Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-09-30

Gila county's tax rate Is SI on the SlOA. It evidently needs free silver.
 Nogales is threatened with anoth CT raid from the Yaquis, so report goes.
 Li Hung Chang is rubbing" Ja- pan up to the idea that she can whip Uncle sam.
 The abandoned Fort Lowell property Is to be offered at public sale on November 18th, next.
 IL is said that Governor Frank lin has deferred visiting Prescott officially until the campaign gets hot politically.
 General Miles IS inspecting all western military posts, and before his return, it Is said, be will take in" Fort Whipple.
 Before entering the political race, Mark Smith should consult Santa Teresa She Is such a healer and prophet, you know.
 W. A. Rowe Is down in Phenix, talking over the political situation. He did not take his tent with him in Salt creek either.
 Several Arizona papers of the democratic persuasion are very hot over the pops of Texas fusing with the gold dems of Texas.
 The Spanish American residents of this country want Cleveland to retire at once. They evidently want to be recognized as belliger- ents or as anything else.
 Southern California Is going O import 1000 horned toads fr, m Hawaii to eat up bugs Thus is Arizona again done up on one of her industries.
 Aminer on the Hasssyampa locs- ted mine aud called it Bryan 1t was fue cn the surface, but peter,d out after the first shot was put into 1t.
 Senator Sherman should have been prevailed on in his western iSuat 10 take in Phenix and the statehood outlook. Such negH- gence on the part of the alfalfa city should be censured.
 Bryan is jumping on and of more trains in a day than any other hu- man, and he Is now dubbed as tae boss train jumper. He discounts the average tramp, and that ele- ment is the last to go against him.
 The gang" in Phenix are l-e- pairing to give Mark Smith a send Of. Salt River is the initial point for Mark 10 start from and wind up at. This demonstration IS certainly suggestive.
 Judge A. l.. Morrison, father of R E Morrison, district attorney of this county, Is laying down the law to voters every day in the east, from the stump. He Is not only an eloquent orator. but IS said 10 pos sass more tarif knowledge than Mckinley himself, devoting a hfe- time to the study of that question.
 A resolution endorsing O'Neill was summarily assassinated in the democratic convention of the coun- ty. \ similar one was politely smothered in the republican con- vention, and Saturdays convention failed to even incubate an endorse ment resolution for him.
 A republican kid took in demo cratic one the other day in CalIfor- nia, by buying up his fourteen silver dollars for sixty-fve cents apiece. The Bryan kid lost B cents on each dollar, not to mention the hide his old man took of with razor strap.
 The fine Italian hand of Gov. Franklin and the other gold ap- pointees of Cleveland, IS coming to the surface on the Williams free silver convention. Will the voters of Arizona be again prosiituted, or will they weigh in the balance of gratitude these men who were sup posed to represent themi
 Nearly every appointee of Presi- dent Cleveland figured in the demo- cratic convention to nominate Mark Smith. After all. Is Mark Smith, then a gold bug democrat, trailing behind the veil of a traitori Or is there any gratitude left between man and man!
 Itwas probably an oversight in convention, that il failed to endorse ONeill for delegate to congress. Buckey's modesty, as chairman of the platform commit tee, forbid his inserting it iu the platform, and no one in the conven- ton seemed to notice the omission and supply 1t with a separate reso- lution.
 (. D. Lane. the rich gold miner of California, who IS over Ia Mohave county looking at gold mines, says be Is for silver because "he loves his country better than he does him. self. He is out for the stuff of bis country just the same, and before the country gets any Of it, it has to show up gilt edged bonanza, just the same. He Is a silver man of 1