Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-02-12

Forty years ago Theodore Parker predicted that before the end ot the century Kansas would have 1, l,OOO,OOO inhabitants and be worth Sl ,OOO,OOl,- 00O The prediction has been more than fulfilled already. Kansas has l,5O0OOO people and is worth S2,OoO- l OO0.OOO Theodore, forty years ago 1 did not realize the future possibili- l ties of this country.
 C. E. Borchgrevin. the Norwegian explorer, proposes to go in search of the south pole. The scheme that he has in hand is to travel l60 miles on snow shoes and sledgeS, with three Norwegian companions. He esii- mates that it will take him more than two years to do so, but he talks of the undertaking as if such a trip was to him nothing more than a httie jaunt through Europe to an ordinarv man.
 The water proposition outlined a communication published in ttls paper. from F. NJ. Murphy, does not contemplate a vote of the people on ! the proposed petition to Congress. ] The suggestion made by Mir. MuT-
 phy is for the people to at on $
 petition congress to pass an act P, r.
 hitting the city to issue SlOO,OOO, or
 such proportion of it as may bs
 necessary to secure a water supply
 and sewerage system, the issuing of
 these bonds being subject to a vote
 of the people and ratification by
 them.
 An Englishman named Sir James
 Crichton Browne has attempted to
 prove that women arc not suscepti-
 ble of the higher education" with
 out injury to her physically. Sir
 James, in his attempt, will rather
 convince his readers of the interiors
 tv and small caliber of his own
 brain, rather than that of women
 Such stuff as that might have count
 ed a century or so ago. but m thi'
 age of enlightment and advance
 ment. when woman has demonstrated her capabilities, it will evoke r.ii
 cule, rather than serious consideti ton.
 Kansas City telegram, desrrib , ing the murder of two aged anC wealthy Frenchmen, named Mauntz near Perry, Oklahoma, says: "ioh'
 Ezell was passing the Mauutz home stead and saw the elder Mauati ] hanging Tn the yard, and was aston ished to find him dead. The ol, man was hanging by rope, Plec
 Of which was around his neck, su' he had also been shot IL wa rather astonishing to find a ma dead under such circumstances, n doubt,
 \ remarkable story comes iron Oakland of the recovery of man 5 evesight. James s. Richardson, c that city. has been blind for fiv 2 years in his right eye. The otAe day, while bathing his left eye, h
 sight of his right eye suddenly r, K turned to him, and now he can se r. as well as ever out of the optic t.a '- was supposed to have been Perm' a nently destroyed. Richardson's cas '- is puzzling 10 the doctors. The
 told him that he would becom n totally blind iu time, but now h D has reason to believe that he VI '- recover his eye sight.
 5. Our contemporary announced, D few days since, that man had bee l. found who would guarantee a goo l. supply of water for SlOOOO. L' n the city couuc.I keep their busine It eve on this man until a petition
 passed around asking Congress A pass law authorizing the cIi If council 10 issue the bonds necessal d l to secure it. The city just now b. 8 not the SlO.OOO. For fear this ma h might escape, it would be just Ia we'll to petition Congress for Pe
 mission 10 issue bonds for a larg h sum. IT the city does not need c. they do not need to issue the bono 10 But it has attained a growth nc m where a sewerage system Is almo is as necessary as a perfect water sy if tenn.
 Prescott has two needs of almc equal importsnce-water works al lS ore reduction works, with thl a' crowding them very closely in II !" portance-a sewerage system. O N climatic conditions, as well as |
 beautiful location of the town, at bound 10 attract people here he make their homes in the course 'g- time. Reduction works would ef' ns, q capitalization of mining lntere! nd here that would surely result ln building up lIrg and prosPeFo a city, but to sustain such we m'
 have water and must also h. oe- sewerage. The favorable solutI id- of these three problems insures t ew building up here O: one "t ne largest and best towns Tn the ter re- tory, fl not in the southwest. ' ra- our citizens all unite in one gIa ng effort to secure all of these mu