Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-01-27
ARIZ0NAJ0UKNAL-MINER
WEDNESDAY...-..JAN. 27, IS97

The Speaker of the House did most of the speaking iu Fridays session.
 Congress has passed another bill over Growers veto. This is so com mon that it is hardly worth the iuk to mention.
 Phenix has s woman who attempt ed to suicide the other day. The legislature should have rushed to the scene with woman's suffrage bill.
 Like unto that system prevailing in educational branches, our legis- lative boys closed up shop on Fri day, and did not open school until today.
 A legislator st Phenix wants conductor on every locomotive that runs without passenger cars. Wheth- CT or not the desire is to see not 8 bet overlooked, we leave for others to guess.
 Governor Franklin is on the mend. He would recover rapidly fl he could be prevailed upon to come to our ethereal cline and taste snow toddy. It's brscing, Governor.
 Pheni1 people always over do things. Ssbe Irvine, that devout and straight laced pioneer, who has been going along for over score of years with two real, live wives. The "hOEid thing"
 Assemblyman Skinner, down in Pheni1, has introduced bill for the semi-annual payment of taxes. In other words, he wants us to rustic just twice ss hard as We do at pres ent to liquidate.
 A great many papers are welcom- ing Senator Sherman as the next Secretary of State, and a great many are also expressing themselves as one would who had big bag full of brick bats 10 throw away.
 All of the lucky lawyers in the universe do not live in Hayapai. There will be some in Maricops when that S2OO,OOO real estate pie" of the late NIT. Urine Is to be disced out n the courts.
 The present legislature will prob ! ably send big Tat memorial to con- ! Gress on Arizona statehood. When . those cold and solemn gold bug eastern legislators read such, and . then turn over a leaf and sQuint . at the Teller resolutions, they won't !. ''do thing" to Arizonas claims.
 The Council on Friday passed . eulogistic resolutions in favor of . Henry NJ. Teller, senator-elect from ! Colorado. Teller is still a silver . republican of the worst stripe, while !. the Arizona council Is deep dyed for . democratic silver. Now mix them . together.
 Riggs, democrat, of Cochise, in the house. has introduced q railroad . tax exemption bill to go along until ! 1907. This should please the Cou- Tier, as MT. Riggs IS a staunch and . sterling democrat of the old silver school, and wants to see the S. T. 1. F. & P. extended to Cochise.
 The question of anuexiug to Utah 1. all of Mohsve, Coconiuo, Navajo . and portion of Yavaps counties, ] IS to take tangible shape in the next . session of Congress. So report says. The only way to kill those hungry Utahans in their greediuess is to {. hsunt those P. k A. (. bonds at . them. Then they will leave dear . old YSvspai alone.
 Arrivals from Phenix say that one !. reason why the streets in the capital . city are so filthy and slimy is that 1 since the ordinance forbidding spit . ting on the side walks there, the . hundreds of one lungers have been . emptying themselves in accordance . with the provisions of that late municipal law, viz, the street. Now for sn act of the council in the . same line preventing splitting on the i street, and all will be serene. The Chicago Inter~Ocean says of 1 Joseph B. McCuIlsgh, editor of the ! St. Louis Globe Democrat, who was killed few days ago by a fall from his window: He was one of the old !. race of journalists, strong. deter mined, rudely vigorous, terrifcally partisan. who have made history m this country. He possessed indom- itsble courage and those physical characteristics that in all ages have been found essential to successful and continued leadership. He had a uEequaled capacity for hard work; his persistence at the tasks he took upon himself was something formid sble; his sole thought was for his newspaper and his interest in atFairs was more purely journalistic than that of any other man of his time. To him the globe was little thing. compared with the GIobe-Demo- . crat."
 The most startling piece of news yet received from Phenl1, in the shape of legislative rumor, Is that which is whispered that a bill Is to be presented and passed creating in