Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-06-03

With democratic bond issues and cyclones the country is just now in hard lines.
 J. H. McEnery mas been elected as United States senator from Louisiana.
 The Spanish bank in Havana, Cuba, must be mshAged by popu- lists; it is about to issue $l2,OOO,OCO in paper currency.
 John Hays Hammond has been paioled by President Kreuger in order to permit him to visit his sick wife at Johannesburg.
 The Phenix Gazette sarcastically remarks that Governor Franklin will impor. a few Missourians to aid him ID managing Arizona al fairs"
 If either wing of the democratic party wants 10 bolt their convention this IS q gOOd year for them to do it. The cannot possibly win, bolt or no bolt.
 The loss to property by the St. Louis cyclone is placed at from S2O.OO0.OOO to SS0,OOO,OOO. The loss of life is enormous, 3l5 bodies hay ing been recovered during the first twenty-iour hours sfter the storm.
 There is a chance for some enter prisiug man 10 make lot of money, if he can persuade Ambassador Breckirridge to exhibit himself, at tired in that costume, diamond shoe buckles and all, in Arkansas.
 The democratic convention yes tsrdsy stood about Is to in favor of Cleveland's financial policy, judging from the vote by which the resolution of censure was defeated.
 Oregon held her state election yesterday, resulting in an over whelming victory for the republi- cans. Estimates are that the demo crats and populists will have only six senators out of thirty.
 The PheniI Republican expresses doubt of Schlatter's having passed through Kirkland Valley, as an nounced exclusively in the JOURNAL MrxLR. To be recognized by the Republican, Schlatter should have passed through Pheni1.
 Governor Franklin has issued an order removing NJ. H. McCord from office as a member of the board of control. He gave his order to the sheriff to serve. MT. McCord objects to vacating the office, and will resist the order in the courts.
 The Railroad Tralnmen's Journal states the case very aptly in the following: "The-s are many re- formers who are sadly in need Of something to reform their reform When a half dozen men get together and each one recognizes in the others the five smartest men he ever met and the greatest reformers the world ever knew, aud when each one has said his piece concerning the great wisdom and executive ability of the other five, and they then unite their forces ia damning every thing and everybody that does not flll into their line of acton. there Is surely room for reform
 It Is -etting mighty warm In Ph"- nix these days in more wavS than one. The mercury registers l05 ID tae shade. a red ho; political muni- cipal campaign is or hand, the Gazette a~t Republican are wagir Y aoi warfare on each other through the columns of the papers, while he son of the editor of the former Daper and the editor of the latter have had two personal encounters, in one of which a pistol was drawn, a"d the Gazette, between rounds with the Republican, takes 8 swipe at Governor Franklin. So, taking It all in all, Phenix is decidedly warm and exceedingly lively.
 The rapidly growing scarcity of water, suggests very forcibly the importance of speedy action being tTken in regard to the suit now pending in court in this matter. It should be pushed through To e con clusion either one way or the other. IT the grant made by the city cOun- cil is found to be valid, the beneh- ciaries under this grant will no doubt commence prospecting for water at once. IT 1t is found in valid, then the city council can take the matter up and see what can be done in the matter of obtaining a supply. Already the supply Is grow ing scarce, and the prospect now is that we will have a warm, dry su um- mer.
 Brother Bsnta, ol the HolDrook Argus, should be one of the happiest IeUspAPer editors m Arizona. While the average Arizona editor, during certain seasons of dullness and scarcity of news items, has to rack his brain until his hair nearly turns gray. to find something entertaining to his readers, during these periods Editor Bants can rest Serenely in his easy chair, and draw from his early experience Iu Arizona, re- miniscenes, which are not only en- tertAining. but instructive as we'll