Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-07-24
ARIZONA J0URNAL-MINER
WEDNESDAY. JULY 24, 1895

- 4AA = AitS AS NA thO NHHSa '0A- while Meade, Heney and the rest, slumber below as the lower five.
 Yuma wants Soldiers Home. The G. A. R. boys had hot enough time in years gone to have it rubbed in on them now.
 If Prescott expects to keep up with the rage of fashion in dress, a bloomer ball should be early con sidered.
 E. F. Kellner, of Phenix, has re- turned to his alfalfa town from Washington. The gubernatorial cuckoo does not chirp sweet notes of encouragement in his ear any more either.
 Oakes Murphy should now send Arizona in a whooping as a state, since the brigands of the south have been knocked out on every turn.
 The Tribolet tragedy in Sonora is being discussed by newspapers with the same vehemance Phenicians prate over the alfalfa hose team event.
 Salvation Army people in Phenix settle their disputes with civilians by means of the revolver, clubbing the enemy into insensibility, and then "fring a volley" over the pros trate form.
 Hoke Smith must have read the Arizona Press Association resolution while putting the finishing touches on the Hughes controversy. Hoke is a newspaper man, and evidently appreciates the virtues of the craft wEen they "resolute" in dead earnest.
 Down in Tucson the natives are praying for rain, custom which has been in vogue since the coming of the padres. Up here in Prescott, We just "cuss" when the clouds don't give up, and it has a most beneficial effect. Last weeks swear ing bee brought on a plentiful sup ply of the agua natural.
 Now that w. A. Clark, of Mon tana senatorial fame is to tie to Montana, and not to Arizona, our sugar" aspirants should feel jubi- lant, not, of course, on account of the loss of his citizenship, but the absence of a real warm contest MT. Clark would probably make if he lived in Arizona permanently and wanted to go to the Senate besides.
 Readers of our contemporary can not but be impressed with the lengthy, able and lucid article which appeared in its issue this morning in reference to the water question. If there has ever been any doubts in the minds of any one in regard to what would be the proper action to take in regard to the city water works, this article will certainly dispei it. It is as clear as the mud in the bottom of the city well.
 Prescott seems to be attracting people from every cline in Arizona, and in every instance where new arrivals are noticed, the one indis- putable fact faces all, they come to see and share the prosperity that is so plainly and rapidly advancing on tho community that has mining to back it up. In reality, Prescott and the country around her is to be the Mecca of the southwest, and so stable are its mineral resources, nothing can stop the progressive march now so firmly setting in.
 The Phenix Saturday Review. re- marks editorially that a Prescott newspaper man sent bill for col lection to a Phenix man who had been dead two years or more, and incidentally goes on to state that men who neglect their newspaper bills, certainly go to hell, but that Ills Satanic Majesty had no abiding place in Phenix. This may be liter ally true, but it's a safe bet to wager that if his underground majesty should drop into the Alfalfa City, as far as climatic conditions are concern ed, he wouldn't know whether he was home or not.
 As a last resort to have it rain, the Papago Indians, near the Sonora boundary line, procured the sta tuettes of the rain God, and with it ascended a high mountain. After the ceremony had continued for three days and no indication of moisture appearing, they stoned their St. Peter until he looked more like a knocked out pugilist than a reverend idol of the watery faith. After being sized up, St. Peter was minus one ear, a broken nose, one black eye, and upper cut under his chin. He was taken back to his corner.
 According to the dispatches from England the late election must have been carried on a la Donnybrook Fair. From nearly every county in the kingdom come reports of the brutal conduct of the opposing sides. Stone throwing and beating with clubs were common occurrences inevery district, and in one or two places brutal attacks were made on ladies, who were electioneering for