Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-01-22


 ; arc reported in its vicinity.
 In view of that bond issue, it seems proper to ask why Mir. Cleve- lond euchered Congress out of it's holiday recess.
 Maryland is just now experiencing the pleasant sensation fpr the first time of having a republican gov ernor. Kentucky is enjoying the same experience.
 | Philadelphia republicans have elected their delegates to the na- uonal republican convention. In two or three congressional dis; ricts they are pledged for Reed.
 It Is a good thing to have friends, says an exchange. It IS better to have enemies when you have only enough money to supply your own needs
 It is all explained. A fashion n writer says that big sleeves are for warmth in winter aud coolDess in summer. Why didn't we think of that before.
 Groom creek, but four miles from i Prescott, seems to be on the eve of a mining boom. Inside of sixty days, three quartz mills will be pounding away at that point.
 \ young man down in Wick, D. burg took two 22-calibre cartridges for quiniue by mistake. But they don't mind such things dowh in that section.
 The supreme court of Ohio h; s decided that a woman in Ohio @ h. not serve as notary public, the cor stitutioD requiring such office to te held by an elector.
 Senator Elkins has the satisfsc- ton of knowing that his anti-privIie bond sale resolution frightened Mir. Cleveland into changing his pro- gramme for that bond issue.
 Did Secretary Olney really tell the head of that bankers syndicate that advertising for bids for those bonds was merely a little bluf Jas has been charged) and that they could put iu a bId with confidence in its being acceptedi
 The Hudson Reservoir Canal en- terprise has been granted a right of way by Secretary Hoks Smith. aad the work which will cost S2.J0O0O0 is to be started at once, and Arizona will 'have the greatest irrigation system ever projected in the United States.
 The entire wealth of the United States was estimated at Sl6.O0O,- 000,000 at the outbres k of the civil war. In 1890 1t had increased to to S55, ,OOOOOO,OO0, or in thirty years the people of the United States had accumulated over three times 5s much wealth as they had doue in 25O years.
 The Pheni1 Republican is ,ull waging war on Delegate Murphy. It has never forgiven the people f Arizona for electing a republi, an last fall, because the republican con veution refused to listen 10 its dicta- ton of a candidate. It has never missed an opportunity since to at tack MT. Murphy, with or without cause.
 Ia a recent speech at Manchester, England, by Hon. 4. J. Balfour. on the Nenezuela' question, that gen. tleman said s0-le things which did not seem to please some of his coun- trYmen. He said: nobody here wanted to run contrary to the Mon Toe doctrine. In fact, he continued fl Nenezula had offered herself for annexation to Great Britain, any British statesman would decline such an honor. Therefore he failed to understand what the quarrel was about. IL would be hard, indeed, if the common sense of the Anglo Saxon race was unable to settle Le dispute without recourse to war. He did not believe there was pos sibility of war, but there was ue,er a moment in the history of the coun- try when it possessed a better fight ing machine. Balfour asserted that the British government had heartily concurred in the Monroe doctrine seventy years ago and he belIved if they were to ransack England, >tAAtu tue Hto't piifabc uOtuIcubs ia the Foreign Office since then, ex- anime the ministers and the ordi- nary public, or even the lunatics, it would be impossible to find single individual who ever desired to see what would be called a forward policy adopted by Great Britain either in North Cr South America"
 The Noyales Oasis publishes a long lis. iof names of prob able candidates for delegate to the republican national convention, 1t singularly enough not a single name is suggested from Northern Arizona, which is entitled to representation, and will certainly secure it. Pres colt has some sturdy Republican wheel horses such as Frank NJ. Mur-