Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1894-06-27

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 It is safe to assert that the assassin of President Carnot, of France, will be beheaded within thirty days.
 California democrats talk of flu sion with the populists The San Francisco Post very wisely objects to the proposition.
 Secretary Gresham would better shoo that Senatorial bee away. There are too many nondeseripts in the Senate now.
 In view of the fate of the Chicago platform, it would be wise for the democrats to make their next cam paign without any platform.
 Mrs. Lease has jumped the pre- hibitionists of Kansas because she was not nominated for woman at large" in that state.
 A cry is again going up to abolish the grand jury system. Grand juries are all right, but the system" is where the evil lies.
 It may be interesting reading to many Arizonans to know that in conjunction with the fight on state hood, they are still fighting in Brazil.
 It is sincerely hoped that the corral on the plaza will be relieved of those unsightly entrances to t. This is about the only good recom- mendation the recent grand jury made.
 How can we keep chickens active in summeri" is the query of a rural paper. It is easy to answer. Run in a few active" young chicken thieves like they are doing in this city at present.
 That Colorado mob captured the wrong man. If it had been Waite instead of Tarsney, there would have been less complaint about the outrage on account of mitigating circumstances.
 "Tg." Donnelly thinks that the adoption of circus methods will help populism in Minnesota. He is wrong. as usual. Minnesota farmers are too level headed for anything O help populism.
 Copper miners at Globe are to be cut to S2.50 a day. Dull copper market is given as the reason for this, but in reality it is the cheap foreign labor that every mining camp in the west is troubled with nowadays.
 The Rhode Island democratic state committee neglected, when it passed a resolution urging the dem ocratic Congressmen to support the policy of the administration, to s' y what that policy is, and nobody else has been able to find out.
 The news of President Carnot's assassination, as published in the JOURNAL MINER yesterday evening, caused considerable excitement and great sorrow to the French residents of Prescott. President Carnot was held in high esteem by the French people throughout the world.
 Everythingpoliticaltends towards making the convention of the National Republican League, which opened at Denver yesterday, the 18th instant, the most enthusiastic gathering in the history of that organization.
 The democratic Senators could stand a little protection on almost everything but wool. The wool growers did not happen to control a democratic Senator or two, so they got left. The wool growers have votes, however-nearly million of them.
 The extremely light sentences imposed by Judge Hawkins on the parties who have pleaded guilty of the charge of selling whisky to Indians, seems like an intimation from the court that these cases are of rather trivial nature. They are a source of great revenue to the officers and a great expense to the government though. It seems like a safe estimate to say that each one costs not less than $500.
 The latest paralytic stroke that has struck American industries is the lowering of copper to figure that American plants can furnish to manufacturers only by lowering wages to European standard. The big copper mines of Montana are in a shaky condition, and it is said that such a plant as the Anaconda, will be compelled to soon close down, unless the market price soon goes up. About 10000 miners will be affected.
 School teachers should be elected with regard to their ability to teach, rather than to their location of residence. The public schools are not intended as an eleemosynary institution to provide living for given number of individuals, but are intended to impart instruction to the youth of the country. The
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