Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-04-17

Phenix will be the first town in Arizona to hold an election under the election law passed by the recent legislature, which takes the cam paign out of saloons. Tue two political parties in Phenix are al- ready getting on their war paint for their city election.
 The fellow who is talking up the building of an electric railroad from New York to San Francisco, which shall carry passengers hum dred miles an hour, may truthfully lay claim to having rapid transit ideas, even if he never gets the S2O0OOO,OOO needed to construct the road.
 A telegram from Newark, New Jersey, revives the old story about J. Wilkes Booth being still alive. The story itself has been dead for several years, but its ghost from New Jersey says: Christopher Columbus Bittar, we'll educated German, who was a friend of ]. Wilkes Booth, makes the claim that Booth is still living in South Amer ica; that the man shot by Boston Corbett was Edward Fricke, an actor resembling Booth"
 The conditions of the lease of the city water works do not differ very materially from what was published in the JOURNAL MINER several days since, except that it includes a franchise for electric lights and telephone lines. The city has the privilege of using the poles for fire alarm purposes. The schedule of water rates is the same that is now in force in Hapnibal, Missouri, being an advance over the present rates charged by the city.
 It does look as if man cannot make a mistake in this county, if he wants to engage in mining. All that is necessary for success, is tc
 find ledge and then work it. De velopment work is what pays and makes claim valuable. 1t is the
 men who have worked their claims
 who are now realizing the benefits
 from the activity in mining and mol
 men who locate and relocate claims
 The supreme court of Michigan
 has decided that the "anti fusion
 law of that state is constitutional
 and the Oklahoma legislature ha
 passed similar law. The Michigan
 law provides that a candidate fo
 office, who has been nominated bl
 more than one party, shall. within { given time, select on which ticket h' will run, and his name may then b.
 placed on the official ballot for tba party, but no other. The law is al
 excellent one, as it affords prOteC ton against demagogues who Aav [ no political principles from runHinl for office on the ticket ofevery part or piece club which might nOminat, them. 4 man who has not suffieien
 principles to be identified witl some particular party, is not fit t,
 hold an office, as a rule. A part, which has not sufficient principle (, nominate and run a candidate fo
 office who is identified with tha
 party, is not worthy of considera ton from voters. The JOURNAL MINER has always been a pronounced . anti-fusionist, and halls with pleas ure the decision of the Michigan
 supreme corrt and the action of tn, Oklahoma legislature.
 If Phenix and the country sur rounding it expect to reap the ful
 benefits of the construction of tn, s. F., P. & P. Railroad, the lan'
 owners and farmers of that section will have 10 very materially increas their supply of products of al , kinds, As already noticed in previous issue of this paper, tb supply of eggs and chickens ant ] butter has already fallen to a 1egre } away below the demand of thi
 market, and our merchants arts stil , drawing largely from Kansas an,
 California for these articles. merchant who visited Phenix recent ly said he hunted the entire towI for eggs, and was unable to secur , two cases. Prescott expected, ol , the completion of this road, to b able to obtain an ample supply o
 fruits of all kinds, as we'll as nearl
 every other product of the soil con sumed here, but strawberries, pun
 chased in California, are being re
 tailed here at lower price tha they are quoted to our delers b l wholesale in Phenix. When tn
 producers down there commence t realize fully that they have railroa'
 communication with the entir , northern part of the territory, ant
 that an almost unlimited market i
 offered for any thing they can raise
 they may be able to increase theiI supply sufficiently to furnish u with such articles of consumption
 The annexationists of Hawaii ar, very much disgusted with the utter ances of Joaquin Miller, and sal that his statements are incorrect anC distorted. There may be som, truth in Mir. Miller's articles on the
 condition of things in the island
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