Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-02-27

tio standpoint. The printing bill still hands on the peg.
 Whenever any literature is cir culated in Arizona agalnst state hood, it doubles up the Phenecian like a dose of Asiatic cholera.
 In Washington they have decided to preserve the petri6ed forest near Holbrook in Arizona. It is pretty well preserved now without any official assistance.
 This is the time Of the year when obituary notices come thick and fast from ''sanitSriums" like Pheni1 and Albuquerque boast of. Pneu- monia they call it.
 If the present legislature does not authorize the printing of their proceedings, lcok out for a good fat roast" from the Phenix fog horns after the session ends.
 Two populists are calling each other bad names in Colorado. They were called liars sometime ago by the people, but stubbornness keeps even a populis. hanging on to the ragged edge.
 Gentry, whom our dispatches speak of, to be hanged for the murder of Miss York, says he is insane. He is, probably as none but "chappies" fall in love with actresses as rule.
 The insane asylum at PheniX seems to be lost in official life, and it is now being boomed as the center of society swells. We are hardened to anything in the shape of news that comes from Pheuix nowadays.
 No one questions that PheniX nowadays is the center oi the universe, but she is lacking in one commodity, however. She has not yet induced a busted count from Europe to come and catch on to An alfalfa heiress.
 The Arizona Legislature has been in session for over thirty days and and only passed half dozen bills. The excellence of their work iscom- parable to base ball game, As the least number of scores made the better will the game be received.
 The Prescott brass band talk of going to Phenix next Monday. They should be joyously welcomed as they have a gem mucical selection which they will dedicate to PheniE on their arrival called "The alfalfa March"
 Every town in Arizona has a militia company in existence except Presco t. From present appear ances, this section will have to or ganize an artillery corps if it expects to get anything from the legislature, including the return of it's members.
 The Gazette devotes a long edi- torial in defense of Joe Evans and his clerk, who figured in the recent street fight in which pr. Ford was slugged. It is useless to state, also, that Evans has a whole page of real estate in that paper.
 It is fortunate for the editors of America that the Chinese custom of beheading editors who criticise the government does not prevail with us. There are not enough American editors who have not criticised the present administration to form a cotporars guard.
 A wood thief was recently detected in Phenix, and now the officers are endeavoring to send the poor devil to Yuma. A proper way to dispose of such cases would be to send some editors there to the pen for consistently mentioning the glorious climate, which conveys the impress sion that fires are not needed in the capital city during winter.
 An aesthe Phenecian of the intellectual calibre, objects to the omission of the 70" which so many papers now follow in making men ton of that burg. Phonetic spell ing is universally adopted now, and to aIlay any ill feeling from that quarter, the following will be the rule hereafter in this office when that town is referred to, thusly: PHON1X.
 Real estate men in PheniI and outside capitalists are slugging each other nowadays, the trouble being over the temperature of locality near Phenix which is being some what "boomed.n on account of it's Prescott's frigidity. If the com. batants had waited a few weeks, old boy mercury could have settled the heat question in that section of "hell's half acre." by twisting the thermometers out of shape.
 The recent assault on Dr. Ford in the streets of Phenix by Turney and Evans, real estate men. hos caused considerable comment in this city, where Mir. Ford has many acquaintances among those who formerly resided in Kansas City. These friends say that the victim of the saline sluggers enjoys 8 first