Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-11-10

mains yet to be ratified by the senate.
 A year ago the man who would have predicted that the United States would get every dollar due it from the Union Pacific railroad, would have had his sanity ques- toned, bat, thanks to President Mckinley $ shrewdness and lirmness, that very thing has been brought about.
 The supreme court of the United States has sustained the decision of the circuit court or California in tho Durrant case, and it leaves Durrant right in line for hanging now. As soon as the official notice of the q cisioa has been received in San Francesca, the court will be asked to name a day for the execution. The decision payes the way for the exc cution of five other murderers in California.
 The chronic Courler pats itself on the place where it's head ought to be, and publicly declares itself to be mighty exponent of fearless Jour- nalism. Yet, when it attacks the  augean stables of its own party political manipulat;ons, calls lustily from the other side to back it up in front, as a sort of breast works over which, with a steadier hand, it can fire its minnie balls at the leaders of its own party. It fights lonesome battle.
 The question of home rule for the territories is a new one, inasmuch as nothing of the kind has ever been exp ,rieuced yet in the United States. Delegate Smith already has bill i prepared, which it was his purpose to introduce at the special session of Congress, but on the advice of senators and congressman he de- ferret it until the opening of the regular session, when he will intro duce it and use his best efforts to secure its passage.
 iG discussing the question oi | lynching, the Phenix Herald very aptly says: "The fact is lynching will never be discontinued till the time comes when no guilty man can escape regular conviction by law aud the penalty thereof. Just as soon as officials and juries and law yers determine that punishment ot criminals shall as surely occur a: does the crime, then We can expect the cessation Of lynching. It is the result of the inefficiency of law iu the protection of the people"
 Governor McCord, of Arizona, is reported as saying to one of the Times staff: San Diego county is , lovely country beyond question, but we don't want il. California cau have San Diego county all to it: | lonely. We have troubles enough ] of our own." Poor San Diego | spurned by Arizons, made miserable ' by the success of it's neighbors in Southern California, there seems nothing left for it except annexation to Mexico, or the setting up of a free and independent republic on its own account. Thn only other chance for it is to lay in a large stock of worm medicine, and the killing off of a few editors who have, in addition to worms, some kind of a disease of the cabeza, which makes them act foolish.-Los Angeles Times.
 A Phenix dispatch says: "The question of Chief Justice Trues- daie's successor IS a pressing one, for the legal administration of the Third Judicial District of Arizona Is now at a stand stlll. The district, which embraces Maricopa and Yuma counties, including thIs city, has over twice as much business as comes before any other court in Arizona. Several hundred civil ac- tions are now pending, as we'll as two score of criminal eases on the docket for the November term. An other justice may be called to dis pose of the criminal calendar, but the congestion of civil business can not be thus relieved. Judge Webster Street, of this city, is the most prominent among those lately men, toned for the vacant post. He was strongly backed for the place when Truesdale was chosen. It is believed probable that Judge Davis, of the First Arizona District, will be called from Tucson to Phenix and made Chief Justice, leaving the Tucson appointment open to Street. Judge D avis, who halls from Wapokoneta, Ohio, is an old personal friend of President Mckinley"
 Tbe president on Saturday after noon appointed Hon. Webster Street, of Phenix, as chief justice of this territory. No better appoint ment could have been made than that of Judge Street. He is one of the ablest as we'll as one of the most conscientious attorneys in the terri tory, and his appointment is re- ceived with satisfaction and delight by men of all parties. Jndge Street