Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1894-08-08

Southern California had a lively earthquake on Sunday night.
 Maricops is a productive county; but the biggest crop that it raises Is office seekers.
 Nearly eight hundred votes were boiled at the republican primary election in Phenix.
 Ex-Governor Murphy will be the next nominee of the republican party for delegate to Congress.
 Paul would have been a more appropriate name for him than Grover; he writes so many epistles.
 Some men never know when their little games are blocked. Coxey and Debs are recent specimens of this class.
 Governor Hughes, who is in Wash ington, has great hopes of securing the segregation of the San Carlos coal fields from the Indian reserva- tion-
 4 Richmond Va. paper says it doesn't believe that Mir. Cleveland would accept a fourth nomination for president. Not unless it was offered to him, brother.
 The places where socialism is reported to be a success are always s long ways of, and the nearer the impartial investigator gets to them, the less apparent is the success.
 NIT. Cleveland's attempt to play the little Joker in the tariff game between the house and senate may win the game, but as yet has only caused him to be accused of cheat ing.
 The wise cuckoo gets himself taken care of before the rush that will follow the congressional cleo tiOns. Congressman Breckinridge, of Ark, is 8 wise cuckoo; Sl7, 800 snaps are scarce now.
 Mir. Cleveland wants free trade without any ifs, ands or buts, and he has the gall to say so, notwithstand. ing the awful condition of industrial business affairs. He is a bourbon oi the bourbons.
 Debs has done more hard work, since getting out of jail, than for a long time previously. It has been with his jaw, though, and he has been attempting to square himself with the victims of his strike.
 The pneumatic tire of a bicycle, in Chicago, exploded the other day, and startled the populace of that city for three or four blocks. The rider was thrown into the air, and lighting on the rough pavement was considerably injured.
 MT. Cleveland is about to learn the difference between having the people with him and having them against him. In his stand for law and order the people were with him and success was easy; in his ''break' for free trade, the people are against him.
 Somebody around the Treasury department must have blundered when a formal application was made to Congress to pass a bill giving the Secretary of the Treasury authority to do certain things, as the policy of the administration has been to dictate to Congress, instead of get ting authority therefrom.
 The individual who finds fault with the political measures and methods of the old parties for about t~enty-twO months out of the twenty-fOur intervening between elections, and then asks one ofthese same old parties to give him an office, certainly has a superabun- dance of gall. But this is exactly what some people do, and they seem to wonder why their announcement to serve the people does not create a whirlwInd of enthusiasm.
 w. T. McCreight has purchased a half interest Tn the Albuquerque Citizen from Thomas Hughes. Mir. McCreight has been employed on the paper for several years, in fact, Hughes and McCreight have been inseparabla. Tom Hughes will manipulate the pen, paste and scissors on the paper, and he uses more pen than scissors and paste, while McCreight will have charge of the business end of it. They form one of the strongest newspaper teams in the Southwest.
 About three weeks ago the JOUR- NAL-MINER published an item in reference to an important decision rendered by Judge Hawkins, in which he held that ore on the dump of mines was personal property and as such was subject to taxation. The item in question has been copied, with appropriate credit to this paper, in nearly every paper in the territory, and in the issue of the Phenix Republican of August 8, it appears as an original item. That republican primary cloud burst of Thursday must have rattled Editor WOlhey.
 T. J. Wolfey, who by virtue of his position as chairman of the terri