Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1894-01-10
EnITnI,IAI NorEs


 The tariff bill is to take preced- eace over all other legislation.
 4 horrible massacre of Catholics, by Cossaeks in Russia is reported.
 New York state for the first time in over half century is free from debt.
 Prescott has been free from shoot . ing scrapes for several years previous 10 Saturday night.
 When free trade or low tariff af- feets the pocket of a democrat he turns protectionist.
 Frank II. Pattee, ex-treasurer of the s. C. railroad died at Los Angeles, January 1, of consump- ton.
 Mrs. Carlisle, wife of the United States Secretary of the Treasury, has compiled and is about to issue cook book.
 F His Excellency Grover has not succeeded in getting his congress- men under complete subjection yet on the tariff bill.
 -a Thomas Hughes of the Albuquer- que Citizen celebrated his 46th birth day recently. Hope he may live to celebrate 46 more.
 - Governor Lewelling may be com peiled to re-instate Mrs. Lease. The female populist like Bsnquo's ghost will not down at the mere bidding.
 4 telegram from Los Angeles announces that Messrs. Reinhart McCook and Wilson have been ap- pointed receivers for the Southern California railroad.
 Those Colorado legislators do not propose to throw away the op- Pcrtunity of earning their salaries by adjOuring, as they have been re- quested to do by citizens of the state.
 Adam Harold ex-state treasurer of California committed suicide in San Francisco, on account of dis appointment in not being appointed to an office for which he was an ap- plicant.
 The Phenix Gazette promised its readers a new territorial governor for holiday present. The promise remains unfulfilled. The Gazette probably acts on the principle that promises are made only to be broken.
 The minority report aganist the the Cleveland tariff bill should be read by every voter in the United States; it is a calm statement of absolute facts, not college theories, without political partisanship.
 4 Washington correspondent says that Chairman Wilson worked him self into state bordering on physi- cal exhaustion in the preparation of his anti-tariff bill, and is now sur Prised that democrats do not all approve his measure. A new industry is developing in the east, that of holding up street ears. The operators are probably working lhis just for the practice it gives, with the ultimate object of engaging in the higher and more noble calling of train robbing.
 Some of the coast papers are ob- serving with considerable justice that the escape of Evans is strik- ing object lesson in favor of lynch law. The first object lesson in favor of lynch law was the sympathetic verdict of the jury whereby the bandits neck was saved from dis location.
 The appointment machine works slowly, says the Courier. So it does. It has been converted into a sort of nickel-in-the-slot machine. As Grover drops an appointment into 1t out drops a vote for their pet anti-tariff bill. The appointments 1 are dropped just as rapidly as assur- ances of votes are given.
 If the rumor that Minister Willis has been sent home from Hawaii, is really true, it probably accounts for the Corwin anchoring at the. north end of the San Francisco bay. They want to keep Willis in quarantine awhile before allowing him to enter, through fear of spreading the royal istic disease which he L tas been af- ficted with.
 The good things of this life are not evenly distributed. An Indiana farmer has gone four weeks without being able to sleep and says he does not feel sleepy yet. Morphine and other drugs have been administered to induce sleep but without avail. Down in Alabama there is a girl who thinks nothing of sleeping right along for seven or ten days at 8 stretch.
 One of the greatest feats of jour nalistic enterprise yet achieved on the Pacific slope, was the issue of a Mid-winter Fair edition of the. San Francisco Chronicle on New Years day. It consisted of pages. But it was not its size particularly that commended t, and that entitled it to the dis .lnction of being pre-eminently the greatest paper ever issued on the Pacific slope, but the artistic man Ter in which it was prepared, and