Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-10-10
ALONG THE
 FIRINGLINE

There is only one avenue open tC
 Wilson and Smith to succeed in hir ing hall and draw crowd, and that is to get Filipino.
 Bourke Cochran, the orator of ma.
 tional fame has an attack of Bryan
 larynxgitis and has quit the stump
 MT. Parish of the Arizona wing, how ever, seems to be filling the aching ' void.
 The democrats are still grumbling
 because the odds which the republi cans offer is not big enough to suit
 them. The offers by the moneyed men of New York are 2 to l, and sometimes 8 to on Mckinley. The Bryanites apparently want to see the odds 5 to 1 or Is to l.
 Although silver is a subservient
 commodity in the national issues of
 the campaign, Yavapai democrats
 have, however, placed the 5O-cent
 piece on all their tickets. That is, only
 one-half of the dollar is shown.
 Switch, boys, and show up two sides
 of the question.
 The proposition of the morning
 knocker to "embalm" in its character
 istic spleen man of noble and just
 impulses like Russell A. Alger is, is a
 dirty piece of business. When Mir.
 Alger was in position to help Pres
 colt, and did do so, to the end of his
 official career, nothing was said
 againt him. Now that he is out of
 the war harness and cannot officially
 figure in the Whipple military matter
 we are just as grateful to him for
 what he has done, as if he were in
 harness today and had accomplished
 his object. We believe in gratitude and frendship whether day or de-
 cade.
 We wonder how Prescott citizens
 like the statements made in the Cou- rier to the effect that they are bull dozed and coerced by the Murphys. Certainly such statements are not very complimentary to Prescott peo- pie, and we do not believe they enjoy it very much, especially in the face of the fact that there is absolutely no truth in the statements whatever.
 Will the Courier be kind enough to state for the benefit of those who hap pen to read the paper, whether or not it endorses the Spenazuma mining scheme, if it endorses the statements made by the Val Verde Mining com pany and, incidentally, it would be well for the Courier to say to what ex- tent it endorses the schemes of others' A little light on this sub ject might help in this community to locate the kind of mining enterprises that the Courier endorses. This query will probably be answered with the usual amount of taxless toots and general abuse of the Murpoys, deco rated with all sorts of false state ments.
 A transaction involving an outlay of nearly a quarter of a million of dollars | in Prescott, and the beautifying of the business portion of the city i'm measurably, was the transfer by F. M. | Murphy of the Wooster corner, 50 by 75 feet, to the Prescott National bank | on Saturday. The sale of this desira ble tract of ground and its "rehabili- tation" by an ediface for business pur- poses, is hailed with especial delight | by the entire community, and parti- cularly so is it favorably regarded by people that this financial house is the recipient of many kind and deserving expressions in securing at last per manent and convenient home. The new building which will adorn the corner will be two stories in heighth, of the very latest in architectural de- design, while in material the red sand stone and pressed brick will be used. The work of erecting this new block will be undertaken at once and pushed to completion as rapidly as men and money can accomplish it.
 In disposing of this corner MT. has by no means taken the bit out of his mouth in so far as his fidelity and regard for the town or its interests go. He will, as usual, and with his characteristic energy, keep in the procession with his old old time lock step, and has given or ders for the adjoining ground of a fifty foot front on Cortez street, where the Bellevue is located, to be cleared away and a two story brick and sand stone building will be built at once. On Gu.ley street, for distance of 75 feet, Mir. Murphy states that the ''shacks" along that thoroughfare will be razed, and two story brick also The plans for the gigantic business undertaking have for some time been submitted, and the realiza- ton of the earlier plans is in deed gratifying and again and again is a pretty tribute to the present and future of our city and county and that too, by men who are ever jealous to the advancement of the same. With this new block 75x150 feet orna- nented as outlined, and with the other business centers erected already under headway in that vicinity, Pres cott will have one of the prettiest and most imposing avenues of trade and travel of any city in the west.
 Another transaction of Saturday l that carries with it especial signif- 1