Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-04-10
WEDNESDAY. APRIL 10. lssE
The 18th legislative assembly has made a good racord.

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 California is sending S25O,0OO a month east for bicycles.
 The pneumatic feature of the bicycle has wandered to the sleeves of ladies dresses. Next.
 Prescott is having at present Q hay war. Later it will probably develop into "haY fever"
 The new military order now in force, makes the sporting proposi- ton of the army like an industrial" one.
 Mexican sham battles are still of daily occurrence. The fatalities are greater also than could be accredited to genuine war fare,
 Everybody in Southern Arizona is talking about Prescott's big Fourth of July celebration. As yet there is hardly a whisper up this way.
 Yavapai cattle are to be shipped to the alfalfa land for fattening. Nothing is said about them being returned for "home consumption.
 Postofiice hold ups are getting to be very common. This is novel way for the hard up element of the nation to strike at the root of an evil.
 Canal water litigation is now a regular court proposition in Mari copa county. Like mining suits, the lawyers will probably get away with the stuff.
 Since the Oriental war closed and silver has advanced, the gold bug gers of the east refer to the white metal men of the west as the pig tail fnanciers with their tails cut of.
 Santa Fe, New Mexico. has gone Democratic. This is not surprising, since the above dobe town is one of the oldest in the union, and is not yet thoroughly modernized.
 California orange growers are kicking. They say they cannot compete with Spain or Mexico, which nations are rushing their free trade products along at a very ruinous rate to American producers.
 Marriage is revived again as a failure by trunk full of wedding presents being seized recently in Los Angeles, that were appraised at only S2OO. The goods weighed over a ton and consisted principally of jewelry.
 A barber at Gallup, New Mexico, dropped dead from a stroke of paralysis the other day. The Jury was unable to locate the disease in either his tongue or his feet. He was shaving a populist at the time, and had hard pull of it.
 A trust deed was recorded in Kern county, California recently by the Southern Pacific company trans ferrlng all of its property including the rolling stock in thSt and other counties to the Central Trust com pany of New York, the considers- ton being S5s,O0O,OO0.
 The Indianapolis grand jury is trying to snd out what members of the legislature soaked" Myron B. King, the governors private secre- tary, m the eye. King testified that during the argument in the Senate Chamber, he got 374 biffs in two minutes.
 Saint Teresa" whose marvellous work of curing many ills of the human race, excited the medical world for so doing, has developed into a masculine. Teresa" was cap tured in Texas the other day by Mexican bandits, after exciting a lively rebellion.
 The Fiesta at Los Angeles next week will be a very interesting and exciting event. The one given a year ago. although the first attempt in that town was a great success. The Fiesta committee has arranged for this years Fiesta on a much larger apd more elaborate scale.
 They are having trouble now in the "Arkansaw" legislature. The governor of the state and member of the legislature had a contest recently of splitting at a mark. Each used the others face for a target. The governor finally pulled his gun when the two were separated.
 Some of our territorial exchanges get their geographical knowledge of Northern Arizona badly mixed up. One paper, speaking of the proposed new railroad from Flag staff says it will be built via Jerome, the Verde Valley, Camp Verde and Tonto Basin, the distance from Flagstaff to Phenix by this route being 155 miles. When l55 miles of l this road have been constructed | over the above route, there will be found to be gap of nearly an equal i distance yet between the end of the line and Phenix.
 The newspaper squirt" who pre- sides over the Nogsles Vidette, does not seem to be in love with Prescott editors for some reason or other. Whether it was because one of them stood as the fast friend of Nogales