Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-03-15

Nogaies is making preparations for big blow out to celebrate the formation of Santa Cruz county.
 The council yesterday passed Santa Cruz county bill. This makes thirteen counties in the territory provided the bill now meets the governors approval
 The legislature did the proper thing in passing an appropriation for the beaeft of a member, Mir. Arthur, Of Final county, who is af- ficted with small pox.
 The newspapers that are heaping abuse and contumely upon General Shafter are of the same miserable breed of joarnals that called Abra- ham Lincoln au ape, and that said General Grant was dEunkard.- Los Angeles Times.
 General Lawton has taken the active command of the American troops in the field around Manila. The generals experience and sue cess in lighting Indians will be Of great advantage to hun in ~smok- ing" out the Filipinos.
 Governor Barnes. of Oklahoma, has vetoed a statehood bill for that territory ou account of the expense ofthe various elections and because he believes the single statehood to be the ultimate destiny of the two territories.
 The veteran. General Joe Wheeler, is a born fighter. He st'll holds his commission ip the volunteer army He says be desires to do so if be can o1ly be sent to Manila where there is some fighting 10 do. If he cannot be accommodated in thIs he will probably retire from the army.
 In its frantic efforts to break into all public treasuries of the territory the present legislature does not even respect the school fund. That has heretofore been held as sacred, but the present legislature proposes bv bill introduced to give clerks of the board of trustees a rake of from this fund
 That Canadian murderess, who was hanged last Friday, was a cheer ful victim. She called Tor her parlor organ to be brought to her cell be fore she was taken out for execution, that she might play and sing her own death services. This thing of ons singing and playing at their own funeral is rather a new and novel feature.
 Eastern tourists are said to be leaving California on account Of small pox- The question of where to go most naturally confrOnts them, as the disease seems to hold a place among various towns and cities both east and west. Prescott IS one oi the towns where it does not exist at present.
 Eight years age the total aPPro- priations of the Fifty-frst congress was SI, I,035. .6S0, ,lO9.9I; the total ap- propriations of the Fiity-dfth con gress. exclusive of the war, was SI.OS4.32 .632 Sl, which Is certainly not large increase, when consid- cred in connection with the country s progress. The fifty fourth congress appropriated Sl,OlA5S0,273S7.
 The republican party has always stood for liberality m expenditures for public improvements, and will continue 10 stand Tor them, fl every ten-cent democrat in the country gets hoarse yelling "cXtravagance. Needed public appropriations are no more e1travsgant than needed expenditures by private business establishment, and no appropriation was made by the recent congress, on motion of 6 republican, that was not needed.
 The bill to purify elections failed in the house last evening, as was 10 be expected. It Is noticeable that everything calculated to safeguard the rights of citizen or protect a poor mans interests IS invariably knocked out; and ye: these same democratic statesmen were elected bowling for reform and with numer- ous spacious promises to the voters of the territory, not one of which has been fulfilled in the legislature. Herald. Correct you are to a dot neighhor.
 The JoURNAL- MINER mostly heart ily endorses the following excerpt fr.m the Pheni1 Herald: The most dense ignorance of facts and the successful practice of vacclna- tiou for half a century, could only interfere to kill bill of so great nm portance to the public health as this bill Our terrtorS should at least have a law requiring all children at tending public schools to toe vacclu- ated. Only barbaric superstition aud blinding ignorance could object t) such au important public meas uTe"
 Whatever criticism the legislature has laid itself liable to.during the present session the house did sOme- thing on Saturday for which 1t de- serves commendaiiou. IL was in standing between professional poli- ticians and the people in the matter Of establishing circuit courts, the btll being indefinitely postponed. This bill has made it- appearance iu several Arizona legislatures but SD Tar has been downed at every ap-