Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-11-24


 Los Angeles citizens are very much incensed over the dilatory methods pG.sued by Secretary Al gar in regard to the San Pedro har- Dor.
 Wonder if the home rule league boomers are aware of the fact that every office in this territory which could be made elective, is now filled by residen, of the territory7
 The killing of Mississippi editor by lecturer who thought the free notice given him was not long enough, Is another warning to edi- tors that the more space they give away, the less they are appreciated.
 The JouRNAL- MINER and the Cou- Tier are having a lively set to on matters purely imaginatiye.-Phe- nix Herald. The CeurieT's charge that the JouKXsL-MINER had been donated lot or had the promise of one as bribe was not imaginative by any means.
 As was expected, the leading fea- ture of Postmaster General Gary's annual report, is his strong advocacy  of the establishment of postal sav- ings banks by the government. Now if congress will promptly act on the subject by legislation, the govern ment and the people would be alike benefited.
 According to the records of the Colorado peuitentiary, life sen tence rarely exceeds nine years. This is certainly placing a premium on murder, as the News remarks, and calls for the restoration of capital punishment,-Albuquerque Citizen. In Arizona the average term of life sentences is only about four years. Between for:y and fifty murders have been committed in Yavspai county within four years and not a single man hanged.
 The PheniA Gazette says that "Phenix can boast of one of the most prolific families outside of Mormondon. Fred. Balsz, senior member of the fra that runs the Arizona Cash meat market, has been married four times, and his three first wives are dead" The 'three first wives" of the item would con veY the impression inst the subject was inside of Mormondon and that he married three women at the same time. Unless this is the case, it is probably his first three wives" who are dead.
 The Albuquerque Democrat says: ''The habit of naming boys after great men should be discouraged. If the boy grows up to be chump, his big name Is an incubus" Some thing a boy should be taught. too, is to write his name so that when he grows 10 be a man, and has occasion to write his name, it can be read. A glance at the pages of the hotel registers or he autographs attached to letters where no printed head ings are used will impress the force of this remark or ones mind.
 The Courier editors imagination having totally failed to create any rev charges against this paper goes back to that state chestnut of years ago saying that the editor of this paper, charged the tax payers for nearly 1000 miles mileage between Prescott and Phenix." Although this contains less than three lines it contains two false statements. First the tax payers of Arizona do not pay mileage to legislators, second the mileage account returned by the editor of this paper to the chair man of the committee on mileage was for less than 150 miles.
 
 The Jerome News has the follow ing very sensible remark to make in regard to 8 subject, on which a few Arizona editors are working them selves into Q W hite heat: I've would suggest to the provoking bond brethren of the press, that a bond, or any other obligation, cannot be- come void" until 1t has been SO pronounced by a court of competent jurisdiction, and that the editorial, or perhaps more correctly speaking, the advertising space, is scarcely a proper oT appropriate place in which to render ante-tEial decisions. This Is scarcely a question for kangaroo adjudication. The country main talns expensive, and presumably competent machinery, to grind out just such grist as this bond matter, and Ii would be welcome to a long suffering public to permit It to rest until legally settled"
 Our rontemporary's SO called lam basting of the Capitol proposition, has called forth an expression of opinion from the Mohave County Miner as follows: "The Prescott Courier and the the Phenix Gazette do not agree en the basic principles of democracy. The last legislature enacted law appropriating SlOO,- 0t0 Tor a new state house and asked