Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1893-07-05
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 A. J. Drexel. the we'll known Philadelphia banker, Is dead.
 The financial situation is growing worse, rather than better, m theeast.
 At the present price of silver, 1t does not cost much to give a silver lining to every cloud.
 It is announced that the extra session of Congress will be called to meet August |.
 The total number of men lost in the Victoria disaster was 36O-22 officers and 3SS men.
 Admiral Tryon's body was not re- covered, as reported, but is entomb- ed in his ship, so fathoms deep.
 What a beneactor to the human race the man would be who could discover an antidote for lying.
 Riverside. California, by a vote or four to one of its supervisors, has decided in favor of prohibition straigh out.
 Those A. X P. would-be train rob bers will keep fooling around trains until they get run over and proba- bly lose a leg or something.
 IT silver keeps on the downward sliding scale, the man "born with a silver spoon in his mouth might as we'll have had a tin one.
 Joseph Montana, a cowboy, claims to have been beaten and rob bed of $50, yesterday, by two or three other Mexicans.
 The Heath trial in Fresno, for the murder of McWhirter, developed several drawn pistols a few days since. The court ordered every body disarmed hereafter.
 Sheep men thoroughly under stand the cause of the low price of wool. They had the Mckinley bill wool pulled over their eyes once, but it cant be did again"
 The last year of the Herr iSon ad- miuistration was the most prosper ous in the history of the United States. The first year of the Cleve- land administration sees more fnan- cial peril than any period since the last great panic.-Ex.
 They are having a little clean up Of murderers in the Choctaw nation. Last Friday man was shot through the heart. according to law, for the murder of his mother-ln-law and wife. Next Friday four ChOctaws are to be shot, and the following Friday five more will receive the same penalty.
 Herr Most wants the judge and all others connected with the trial of the Chicago anarchists tried and executed. That is the natural out growth of the encouragement given to anarchists by Illinois democratic governor, in pardoning the convict ed anarchists from the penitentiary.
 Eighteen hundred silver dollars were paid into the custom house as duty on a ship load of coal landed at San Pedro yesterday. This Is the first payment in silver ever made to the customs officials m this district. It Is customary to pay in gold. although the law makes silver legal tender for all purposes, GUS toms collections or otherwise. |. A. Express.
 Of all the cheap efforts to obtain popularity with the wage-earners that of Gov. Werts. of New Jersey, is the silliest. He widely adver- tised the marriage the other day in his parlor-perhaps he feared that somebody might think the kitchen was used-of his housemaid to a stair builder. This stair builder may not be as well up in political triCkery as Werts, but we'll wager he has more hard common sense.
 An interesting libel suit has just been decided in Massachusetts. It appears that a Boston newspaper, in ats account of municipal court pro- eeedings. mixed the name of pris- oner up with the name of another man of similar name, in the same business. The other man brought suit against the paper. The supe- rior court found that the publica- ton did not concern the plaintiff, but was intended to apply to the prisoner before the municipal court 7,1~a. The full bench of the su- ,rame c,,7rfTSz-- c,7rTz- has confirmed this de- clsion and ordered Jutig5ii,...-----. Tor the defendant.-Ex.
 Commissioner Lamoreux, of the opuaral land office, has started out l at a different and more satisfactory l gait. in the transaction of business | than did President Cleveland's com missioner during his former admin istration. Under Commissioner | Sparks, all the way from two to five wears elapsed between final proof and issuance of patent. Patents were received to-day in the Prescott land office, on which final proof was made March g. showing the busi- ness of the general land office to be right up to date, as three months IS as short a space of time as the ex- animation of proofs and issuance oi patents can be made.
 The Gazette reports that Frank | Luke returned yesterday from Fl | Paso. where he went with carload | of ore from his mine in Bradshaw | Basin. The results are immensely l satisfactory. The fifteen tons were | sampled at the smelter, with the | following result per ton: Silver | 673.3 ounces; gold 8; lead 70 per l cent. The result is such that 1t IS | likely that extensive shipments will | now be made steadily. The mine | is generally regarded as one of the | best in central Arizona and IS likely ] 10 make its owners bloated capital isis" The mine mentioned above 1 is located in the Bradshaw noun tains in this county, and one of the greatest mineral belts in Arizona.
 A Charitable experiment is about | to be tried in New York which ! promises excellent results. Within q couple oi months the Peoples Bank Association hopes to open the first of several model pawn offices for the poor. The newspapers abound from day to day with sto- ries telling how hard it isfor the very poor to borrow indispensable small sums of money, and what ex-
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