Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-01-13

A gentleman prominently con
 nected with the Southern Pacihc
 railroad, is reported to have stated in Galveston that the general offices
 of that company would be removed
 from New Orleans to Houston, Texas.
 A New York pilot has been sent to the penitentiary for five years Ter
 criminal negligence in running down
 yacht last summer and killing two
 men. It may seem hard to send a
 man to imprisonment where his in- tention to commit crime was lack ing, but loss of life through criminal
 carelessness or negligence seems little less a crime than if the in-
 tention were present. It makes lit tie difference whether one starts out deliberately to commit murder. or whether he assumes ''don't-care-
 a-straw" demcanor, in his acts, which result in the loss of human
 life.
 From the manner in which the
 orators of the democratic party
 pitched into the Mckinley bill during two campaigns it was supposed that the first act of the democratic con
 gress would be to wipe this much
 maligned law out of existence. Not so, however. The rumor now comes from Washington 10 the effect that a majority of the ways and means
 committee are opposed to any inter
 ference with the present tariff law
 They seem to think that the Me
 Kinley law will do more to develop
 the resources of every section of the
 country than any similar measure
 that has ever been enacted. The
 democratic party in this seems to be
 keeping up its reputation of follow
 ing in the wake of the republican
 party and of adopting its measures.
 The local items, published in the
 Prescott papers, present fine ap-
 pearance when they are dressed up
 as telegraphic news in the two morn
 ing papers of Phenix, three or four days after their appearance here. They look as crisp and fresh as if they had just been ticked of wire instead of having been jolted and thumped against each other in mail sack for about thirty hours by the long and tedious stage ride via Wickenburg and Congress. For original designs in newspaper enter prise We can not but admire this new departure in telegraphic service adopted by these Phenix papers.
 A bold game was played on the pool rooms at Denver, Omaha, and Kansas City, January 9th. A tele- gram from Denver tells of the man ner in which it was played in that city, the same game being played in the other cities named. The parties to it were arrested in Kansas City: The telegram is as follows: Two strangers. giving their names as Perry and Rogers, have been in and about Austin & Co.'S race pool l rooms here for the past few days. They have laid an occasional bet on several races with indifferent results until to-day. This afternoon "Con- gress," horse in the Guttenberg | races, was put on the board as a 10 | to l shot. Perry invested 800 on this horse, and great surprise was caused when the returns were receiv- ed, showing that Congress" had won, and MT. Perry pocketed his 5000 and quietly disappeared. Shortly afterwards the man Rogers placed $l0O on Rosa G, l5 to 1 hot. Strange to say this horse proved a winner also. The cashier of the firm paid the man, who lost 10 time in leaving the room with lis H 500. This last extraordinary ack set the pool seller to thinking, nd they requested the race bureau l new York to verify these winners. m immediate answer was received that the horses had not ven got place in their respective aces, and that the pool room had cen duped. The wire had been apped probably between the race rack and the New York telegraph flee.
 Governor Irwin has issued his reclamation giving the result of he recent election on the adoption the constitution. From this off ( ial document it appears that 7,73S otes were boiled, of which $40 | ere in favor of the constitution I nd 2,2s2 against, and Is votes were { brown out. The majority in faver f the constitution was 3,l3S. An nalysis of this vote, even with this majority, does not seem to indicate hat the citizens of this territory ere overwhelmingly in favor of the I At the last general , lection there were in round num- CTS 12,OOO votes boiled in the terri ( ory. Advocates of the constitution ( 7orked energetically for the meas Ire and raised large sums by sub cription to assist in its adoption, nd it is fair to state that a pretty ull vote of those favoring the con- s titution was secured. Opponents :. . f the measure did not spend a sin | le dollar that we know of, certain c 7 they did not in northern Arizona, D o assist in its defeat, and they even n emained away from the polls by U he score. The result of the vote n z, ,ows that 4,262 refused to vote at c, ~ |, and it is safe proposition to a, 'sert that nine out of ten of these re ere ODposad fo tha roo,k;k,s.. | Ia