Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-10-16
EDITORIAL NOTES.

AlCoN ACA prosperity of that territory. There is plenty of feed on the ranges and cattle are in fine condition. The cit rus trees are heavily fruited and be- fore the end of October the first car will be shipped to New York. Money is more active and on healthier basis than for years. Arizona is just now stirring up determined move in the matter of statehood. That accom- plished, then will follow undoubtedly great business expansion.
 It is because the government of the United States is financial oligarchy, popular government in pretense.- Yellow Journal" Don't fret about it. Yellow journalism is paretic oligarchy, and its more fun than all the other kinds of oligarchy put together--more fun than little red wagon chock full of monkeys. Don't fret about it. Just go on playing gold straws with your fingers and toes and have good time in your padded cell.-New York "Press."
 The democrats might claim credit for the prosperity of the past four years on the ground that they failed to elect Williams Jennings.-Mora- vian Falls (N. O "Yellow Jacket"
 At a recent meeting of the Califor- mia railroad commissioners the freight rate on oil between Bakersfield and San Francisco was ordered lowered from forty-two cents per barrel to thirty-seven and eight-tenths cents. The profit to the railroad company at the former price was estimated at eight and four-tenths cents per bar rel.
 Santa Fe county, New Mexico, with property assessed at S1,750,000 has debt of sl,OOO,OOO. Eastern credi- tors have just refused to compromise the debt. The creditors assert that property values in Sante Fe county are bound to treble and quadruple in few years and then the face value as well as the accumulated interest of the bonds can be collected. Aside from this they claim that the assessed valuation of the county at present is only one-fifth of what it should be and that the railroads do not pay nearly as much taxes as they are re- quired to pay in other states. No of fer of compromise on less than 6C per cent will be considered.
 The Phenix Republican of Friday contains some very warm compli- ments to Senator Ives, who owns the l l 1ucSOl OlUlZcu.
 If the Courier editor keeps up his daily assertion about the JIM. ap- proving of the Gobel assassination its editor in time may believe it him. self. He will never be able to make any one else believe it, who has read the Journal Miner article.
 The Tucson Citizen of recent date contains a very vindictive and most maliciously inconsistent attack on Governor Murphy. It prefaces the article with an assertion that the gov ernor had been requested to do ce-- tain thing; that the request had been complied with, and then concludes with the charge that he cannot be trusted. The article in question seems to have been inspired by Sena- tor Ives and is most inconsistent and malicious. That it drew forth the fire of the Republican is most natural, and the gunner made center shot every time.
 In his last public speech the late President Mckinley declared that an isthmian canal should be built. Mir. Roosevelt is undoubtedly of the same opinion. There is every reason to be- lieve that bill providing for the great ditch across Nicaragua will be one of the first measures before the Fifty-seventh congress and that it will this time become a law. Repub- lican leaders assert that the matter will have an early place on the calen- dar of the house and that it will be so framed as to preclude any serious ob- jections from the majority in the sen ate. Of course the fortifcation clause will cause debate in the senior body, but Colonel Hepburn, chairman of the house committee on interstate and foreign commerce, expresses the opinion that the bill will be passed without unusual difficulty. There will, in all likelihood, be an effort made to arrange treaty with Great Britain, which will remove all obsta- cles in that direction, although it IS believed that, if any hesitancy is shown in London, the project will be carried forward on the presumption that the Clayton-Bulwer compact has long been inert. It is understood that President Roosevelt is enthusi- astic over the Isthmian canal project and that he will advance its interests with all the power at the command of the executive.
 Of the women who recently took competitive examinations in Wash ington for positions in the civil ser vice over v per cent passed, as against 62 per cent of the men.
 Hobson was at the Buffalo exposi- tion, but he never got even one head line in the papers. These are the things which cause one 10 reflect whether it is really worth while to have sunk ship and engaged in a kissing campaign.
 Lorenzo Snow, president of the Mormon church is dead, at the age O. OP -. IL ..l IL. -