Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-03-22
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

If these hotel fires continue, th,
 travelling public will soon be com
 pelled to carry their own tents witl
 them for comfort and self-protection
 Among the economical C! act
 passed by the twentieth Legislature
 were those raising salaries of bOard
 of supervisors, and increasing fee
 of sheriffs.
 No president was ever followed or
 a vacation by so many kind words al
 have been bestowed upon President
 Mckinley, who is now at Thomas
 vile, Ga, trying to get a few day'
 rest.
 The four years experience which the country paid for not knowing
 when to let well enough alone, iI 1892, has not been forgotten; hence there is no danger that the present great prosperity will be endangered by a change of policy.
 The exports of American manu- factured goods are increasing at the rate of S25,OO0,0O0 a year, and still We are raising wages-voluntarilY- all along the line. That's one req son why Americans are using a big P to spell prosperity.
 Ex-Congressman Johnson of h. diana, who was elected as a repub- lican and who obtained some no- tOTiety by abusing a republican president, announces his intention to practice law in St. Louis. He was wise enough not to attempt to practice anything at his old home.
 The California legislature has been for several days working without pay, legally speaking, but from a senatorial standpoint the sack must still be visible to hold them to- gether. Tonight they adjourn. how ever.
 "The prayers of the righteou availeth much, works to the i ueen's taste in California. in so far as pray ing for rain goes. It's pouring down there in consequence of late minis terial applications, The Arizona congregations should go and do like wise.
 A member of the legislature made the remark the other day that the members had better show their hands on certain question, as the probability was that in the future they would all be elected-to stay home. That man IS certainly phil os0pher.
 Six months residence bill is now a law as the governor has appended his signature. This will quite ma terially increase the voting strength Of the territory, especially in the cities and in the mining or railroad camps, provided, of course, if the necessary poll tax of S2.50 is paid ''in advance"
 The United States cruiser Phila- delphia has arrived at Samoa. in command of Commodore Kautz and is ready for anything that comes up. Commodore Ksutz is a cousin of the late General Ksutz, who years ago commanded the department of Ari- zoua, and is said to be one of the most fearless and capable men in the navy.
 The appointment: of Hon. J. c. Herndon of Prescott, as one of the new code commission, has brought forth complimentary comment from the entire press of the territory. ."- Courier. Governor Murphy should feel truly grateful for the above as the first indication of approval of anything that he has done that has yet appeared from the above source.
 One of the benefits conferred on the common people by the late leg islature was the cutting down ol their exemption from execution on per sonsl property to $500. Heretofore a man who had the misfortune to rua up against streak of hard luck WIS allowed Sl,000 worth of per soual property for the comfort of his family. Now if be has over $500 worth the sheriff can sell the sur plus for the benefit of his creditors. !.
 This is the way Henry Watterson writes of the proposition 70 run Bryan again. on the gold platform: ''Very well, Bryan be 1t. But how many votes do these gentlemen think . they can poll in 1900 on a back-ac ] ton, reversing-the-engine, out-of- . coal and out-ol-dste campaign. with oalv warmed-over victuals to sus- taiu them against Mckinley flying the flag, and the Soung manhood of t5e eountry-yea, and, excepting a few. old grannies and aunties. its en- ightenment-behind himi'
 Some unknown patriot gets of the following: I've licked a dozen stamps today for telegrams l sent Tncked and stuck one on a bill with which I paid my rent I licked stamp to paste upon note which I renewed. and then l licked another one to make the mortgage good. I've licked these stamps to show that l respect my country's will, and now I'd like to lick the man that intro duced the bill'
 Miss Nellie Cashman writes from the Klondike that she will return 10 Arizona this summer. No woman in western mining history has had such an experience as she has, and wherever a rich strike has been made in the last thirty years, Miss Cash man was among the first on the