Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-04-14

Theodore Roosevelt has been nominated Assistatant Secretary of the Navy.
 The free trade democrats should take warning from the fate of the Chicago girl who was frightened to death by shadow.
 It is now stated that there will not be less than five candidates in the first campaign for mayor of Greater New York.
 The Washington Post gives Arl- zona a new governor every day. On Saturday it had Burt Dunlap ap- pointed. On Sunday it trotted Dr. Evans up to the wire and presented him to the grand stand.
 If Hawaii asks to be admitted to the United States as state or ter ritory, as report says she will soon, Wa can not imagine any good reason for refusing to take her into Uncle Sam's family.
 The publication of a telegram from Mississippi, relating the kill ing of girl by the accidental dis charge of her sweetheart's revolver, makes it pertinent to ask if pistols are ordinarily used in courtships in that statef
 The civil service rules as mani pulated by Mir. Cleveland have been getting some hard thumps in con gress. and they are likely to get more of the same sort, whether the joint resolution offered by Con gressman Corliss, of Michigan, to repeal all the Cleveland extensions, be adopted or not.
 W. J. Bryan called on President Mckinley in the White House on Tuesday. While he was greeted warmly by the president, and an exchange of courtesies and pleas antries occurred between them, NIT. Bryan no doubt experienced an it might-have-been" feeling.
 Mir. Cleveland's Public Printer discharged BIO republican printers before he asked to have the cloak of civil service thrown over the gov ernment printing office. And that isn't the only branch of the govern ment in which that cloak has been used to keep democrats in office.
 Congressman "Champ" Clark, of Missouri, says the democrats are not responsible for Grover Cleveland. We should like to know who is, theni Certainly it was the demo cratic party that nominated him for president three times, although he will admit that he owed both his elections to mugwump votes. Still, history will have to charge him to the democratic party, MT. Clark to the contrary notwithstanding.
 The canuibals of the New He brides island, of Oceanica, have "gobbled up" another missionary. The account says that he was tied up to tree three days, being kept alive and forcibly stuffed with food. He was then cut down, killed and eaten, women joining joyfully in the cannibalistic feast. There was a great assemblage from the various groups of islands.
 A new West Virginia corporation known as the Glen Lincoln Coal x Coke Company, is owned and man aged exclusively by colored men. It owns 200 acres of coal land and has 1000 acres under lease. The stockholders are mostly practical miners, and the constitution of the company prohibits the sale of its stock to a white man.
 It must have been noted by care ful observers that Republican sena- tors have not been abusing the Dingley tarif bill, although it might be supposed from reading a certain class of newspapers that they were opposed to it. The re- publican senators are all right; its the opposition newspapers that are not.
 Some of the local politicians of the democratic pursuasion are still yelling their boots of over Harison's victory in Chicago. If they will compare Bryan's vote with that of Harrison's of a week ago, they will preceiye that each of these candi- dates run neck and neck. The de- feat of the republican ticket in that city was due to the fact that there were two candidates. Republican, ism still prevails
 Edward Bellamy has written an other book entitled, Equality" It is stated that he has spent ten years on this work and that 1t will be pub- Gshed early in May. It is said to be written on the same line of thought as his "Looking Backward, though larger and more comprehensive, and will serve to connect the world of today with that which Mir. Bellamy imagined in his earlier novel. The new book will tell the story of tie gradual evolution of the great social changes which the author holds are soon to come to pass.
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