Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-10-25

aA1NA~At NAAA embarrassment to some people fl he is compelled to quit before next years election.
 MT. Bryan is displaying good judgment in not attempting to eX plain away the prosperity of Kansas and Nebraska.
 It is an amusing feature of the fall campaign to watch the efforts of the Ohio democrats 10 deliver Chicago platform speeches without mentioning Is to 1.
 Dr. Bryan, who prescribed free trade for the country in 1892 and free silver in 1896 continues to write prescriptions, despite the fact that the country declines to take his nostrums.
 While We are not in the confidence of either party, it is safe to assert that Admiral Dewey in his confer ence with the president did not sug- gest that We haul down the flag and scoot.
 Pig iron that homely and unpre- tentious metal, is an infallible bar ometer of the financial condition oi the country. When production de- creases, it is evident hard times are approaching. When production be- gins to increase, prosperity returns.
 Sir Thomas Lipton has demon strated that he Is a gentleman, and whether his yacht wins the cup race or not, he will carry the good wishes of the American people back to his home.
 If the Phenix carnival committee had offered a good purse for drill ing contest It might have attracted a large number of mIneIs there. Oi course the town is not located in a
 mining region and the oversight ID this respect is e1cusable.
 There was perpetual sameness
 and sort of "stereotyped monotOn-
 ous" expression to those yacht race reports. No wind; no race" "No
 wind; DO race" Columbia in first.
 ~Columbia beats. "Columbis wins.
 Perhaps THEY were censored. The nickle-in-the-slot machines ir Phenix have commenced to pay then county license of 80 per month. Il
 costs $40 per month 10 run one o these gambling devices there now s3O of which goes to the county anc Sl0 to the city.
 } The critics of the president hav' ? discovered that Mckinley was yer,
 much disappointed because Dewe.
 would not go west with him. Thi discovery succeeded the story tha 5 President Mckinley did not cars t
 have Dewey accompany him for Tea be would be over-shadOwed. Hol can take your choice in arriving at correct conclusion. One is as Ia
 from the truth as the other. I Two skirmishes have occurred be t tween the Boers and British, in esel s of which the former were repulse' b with heavy loss, while the Britisl g loss was insignificant. Wonder - those Britishers are going to con
 duct their campaign on the sam lines as that in the Philippines l
 being conducted and furnish tn
 same 'monotonous" news Of thei
 war that Aguinaldo's friends com
 plain of in thIs country.
 g A telegram from Nogales tells O { a battle between sherfFs posse ant 9 8 band of outlaws in which thre s hundred shots were exchanged, on c of the bandits being killed, anothe !, mortally wounded, dying soon after }. wards. and third one being wound P ed and carried of by his companion: r the officers escaping uninjured. w s may expect to see some one claimint g that some "olj grandmother" dow
 there has been censoring the pres
 dispatches which have such a on sided, "monotonous" and 'perpetu'
 sameness' in appearance.
 Abner Elicit, of Goffs, Kansas, - at Phenix. MT. Elicit spends hi summers in Kansas and his winter in Arizona. He dreamed severi years ago of discovering long los U brother, and a very rich mine in thi country. He came out to invest
 gate. found the brother, located mine which be called The Dream and has kept looking for the riche O m it ever since. His annual adven e to the territory has heretofore hs n the effect of placing a great deal c y dream mine" literature in circuli e tion in the territorial newspaper T. SO the public may reasonably loo Y for its cary appearance now. "Th d Dream" furnishes the text tor ia
 literature in Arizona, while Hi Joll e and his Arizona Csmels" takes tn 5: place of the spring poet m th @ literary field.
 John Howe PeytOn, army secre tary of the Brotherhood of St. And
 rews society, was recently quoted
 having referred to the Amerlca 3 soldiers at Manila as being a ban' of gamblers, looters, etc. In a re
 cent speech in New York he tool occasion to emphstically deny eve ; having uttered such an assertion, O
 of having entertained such an oPin ion of them and said: Tt IS an uE fortunate thing that l should have
 been so misquotad, and wish to sal tbIs right here-never since th'
 world was formed has any govern