Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-12-25


 has just brought suit against the Tucson Star for S50,OOO damages fol publishing an alleged report of the result of law suit against him ir New York.
 One Phenix paper roasts alleged ''pikers" for diverting tourists iron Phenix to California, while another Phenix paper says that ''every train coming into Phenix is now well laden with tourists. The city is filling rap. idly and all indications point to a good winter"
 An order has been issued by the secretary of the interior prohibiting the grazing of sheep on the San Fran. cisco Forest reserve. An order has also been made consolidating the re. serve, which includes the taking in of all odd numbered sections. The railroad company will be allowed tc select other lands in lieu of these odd numbered sections.
 In its report the grand jury at Globe said: "We wish to call atten- tion to Secs. 275, 276 and PIT Penal Code, Territorial Laws, relative to oc- cupancy by disreputable characters of buildings, within specified dis tances of the schooland county build ings, and would recommend that the peace officers be instructed to enforce the provisions of the statute without fear or favor.
 Commenting on the soap mine neal Wickenburg, mention. of which ha: been made from time to time in the Journal-Miner, the New York Com. mercial says: Ut is currently report ed that the democratic national com mittee is endeavoring to secure an op tion on these springs. Stock will be placed largely in New York, and it i: believed that it will find ready pur chasers among the membership oi Tammany hall"
 Governor Otero of New Mexico ha: been reappointed for another term ot four years by President Roosevelt.
 The industrial Commission has had the foolhardiness to tackle the ser. want girl problem and finds it no soft thing.
 There is no cure for anarchy. It is a hopeless form of insanity and pre- vention must be relied on to preserve society from its evils.
 Let the democrats take Represen. tative Burleson's advice and wait fol their share of patronage-until Mir Bryan is in the White House.
 The persistent prosperity which has penetrated to every nook and and corner of the United States is the most discouraging feature of the democratic outlook.
 The canteen has passed into his tory; General Chaffee has given ''vino" its conje; and numerous states men are trembling for the future of ''the Capitol Buffet"
 The chaplains of both the senate and the house of representatives are blind. There are phases of life in congress that to pray for their reform would make sensation.
 This is the season of the year when a mans wife is tempted to combine a little lesson in economy with her Christmas gift and present him with a bargain-counter box of cigars.
 The anarchist speakers are announc- ing that anarchy cannot be stamped out. Perhaps not. We cannot ob- literate an abstraction but anarchists can be put out.
 The Isthmian canal commission has the Hay-Pauncefote treaty has been ratified; Senator Morgan has introduced his canal bill. The time has come for Uncle Sam to be- gin digging.
 4 paying gold mine has been found on the site of a Uuited States govern ment building in Montana. All the gold belongs to the government and Uncle Sam can go to digging if he wants to.
 Senator Heitfeld announces that he has withdrawn from the populist party. That naturally raises the question, "Where's the party from which Senator Heitfeld has with drawn?" or "One from one leaves-9"
 A representative Tennessee news paper says, Repeal the law which gives the navy prize money" That paper is evidently in need of a good Washington correspondent. The law was repealed by the Fifty Sixth con yress.
 Adistinguished French engineer pre- diets that in ten years coal minining will not pay. There is strong ten iency toward liquid fuel with petro- cum as the chief ingredient. Scien- -ests and inventors are giving it much intention.
 The statement in the presidents message that "the men who seek gains not by genuine work of head or lands but by gambling in any form Ire always menace, not only to