Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-02-27
EDITORIAL NOTES.

repeal it's legislation, but it has com menced the operation itself. A bill has already been introduced to repeal a law passed by both houses and signed by the governor.
 In the death of Stephen NJ. White of Los Angeles, California loses one of her stanchest friends.
 The small excitement over the ex pulsiC of Editor Rice from Manila will so2 tie away. People forger that military law obtains over there and that the commanding general ha: the power to expel anybody whose presence he considers prejudicial tC order.
 The able announces that the Ven ezuelan revolution has been captured His name is Acosta.
 MT. Croker, it is reported, ha: bought lot of new race horses. Il seems that the British income tax he was compelled to pay did not serious ly cripple him. But perhaps he man ages to scale down his New YorE taxes.
 The cable tells us that 1S,0O0,OOC poods of petroleum were burned uu in Russia recently. We don't know what pood is, but the event must have been poody bad.
 There seems to be conspiracy tc prevent MT. Carnegie from dying poor However, henceforth, he will be able to devote his entire time to freeing himself from the bondso his accursed wealth, and may succeed better.
 Some Kansas newsdealers bought up the whole edition of the Commoner recently. If this isn't a case of dar- ing on the part of the octopus, we should like to know what it is.
 The council bill authorizing cities to levy tax rate of two per cent for municipal purposes should be killed. The tax rate in Prescott is away above good rate now, being for county purposes S3.6O special school tax .15 and for municipal purposes S1O0 or total of 4.75 per cent.
 Prof. Ross, who recently quit Stan ford university in high dudgeon be- cause he imagined that the privilege of exercising his talking machine was being abridged, has been turned down by the Nebraska university The professor has no doubt discovered that he is not the hero he imagined and the cause of education in the United States does not depend wholly upon his being accorded the privilege of expressing his individual opinions in season and out of season.
 In the reform movement in New York, particularly against gambling, a new and novel plan has been adopt ed by he officers. In raiding a gam bling place a justice of the peace is taken along with the officers and he opens court on the spot, while he has all the witnesses corraled.
 Another of the celebrated Along girls of Honolulu is to be married shortly to an officer in the United States army, Lieut.. Dougherty, of the thirty seventh infantry. The father of the girl is a Chinaman and the mother mixture of Kanaka and Por- tugese. A sister is married to Capt. Whiting, of the navy, and another sister to Judge Humphreys of the su- preme court of the Hawaiian islands.
 The Phenix Enterprise is firing off some awfully big head lines at Terri torial Auditor G. W. Vickers. It is doubted, though, if the paper has type big enough in its office which. if fired at the doctor as head lines, would disturb his serenity or disturb the ever present smile on his countenence. The doctor does what he believes IS right, and it generally turns out to be right, hence newspaper headlines have no terror in them for him.
 The Japanese now claim to have discovered America several years be- fore Columbus. The claim don't eo now as even if they did make the dis covery they never told anybody about. and for all practical purposes it might just as well not have been dis covered.
 Out of the multiplicity of consump ton cures which are being discovered it is sincerely hoped that one will be found which cures.
 An ex-justice of the peace in Phe- nix, who did good business while in that position by performing the mar riage ceremony for various and sun dry couples, is now doing an excellent business as an attorney severing the knots he tied years ago. Being thor oughly familiar with the weak parts of the knots he tied, he finds no diff culty in securing divorces for his former patrons.
 The latest New York railroad rumor is to the effect that the Union Pacific company has an engineering corps in the field surveying line from Frisco the s7uthern terminus of the Utah CentIi roa southwest to a connec- ton on the Southern Pacific that will shorten the route to Los Angeles and Southern California by several hun dred a. Ostensibly the projection of the ext lsion is to open up valua- ble mlieri territory in southwestern Utah, NeVa la and California, but the real purpose, according to railroad men, the inauguration by the Union faclllc oi d counter movement to the