Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-04-29

much.
 Salt River is getting very low, in its water supply, so say recent Arri- Yals.
 The republican territorial con vention meets in PheniI on We'd nesdAy.
 Phenix is now the Buluwayo of Arizona politics and the Matabeles have it.
 The present dry spell is an ever lasting argument in favor of water storage.
 Northern Arizona has only four candidates for St. Louis, while the south has forty.
 Some men will stop at nothing in their political ambition, even to an attempt at forgery.
 Pima county slone is said 10 have enough St. Louis aspirAnts on hand to hll the Arizona bill.
 Our democratic Aspirants are at work industriOasly, and the fight for sheriff is now eArly on. Lowry aud Rufner are the war horses.
 Seven thousand hogs have died re- gently in MAricopA county. Of course this does not include any of the "swill barrel" political element in that notorious center of partisan ambition.
 Southern Arizona Hspirsnts are insane as usual for office. Because there has been A change in the sp- pointing power some think there should be a change in all the offices.
 It is said tha, Mark Smith agreed to put Arizona in the gold column if the president would remove Hughes.
 One question the PheniK convon- ton should consider on Wednesday is the big steal Utah is trying to make from Arizona.
 Silver agitation has taken a new tur1, and clubs are being organized everywhere under the title of the Patriotic Sons of America"
 
 Of the 5ls inmates of the insane asylum of Auzona, thrss-fourths are sheep herders according to a Phenix writer in the Drover's tele- gram.
 Tucson is swimming with en- thusissm over the congressional set which permits her to go in soak $I0O.O0O for sewerage and water works.
 Delegates should be sent from Arizona not SO muc8for their sym pathies on silver, but they should be pronounced plainly and fearless ly against the gold-bug.
 Several Northern Arizona towns arc commencing to move in the matter of gobbling up 4th of July celebration. Prescott this year sur renders herself 10 ali of them.
 It is the duty of every patriotic Arizonan to plant the American lag from now on for a big fourth of July celebration in PheniI this year. The capital city will feel lonesome un- less 1t has this event.
 The removal of Governor Hughes from office, while a satisfactory pro- position to many political beer jerk CTS, has affected the general reputa- tion of the territory very materially on the outside, and particularly among customers. IT We are not refugees, then what are we, after all.
 Missouri is to the front in Arizona official life, both elective and ap- pointive. The Star of Tucson says that tbe governor, the chief justice, all of the supreme court; save Judge Bethune (who is from Vir yinia), the internal revenue collector and a number of subordinate off ,ials are Missourians.
 An ardent and enthusiastic be- .iever in the supremacy of Yavspai, in so far as her rights are concerned, believes that both parties should come together aud place a legisls- i've ticket ID the field jointly that will be 8 winner st Pheni1 next winter when important matters are 70 be considered by the legislature. 1
 Here is what the editor of the l Nogales Oasis has to say of him. 1 elf: "A couple of weeks ago one of | he heavy weight politicians of No l gales vas obtaining signatures to a all to organize a Mckinley club. The editor of The Oasis signed the paper and the club died right there. It was a remarkably healthy bant- ling up to that moment; but when he original Mckinley man of Ari- sona joined the thing collapsed"
 Here is a case of "hoss aud hoss" aken from the Star, GoVerncr Hughes paper: "Its the other fell ows that are sitting on the anxious eat now, and you bet there is more han one official who don't sleep yell O nights, and it ain't on ac- ount of any physical ailment ither."
 The candidacy of Hon. V. AZ Rowe as a delegate to the Chicago would be an ideal one rom 8 democratic standpoint, and =a A. 1 |