Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1894-07-18

lighted, it should ask some favored trust to do it.
 It is estimated that the loss to the fruit interests of California by the strike will amount to $50,0OO per day.
 A fight took place at Sacramento yesterday between United States troops and strikers, resulting in the killing of two strikers and the wounding of several others.
 If Dick Croker should take a notion to tell that investigating committee all he knows, some big democrats will wish he had remained in Europe.
 The speeches which have proven the greatest successes as propagators of anarchy have been made in Con- gress and circulated at government expense in the Congressional Rec ord.
 The 900 delegates to the Repubh- can League convention, at Denver, on being boiled for the next Presi- dential nominee of the party, gave the following significant vote: Me Kinley, 5S7; Reed, l42; Harrison, 26; Scattering, 37.
 The sugar trust is trying to work the democrats of the House through impecunious editors in their dis tricts. If you hear of democratic editor having changed his mind about the necessity for free sugar, just put him down as having been sugar cured by the trust.
 Geo. Nj. Pullman is said to be taking his ease at Castle Rest, wherever that is located, during the progress of the present strike. He refuses to see reporters, but his son in-law IS quoted as saying, for him, that he had nothing to arbitrate."
 The following from the Phenix Gazette, is rather frank admission from a democratic paper: "The democrats went into the campaign of 1892 with 8 promise. la 1894 they can offer only an apology. This is not progress"
 There are no flies on the editors of "the only populist paper in Ari- zona," the Kingman Mineral Wealth. One of its editors was nominated for the territorial council and the other for probate judge by the MohaYe county populist conven- tion.
 Anson H. Smith, of the Mohaye Miner, on his "16 to l" platform, lost the populist nomination as candidate for assemblyman by l6 to II. Anson and his platform are now going to run on an independent ticket, and it is a safe Is to wager that he will not receive l to l6 votes of the county.
 Governor Tillman's playful refer ence to his intention to use pitch fork on MT. Cleveland's "old fat ribs" if the South Carolina legisla- ture will send him to the Senate, should not result in an increase of the regular army. By the time Tillman gets done using his pitch fork on Senator Butler, it will be too dull to hurt MT. c.
 How it must warm the cookies of the old soldiers hearts to know that $25, 100000 of the money Congress appropriated to pay pensions for the year ending June 30, 1894, remains unexpended, notwithstand- ing that thousands of applications for pensions from suffering veterans remain unacted upon, owing to the policy of delay which governs the pension bureau.
 In declaring the strike of Debs imposed two conditions. First arbitration, as proposed by President Cleveland, to be entered upon; sec ond, all striking employees, except those guilty of criminal misconduct, to be restored to their positions, without prejudice, by the railway companies. The railway companies have signifed their intention of resisting the latter condition. It IS one thing for the chief of labor organization to order out the men belonging to it, but very frequently | it is an entirely different proposition to restore them to the places Occu- pied before.
 Judge Ross, of Los Angeles, has placed the railroad companies and strikers on the same ground, ac- cording to the Los Angeles herald' which says that "the men are en- joined,against in any way interfering with the movement of trains, and the railroad companies are required to perform the services of carrying mail and moving freight as the ata commerce law directs them to do. If they cannot move passenger cars with Pullman cars, they must move them without Pull man cars. But, in any event, the trains must be moved" The United States grand jury in Chicago has adopted the same course and will investigate the actions of the gen. eral managers, as we'll as those of the strikers.
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