Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-09-04
ARIZONA J0URNAL-MINER
WEDNESDAY......SEPT. 1, 1895.
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it is S3.S0.
 Secretary Morton can never Tor get that he began life as a land boomer. He should be very popu- lar with Salt river valley people.
 They have invented a bicycle lawn mower. The next thing on the list will be to cut the "bloomers' of the grass.
 Don't wear green bloomers. A flock of geese in New York raised havoc with a fair one the other day equipped thUsly.
 Hardly a week passes but what gasoline stove goes up in Los An geles. From one to three lives go up with each stove also.
 Southern Arizona papers say too much rain has fallen. Up this way it has simply been case of 1t reign ing to do so all the time.
 Saturday nights glove contest prevents all possibility of Prescott ever being chosen by the big giadia- tors for a bout from an official stand point.
 Why not start a mining exhibit ln Prescotti Every day that elapses proves the necessity for such dis play, and, furthermore, visitors seem to want it.
 Two Genoa, Italy, bank embezzlers are said to be roaming around Ari- zona somewhere, carrying a cool S5OO,OOO. They should be made aware of our mineral resources.
 Coxey is to run for Congress in Oklahoma. At this rate it will only be a year or so until he will land in Arizona, as he started originally in Ohio.
 In the last campaign the demo crats wore golden roosters on their hats. They will probably switch to the silver bird in 1896, but it won't go down any more all the same.
 The recorders contest in Mari copa county ended by the selection of live democrat to fill the shoes of dead republican. Where does the principle of "to the victors be- long the spells" come inf
 An exchange suggests that the Durrant jury be given copies of all San Francisco papers that men toned the Emanuel church tragedies and then retire and bring in yer dict in a week.
 A slugging match between two prominent democrats in Texas took place the other day over trivial affair. 4 remark was made that Cleveland could not carry single state in the union, including Ari- zona, that is to be admitted this fall.
 Another Arizonan, named Hilzin- ger, is in trouble at Los Angeles. This last freak left his sack" at Catalina unintentionally, and didn't find out his mistake until after he reached the city. Like Cornell, he was from Tucson too. The ancient pueblo down south is getting to be jay burg.
 Statehood is lost in the shuttle nowadays in the Southern Arizona press. We see an argument occa- sionally, however, in favor of our plea for admission, that there are some wild Indians cut and threat ened outbreak at San Carlos.
 Statistics state that nine-tenths of the suicides of the past twenty years were due to women, but an authority today says that the love of money is so great that the women are not in it any more, the present administration taking her place in the above line of fatalities.
 A New Mexico district is deter mined to keep its schools going, and in order to do it everybody is re- quested to dig up and not monkey about it either. Without any auth ority of jaw to cinch the people, over S4OOO was raised for the pur- pose without a murmur.
 Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania, is not dying of consumption as rapidly as some people seem to think. On the other hand, he makes political conventions do all the coughing, it would seem, from the way things are goin in the Keystone State.
 Our great and glorious govern ment really is going behind at the rate of S7.OOOO0O per month. On the other hand, official organs toot that that there is resumption of good timrs. Look out for another gold bug plaster on the necks of the people.
 A Missouri editor who yells for Cleveland vociferously is on the shoot because he was accused of getting away with the dough" of a bsckwoods precinct subscription. In the vernacular of Missouri, dough" signifies silver, so this fighters inclinstiOns are not at all alarming.
 An interesting case under the Ed munds act is going on in Southern Arizona. A woman who claims to be half and half, that is mulatto and Spanish, welded a man who is