Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-01-16

ROAAeoA S14Ot JNNSAuS hOh AhN recurrence of Iobberies and holds ups of late. We are in it.
 Two hobos weresrun out of this office late last night. We breath lessly state to our hotel patrons that we are not running opposition.
 It is said that a woman pulls a chickens leg before she roasts it. When her husband comes this operation is reversed sometimes.
 When a stranger comesto Pms, colt nowadays he is anxiouslJ ques. tioned where he is from. If from Phenix, the police force braces up.
 There is law. against carrying concealed weapons. This is ,he reason why 80 many men go home at nights now with young canon in their arms.
 Foot pads and the like are in- formed that there will be a total eclipse of the sun next Saturday, so that they can have 24 hours straight of working time.
 Prescott is veritable snap for the tramp. Three squares day, a good bed at night in 8 warm room, and strike every other day in the chain gang. And still he kicks.
 The mining camp of Congress should be st once incorporated as a city, having all the phases of metro politan hfe-an abundance of tin horns and an. over abundance of tramps.
 Ysvapai will soon have legal elephant on its hands, in the matter of the old P. & A. c. bonds. 4 suit to force the the payment of the in- terest on them will soon be insuger- sted, it is said. eA
 In Michigan the work of christian elements is DOW directed against the use of. the bicycle. They say this vehicle is as ungodly as it is un- necessary for the human race. Holy Mosesi 4. -
 The taste of burglsries and hold ups which Prescott has been given a dose of again, must not be inferred that the legislature is to soon meet in this city. Pheni1 is where the sack is located, Mir. Sandbagger.
 Since burglaries and human ills are again prevailing in epidemic form, the ladies of Prescott are in- formed that they can venture on the streets still in day time with security. Jack-the-Kisser has not yet made his appearance.
 When 8 travelling troupe comes to town and makes money, only to be robbed of the profits, it goes away with a bad impression of the place. When 1t loses money, the same feeling prevails. Truly the lot of the theatrical is a hard one.
 Our contemporary this morning says that ''in an exclusively mining country if nothing pertaining to mines is to be taxed, where are the government revenues of that par ticular section to come from" The taxing of the NET PROCEEDS is our argument, neighbor. If the same conditions in this respect are to prevail in the future as in the past, the revenues will be correspondingly increased in this section as they have been. We do not, and did not say that everything pertaining to mines was to escape in taxation. Sabei
 MaricoPa county is the scene of political strife at present, such as has never before existed since the fight against Governor Hughes was inangurated. It is not controversy in which republicans figure, but a clesn-cut proposition wherein one democratic faction. is endeayoring to cut the throat of the other, a fight of the outs against the ins. During the. session of the |. s. grand jury a few days ago, that bodFis said to have been packed with aRti -Haghes men who endeav- ored to indict the executive for some alleged official wrong. and came .within two votes of accom-. plishing their purpose. Of course Zulick was inrwith the play. in short what not would this baldheaded wrecker pass by in the line of this work, if he believed it would possi- bly, open the way for his reinstate- ut'into some official snap. Out side of the political controversy now going on in that locality, the early admission of Arizona figures. New Mexico is doomed for the same reasons, and now that the democratic house in this territory is divided against itself, the present demo cratic senate in Washington can see nothing but folly in favoring our admission, The cry has been incess- antly heard tbat statehood was to come from democracy, Now will they admit that democracy has | killed it2