Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-10-06

assaulted woman, and when two other women came to her relief, he fought desperately with the tric, but succeeded in making his escape.
 Although the United States now imports S1O,OOO,OOO worth of sugar annually, Secretary of Agriculture Wilson says that within ten years we will be exporting sugar, owing to the rapid increase of the beet sugar industry.
 The London Globe of October 1, says that S'it hears that the Pope's | weakness is increasing, and that the church dignataries are afraid he will not rally from the extreme feebleness and exhaustion he now betrays."
 Two robbers held up two stages and one carriage, killed two horses and shot two men, all inside of an hour, few days since, on the road between Milton and Angels Camp, California. They secured about S150 for their work.
 If the question of payment of bonds issued for improvements is to be determined by the amount of benefit derived therefrom after their issue, then Prescott could success fully refuse to recognize the validity of about three-fourths of her water bonds, as the practical benefit of the water system has only been about twenty-five per cent of its cost. Suppose we leave it to vote of the people whether or not they shall be paid in full?
 When Senatar Hanna demanded that one man be produced who had been unfairly treated by an indus trial plant with which he was con nected, he knocked out every demo cratic slander about his not being friendly to labor. But MT. Hanna went even further, and asked that his enemies name single one of the numerous concerns he is inter ested in that does not pay the high est price paid for the class of labor it employs.
 Our contemporary still keeps up it's howl about the illegality of illegal bonds, the lnvalidity of in- valid bonds, the taxless tax of taxes, taxless, curses the loan commission for doing something which it admits wont hurt the territory and indulges in a general howl "for political pur- poses only" Since the Courier has decided this bond question to its own satisfaction, and. in such man. ner, according to it's statements, that it cannot be reversed, it seems as if further discussion would be unneces- sary.
 The Chicago Record is pushing the question of establishing United d States postal savings banks, and 10 this end has sent out petitions all over the country. It Is most sin gular circumstance that such an institution has not been established before. It would be mutually beIe- fcial to the govern1hent and the people. It would also tend to pro- mote and strengthen patriots III among the people ten fold more than would the proposition to loan money to the people at two per cent per annum.
 The question of submitting to a
 vote of the people propositions in- volving the mourning of debt obi
 gations, by a community, is not a new one, but that of submitting to
 a similar vote the question as to whether a debt already incurred
 should be paid, is certainly new in , political economy. In fact, it was never heard of until suggested by , the Courier. The question of leav- ing the payment of private debts to ; vote of the debtors would no
 doubt prove popular too with great
 many people, in fact. such a Propo. sitIon seems to have already carried , unanimously, so far as some of the accounts of this office are con- cerned.
 The organization of the irriga- tion congress has slipped away from the irrigation section, as will be seen from the following list of officer:
 elected: President, James NJ. Carey : of Cheyenne, Wyoming; First Vice President, s. A. Cocheran, of South Dakota; Second Vice President, [. W. Shurtliff, Ogden, Utah; Third Vice President, s. NJ. Knox, Prince ton, Illinois; Secretary, Thomas E. Frost, Minneapolis, Minn.; Reading Clerk. Col. H. D. Maxson, Reno Nevada; File Clerk. P. c. Erickson, Nebraska; Press Reporter, R. J
 Culver, Los Angeles. The selection of treasurer is to be left to the executive committee.
 The Phenix Herald says that about ninety per cent of the lynch ings in the United States take place i'll what are known as the Southern States, all of which is regretable commentary of the system of jus tice and law as administered in that region of the country. while it nevertheless indicates determin-