Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1894-08-22

Carl Browne, Jersey lightning and Jersey mosquitoes a troublesome kind.
 The democrat with 'gall' enough to point with pride" to the work of the Fifty-third Congress IS yet to be found.
 J. l.. Ward is a candidate for sheriff of Maricopa county. Mir. Ward is good man and would make our sister county a good sheriff.
 Geo. I. Bendie, wealthy Ameri- can mine owner, was assassinated in Mexico recently, by a man named Reyes, formerly in his employ.
 After reading reports of eonversa- tions between Senator Butler and Governor Tillman, the most peace able man might be excused for regretting the illegality of the duel in South Carolina.
 What sense was there in that meeting at St. Louis to form a socialist political party7 Isn't the populist party socialistic enough and anarchistic enough in its various isms to suit the widest crank on earth?
 The commg campaign in Yavapai county will be relieved of any free trade discussions, and the issue will be on government blankets at S2.5O apiece. Treasurer Oliver will be as famous, in consequences, as Murchi- son was in that noted letter of his.
 4 we'll known Prescott democrat ran onto that transparency carried in the last campaign through the streets here. Wasn't the air blue when his eyes again gazed on, "Cleveland and Free Silver" and Mark Smith and Statehoodr
 Harry Knox, late leader of the striking railway employees at Sacra- mento, is more than a usually for tunate hero. The other day the populist party of Yolo county waited on him and offered him their nomination for sheriff. There are several aspirants for the above office in this city who would like to be X R. U. men under the same condi- tionS.
 An exchange says that three thousand Baltimore Catholics have recently withdrawn from the domin- ation of the Pope and established an Independent Catholic Church. The Independent Catholic Church is rapidly growing in this country, one of the most important and strongest associations of the kind being at Cleveland, Ohio
 Some time since a private in the United States army was court martialed and sentenced to a long imprisonment for refusiag to en- gage in target practice on Sunday. When the papers reached Washing ton the sentence was modified and the Sabbath observing private was finally released, and a courtmartial is now in session at Omaha trying Major Worth, the officer who ordered Sunday target practice, which is a violation of regulations.
 The friends of Byron E. Shear, of Denver, are working up his Colorado populist senatorial boom in Arizona, a two column article of Byron's opinions being copied by our con- temporary this morning. The popu- list crop, which year ago was so promising here, was very badly blighted by the election returns of the past few months, and MT. Shears opinions will reach a very small number of people in this section who will agree with him politically. His views in general are the same as those held by republicans and demo- crats alike.
 Phenix people have inaugurated a series of Sunday prize fights, probably in the interest of state hood, for the purpose of showing those "down casters" that Arizona's civilization is up to the highest notch. Our eastern neighbors have been charging that Arizona is not yet civilized enough for statehood and Phenix wants to prove it to them. The first of the series oc- cured Sunday, August l2, and was bloody enough to satisfy the most gore thirsting spectator. An ad- mission fee of fifty cents was charged and the report of the fight as it ap- peared in one of the Phenix papers stated that spectators would have been willing to have given five dol lars each rather than miss the bloody affair. Statehood will be given a big boost by this affair if it can only be properly advertised throughout the east. An illustrated edition of a Phenix paper contain ing full account of it would be the proper thing.
 The San Francisco Chronicle says that an analysis of the tariff bill, which awaits the signature of the President or the experation of the constitutional ten-day limit to be- come a law, discioses the fact that the Democrats did not hew closely to the line of their ante-election in more than one particu- lar. It will be recalled that great 1
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