Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-01-20
ARIZONAJ0URNAL-MINER
EDIrORISL NOTES.

 in Virginia, under an old law which has meyer been repealed.
 Phoenix business men are making preparations to hold their annual carnival again this year.
 If MT. Cleveland has received any offer for series of lectures he has kept it to himself.
 Governor Budd proclaimed last Sat urday a legal holiday. in California, to celebrate the defeat of the Pa cife railroad funding bill.
 A telegram from New York states that an opposition company is being formed by the holders of Atlantic & Pacific stock and junior bonds.
 The Senate has passed the bill permitting the town of Flagstaff to issue S65,OOo worth of bonds for water works.
 Perhaps Mir. Bryan wouldn't have hsd so many sneers for the slowness Of returning prosperity had his lee lures been better patronized.
 Newspaper readers are necessarily c little mixed in their ideas of what constitutes . Jacksonian democrat these days.
 The deeds that men do in official life, live after they have retired from office, and often haunt them in private life.
 Nobody has suggested that Grover Cleveland and David B. Hill, who will go out of office at the came time, might form 8 law part Hership.
 Senator Geo. c. Perkins received . majority of votes in both houses of the California legislature yester- day.
 The water question is troubling Pheuix, as we'll as Prescott. It is the water on the streets which forms lakes and mud holes and muddy side walks. though, and not lack of Hatsr for domestic purposes.
 There is now no populist paper published in Arizona, but Our Min sEal Wealth, of Kingman, thinks It will serve the purpose till one IS started.
 Senators Vest, of Missouri, and Pugh, of Alabama, oppose the con 6rmation of Francis as secretary of the interior, but it Is stated that the senate will confirm him despite the opposition of these senators.
 It is announced that the Farmers Alliance will shortly cease to exist in Kansas and Nebraska. Another instance of the killing of what might have been a useful organiza- tion by trying to use it as political machine.
 A Texas man has just been ar rested, who pleads guilty to having married sixteen wives, all of them living and none divorced, during the spast eight years, and says he has nineteen children from them. Ills name is Tom Lowe and be Is only 26 years old. Thomas can go to the head of the class of bigamists.
 Our contemporary rePudiates the protective policy prime pie of re publicanism, which appeared in a recently published paragraph of that paper, but says it advocated the principle from a democratic standpoint. The doctrine is good one, no matter what 1t may be labeled.
 When there is a republican ad ministration and republican tariff bill, the promised prosperity will return to the country. If not, tEe republican party will willingly bear the blame for its failure, but it isn't WiilisG to bear any blame for the failure of general prosperity to come under existing conditions.
 Mir. Bryan has cancelled all his dates for lectures. He found that he could not make Sl,0OO a night. There is all the difference in the world between Bryan's free, stump speeches and Bryan's "Sl 900 ahead lectures" same as between a free lunch counter, and a frst-elass restaurant.
 The legislature now in session should eEact a law providing for the leasing of the school lands in the territory under the provisions of the congressional act passed some time since. There Is no valid reason now why these lands should not be made to provide a revenue to the school fund as contemplated by the law of congress.
 Two men were held up in Wash ington, Kansas, recently by bold highwayman, who used an empty whisky bottle as a weapon, the men mistaking 1t for a gun. We have always understood that the average Ksnsan would succumb to the infu- encs of loaded whisky bottle, but this is the first instance we have heard of where they would stand and deliver" at the presentation of an empty bottle.
 A telegram from Connellsville, Pennsylvania, says that the coke
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