Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-06-21

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 Two powerful and Pighty trusts have locked horns in Colorado. IL is the money trust and the muscle trust-the shelter trust and the abor trust.
 Nj. POincare, who assumed the task of Organizing a cabinet for the French government has thrown up his job in disgust. He found he could not please everybody.
 If one may believe even half of what has beea published, 1t IS not surprising that many are finding the TrAnsyAat republic a good country to get out of just now.
 Those traitorous Americans who can compare AguinaldO to George Washington are possessed of very vivid inAginations. He is patriot of the Boss Tweed or Dick Croker sort.
 Gov. Pingree has too much com mon sense to believe that the repub- lican party cannot win in Michigan unless he is its candidate, and those who make statements to the con trary gre not his real friends.
 IL begins to look as if the devasts- ton of cur forests and the slaughter of timber on the public domain IS about to receive a sudden check. Some of the people engaged in the business seemed to think they were able to defy the government, while others, not being familiar with the law, were unaware of their serious violation of 1t.
 Four lyncbings have occurred m the southern states within the past week, in which the victims were all colored and the lynehing was done by colored people. It begins to look as though the better class of colored people there have been aroused to the necessity of speedily dispOsing of the human brutes belonging to their race
 Few will agree with William Lloyd Garrison, feeble name sake of great man, who said in speech to Philadelphia Quakers, violently oP- posing President McKinley's Philip pine policy: We are great assassin nation and the slaughter of patriots stains our hands" Those who can call Aguinsldo, the thlef Snd traitor, and the thugs under him, who fire on the red cross and flags of truce, patriots" are past being argued with.
 Aguinaldo sallied forth yesterday, June Is, from his hiding place and ! thought to surprise the American forces at San Fernando, leading his men in person. General McArthur, who had been watching the move meuts was prepared for him gave him a warm reception, driving him and his men back, leaving fifty of their dead and a large number of wounded on the field. The Ameri- can loss was fourteen wounded most of them slightly.
 N. A. Morford, on Thursday, June I5. retired from all connection with the Pheni1 Herald, over the destInies of which he has presided for seven teen years. MT. Morford was an hone st and conscientious newspaper man and under his management the Herald has been an able and fearless republican paper, conservative in its policy but always true to the party and to the interests of the public. In his retirement from the field of newspaper work the profession loses A member who was a credit to 1t. Harvey J. Lee, business manager of the Phenix Republican, has taken charge of the Herald, as secretary and treasurer of the company, and it is commonly reported that the purchase of the Herald stock has been made by the owners ot the Re publican, and that the sane degree of enterprise and liberal eIPendi- lures will be made in its improve meut as has been characterized m the management of the morning paper.
 It does seem as though the United Stases can muster more kinds of cranks. or to use a somewhat profane but expressive term, damPhools, than any other country on the face of the globe. There are those Of the Altgeld stripe, the Governor Waite brand. the Pitchfork TillmaD article the Edward Atkinson traitorous specimen, and so on sd libltum, of less degree Of prominence. Now a specimen has developed at Forts mouth. Virginia. The board of trade of that place has presented a request that the former Spanish cruiser Reina Mercedes shall be pre- sented to the queen regent of Span as an evidence of the desire of the United States to end the bitterness caused by the war, and to show that good will toward Spain is felt in this country. The board wants the navy department to overhaul the cruiser . thoroughly, supply her with com plete new battery, and make her a very desirable man-ot-war. It IS [ evident that the fool killer has been
 overlooking Portsmouth, probably
 from the fact that 1t is an insignih- I cent place any way. That would be
 a nice sxeet act ou the part of the United States to take the bitter . F G,oinfa month The