Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-03-04
ARIZONA JOURNAL-MINER
WEDNESDAY MARCH 1, 1896

senatorial race m Kentucky.
 4 Denver woman has been awarded the garbage contract for that city.
 The Indians are opposed to the building of the Globe railroad over their reservation.
 Los Angeles Masons on Saturday last laid the corner stone for a fine new Masonic temple.
 Henry C. Bowen, editor and pro prietor of the New York Independ eat. died on Monday afternoon.
 Congress has passed a law ap- propriating a pension of Sl0O per month to the widow of the late Secretary Gresham.
 To Congress and to Utah's repre- sentation there particularly, on the question of snnexing a portion of Arizona to Utah. the Los Angeles Express says: Let Arizona alone. So says the JoURNAL-MINER, too.
 It is now announced from London that Mrs. Florence Msybrick, who is in prison in England, serving a life sentence for poisoning her hus- band, is about to be liberated. An official announcement to this effect it is said, will be made during this week.
 Anson H. Smith, of the Mohave Miner, keeps the Phenix Populist dancing to his music each week. The miner IS about the only paper in the territory that pays any at tention to the Pops rawlings and Smith must be reaping a great har- vest of fun from the gyrations of that paper over his references to it and populism.
 A meeting of the Arizona Press Association has been called for Monday, March g, at Phenix. A full attendance of editors should be present, as the constitution and by- laws need amending, and the asso- citation should be put on a good business footing, whereby the in- terests of its members will be promoted.
 The "We-want-the-schoOl-lands- leased, but" fellows are quite uu- merous now. The "buts' interposed are about as numerous as the parties. 4 law which has been in operation in other territories and has given good satisfaction is not good enough for Arizona, apparently. at least with them. But" covers a multi tude of objections in a multitude of cases.
 4 decision was handed down this morning in the injunction case against tbe city, to restrain the city council from leasing the water works, under an ordinance passed last summer. The decision is a newspaper one, but will probably hold until the court has its say in the matter. Itdissolves the injuuc- ton and permits the lease to become valid and binding.
 Frank J. Cannon the first long term senator from the state of Utah was a newspaper man for many years. He published paper in Los gan and changed the Ogden Herald to the Standard. Through his pen the Mormon people were brought to believe in a division on party lines. The Standard under his e1itorshIp began the advocacy of republication in 1890.
 4 needle manufactory, the first in the United States, is soon 10 start in Chicago. The needles are to be made by machine (the first of the kind) invented by Eugene Fontaine, of Detroit. l. will turn out 2.5U0 needles an hour They can be sold for fifty cents a thousand, against SI20 for English and 75 cents for German needles. The wire is kept on a spindle and is fed into the machine by the co lstant revolution of the spindle.
 Jerome wants to entertain the Territorial Editorial Association when 1t holds its next meeting. The meeting, according to adjournment, will be held in Phenix if the execu- tive committee sees proper 10 fix a date for IL, and an excursion 10 Jerome, and thence to Montezuma wells and the cliff dwellers. would prove not only a pleasant, but profitable and instructive one. The good people of Jerome and the | V. X P. railway people would enter tain the members right royalty on such trip.
 Tn discussing the leasing Of schoo, lsnds this morning. our cOnten- porary says: The next legislature should deal directly with this ques- ton. If possible" Unfortunately the question is one over which tie territorial legislature has no jurIs dic,ion, as the territory has no con trol oi these lands and can not have until bill is passed by Congress giving them jurisdiction over them. The bill introduced b. Delegate Murphy provided Tor turning these lands oTer ;o 'he territory and of giving the legislature jurisdiction in