Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1894-12-26

AC OuiSSSSQ AoN+N RaAA NNaAA VIII play both the Stanford and Berke- ley teams in California.
 Geraldo Saiz, Mexican revolu- ton, tt is announced, will be shot in a few days. Mexico don't fool much time away with her revolu- tionists.
 The shooting scrape recently. in the bank office at Council Bluffs, Iowa, so affected an attorney who witnessed it, that he has become insane.
 The Philadelphia Enquirer moved into a handsome new building of its own on December 10, and eele- brsted the event by issuing man. moth 6fty-six page edition of the paper.
 The Kentucky courts have decided that gas company cannot collect rent for its meters. The meters of a gas company, like the scales of a retail grocer, are, the court says, necessary part of distribution.
 Judge Bethune has just decided that Cochise county need not pay a reward offered for au artesian we'll. The reason assigned is that the county indebtedness already exceeds the legal limit.
 A bill has passed the house of representatives and has been re- ported fsvorably in the senate of South Carolina, making intoxiea- ton a misdemeanor m that state.
 Tbe suggestions recently made in the JOURNAL MINER in regard to amending the territorial mining law is meeting with favor from a considerable portion Of the press of the territory.
 Elitor Morford. of the Phenix Herald, is furnishing some nice lively music for .'Shorty" Zulick to dance to. The bald pated, rotund little fellow from New Jersey keeps step with precision, too.
 An Iowa man hid Si,400 in gold away in house to prevent it from being attached by his wife, who was suing him for divorce, and masked robbers came along and took it away from him,
 The Star thinks that one of the laws of the next legislature should be to require every voter to exhibit poll-tax receipt at the polls before being allowed to cast his ballot. Snch a law is badly needed to en- force the payment of poll-taxes.
 $. W. Worden, the human iend, who concocted the plan to wreck an s. F. train, near Sacramento, during the strike last summer, and under whose direction the plot was carried out, resulting in the killing of Engineer Clatke and several others. and who is now under sentence of death, has made a confession.
 h his address to the teachers institute, at Phenix, Chief Justice Baker probably voiced the senti- ment of large number of people of the territory, when he said: 1t would be well to cut oG the expen- ditures for asylum and prison com missioners and give more money to the school fund"
 Two. more daily papers have bloomed into existence in Arizona during the past week. They are the Coconino Sun and Solomonville 1 Bulletin. The initial numbers of l each which have been received at 1 this office show all the symptoms of prosperity, and Editors Funston and Kelly are to be congratulated 1 ontheir enterprise.
 The Tombstone Prospector voices the sentiment of JoURNAL-M MINER in the following: Ut is a pleasure for i law abiding citizens of Arizona to | see the death penalty pronounced l in Arizona, after such long respite. 4 man who commits cold blooded | murder once, will do it again, and l should be treated like g wild animal. l He should be put out of the way, 1 because he IS dangerous. X few legal hsngings will stop crime, which is on the increase in Arizona. I COchise county has been eompara- lively quiet since the hanging of the six men ten years ago. It takes I resolution on the part of a judge to sentence a man to be hung, and I the people fully appreciate the position in which judges are placed, r and have nothing but appfause for them, when an emergency arises which calls for extreme measures.
 Judge Hawkins has decided the Apache county contest case. against the contestant, and holds that the holding of election polls oa. a mill. f tary reservation is vaild. .....- sDr. Prices Cream Baki..s ter