Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-01-12

News is a democratic paper, too.
 Russian newspapers want q Russo Japanese alliance and Japanese newspapers want war with Russia.
 Durrant having been hanged, Los Angeles will have nothing now 10 divide it's attention with the Webbe scandal connected with its public schools.
 ] The Jerome News asks in very dramatic manner: "Is Bucaey O'Neill a democrat?" Give us some thing easy, as il is too early in the campaign to say just what 5. O'Neill is at present.
 H. B. Ferguson, delegate to Con gress from New Mexico, has intro duced a bjll havlng for its object the establishment of a large military post at Albuquerque.
 Four men were lynched in Arkan- sas last Friday. Two of them were charged with having committed rape and two of them were charged with murder. All of them were negroes
 David may have been a little hastv in stating that 'all men are liars" but il human nature was the same in David's time as at present, he simply overstated somewhat Of a great truth, as a great many men are liars
 The State Department at Wash ington has received no official news of the occupation, by Mexico, Of ClippeIton island. The alleged oc- cupation of It is stated to have been for the purpose of preventing Eng land from asserting a claim 10 1t. Klondike seems very enchanting when viewed at a distance Of sev- eral hundred miles. A more iuti- mate acquaintance with 1t, though, by actual experience with the hard ships, places a different view on it.
 Ward McAllister's 400 of New York society has been reduced to seventy-fve. The "Grim Reaper" seems to have shown a special fond ness for Wards kIud, he being among the ones who have been called to the society of the beyond. Alderman Coughlin, of Chicago, is right. The old boys do more devillry at night than the small ones. Whether NIT. Coughhn can keep them of the street with his curfew ordinance, though, remains to be seen. It would be a snap for the policemen II he can, as there would tLen be no one to disturb their slumbers.
 It Is hoped that those pupils of the Indian school at the Colorado river agency, will not starve while the civil service commission is get ting up its register from which to select $50 per month cook. At last accounts the civil service com mission was telegraphingits need of register from which to secure this help.
 Money does not always bring ex- emption from trouble W. E. Buck ley. member of the dry goods firm of Dunham, Buckley X Co.,, of New York, and a reputed millionaire, shot and killed himself at his home ia Creswell on account of business troubles.
 It looks very much now as though the JoURNAL-M MIXERS prediction ol Mark Hanna's election would be verified. The republicans of Ohio are in favor of Hanns's election, and those weak kneed republican: who have been training with Kurtz in opposition to Hanna, are now falling in line with the wish of theil constituents.
 The board of supervisors of Mari. copa county has executed l09 lease: to S,945.5 acres of land of the value of SIl0,36S. for which they have received S2.6046S. The law under which these leases were made wa. the one which Delegate \. O. Mur- phy secured the passage of and about which such a howl went uI from his enemies. It seems to oper- ate well in MaTicopa county, al least.
 A surgical operation which va: performed recently, whereby hu- man stomach was removed, leads the Los Angeles Times to remark that, "Now, whenever man gets a case of indigestion, some doctor will likely as not want 10 cure the sufferer by amputsting his stomach, and the stomacbless man will there after be worse stuck up than a mem bar of New Works gilt edged sev- enty-fye."
 In trying to reform the postal ser vice of the United States, Congress man Loud nigh fud a way to reduce the expenses. instead of try ing to saddle the making up of the [ deficiency all on the newspapers. We could gire Mir. Loud few pointers on the reduction of ex- penses, without in tha least impair , ing the efficiency of the service. By so doing, the newspapers might not have to be taxed, as proposed, to make both ends meet.
 Parties iu Phenix who are not pleased with recent decisions oi Judge Street. are making an effort to defeat his confirmation. The JoURNAL-MINER believes that nc purer, no more conscientious, and no more competent man than