Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1893-12-13
EDITORIAL NOTES

Aa
 Senator Hin is said to hav
 puuctured President Cleveland
 Hawaiian policy in a speech re
 gently,
 Judged from democratic stand
 point. the most infamous thing tha
 a republican paper can be guilt ', O
 j. lo tell the truth.
 /: Papers that never express ar
 opinion, can always be found snarl
 ing at those which have opinion. and are not afraid to express them.
 ~ It seems to be the general opinion that the law exempting mining
 claims from assessment this veal
 does not apply to placer-claim.
 which are specified as such in the
 mining laws.
 \ scientist who has been experi-
 meating with cholera baeilli says
 the Paris and Hamburg article does
 not come up to the standard at
 tained in the orient.
 It IS hinted that the present ad-
 ministration talks of going after the loan commission. IT Brother
 Hughes and his ieutsnants are not
 careful they will bite of more than
 they can chew.
 According to statistics recently
 published, the death rate in Arizona
 fog period of five years, has been only seven in 1000. This is the low est of any state or territory in the
 United States, the next lowest on the list being nine in 1000.
 \ picture from the brush of the celebrated Rubens was sold at sherifs sale in Los Angeles re gently for Sl05. It hadbeen in the possession of an English family for over 200 years and was valued at S,000.
 
 Express carrying must be pretty good business, when Wells Fargo X Co, can afford to pay a railroad company Sl,700O0O as a bonus for the privilege of having it haul their express, and then pay the company forty per cent of the gross receipts Tor their business besides.
 Gen. George B. Holman who claims to have surveyed the original line which is now the boundary between Arizona and California from the junction of the Gila and Colo rado westward says that Yuma lies in California. It would be a joke if California got away with our pen tentiary, conYicts and all.
 The statue of General James Shields was unveiled at Washing ton a few days since. Among all the speeches made on the occasion, We doubt II there was a single one. which paid as eloquent and able a tribute to the distinguished warrior l and stateman as the lecture of l Judge J. H. Wright delivered in l Prescott some time since.
 A lengthy telegram to the Los Angeles Express from Washington | says that the democrats have be- come alarmed at the result of the recent elections and now favor the admission of Arizona, New Mexico | and Utah in the hopes of strength sning their party in the senate by he election of democratic senators rom these states when admitted.
 Recent developments in the case 'f Aguilar, charged with throwing turning oil on his wife in Los An ,eles, are favorable to the accused. t IS now thought that the girls .lothes caught fire from a bonfire m he yard and that the charge gainst AgUilar was instigated by he girls mother for revenge. -guilar claims to have been at work ear Anaheim when the affair took lace and has many reputable wit esses to prove it.
 President Cleveland is whetting p his little ax preparatory to the ecapitation of republican office oiders, according to the Washing 'n letter of our contemporary. he correspondent says that un ss all signs are misleading, the ost of the republicans will go be- ! .re the flowers bloom again. The :. 'rrespondent is apparently ignor- {. lt of the fact that out here m Ari- ma and in California the flowers ! loom the entire year. The Mohave Miner paints a 'eseate picture for the future of ohave county which We sincerely d pc may be realized, and it is not P improbable picture either. It u ys; Tn some spot in Wallapai s' alley will, not many years hence. n one one of the greatest manu- ., ,turing cities on the American 1, ointment. Power will be trans ., tted frem the Grand Canyon of q. g Colorado to propel ali machi " ry, produce light, heat, etc. Tan ta ries, woolen mills, cotton factories, it ling mills, etc; will be great to lures. ee The JoCRNAL-MNER favors state fo 'd under proper constitutional en trictionS. It does not favor ob- wi ling such an estimable privilege as this even, under false pretenses to ugh. It does not favor admis- cr, 2 under the constitution already ma Pted, as the provisions of that be rument would involve the young it e in hopeless bankruptcy within DO " years. There are a few over ant statehood advocates in the to itory, who do not stop to con ly