Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1894-07-04
ARIZONA JuURNAL-MINER
;. c. MARTIN. Editor and rrop'r.

Coxey and his wealers are being lost sight of in the railroad strike.
 Maricopa county democrats have called for primary election to be held August f.
 The cost to. the government of Suppressing the Barstow common wealers was Sl25,O00.
 A United States grand jury ha been called at Los Angeles to inves- tigate the railroad trouble.
 A private telegram was received today, announcing that Yale was victorious in the Yale Harvard boat race.
 The National Republican League convention, in Denver, passed a resolution for the free coinage of silver.
 In single Mexican jail are con fined twelve editors. two newspaper managers, three foremen and one proof reader.
 Commonwealer generals are now quoted at Sl03 each, that being the amount with which Gen" Bennett disappeared from the army.
 Verdicts of juries and decisions of courts. frequently afford relief to a criminal from the consequences of his crime, but they do not change the verdict of popular opinion.
 President Debs and Vice President Howard, of the A. R. U., will have a fine feat from the chestnuts which the poor, deluded fools of the order will pull out of the fire for them.
 Editor Howell, of the Atlanta Constitution, is honest, if not polite. When asked why Georgia favored the income tax, he said: "None of our people have any incomes to tax"
 Every charge made by those newspaper correspondents in con- nection with the sugar trust scandal has been proven, but the Senate has requested the us. District Attorney to enter a mol. pros.
 Mir. Croker's statement, that he would have appeared before the New York investigating committee, if asked to do so, would be more convincing made on this side of the Atlantic, instead of the other.
 That sugar trust bargain has yet to be ratified by the people. Mem bers of the House should not forget this when the time comes for them to vote on the sugar schedule of the tariff bill. The people will vote next November.
 The jury that convicted Erastus WIman had the old fashioned idea that to sign a mans name for the purpose of getting a check cashed was to commit forgery, whether it was the intention of the forger to repay it or not. In this it differed from some Arizona juries.
 The Monterey, California, New Era announces that the contract for the construction of that part of the Monterey and Fresno railroad, from Monterey to Hollister, has been let to A. C. Mclean, of Spokane. The distance is forty-six miles and the contract price Sl7,0OO per mile.
 That the democrats cons ider that they have no hopes of carrying the election in California this year, is evidenced from the fact that the Examiner advocates the nomination of a republican by the democratic convention. It frankly admits that this is democracy's only hope for success.
 Carl Schurz, who used to worship Cleveland, is now hammering his idol with a club. It is the custom of certain savage tribes to smash their gods and carve out new ones when prayers for rain are not answered. Human nature is much the same the world over. It would be interesting to know what Mir. Schurz wanted.-L. 4. Times.
 A French anarchist, suspected of being implicated in the assassina- ton of President Carnot, took a long knife and disemboweled him self rather than submit to arrest. A redeeming trait in the character of an anarchist crops out occasion ally. A few years ago one of them exploded a dynamite cartridge in his mouth in Chicago, causing instant death. st
 4 paper in the City of Mexico announces the arrival there of "J. L. Robinson and D. Tonton," who were supposed to have been killed by Indians on Tiburon Island. The parties alleged to have been killed were R. E. l.. Robinson and a mau named Logan. If they are the same, who have arrived in the City of Mexico, Robinson eau amuse himself by reading his obituary notices. Not one has been seen up to date that would prove pleasant reading to him.
 Acting Attorney General Maxwell rendered an opinion recently, in regard to the carrying of mail by the railroads, in which he says: .sThe statute makes it an offense for