Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-02-24

How can General Weyler put those Cuban reforms into effect, # he can't catch the Cubansf
 It looks like Bryan is trying to raise himself to the presiieu ial class by an occasional duck shoot ing trip.
 It seems almost certain that Cuba Is to have a famine as the result of General Weyler's destructive policy, Poor Cubal
 Col. Ingersoll says the desire to acquire great wealth Is insanity. If he is right, there are lots of insane men at large, and Col. Ingersoll is one of them.
 Ambassador Bayard is likely to be & lonesome man when he returns to the United States, owing to his disinclination to associate with any body without 8 title.
 There are people who insis; that there is a connection between the recent Bryan majority in Nebraska and tAe unusually large crop Of jack rabbits iu the state.
 The woman suffrage bill was called up a second time iR the Nevada leg islatsre and a second time defeated. Ons>eouId scarcely expect anything else from legislature which enacted . law legalizing prize fighting.
 An eighty-four year old boy of San Bernardino, California, has gone to Rsndsburg to grow up with the samp. He says be expects to live to see the day when it will be a i metropolis, with population of 25.- 600 or 5000 people.
 No republican yet named for gov srnor seems to meet the approval of our democratic contemporary. II it has a candidate upon whom its heart is set, why not trot him out, and let the people of Arizona know its choice.
 4 resolution has been introduced in the Missouri legislature providing that a committee Of five house mem bers be appointed to attend the ! Corbett- -Fitzsimmous fight in Neva- da with 8 view of reporting the ad- visibility of legalizing prize fight ing in Missouri. The resolution va: referred Co the committee oa m.li- tia.
 4 bill has beer introduced ID ,he ! California legislature which pro- yides that all bills which become laws shall be published in the news papers throughout the state. Such 8 law would be a very commeuda- ble one, as it would enable citizens to inform themselves at the earliest possible moment of the action oi the legislature. Such law would prove beneficial iu Arizona.
 Senator Bacon, of Georgia, refa~ $ to believe, notwithstanding the g dence of last November, that b, south can ever be anything els 'V, democratic, and be Is old-faship1ed enough to say: Most people gsi their politics as they do their reii' | gion-by inheritanee,' aud to add that southern men will continue democrats because their father were democrats. He and others whC believe as he does will find that the disposition to do their own thinking is growing among the young men every where. and when men get tc seriously thinking, they seldom re- main democrats.
 Mir. Joscelyn's Yavapai Reporter comes to the relief of MT. Joscelyn' $ Educator in support of MT. Josce- lyn's poll tax scheme, whereby the amount collected for poll tax will be retained in the districts m which | they are collected. The enactment of such law would be a snap for the school district in which MT Joscelyn resides, where the number
 f residents subject to poll tax are greatly in excess of the numbe~ of pupils, in proportion to other d s. tricts. If Mr. Joscelyn would csrry out his idea just little further, and get a law through providing for each district retaining the licenses collected in it, he would then id a snug little sum to the Jerome school fund at the expense of the oJaer districts not favored(0 with thi. kind of revenue.
 It is announced definitely that Col. John J. McCook, of New York has been selected as attorney gen Sral in McKinley's cabinet This appointment will meet with uuiyer- sal favor throughout the country and will bs specially gratifring to the people of Arizona. Col. Me Cook Is a member of the famou: Fighting McCooK" family, Of Ohio He is a cousin of General Ansou T McCooK, the present city cbamber lain of New York, and brother oI the late George W. McCook. ot Steubsnville, and of Geu. Alezau ,I Mcdowell McCook, |. $. A., for merly department commander oi