Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-06-04

fat SneeOy, ceicDfated New 1ork gambler, has reformed and announces that his cards will hereafter read "P. F. Sheedy Merchant" He says he has arranged to engage in the Jewelry | business in Buenos Ayres. Mark Smith is in Kentucky to re- cuperate, so they say. Well, let it go at that.
 A coon was shot at Fairbanks the other day for outraging hen roost. It was four logger.
 Arizona Democrats will meet in Tucson on September 3 next, pro- viding of course we are not admitted as state before that time.
 ~Jack" Lawler, when approached on the proposition of running for congress, sticks up his ears, and stsmpedes like a Missouri mule.
 A Phoenix rancher went into a bank and demanded Sl5,000 to corner the alfalfa crop, and they have the audacity to say he was demented. [
 Prescott's proposed electric car line to the hills is creating consider able talk these days, and people ad- jacent to the town are anxiously waiting for its building.
 We would like to see Arizona ad- mitted as state for one reason. There would then be possibility of having some of the new coast defense gunboats of small calibre named after us.
 Phoenix is to enforce the curfew law. The idea of cooping up an Ari zona kid at g o'clock at night, and such hot nights as these are, is laugh able. Better make the ordinance read from g a. m. to g p. n.
 Tucson is the largest town in Ari- zona at the present time, having a population of l2O0o, and of that number 247z are children. Inside of five years Prescott will take her place, for without exaggeration or bolster ous regard, the prosperity evident in this section at the present time, indi- cates that we are just entering an era of prosperity that will cap the climax of Arizona in municipal rating
 Colonel Wilson, an aspirant for the democratic nomination for delegate to congress, says that Mark Smith and his packers have corralled all the papers in Arizona. ''The power of the press" seems to be holding its traditional regard.
 The Mark Smith packers will have a vitascope in operation at Tucson to acutely portray our delegate at vari- ous stages of his memorable fight and final collapse on the floor of the house. With the colored effects that the ma chine gives all portraits, there should be hilarious applause when Mark falls and gets blue in the face.
 The local option law has been adopted by the town of Troy in Pinal county. When the law was passed by the last legislature it was looked upon as a joke, as it was pre- stunned there was not a place within the confines of Arizona thatI would adopt option. This is the first time we have ever heard of Troy, Arizona.
 The Boer war IS settled on one day and again on the next.
 The Carib Indians, whose tribe was almost entirely wiped out by the Souffriere eruption, were fire worship pers. They had an ancient prophecy which said their god would consume them. It would seem that they had not worshipped in vain.
 Corporal O'Brien's story about cruelty and indecency practiced by American army afficers in the Philip pines has been riddled into common camp blarney.-Gazette. He seems to be on par with OBrien Moore of the Citizen and Enterprise.
 Thirty years ago General Palma, now president of Cuba, hastily buried his mother, victim of Span ish cruelty, in an obscure cemetery in Bayamo, with wooden cross to mark the spot. Recently, with all tokens of respect and love, he and his friends disinterred the remains, placed them in a stately tomb, bearing a tablet with this inscription: "Candelaria Palma, whose beloved son Thomas has returned after thirty years and given her a Christian burial"
 The Tucson Citizen and the Phe- nix Enterprise, twin journalistic con cerns, owned and controlled by Ives, Smith & Co.,, should change theiI titles to that of the Two Roasters Whether local or national, political ol  social, their editorial columns teem with filthy abuse of men and issues not in accord with their ideas of a party nature. Not day passes but what their literary abortion prev ails and as for anything nice or half way decent being entertained by either of them, is simply out of the question