Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-02-06

AOi NiSo uiSC ohh obiii'y III SCtllnS around the country, he would have made a splendid success.
 There seems to be no end to con sumption cures which do not cure. However, the latest, which consists of cacodylic acid, is said to have worked some extraordinary results in the Paris hospitals.
 Cashier Alvord, who confessed to stealing S629,00O, has been sentenced to thirteen years imprisonment. This is at the rate of nearly S50,000 year, nearly as profitable a job as being president.
 As a result of Mrs. Nations saloon smashing crusade in Enterprise, Kan sas, all the saloons in that town have closed. The principal saloon of the place was reduced to debris and the owner and his wife skipped out of town.
 In the revenue reduction bill as passed by the house there was no cut in the tax on tobacco, cigars and cig- arettes. The senate finance commit tee has decided on a cut on those ar ticles.
 Venezuela seems disposed to court the humiliation that several of her neighbors have met within the past for getting too cocky with Uncle Sam.
 The change in our commerce with the world in the short period of ten years is the most remarkable ever ex- perienced by any country. Accord, ing to official figures, our imports in- creased less than 1 per cent during that period, having been SS23, ,397, ,726 in 1890, and SS29,O52,116 in 1900, while during the same period our ex ports increased PA per cent, having been SS57, ,502, ,54S in 1890 and SI,47S,- 050,S54 in 1900.
 The Illinois legislature is after lob byists, the senate having adopted a rule designating who may and may not have the privileges of the floor. II designates them as follows: 'No per son except members of the house of representative and their officers, heads of executive departments of this state chaplains, judges of the United States courts and supreme and circuit judges of this state, former governors and lieutenant governors and ex-members of the senate of this state not acting as attorneys for any person, persons, firm or corporation interested in pend ing legislation"
 The senate committee on territories has decided to postpone the question of Arizona's admission till next session of congress.
 According to the Salt Lake Tribune Utah has contributed a freak to the United States senate in the person of | its new senator, Thomas Kearas. The Tribune denounces in no unmeasured terms the manner of his election.
 Our contemporary this morning made a sarcastic reference to the joint snake formation of the territo- rial supreme court, and in another column suggests the formation of a board of equalization out of very sim ilarly formed joints.
 The army bill has been sent to the president and will soon be signed and the work of bringing the volunteers home will begin in earnest. It is high time. It is no joke to move thirty thousand men across the Pacific and raise and send others to take their places ill five months. Why doesn't Dom Paul come over and secure the services of Mrs. Ma tion? At least, they could not be less valuable than those of Webster Davis
 It is now believed that the presi- dent has made up his mind to an ex- tTa session. Certainly it does seem that one will be a necessity, if for nothing else in order to take action in regard to the Philippines as soon as the supreme court shall have affirmed their status with respect to the rest of the country.
 i bill has been introduced in the legislature to abolish the territorial board of equalization. The only ar gument used so far is that the board is composed Of appointees by the gov ernor. It remains to be seen whether partisanism will prevail over public good in the matter.
 Our contemporary wants the board of equalization replaced with board formed of the chairmen of the board of supervisors of the several counties. Of course that move cannot be said to be in the line of economy, and just what particular advantage could be gained by such move is not stated. 4 board of this kind should not be composed of over five members, but under this arrangement it would have thirteen members. In order not to slight anyone, why not make all the members of the vayious boards of su- pervisors into board of equalization?
 There is a member of the present council who organized the first terri torial board of equalization in this territory. That is Judge H. T. An drews of Prescott. Judge Andrews is aware of the conditions which existed Tn the territory at that time in regard to the inequalities of taxa tion in the various counties owing to the lack of uniformity in the values placed on property. Yavapai l at the time was assessing stock at nearly double the valuation placed on if in other counties ;n tl.n territn,.,-