Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1894-08-29
ourstockmon have discarded their

haarN on every hanu. alt unui after c,cction.
 New democratic bosses seem to b, the order ot the day. Lookout, V Yavapai ringers"
 Tucson thieves are holding up everything in sight, excep: the prob able candidates for office.
 Tho objection advanced against statehood is that Arizona should be dropped and alfalfa substituted
 The China and Japan war news reads good deal like Apache doings of years ago in this territory.
 There are several democrats in this section who will be divested oi their yellow jackets" before snow flies.
 The territorial tax rate has been placed at 72 cents on the SlOO. Paste this in your hat and weep not after | We gV m as state.
 Every valley in Yayapai has sprung mp a democratic candidate for sheriff, The harder the times the more men want a snap.
 Train hands says the temperature on the Yuma desert is up to l22 and l2l degrees, so that they have to close car doors and windows to keep the heat out.
 X we'll known democrat said yes terday, "how are We goipg 10 go for free silver and in the next breath endorse the national admiuistra- tion?"
 What a bowling mob there will be at the democratic convention of Maricopa county. There are to be eighty delegates in attendance. The size of the sack is not given.
 What are we to do for tea if the Chinese and Japanese ports are closed! We get from China 45,- OO0.0O0 pounds and from Japan 40,- 0O0,O0O pounds.
 The veracity of the average Yava- paian is now unduestioned. There has not, as yet, been a fish story sprung on the people in consequence of all streams running full of water,
 The north and south railroad will be a blessing just as We are to become a state, in this, that the political scrappers can come together on very short notice.
 Young men for action, old ones for counsel, applies very we'll at the present time to criminal affairs m this county.
 Our stockmen are consoling them selves over knee high grass every where on the range, but the com bine still keeps a drouthy price on beef.
 If the rains continue in this sec tion, all events to take place will have appended to them the Oregon phrase, weather permitting"
 TGere seems to be a flaw every where in the tariT law. If any interest wishes to escape, all it has to do is to say so.
 An arrival from Flagstaff says the people up there hate us. Another instance of where the child rebels against its mother.
 When will the democrats hold their county convention seems to be about as uncertain a question as the legality of that great tariff bill.
 The democratic administration of this territory has not as yet cap tured the Kid. Probably they are too busy among themselves at the present time.
 The constitutional convention of Arizona provided that no lottery will be permitted in the territory. Several seem to think that statehood comes under this head.
 There will be sacred concert this evening at the Louvre garden. Choice music, cool beer.-Republi- can. If the sentimentalists of the east get on to this, statehood is a goner.
 IT political conspirators, law and order societies, count erfeiters of coin, an statehood agitators, go for anything nov adays, A izo' a should be admitted at once, that is, as far as Phenix goes. Truly, we are progressive.
 It is easy to figure out, after all, the real cause of Phenix's prosperity in the past. The recent arrest of a gang of counterfeiters of silver money, and the steady operation of mint ought to boom any commu- nity.
 The secretary of the interior has decided to take immediate steps to open to entry lands lying within conflicting limits of the grants of Atlantic X Pacific and the Southern Pacific railroads.
 It is said that harmony ia the by word of Yayapai democracy in the coming county campaign. A brick bat produces the same sensation if it hits the right spot, also.
 It is reported that Stephen B. Elkins, Secretary of War under President Harrison, is going to run for Congress, as a republican, against William l.. Wilson, the celebrated tariff reformer. At the last election Mir. Wilson Uot