Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-07-31
ARIZONA J0URNAL-MINER
WEDNESDAY JULY Sl, 1895

Southern Arizona people, in addi- tion to wearing tan shoes, are also supporting tan compilations.
 The Durrant trial in San Fran cisco, promises to be more exciting from a medical stand point, than 1t does from a legal one of justice.
 Corbett has new blow that will wipe Fitz oF the face of the earth if it hits him. The same blow was aimed at Governor Hughes, but it fell short, somehow.
 A Canadian newspaper called a man a Methodist, and the verdict Of the jury was S2OO. What a lucky thing it is for Heney, Meade, Bruce X Co. that they do not live in Canada.
 Gold bugism is so rampant nova days that every western newspaper chronicles weekly the finding of the Pegleg mine near its town.
 Senator Brice, of Ohio, is weeping over the incarceration in Prescott jail of his nephew, Orr, convicted of stealing $50. Brice should have put up the price.
 The reason that the Defender did so well. was because there was a coon and a water melon aboard. -Ex. Here is the Phenix goats opportunity of life time to put the kibosh on the Valkyrie in Ser- tember.
 Unless somebody has been doing some outrageous lying there is one woman in Corea who is not worry ing about her "down-trodden" sex. She is the queen, who is said to boss her husband, the king, in both pub lie and private matters.
 About the only hope left for Ari- zona democracy to unite itself on lays in the silver discussion that is so rampant nowadays elsewhere. Can they be trusted, is the question that will weigh with the mining voter heavier than their oratorical spurts on the stump.
 The bright side of mining life in South Africa has heretofore been presented to catch unwary capital The tide has turned of late, however and those who wandered to that fai - away land are leaving even theiI blankets behind them in order to get back alive with their persons.
 Previous to the big rains or dur ing the dryest period in Arizona experienced for years, all canals were reported as flowing a great amount of water. Since the sum mer rains have come, the canals have not run over their banks so far as We are able to learn.
 4 quiet, yet a steady flow of min ing money, is coming to Prescott for investment in gold claims. Truly. the deeper mines are sunk on the better do they show up, demonstrating that depth is the motto nowadays, in- stead of the discovery of surface ground that excites for the moment and plays out in time.
 Governor Budd, of California, has given notice that all semi-milItary organizations of that state must take the oath of allegiance to the United States and to the State of California, be prepared to be called upon in cases of emergency, con sider themselves under the control and authority of the President or the Governor of California, and when drilling or marching carry no other flag than the Stars and Stripes.
 No sooner had Secretery Lamont visited western military posts and looked into the Indian problem than the Bannocks put on their old time war paint and are now whooping 1t up. For the sake of Arizona's highly cultivated state of civilization, that is so generally spoken of nowadays in the east, as we are stepping into statehood, We trust that NIT. Lamont will slide through Arizona and leave the military and Indians severely alone.
 A crazy shoemaker named Schla- der is travelling through New Mexico posing as a latter-day Christ. He is giving healing seanees by the laying on of hands, and the ignorant and superstitious are focking to him from all points. It is to be hoped Prescott will be spared a visit from this crank, but if he should come our way, will make him think he's the real Christ by crucifYing him.
 The board of supervisors at Silver City refused to pay interest or principal on railroad bonds issued by them until the the question is settled in court on August 7th. The board of supervisors of this county made similar order regard ing the right of taxpayers to re- cognize the law that calls for the payment of interest on the bonds of the defunct P. X A. c. railroad, and as yet no opposition to their official acts has been questioned in the courts.
 The cry of better times now heard over the land as setting in and due to the fulflment of democratic prophecies and democratic doings, can be traced only to one channel, and that is the gold bug one. The course being adopted nowadays on