Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-04-07

race for secretary to stay. Flagstaff has sold her water bonds amounting to SG0,OOO. lt is said that work will be commenced soon on putting in the system.
 E.F Mckinley, a cousin of Presi- dent Mckinley, Is a candidate for collector of internal revenue for Nav Mexico and Arizona.
 The execution of General Rivera, who was to have been shot last Sat urday, was stopped on account of a protest from Secretary Sherman.
 The United Press will discontinue its news service on the night of April : and retire from business. It is now in the hands of an assignee.
 A bill has been introduced in the Pennsylvania legislature, providing for tax of SI per year on bicycles, the proceeds to be applied in im- proving the public roads.
 c. D. Reppy's christening of the nineteenth legislative assembly as the ''tin horn nineteenth" is the most appropriate name We have heard for it. It just fits 1t to dot, and will stick to it.
 Governor Thornton, of New Mex ico, has resigned. He has always declared that he would resign as soon as the Borrego gang of con spirators was executed.
 General Merritt, commanding the Department of the Missouri, with headquarters at Chicago, will be transferred to the Department of the East, at New York, on the retire ment of General Ruger, winch will take place soon.
 So many applicants for federal positions, of parties who are resi- dents of Arizona, lin their minds, only, have appeared, that it is a wonder Lord Sholto Douglass has not entered the race for governor.
 Bisbee banquetted Councilman B. A. Packard and Assemblyman J. N. Jones on their return home from the legislature. As far as heard from these members are the only ones who have received any special rec ognition from their constituents
 New MexIco has demonstrated her ability to hang an occasional mu5- derer, although justice may seem tArdy in that territory. If ever four men met the fat that they justly deserved it was the quartatte of murderers who lad in ambush and killed Frank Chavez. and who were hanged yesterday.
 Alexis and Ernest Leblanc, two young French boys, brothers, both under twenty years of age, came 10 Louisiana some time since and de- termIned to initiate Jesse James, get fortune and return to France. In pursuance of thus object they murdered Simon Bsguaw, . msT- chant of Scott, Louisiana. and on Friday were hanged. They won't return to France.
 According to eastern telegrams the farmers throughout the east are trying to form a trust. IL is 10 spread all over the country and if the plan were carried out not a dol lars worth of farm products of any kind will be sold for general con sumption, il being the purpose 10 compel people to import all of the food products. Iti believed by this means the power of the association can best make itself felt. The svs- tenn of dividing the proceeds of the sales is somewhat complicated, but it appears to be absolutely just, and to provide for much better financial results to the farmer than the pres ent individuslistic system of raising every thing and selling what he can at such prices as he can get for it. It IS declared by those who claim to know that almost every state in the union has been organized, or is in process of of organization, and that the farmers have taken readily to this wonnerful plan