Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-04-03


 Twenty-six lawyers are now en- gagged tn the Fair will case, with a fair show for several more, as new claimants appear on the surface.
 The new capital site commissioners are without any funds to improve the capitol site, owing to the failure to pass the appropriation bill.
 In criticising the administration, it should be remembered that sou.e intellects are cut bias; also, that our foreign affairs are quite as we'll managed as those at home.
 Didn't Bill" Spriuger-Judge William Springer, we should have said say that he wouldn't accept any office that would carry him out of Illinois1 If not, be was mis- represented.
 The government has made success ful experiments in the cultuIe of sugar cane on Union Island, near Stockton, California, and that DOT tion of the state is expected soon to become a second Louisiana.
 The annual deficit of the territory amounts to between Sll.OOO and Sl2,0O0. The annual saving directly by the creation of the board of con trol amounts to about Sl7,000. SO that Arizona should not run behind any longer
 It would be impossible to say more, if one talked or wrote a week, than was said many years ago by an old minister who was asked if 1t was proper to dance-"ro dance proper iy is proper; to dance improperly is improper
 Francis Murphy has again taken to the road as a temperance lecturer, assisted by his son. They are at present in New York, and ought 10 be successful among the TammSny men whose perqs have been cut of to such an extent that they can no longer buy champagne.
 The next republican national con vention will not be run for the pur- pose of vindicating any man or any idea, but for the restoration of the control of the government to the republican party and the consequent return of general prosperity.
 The Atlanta exposition managers should try to persuade the southern railroads, which are now cutting passenger rates, to keep the fight going during the exposition. But it's railroad tickets to business cards that they will not succeed. Rail roads seldom get into rate war when the passenger traffic is good.
 Prescott should, in the matter of public improvements, keep pace with the progress being made iu the way of building up the town. New business houses are going up in the business part Of town, and new residences are springiug up as if by magic in all parts of our city. While these evidences of prosperity are in progress, our streets aud slde- walks should be improved, system of sewerage provided, and, above all, our water system improved so that We can be insured of a never failing supply, and our streets lighted at night. Let the same spirit of enterprise and prog -ess be manifested in public improvements that is shown in private matters.
 "The Prescott papers are busy explaining why the prison was not moved. The fact is there never was enough votes for the blll at any time to carry it." The above is the opinion expressed by the Pheni1 Republican. To those who wit messed the unprecedented, unjust, arbitrary and autocratIc rulings of Speaker Carpenter during the last two days or the session, in order to prevent the bill from coming to a vote, a very different opinion was If Chas. A. Drake was assured that ths bill did not have votes enough L. carry it. why did he remain at Speaker Carpenters side for hours, to prompt him and die tate his rulings for him, to prevent it coming to a vote7 Why were the closing hours of the session occupied in frivolous, foolish, senseless debate l over a measure in which there was no possibility of changing a vote, just to prevent the prison bill from l being called up, and which resulted | in killing the appropriation bill. as we'll as several good measuresi
 In sizing up the members of the | recent legislature, the Tucson Star refers to NJ. R. Moore as one of the ''stalwart men sent to do battle for right" MT. Moore made a fine of his stalwart character istics when he arose OF the floor of the house, and in the presence of the members and a crowded lobby, declared that he was paired with MT. Brown, a sick member, on the question of prison removal, and could not honorsbly vote on any question pertaining to il. and then, n less than fifteen minutes after f,a rdg u han fba oIootsOp of o