Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-07-07
T.C. MARTIN. Editor and Proprietor


 Illinois horse shoers are com peIlsd, under law recently passed, to undergo an examination as to their fitness.
 It is given out from Washington that no more Arizona appointments will be made till the governor ques- tion is settled.
 The democrats, who are fighting McCord, are naturally referred tS by our contemporary as the best element of the territory.
 Mrs. Bradbury has already tired of her paramour, Ward. A lunatic asylum would seem to be the proper place for Mrs Bradbury.
 Geo. Cuff, ex-probate judge of Graham county, has been sentenced to eighteen months in the peniten- tiary for raising school warrants.
 Home rule for the territories, and particularly for Arizona has not proven to be a bowling success There has been enough howl" in it but it has been that of discord.
 Arizona will have new governor within less than week, is the pre- diction of the JoURNAL-MINER. Should McCord not be confirmed, Secretary Akers will be made acting governor.
 A plot to kidnap Henry Miller, the rich cattle king of California, was discovered in time to frustrate. His proposed abductors were COW boys in his employ, who proPosedto hold him for S251 900 ransom.
 The Phenix Herald publishes a special from Washington which says that the senate has ordered printed all the evidence in the mat ter of the confirmation of NJ. H. Me Cord to be Governor of Arizona.
 The Pope Manufacturing Com pany has made p per cent reduc- tion on the price of bicycles, manu factured by it, reducing the price from SlOO to S75 for their standard wheels, and a proportionate reduc- ton on cheaper grades.
 The banks of San Francisco, by little shrewd financial management, have succeeded in escaping taxa ton on S16,OOO,OO0 of their capital. They converted the money into gov ernment bonds, which are not tax able. It decreases the revenue $40 900.
 Chicago street car companies have obtained a cinch on that city by getting their franchises extended for fifty years, during which time car fares cannot be reduced. It took an immense corruption fund to accomplish it, but it was accom- plishsd.
 An idea of the way business can be obstructed in Congress can be gained from the McCord case. It is stated on good authority that not to exceed four senators are opposed to
  McCord's confirmation, yet they have been able To cause an almost interminable delay to his confrma- ton. ..
 Senator Stewart, the Nevada pop ulist, is right in the swim with the present administration when it comes to the matter of appoint ments. He has just. secured the appointment of his son-in-law to 8 S,O00 per year consulship at Hong Kong, against the influence Of the entire California delegation, who endorsed J. w. Ragsdale, of Santa. Rosa, California, for the place. ......
 Jesse Grant has sent an expedi- ton to Tiburon island to thorough ly explore it for mineral. The in hahitants of this island are canni- bals and killed and ate a newspaper man a few years ago. That feast may have cured them of the habit. If not, they may sample some of JeSse's men. F. -.'.
 Tba Dbon;x Gazafto ,-b,ok o,.Et while referred in all sorts of ways to- "Dickey" Sloan, since his appoint ment has changed it's tune now says; Judge Sloan is undoubtedly the ablest man appointed to the Ari- zons bench. We are glad that he is appointed in Yavspai county. The man has plenty of ability. Chicago women will have to take Q back seat now with their big feet. as bigger footed woman than even Chicago can produce has been found. Her name is Sarah Geilehy and she lives on a farm two miles rom west Newton, Pennsylvania. She wears a number twelve mans shoe and her foot measures eleven inches at the ball, eleven and half at the inStep, and fourteen inches at l the heel. The loyal republicans have no need to belittle themselves by mis- representations of facts in the pres ent gubernatorial situation.-Phoe- nix Herald. Just so, and they have i not been doing so, but have been1 meeting the interpretations made by the other fellows in a man ly, dignifed, straightforward man. ner, disproving each misrepresenta- ton made, as soon as it exposes its head to view.