Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1894-06-06

NS'Piila refuses lo insure the lives Ot football players.
 Albuquerque, like Prescott, will have no Fourth of July celebration, but will go to Las Vegas.
 San Diego is working to get a steamship line established between that place and Vladivostock, Russia.
 Elocutionists can teach man to talk properly, but he must teach himself to think properly or he will not do 1t.
 The board of health of Orange. New Jersey, has just issued an edict against kissing, either in public or private.
 When a man wishes to bribe a member of legislative body, he does not approach those he considers iueorruptible, does hei
 The May floods should be a warn ing to the democrats to prepare for the political flood that will overtake them next November.
 Snow fell at Lexington, Ky, re- gently, but it did not cool the campaign that is being conducted against Breckinridge.
 Senator Jones, of Arkansas, says the Wilson tariff bill will be a law on the first of July; but he neg leeted to specify the year.
 Flagstaff is making extensive pre- parations for the celebration of the Fourth of July. In this, our sister town shows a much more patriotic spirit than Prescott.
 Coxey will, it is said, lecture and Carl Browne will write book, but what will become of the poor devils who helped them into notorietyi
 That bribery story was a very poor one, but it seems to have served the purpose for which it was origi- nated-driving the democratic Sen ators to the support of the tariff bill.
 The action of the House in deter mining to have the naval committee investigate the alleged armor plate frauds was in effect vote express ing lack of confidence in the ad- ministration, as Secretary Herbert has had a committee of naval off, cers investigate the same subject.
 Browne, the clown of the Coxey show, pertinently said in one of his recent comicsl orders to the Coxey- ties: Our force will always be measured by the fullness of our commissary." In other words, as long as there is a supply of food there will be men to eat it.
 The Senators on that committee doubtless meant we'll in deciding to make that investigation a star chamber affair, but people will talk, and many will say that it was because they feared the effect of making the testimony public con- corning the relations between the sugar trust and certain democratic Senators.
 The Mohave County Miner says that several candidates for office are willing to sacrifice themselves in the populist cause. When rotten hulks of the old parties take upon themselves the leadership of the new party, it is sure to go down in defeat. None but young men of ability should attempt the leader ship of the new party. The old hulk must go." Where does the the Miner expect to get its recruits, if not from the old partiesi
 Courts and juries should take warning that the American people wIll not allow justice to be trifed with. They may endure injustice 1 for time, and go no further than | to enter protest when a criminal is set free, or is let of with punish ment inadequte to hIs otfense. The | last few months has seen an ex- complication of this fact in the | unusually large number of lynch | ings which have occurred all over the country. Last Saturday alone, witnessed the lynching of no less than five persons in different parts of the United States. Colfax, Wash ington, headed the list, when a mob of its citizens took two men from the county jail, led them up to the porch roof of the court house, tied one end of rope around each of their necks, and the other to the building, and then flung them out in the darkness over the side of the porch, to dangle in the air. One of the victims of this lynching was Ed. Hill, who, two years ago, with little or no provocation, killed a man named Summers, and fed to this territory, where he was arrested and placed in jail in Phenix. He broke jail, and after being out short time, he was reeaptured, and returned to Washington for trial. Although he killed his victim, the jury returned a verdict of assault, and he was serv- ing a sentence on this conviction. His partner at the lynching bee was another murderer whose trial was in progress, and the jury before whom he was being tried witnessed A F Il Al ]