Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-01-08

he three things which take up
 yhe moS; ot MT. Cleyeland's time
 are writing special messages, issuing
 bonds and going fishing
 The Republican League Club of
 PIenix seems to be buckling down
 Co good. earnest work. There is
 nothing So effective As thorough or.
 gauizaton in a political campaign The several states m which the
 new wear was begun by swearing in
 republican governors to succeed
 democrats deserve special congratu- lations.
 Tac1ma, Washington, city that
 claims a population of 60,0OO, has
 nos a single Chinaman n it's cor
 pOrate limits \ telegram of recent
 date says: For the second time in
 it's history. there are no Chinese in
 Tacoma The two employed by
 Thomas Riggs as servants, were put
 ou a train lhis morning and re-
 turned to Olympia. whence they came. Riggs had tired of the agi- ta,,on ou the subject and uncondi- tionsiy surrendered.
 Congressman Payne, of New York, who was the leading republican member oi the Ways and Means Committee of the last House, is not doing any kicking because he wasn't made chairman. He says: Il wanted to be at the head of the Ways and Means committee, yet l think the House is well organized, and that the Speaker has done the best he could under the circumstances. If Mr. Payne has no kick coming to him. surely no other member of the House has.
 Geo. J. Roskruge Is an applicant for the position of surveyor-gener l made vacant by the resignation of L. H. Manning. The appointment will be gwen to a democrat, and MT. RoskrUge Is of that political faith. But aside from ali politics and par tisaa h'p there are few if any men in the territory as we'll qualified for the position as he, and certainly there are none better qualified. He Is a thorough and practical surveyor and civil engineer and has been in the employ of the surveyor general for a great many wears. and hence Is thoroughly familiar with every detail Oi the business of the office, very important point just DOW. Owing to a lack of sufficient sppro- priation for help in the surveyor generals office, together with an in- crease of business, that office Is seT- eral months behind in its work Surveys of mining claims in this county on which owners desire to obtain patents have been in the sur veyor- generals office Tor three months or more. on account Of the Insutiicieucy of clerks. The appoint ment of a man new to the business at the present time would retard and delay theses til longer. If the powers that be. at Washington, wlll con suit the convenience of patrons of ihe office Mir Roskruge will receive the appo ntment.
 \ financial writer iu the PopuIst tries to convince the voters of Mlri- copa that they are under obligations 10 pay S6.0O0.OOO of railroad bonds, of the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe. Prescott X Phenix railroads The voters Of that county must ba gueener than rsN alfalfa they raise if they belIeys such wild and wanton statements as appears in a three column article on that subject. While under the law. the mortgage to secure ;hese bonds Is recorded in every county through which the railroad runs. tha veriest tyrO knows that neither the citizens or the of the county Is held liable and that the bonds are not payable from the traffic to and from the county. Every man, woman and child who crosses the bay between Oakland and San Francisco on a ferry boat of the Southern Psc ic railroad. Every man, woman and ,hild who rides on a Southern Pa ,ifc train from Los Angeles to the 1 sea side, every passenger between 1 san Francisco and Ogden and be- . .weeu San Francisco and New Or l cans, and every pound of freight . lauled over the system Is helping to . 1sv the interest on the S3,OO00O l ponds of the Southern Pacific. Every passenger and every pound f freight hauled on the :. F.. P. k F. helps to pay for the bonds of his road Prescott aud Yavapai .ounty art, to-day, contributing nore by far. towards the payment of hesa bonds than are the voters of Iaricopa county. who are warned " this Don QuiNote of finance that ,ankruptcy. ruin and starvation are ,aring .hem m the face, un'a-' be , elected delegate to COngres-, or, n case of the admission of Arizona S state, to tue United States senate.
 KrY WEST. Jan. 6.-JeSus Petuna,
 we'll known Cuban patriot, re- ..:va1 a ripbar dispatch from Gen. .