Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-03-25
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has only its name left.
 The populists will nominate a president after the two big parties get through with their candidates.
 The Los Angeles fiesta committes should muzEle all gas jets if South ern Arizona people take in their celebration.
 President Disz submits his name to the Mexicans again, for the fifth, and be says, the last slime. He is 66 years of age.
 RePPy, of the Florence Tribune, is roasting the judiciary for nov ing the |. :. court from Florence to Graham county.
 Zulick seems to be out of sight some where m the territory. He ought to show up occasionally with his old time Winchester bride.
 The cathode rays would find much work in this city rigLt st present, if it were applied to the reduction works proposition.
 Citizens and regulators came to- gsther at PelousAs, Louisiana, and one of the regulators was killed aud three others seriously wounded.
 They are after Chief Justice Baker now, and a very quiet investigation is going on Tn PheniI over his method of running the judiciary.
 Salt River Valley is getting "skeered' up over the absence of water. Without rain in old Ysvapai, our alfalfa neighbor is in a serious plight.
 A mining exchange will bring Prescott 10 the fore front" but unless it is honestly and methodic- ally run, We might as we'll go into the back ground.
 The 'favorite son" problem is con tAgious even in Arizona The Phenix Republican wants the republican nominee, this early in the game, to come from PheniX.
 The coming irrigation convention in Pheni1 wilt terminate m damna- tiOn, if some rain or snow does not fall soon on the big mountains of Northern Arizona.
 The New York World has made . poll of nearly every state in the Union. and as a result has concluded that Mckinley will be the nominee of the republican party.
 There need be no fear that if we are admitted as & state a Kentucky dead lock will take place in Arizona over the selection of Senator. Our legislators, as a rule, are not built that way.
 E1 Governor Roswell P. Flower made a little contribution to an athletic club the other day just to let the bOTa-know that he IS still living, aud liberal, when he deems it worth while Co be.
 What will the Arizona delegates to the democratic national conven- tion ask of their party, ana what can they expect if Carlisle is Bomin- atedi They will probably come home with their silver heads between two gold legs.
 The territory is burning up from lack of rain. The absence oi such concerns us more than statehood or any other political question. With out water, our agricultural, mining and stocking raising interests are vetoed.
 Mining never looked brighter in Yavapai than it does at present. New and rich finds are of daily occurrence, and capital is earnestly coming in for immediate investment. After all, wha. does Arizona amount to, with its various resources, with out the backbone of mining to draw to. Absolutely nothing.
 The St. Johns Herald, in Apache wants Judge Hawkins, of Prescott, to enter the fight for dele gate to congress, while the Graham County Bulletin wants John c. Herndon to make the race again. and Hawkins would have . familiar ring to 1t on any propoSi- ton.
 Scientific papers, devoted to min ing and the treatment of ores, are | devoting much space to the handling | and reduction of the out put. The | question that strikes us most forci- bly, in the mining line, is to fnd an ore body that has the stuff in it, when later the handling of 1t will be Of secondary consideration only.
 The house committee on iFriga- lion and arid lands has decided to report favorably a bill introduced by Hermann, chairman of the com nittee, providing for the conveyance ,f arid lands to states and territories .o be disposed of to settlers in small holdings and the money thus ob- aimed to be used in the raclamA- ion of the remainder of the lands.
 PheniI is vicious in its determine ion to reach out and extend its trade relations with