Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-03-09

ated down south. He was shot in the back.
 Col Picquart, a friend of Emil Zola's. fought a duel last week with one of Zola's prosecutors. He wounded his adversary in the arm.
 The treasury balance for February showed up all right, the excess of receipts oyer expenditures being SI9T31O2. The Dingley law is what is doing the work.
 The ~it is said" and the ''it Is reported" news have a very war like appearance. It has turned out, though, that this class of news is totally and wholly unreliable.
 The Senate has passed the bill extending the homstead act to Alaska. It is not probable, though, that the land office up there will have any great run made on it if the bill becomes a law.
 Congress seems to be satisfied that the executive branch of the government is proceeding along right and proper lines, but the yell low journals are not. Which would you rather follow?
 Che indisputable fact is worth more than ten thousand surmises or suspicious circumstances. The facts will be furnished by the report of the Maine naval court of inquiry, and congress does we'll in waiting for them.
 In telegram from Washington of March l, Secretary Long is quoted as saying, that in his judgment any participation by the Spanish govern ment in the blowing up of the Maine was practically eliminated. This statement was made as an expression of the secretarys personal opinion.
 Our contemporary this morning mixes its calamity walls with bou- quets thrown at itself, extolling its virtues and praising its own patriot ism. According to its own testi- mony, it is the only paper in the territory which is actuated from purely unselIish motives.
 Our contemporary admits that "Arizona needs capital for legiti- mate invesl ment." Capital for legi- timate or any other kind of invest meut will never be obtained if the policy ot repudiation of contracts and obligations, advocated by our contemporary should obtain In the territory.
 The record of the most prosperous business year, 1892, is being sur passed by that shown in the bank exchanges reported for the week ending February 26th. These show that al thirteen leading cities, out side of New York, the bank ex- changes were IO.6 per cent in excess of those of the corresponding week of last year.
 F. :. Clark. of Flagstaff, attended the miners convention in Phenix in full force. He was not only there in person, but carried six life sized miners down there in his vest pocke in the shape of proxies. MT. Clark was formerly engaged n mining in this county. He Is all right in either a miners or political convention, and Is a good all around lawyer be esides.
 Phenix is reaping quite rich har vest from violators of the city ordinance which requires all blcycles to be equipped with a lighted Ian tern alter night. While some citi- zens thers take chances of not being detected ay riding their wheels without a lantern, visitors become easv victims of the officers through their ignorance of the law.
 TLe following kindly notice from our est seemed contemporary, the Pheuix Herald, is duly appreciated: "Tae Herald cougratulates the Hon. 1 J. (. Mar in, of the JOURNAL-MNER, ! on bis appointment as receiver of | public moneys at the Prescott land ! office. MT Martin Is hard work iu. journalist, and deserves we'll of hs partys
 The Havana authorities have made an official report to the Spanish authorities al Madrid on the Maine disaster. They say the explosion was due entirely to internal causes, adding that 1t was believed that the United States experts will admit thi. without reservation of any kind. or course the United States will receive t.e report of the board of inquiry. just as-though the Havana officials had not closed the case to their own satisfaction.
 It would seem as if the war core sDon6ents of the yellow papers had about exhausted every resource in accauu.ir- For tbe explosion of the Maine. The latest theory of thIs , class oI correspundsnts was to the | effect that Spanish divers had filled .ae torpedo holes of the Maine with i dynamite and then exploded the i dynamite 1y means of electric wires i from th. shore. The theory was a s P -ry r..- .u- Ill an officer of the ( vessel exploded it by announcing t5a. these torpedo holes had not I a-en opened since the Maine an z eaortd Gt Havana The JoCRNAL-MINER favors all S Le-.tima-e efforts for the develop ( -u sut of ArizOna's resources. It fsvrrs a liberal policy in regard to g