Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-08-11


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 Governor McCord is said to be of Scotch parentage. He is going to be the real governor of Arizona, and Hot Scotch one at that.
 Hunsaker, a prominent Phenician, is in jail in Sonora. They should send General Lewis down there with the Arizona national guard.
 There are some people in Arizona who believe that Phenix is as much of a snap as Klondyke in riches, judging them by their consistency to catch onto McCord's official dig gings.
 Whitelaw Reid ''blew" himself for a $l5,000 dinner on the Prince of Wales. When Mir. Reid comes back to Phenix next winter, they won't do "thing" to him down there after this break.
 An epedemic of elopements has struck Los Angeles. Put such and the Klondyke fever together, we certainly have pretty kittle of fish between men andwomen these days in hitting the high places.
 The Klondyke fever is spreading in Arizona, as we'll as elsewhere, and from the papers in every town we see that many have gone or are pre- pairing to leave. Several disappointed politicians down in Phenix are anxious to leave, of course.
 The big demand for dogs in Alaska is an important problem to consider. The population of dogs in Arizona IS on the increase, and in Tucson there are said to be over 10000 of them to the 1000 humans. Tucson should get up boom in the dog line, as she is below par with humans in the political kennel
 The total number of murders re ported in England and Wales in the year 1896 was 163. The number of murders in the United States in the same year is said to have been 10000 This does not include, of course, the forty or fifty Norton boys that escaped in Arizona through the efforts of the sweet scented legislative act of the last legislature.
 There are several New Jersey peo- pie living in the mining districts near Prescott. who only chuckle to themselves when the big Klondyke mosquitoes are given so much prom thence. The Jerseyite is probably onto the skeeter in any cline.
 Col. Watterson refers to free si!- yer democrats as "whey faced trait ors." IT the distinguished Ken. tuckian should prance down to Ari zona with that assertion what would the bourbon boys think of the change in the color of the old time beverage. Watterson is an authority on this, as he is right from the foun tain head of the big liquid still.
 The Klondyke fever is just a. rampant, if not a little more so among the silver miners of the west as it is noticeable among those who voted the single standard After all there is but one genuine greed, and that is in the old time one for the yellow metal, and if silver was al 1.29 today, there would be just a. many falling over each ether as evel to reach the favored spot where il abounds so plenteously.
 One by one the roses fade, anc likewise do the crackajacks of tn, late administration in Arizona wither away. However, there were some good business men with tn, past rule, but they were in sucl miserable company that most peo pie do not seem to consider the fac that it was to them and their fidelity that the interests of the territory were not smothered to death in tho dirty trench of political filth anC commercial crookedness. Prescott was represented on an important matter, in that of the board o equalization, by Morris Goldwater position lily weighed and con sidered by the general public, and tC our credit, as we'll as to his integrity y we came out creditably in peTsoI and in name. There are some mer who hold political position for tht purpose of bestowing politica favors, while there are others who's, acts are significant of general good even while laboring with the partisan yoke around them. It Is so Tn thi, instance.
 Governor McCord has again emerged from his wickiuP and taken the scalp of another Prescottite for 8 preferred position in a business channel of his administration in Arizona. He has selected Mir R. H. Burmister as a member of the board of equalization from the northern district, and in doing so we candidly believe the choice is not only a handsome reflection on the business ability of the appointed, but it echoes again the broad and unselfish sphere attending the governor as be