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

A play entitled "Auzona IS just now having quite a run in the east
 Louisiana has a provision of law which permits a woman to vote by proxy.
 Baron Christiani of Paris, who as- saulted President Loubet st the races on June 1, has been sentenced to four years imprisonment.
 Secretary Alger has not resigned now for over two weeks. The regu- lar bi-mouthlT announcement of his contemplated resignation is now overdue. l. is hoped that nothing series has happened to il.
 It begins to look somewhat as though France was getting up 8 6rst-class revolution as one of the attractions which she will furnish visitors to the exposition next year. 4 telegram from Paris says the French war office has charged Drey- fus .592 francs, or al the rate of one franc per 0sy for his lodgings at Devils island, where has been con- fined as a prisoner. h view of re- cent happenings in that country this cannot be said t) be surprising ss nothing which happens in France ID an official way can be considered surprising now.
 Cochise county has eleven murder cases for trial at the present term of court there The first case tried re- suited in a verdict of guilty of mur- der m the first degree with the pen alty fixed at life imprisonment. Just so long as juries return such yer diets just so long will the criminal dockets of our courts contain large list of murders. Life Imprisonment means in reality from four to five years in the penitentiary.
 at was Lawton's pluck that really ended Geronimo's raids in this terri tory twelve years ago, aud for that matter ended Indian outbreaks in the territory. except here and there band of three or four renegades, who have from time to time shown up since then, but have finally dIs- appeared, 1t is hoped, permanently" Herald. And all these years the Tucson and Phenix papers have been telling us that 1t was General Miles who ended the public career of Mir. Geronimo and his band of cut throats. Such is fame.
 4 colony in the woods in the vicinity of Prescott has been the subject of considerable discussion among some of our citizens for several months and may materialize during the present season II desir- able arrangements can be made Herald. We do not know what ar Engagements are needed to material ize the above, but Yavspai county will furnish the woods, the water and the refreshing mountain air as her share of the arrangements.
 General Miles wants to go to the Philippine islands to take command of the army there. He thinks he could stop the war at once. He would probably use the same tactics he did with Geronimo. As he seems to be a useless appendage to valu- able branch of the government at home his request ought to be grant ed. If he can succeed, he would re- move 8 whole lot of the curse which attaches to him at present for bring ing the army into disgrace through his yellow journal interviews last year. By all means let the general go to the Philippines.
 The law conferring the powers of the judge on jury is very poor one. The jury under the present law imposes the sentence in murder cases. which is all wrong. Their duties should end with determining the guilt or innocence of the parties tried. The law has been iuggled by the legislatures of the territory Tor wears. At one session the above law will be enacted and at the next it will be repealed conferring the power back on the judge, where 1t belongs, to sentence prisoners. Dur ing the writer's residence n the ter ritorv it has been changed a number or times.
 The cowardly, cold blooded murder of Col. 4. J. Fountain and his little boy, in New Mexico will never be avenged in this world. The human fends who would murder an innocent child, because they had 2 rrudge against his father, will escape the penalty of their crimes on earth. Lee and Gilliland, who were charged with the crime have been acquitted. and so far as WI know they may be innocent ot the crime. They certainly are m the eyes of the law, as one of the essen tials of conviction was absent in the case. the corpus deficit The above pair have been taken to Silver Citl 10 ostana tr.a. there for the murde of a deputy sheriff,
 The labor troubles m Colorado will be felt here in ArIzOns soon Three thousand employees of th' smelters owned by the shelter trus in that state have quit work. and th, smelters have closed down. It l stated that the closing of the smelt CTS will result m the closing down O