Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1893-11-01

lnulana has man who IS such a notorious liar that on confessing to having committed a murder people refuse to believe him.
 The trouble with Southern Ari- zona politicians seems to be that there are too many Voorhees, in the democratic party.
 Ex-Governor Lee is stumping Vir- ginia not for democracy, but against the populists. This guarantees the state to the republicans.
 Our Mineral Wealth of Kingman has adopted the following motto: Free coinage of silver, Is to 1. We will fight 1t out on this line"
 Silver Is quoted at seyenty-three cents. Next week after repeal it will be on standard valuation with the bIg demonetizer of the white house.
 The Gazette's gatling gun will soon belch forth loaded with free speech canister. Look out for some startling revelations and political exposes.
 The salvation army was unsuc- eessful in Tucson-thst is they could not secure barracks" sufficiently large enough to take care of the evils the ancient pueblo is afflicted with.
 It Is now definitely decided to re- peal the Sherman law on political grounds alone. The future will also witness the repeal of the democratic party by the people on the same grounds.
 A prisoner escaped from Yuma re- gently and was returned in just twenty minutes. During his brief spell of freedom he must have got on to the repeal senators and would rather take his chances hereafter in hades.
 Governor Hughes is doing grand work to build up the territory com mercially while in Washington. On the other hand the Mafa members of his party are engaged in their usual criminal work of knifng each other. Come back, governor, come back.
 Dunbar wandered alone on the desert waiting for the two desciples to join him, like the tale told in Ben Hur. Instead of having his dream come true, two deputy sheriffs nab bed him to appear before Tucson grand jury to. answer the charges preferred by Ben Heney.
 An enterprising individual in San Francisco is victimizing people by selling them Peralta grant land at fifty cents an acre, and tue Phenix papers are ventilating the matter. This Is such a reflection on the price of Salt River valley real estate that it should be condemned as un- just.
 Phenix papers are discussing now the delicate question of a child being bora in tent on a tract of land adjoining the town. This would lead people to believe on the outside that we are progressing in civilization and that the days of the Aztec have at last passed.
 4 skating rink will be opened on the ground floor of the Prescott opera house next week, while the second story of the same building will be used as barracks for the Sal Fa'lou U---E-There is trouble ahead with such a combInativ-..-under one roof, and may the rivalry not lead to an inducement to see Salvation and Skates free to the publicr'
 Ysvapai democrats don't seem to figure in the political vendetta of their party in Southern Arizona, or in anything else, either, for that matter. But when it comes to dis secting a lone republican like Me Inernay who strayed to the land of the Philistines from the north it is Imaginable to see how the cormorants jump onto him. But McInernay will escape.
 Phenix has taken the lead on the statehood question, and a call has been issued for mass meetings to as semble, the names of both chair men of the democratic and republi- can central committees being at iached to the same. This is an un- just discrimination, politically, for statehood pelf, and why the popu- lists should be overlooked is not yet explained.
 Kingman had an epidemic of sui cldes one day last week. Frank Robinson, an old timer, "shuffled of with strychnine. Dec. Nal colm shot himself through and through with a 45-calibre gun, and Clarissa Lovejoy, a woman of the town, took the morphine route.
 A Washington telegram says Sc Belle, of Colorado, has introduced a bill to reduce the fees for trans cribing testimony in the land cases in the states west of the Missouri river. Many years ago the officers Of the West found it necessary to have the fees doubled because of unusual expenses attending such business. Now that has been ob- yiated, and members of Congress from the West have been asked to have lees reduced" This is rather .I