Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-07-24

baby IS a girl.
 A. N. Towne, general manager of the s. P. Company, dled in San Francisco on Monday.
 Graham county's assessment roll foots up only Sl.SOO,OOO. being a falling of from last year of S2OO,0O0,
 Nature seems inclined to take no part whatever in the water question, by coming to our relief with rain showers.
 The rest of the country will very gladly give California quit claim deed to Carl Browne, if it is so de- sired.
 Mohave county's jail is empty. Our sister county always has been noted for having law abiding citi- zens.
 Services have been resumed in Emanuel Church. San Francisco, where the atrocious murder Of two young girls in April last was com mitted.
 Governor Matthews, of Indiana, thinks the democrats cannot do bet ter than nominate him for presi- dent. They couldn't-for the re- publicans.
 Lillian Russell is getting ready to obtain divorce from husband num- Der four, so that she can marry number five, a 23-year-old youth named Walter Jones.
 A Maine bunco man recently did an Arizonan up in Phenix hose race style at Chicago, and secured $276 and thirty shares of alfalfa water stock, all on account of lit tie game of stud horse poker.
 The recent rains will have a most beneficial effect throughout the county. Miners were badly in need of it, and a general waking up in the mining industry will be the It suit.
 Northern Arizona politicians of both parties are laying even bets on the proposition that Hughes will remain in office, notwithstanding the significant winks of the Gila meri- dian howlers.
 Secretary of War Lamont will visit military posts in Arizona. Here is a great opportunity for the dis satisfied to fall over each other, hay ing the gattling gun of the above official pointed directly at the ins.
 P. J. Clark writes to the Courier from PheniI, saving that J. O. Dun bar and A. $. Mills will soon change the Saturday Review into a daily paper. The material of the old Arizona Enterprise will be used in its publication.
 An insanity expert, in New York murder case, testified that "the un- restricted indulgence of the imagin- ation concerning matters that are never to be realized, may lead the human mind beyond the bounds of reason"
 The Graham County Bulletin re cites the fact that in a recent storm a streak of lighting killed horse, burned up barbed wire fence, sent two we'll grown hogs to join the great majority, and then bucked up against barrel of whisky in an ad- joining saloon. The whisky is still doing business at the old stand.
 The gasoline route had four pas sengers upwards last Saturday in Los Angeles. Our contemporary has the drop on the JoURNAL-MINER in this respect, as the force in this office is in line of ascending the golden stairs at any moment.
 John c. Herndon's name seems to be rather roughly handled again in Arizona politics. He is riding now on the gubernatorial waves calmly, while the Hughes breakers keep on splashing the foam in the faces of the disgruntled and disheartened looters way down south.
 The Arizona Press Association got together in Pheni1 on Saturday and accomplished nothing but adjourn ing until the 3Oth instant. It is very probable that on that date they will re-endorse Governor Hughes, as the scissor boys appreciate good thing when they see it.
 A gentleman, who is somewhat of a geologist, and who claims to have given the water question consider able investigation, claims that there is a large lake of water underlying the Miller valley basin, and that by sinking a large we'll there an inex- haustible supply can be obtainei-a supply large enough to meet the demands of town many times the size of Prescott. Who knows but his theory is correcti
 Mrs. La Rue, the Oakland matron who ran down her hubby on a bicy- cle and horsewhipped him, advises all women who doubt their husbands to purchase a "scorcher," as the surest and swiftest way to remedy domestic affairs. If this rule be- comes universally adopted by the weaker sex. we would advise the