Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1893-03-08
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Lee Mantle has been appointed as
 Senator from Montana,
 Congress has appropriated S56,-
 0O0 to irrigate the Navajo reserva-
 ton.
 It is said that I. F. Gray. of In-
 diana, is booked for the Mexican
 mission.
 The YavSpai delegation in the
 house voted as a unit in favor of
 female suffrage.
 Thirty-four hundred Tammanyites
 will attend the inauguration of
 Grover Cleveland.
 It was rumored yesterday that
 Governor Murphy had vetoed Den
 his Burke's billiard table bill.
 Los Angeles County, California,
 has just closed contract to feed
 her prisoners at thirty cents each
 per day.
 Chief Justice Fuller administered
 the oath of office to President Cleve-
 land and Vice-President Morton ad- ministered it to Mir. Stevenson.
 President Cleyeland's inaugural
 address is reported, as having been
 very briefand devoted mainly to the subject of tariff reform and civil service reform.
 Ex-President Harrison has gone to his old home in Indianapolis to recuperate. He has accepted the position of law lecturer in the Stan ford University.
 The Phenix Herald announces that c. Meyer Zulick will shortly leave on his pilgrimage to Washing ton to dispense the federal patron age of the territory.
 Recent advices from Phenix are to the effect that MT. Zulick, seeing | the Sel,atorship from Arizona van ishing from view, has decided to enter the race for governor.
 Montana will have a republican senator. The legislature failed to elect one, and the governor, who is a republican, has the naming of the next senator from that state.
 Both houses of the Washington legislature have passed the bill mak- ing it unlawful in the state to man ufacture, buy, sell or give away cigarettes or cigarette papers.
 Vice president Morton and wife rendered a reception to the formers successor, Vice President Elect Stevenson, on the arrival of the lat ter in Washington, March Ist.
 The Albuquerque Citizen thinks that the conviction and hanging of a few oi the numerous murderers in New Mexico would have a salutary effect. It would be good medicine ID Arl1Ona too.
 The woman suffrage bill has passed the lower house of the legis- lature. It is thought that it will pass the council, and, as the gov eInor recommended the measure, it | will, of course, receive his signature.
 Carter Harrison has been nomi- S hated again for mayor of Chicago. i Mir. Harrison does not bear the rep a utation of being the purest of poli- Iicians, but he is probably good h enough for mayor of Chicago. l. Now that the supreme court of il Kansas has decided in favor of the a house, the populists pro I pose to ascertain if Chief Justice p Horton was really elected to the t supreme bench in 1890. fl NIT. Morton, the new secretary of d was one of the first ad- !, Focates of tree culture in the prairie u country, and originated the custom r of celebrating Arbor day, which has SI been made legal holiday in many S' western states. $ The Chicago Tribune gives a u pretty correct idea of the political u ituation in Washington. It says hat the democrats have a clear !, in the house, they will also "a lave a majority in the senate, and it I, eems probable that they will have f. majority in the cabinet. n The Alabama legislature has m 'sssed bill which will disfranchise ci bout 10000 negro voters iR that fr tate. Alabama has been growing Ia salous of the big democratic major h, .ies neighboring states have been "; lying, and proposes to keep up with bl, le procession. in Alexander Russell Webb, the Mo SUI smmedan evangelist, has arrived in tio ew York. He expects to establish ere ie religion of Islam in the United Ju ates. Rich Mohammedans of tho ombay guaranteed $l500OO for the wh lrpose of erecting a mosque in m merica. stu A bill has been introduced in the iii' uncil by NIT. Edwards in refer ce to the encouragement of con ructing railroads in Arizona. It i' empts from taxation all railroads IC' within certain tune "ls the year 1913. ho' Our contemporary, this morn Vn' ,.' 2. contains what is intended ut very touching notice ol oi .e alleged death of the re- i:~ 10 Ibhcsn party. IL will be found in i.s le course of time that the republi- iUe n party is not dead and does not 'as ,.,-.- .y,...Il- eco