Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-09-15
ARlZONAJ0U 4NAL-MINER
WEDNESDAY,. .....,.'S Sept 15, 1897

reported m New Orleans yesterday Colorado democrats have decided to go it alone and refuse all fusion with other parties.
 Native Hawaiians are making strong efforts to prevent annexation to the United States.
 Over s2,0OO,OoO in British money is coming in to San Francisco from Australia to pay for American wheat. Only 230,S32 immigrants came to the United States during the last fiscal year, the smallest number for any single year since 1879.
 The annual meeting of the West ern Editorial Federation is to be held in New Orleans next month. The presence there of Yellow Jack" will DO doubt result in a very slim attendance.
 It is presumed that Mr. Grover Cleveland fshed as much as usual this summer, but the enterprising newspapers printed nothing about it.
 President McKinley's popularity with his soldier comrades seems to worry certain class of democrats almost as much as the sure and steady march of prosperity.
 Suggestive figures are those of the Department of Agriculture, showing that the wheat growers of the United States wili- get $500, 0,000,- 900 more for this years crop than they received for last years,
 Those who lie iu- hammocks wait ing for the coach of prosperity to wait for them, axe ia, danger of get ting left. In fact, they are not the sort of passengers wanted.
 The recent earthquake that shook up Japan wasn't B marker to the shaking up that country wcuid get if it were foolish enough to attempt to fight the United States.
 During a thunder storm in Phe- nix on Tuesday the reputation of a prominent citizen was struck by lightning. The man was uninjured but his reputation was shattered into "smithereers s.
 If existing European treaties prove strong enough to stand the wear and tear of time. John Ball will find himself occupying a posi- ton endangering his very existence whenever there Is war between any Of the great powers over there.
 An Oklahoma newspaper man who : has been serving as an officer in the Cuban army, says the Cubsns are suffering for lack of food, and that for some time before be left, his principal rations were palm tree buds.
 If we may judge from democratic utterances, we should say that Sen ator Hanna has his fight as good as won, and that it is now only a ques- tion of how large the republican majority will be for the state ticket and the legislature.
 Attorney General Frazier has de- cided that inasmuch as Mouse, the : Indian murderer, was killed, the territory is not liable for the reward offered, as the reward was for his apprehension and detention in any : jail.
 = Alabama coal operators are conf : dent that under the Dingley tafifi they will be able to take a goodly portion of the Mexican coal trade away from the English, who have heretofore monoPolized il. Another argument for protection.
 If all the democratic aspirants to the Senate in South Carolina would engage in a free fight and murder each other, neither the state nor the country would be the loser. According to their own testimony, they are a bad lot.
 Governor McCord made a large number Of friends in Prescott by his address on labor day. Despite the snarling from a certain source, aud the efforts to be funny, the - governors speech was we'll received and has been. the subject of fagora- ble mention by those who heard it.
 MOhave's Mineral Wealth thinks that Governor McCord should pay those Indians over in Nevada for killing Mouse. As the governors predecessor did not offer any reward for hIs death, We fail to see where they have any just claim against this territory.
 The unblushing acknowledgement of ex-Senator Irby that he secured the nomination. of pitchfork Till man for governor of South Carolina, by cheating in the count of votes in the nominating convention, gives the country fair idea of democratic methods in that state, as well as a poor opinion of the man who owns up to the theft.
 w. H. Wallace, who IS eighty-six years old, and who is postmaster at Hammondsvilie, Ohio, has just en- tered his sixty eighth year of service in the postal department, commence - inp durino AnIrov TacLsop,s tarr,