Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-05-15

a sixteen year old boy, son or hoh' Sam F. Webb, collector of customs, at Nogales. and the paper is a credit to the intelligence of the young man.
 The Saturday Review of Phenix, wants Governor Hughes removed because some of his appointees as sociate with republicans and hence, according to that authority cannot be democrats.
 John w. Flood, the embedding cashier of the Donahue- Kelly Bank. of San Francisco, has been sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary. He is alleged to have footed the bank to the amount of $l67,0OO. It is stated that Dr. Parkhurst has grown weary of reforming mankind, saying that it does not pay, as men will do just what he doesn't want them to do.
 Flagstaff is having small build ing boom. Among the new build ings going up are a SSO,0OO hotel, a SS0,O0O reform school, a Sl5,OOO court house and SI5,0O0 school house.
 The Fourth of July committee is meeting with splendid encourage ment in the way of pledges for finances to defray the expense of the celebration.
 The governor of Massachusetts has signed the legislative bill redUc- ing the taxes which the Mexican Central has to pay to the state ot Massachusetts one half. The tax at present payable is S4s,250 a year; 1t will now be S24.125 a year.
 It is a cold day in Phenix when they don't have special agent ol the government out there investi- gating a federal official, or that a telegram is not received appointing a new governor, but as far as heard from there has been no frost there yet this summer.
 A car load of oranges from Cali rornia passed south over the $. F., 
 P. x P. Railroad for Phenix a cou- pie of days since. Phenix expects to turn the tide the other way on oranges very soon, and instead of importing them in car load lots, expects to send them out in train loads.
 A man who registered at the Com mercial hotel, Phenix, last week as .sJ. B. Jones, New Orleans" it IS now st ated. turns out to be a secret emissary of the Interior Depart ment named Olive. Various are the surmises in regard to his mission. The enemies of Governor Hughes are hoping that he is after that gen tleman's scalp.
 The Los Angeles Times has joined the gold bug procession and IS in- clined to speak very sneeringly of the advocates of free silver coinage. IT tb;s otherwise excellent news paper finds its subscribers in Arizona dropping from its list, it can easily discover the reason. Arizona IS right in line with free silver almost to a man.
 Governor Thornton, of New Mexi- co, has appointed a commission consisting of nine prominent gen tIemen of that territory, to represent New Mexico at the Cotton States and International Exposition. The commission appointed consists Of the following gentlemen: Antonio Joseph, NC. Collier, W. H. Pope. Jefferson Reynolds, Thomas F. Con- way, G. A. Richardson, w. A. Hawk ins, D. P. Carr and Geo. H. Cross.
 A bulletin issued May 3, says; During the past week the work at the grounds of the Cotton States and International Exposition has been going on with great activity. As many as 1900 men day have been at work and progress along all lines is marked. The government building has been pushed forward with gratifying rapidity. The elec- tric ty building is nearly completed and will be ready to be turned over to the Exposition company in three weeks.
 Competition for the refrigerator car trade of Phenix is said to be very lively at present. Itis estimated that there will be 135 car loads of fruit and vegetables shipped from there this season outside of the ter ritory. This does not include the supply furnished to the various towns inside the territory. This would make about eleven ordinary train loads, a very respectable show ing for the valley, as double that amount or moro will be disposed of within the territory. Arizona IS coming to the front, both Tn Its agricultural products as well as m its mining output, and is destined to be an empire within itself at no very distant day in the future.
 The editor of the Globe Silver Belt discourses thusIy on the 18th legislature, and he comes very nearly hitting the legislative nail squarely