Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-02-16

Speaker Reed announces himself as opposed to the annexation of Hawaii either by treaty or an act of congress.
 The G. A. R. is going to establish a colony of 500 families in Texas, upon 22,000 acres of rich land. May 1t prosper.
 It may be fairly inferred that pr. Talmage doesn't regard marriage as a failure, as he has lately taken unto himself his third wife. ] The Prescott water works and sewerage bill has passed the lower house of congress and has been re- port, d favorably in the senate. Gen. William Booth. of London, the founder of the Salvation Army, acted as chaplain at the opening of the United States Senate on Thurs day.
 The friends of annexation ought to be glad that MT. Cleveland den cd being in favor of annexation. His support would have hoodooed the treaty to a certainty.
 In trying to please that class of subjects who oppose every thing American, and at the same time avoid giving offense to the United States, the Kaiser is steering very difficult course, full of dangerous reefs.
 Eugene Debs' mouth has broke loose again. This time he threatens the court that will try Worden, the California train wrecker.
 Readers of democratic papers must have noticed the marked fall- ing of in the talk about the Ding ley tariff not producing the revenue needed to run the government.
 Senator Tillman's voice-msy not be as strong as it once was, but his one-legged performance on the floor of the Senate indicates that his imagination is just as freaky as ever.
 That Georgia republican post master who reversed the usual order of things by shooting one of his abusers, instead of being shot him self, evidently believes in the adage about the same food for the goose as for the gander.
 When Senator Mills completes his review of the outlook in Texas for his reelection, he will doubtIt ss feel like repeating the phrase he once brought down the applause of the senate with-"I am between the devil and the deep sea" Ex>Secretary Olney and Consul General Lee never did gee. Oluey sent a contribution for the Cuban sufferers to the Spanish minister at Washington, instead of to General Lee, to make Lee mad, and the news from Havana indicates that he succeeded.
 Worden's confession does not show up the A. R. U. committee at Sacra- mento in an enviable light. Accord cording to Worden's statement, the diabolical plot to wreck the tr in was concocted by a committee of the A. R. U., and he was acting as its emissarY in the part he took in the plot.
 Our esteemed contemporary is full of direful foreboding fDr the future of the territory under the administration of Governor McCord, while the governor continues in the even tenor of his way giving the territory as good an administration as it has ever had.
 This country IS not hankering after a war of tariff retaliation with Germany or any other country, but Europeans may as we'll understand first as last that Uncle Sam is we'll fixed to conduct such a war. and that he will fight it to a finish with any or all countries which may start 1t.
 Joliet, Illinois, lays claim to hay ing the oldest news boy in the world. He celebrated his SOth birthday on February II. His name is Orsanis Page, and he is proud of the fact that after eight decades of life he can still get up at daylight to make his rounds with the morning papers and spend the rest of the day in shouting the latest editions through the streets of the city.
 Robert E. Morrison was on Tues pay appointed United States attor- ney for Arizona. MT. Morrison is we'll qualified for the position. His services as district attorney of Yay- apai county, a position which he filled for two terms, very success fully, gives him an experience in this particular line which will prove of great value to him.
 4 Nevada grand jury indicted the sheriff of Douglass county, in that state, for not exercising proper vigi- lance to prevent the lynching of Uber. If that had happened in Arizona a grand jury would have given the sheriff a certificate of efficiency and the exercIse of great precaution iu the care of prisoners. and then he would have been paid the legal fee allowed for the execu- ton of murderers.
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