Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-03-31
ARIZ0NAJOURNAL-MINER
WEDNESDAY,. March 3l 1897

The rGSOn clIlLen StgS OOis -. 0 Bean is candidate for governor of the territory.
 The press of the country received 1,0S6,l55 words of prize fight news over the wires.
 The Kentucky senatorial fight Is waxing warm. RumOrs of bribery are rife in the Kentucky capital. Nebraska has appropriated Sl0O,- GOO for the trans -Mississippl exposi- tion, to be held in Omaha in May. Billy" Bryan seems to be losing his grip on what is loft of the demo cratic party as we'll as on other things.
 General Neal Dow, of prohibition and abolition fame, celebrated his ninety third birthday st P ortland, Maine, recently.
 According to recent telegrams from Washington, the senate has just commenced the discussion of the absurdity of the civil service system. The people have been dis eussing this absurdity for years.
 San Francisco has passed an ordinance prohibiting laundrymen from using their mouths for sprink- ling clothes. Under it ffty-seyen Chinamen have been arrested.
 It looks as though members Of congress were wasting their time in the discussion of Il @ tariff bill now pending. The majority in that body were elected to pass a tariff bill, and the sooner they do so the better. Abolishing the presidential body guard, established by MT. Cleve- land, was a very natural thing for Major Mckinley to do. MT. Cleve- land was afraid of assassination; President Mckinley isn't.
 H. 2. Osborne, recent editor of the Los Angeles Express, has been appointed collector of customs at San Pedro, California. NIT. Os- borne held the same position under President Harrison.
 The receivers of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad have spent ST.
  100000 during the twelve months they have had charge of the road in improving the system, repairing track and buying new locomotives. Speaking of the free seed dls- tribution, the Chicago Times-Her- aid very aptly says: Congress has no more right to distribute seeds among the farmers than it has to distribute blows, or reapers, or bi- cycles. Indeed, it has no right tc bestow benefactions upon any spe cial class of producers.
 Our contemporary, this morning reveals the cause of it's alarm oveI the prospect of Col. NJ. H. McCord being appointed governor of tn ( territory. It is afraid he will ap point some democrats to office That would be a calamity, but one which is not to be feared from Col McCord.
 One has only to glance over the tariff speeches now being made II the house to be convinced of th' wisdom displayed by the republi cans in making the debate short. | would be well nigh impossible tC say anything new about the tariff therefore, action, and not talk, ii what is wanted.
 Uncle Sam bought the patent oi srapid firing gun the other day not so much because he wanted i as because he could use it to com pei the combination which controli tae patents of the leading rapid firing guns to sell the governmen Sdns at a reasonable price.
 The greed of democrats is wha has up to this time prevented tn filling of the vacancies in senat committees, caused by the retire ment of senators March Sd. Tn republicans have been and are stil willing to agree to proper distribu tion of the vacancies, but not t, the demands made by the demo crats.
 March 18th was the seventy-sixtl anniversary of the restoration of tb independence of Greece. It ha heretore been a custom for Russians Italians and Swiss to join with tn Greeks in Chicago to celebrate th, event, but the present year no cele bration was had and the money ths would have been spent in the usua demonstration will be sent sbroai by the Greeks for the use of thei brothers at home in the presen struggle.
 The recent legislature passed bill reqiring notaries public to stat the date of the expiration of thei commission before singing" Tn word signing was evidently intende' to be used, but the enrolling cler got the letters misplaced as above AS the courts have decided that law is as it Is found on the enrolle, bill, a singing" notary must stat the time that his commission ex pires, while the fellow who give vent to pent up music within hiE A