Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-03-03

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 The United States supreme court has reversed the judgment of the court of private land claims in the Santa Fe laud grant case, thus aa- nulling the grant.
 Senator Wolcott, Of Colorado, is en route home from Europe, where he went in the interests of an inter- national monetary conference in favor of bimetsllism. He says he is well satisfied with the result of his visit, snd is very hopeful of being able to organize an inter national monetary conference.
 The PhsniK Gazette says that "Every member of the present legis- lalure of New Mexico can all read and write. This IS the first time in the history of that territory, when such was tSe case. In an past legis- lative bodies of tk.. territory, fully one-third of the members signed their names with an X."
 Attorney General Harmon seems to be equally adept at writing an excure to the house for the failure of this administration to attempt to enforce the antitrust law, and in preparing brief for the Supreme Court arguing that the crew of the alleged 6libuster steamer, Three Friends, have been guilty of piracy; aud neither role is calculated to in- crease his popularity with the peo- pie.
 It is stated that, that poll tax idea of Jocelyn was matched iu an incu- batoF, and that he, turned it loose before it was properly feathered. It is further alleged that Mir. Jocelyn has the JouRNAL-MIS suggestion, that licenses be turned into the school fund of the district where collected, in his incubator and ex- poets it to hatch out with the idea that no law is needed to SO apply 1 licenses.
 The Merrill, Wisconsin, Advocate says: 'fThe Advocate congratulates the editors of Arizona on their en- dorsemeut of Hon. NJ. H. McCord for gouernor. Mir. McCord has be- come a thorough Arizonan, and If chosen governor, as we have no daubt Of. he will do more to advance the interests of Arizona than any man that could be named"
 President Mckinley will set aside the civil service orders of President Cleveland and proceed to do busi- ness at tho old stand in the old way. The peple of the nation will endorse Mir. Mckinley in this move, for if there was ever humbug on earth, it is that same old fraud, the "ciyil service" and the president is show ing good sense and patriotism in setting it aside. Let the republicans have the offices they have won; this is the motto of the Gazette, and it is honest politics.-Phenix Gazette
 Despite the fact that the Phenix papers and Phenix citizens are con- tinually preaching that the interests of Yavapai and Maricopa county gre identical, W hen it comes to support ing a measure of which Yavapai would be the beneficiary they can not be depended on. It is true, the prison removal bill had the active aud unqualified support of the Re publican and of members of the assembly as we'll ss of a number of prominent citizens, but it availed nothing as compared to the vote of Maricopa's councilman against the measure.
 Skinner and Rogers, of Graham county, have been the advocates of economy in the house, yet the latter has introduced a measure which, if it should become a law and used as precedent for all similar cases, would probably bankrupt the territorial treasury. It provides for the pay ment of 5000 to the children of certain persons who were killed by Apaches. If the children of all persons killed in the territory by Apaches are to be made the special subject of legislative appropriation, there is no telling where the subject would end.
 The United States government may take a hand in the matter of suppressing puze fighting by treat | ing it the same way it treated lot teries, thereby effeetually knocking | them out of existence. The House committee on commerce has directed Representative Aldrieh, of Illinois, to report to the House bill pro- hibiting transportation of pictures or descriptions of prize fights by mail or through interstate commerce and fixing the maximum penalty at ten years imprisonment for viola ton of the law. This bill applies to the transmission of reports from one state to another by telegraph, but is not intended to interfere with the announcements of the occurrence and results of 60hta