross shall be placed after the name o1 the candidate voted for, it also pro- vides that a ballot shall not be re iected for technieality where the voter has made it plain for whom h' desires to vote. As in these cases the voter, by writing the name of candidate for precinct officers, cer tainly made clear his choice, 1t Il claimed by some that such ballots should have been counted for thu candidate whose name was written regardless of whether a cross wa placed after his name or not. II order to test this question, Judg' H. w. Fleury has had papers pre- pared and filed in the district cour to demand a recount of the vot for precinct officers in Prescott, anc asking for the counting of such bal lots as are described above. H' has retained Judge W. H. McGreV and Robert E. Morrison to conduc the case for him.
 Rich Mine.
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