Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1906-08-22
District Attorneys Cubernatorial Boom Gives New Twist to New York Pol- itics--Quarter of Million People In Coney Island Car Riiots--Wild West ern Roundup in Wall Street.
Special Correspondence.)

Special Correspondence.) |
 NEW YORK, Aug. 1s-Tbe an. pounccmcnt by John A. Henneberry, chief clerk in District.Attorney Je- ,omcs office, and one of the district | auorncy's political lieutenants, that Mr. Jerome would probably consent to become the Democratic candidate for governor if there seemed to he a demand | for his renomination. puts new phase upon what promises to be the most in
 ,ercsting gubernatorial fight the Elm. pirc state ever saw. With Higgins renominatcd by the Republicans, on "the strength of his record" with Hearst rcnominated by himself, and with the usual tally of Socialist, Pro. hbition and "Labor" candidates, there promises to be so many tickets in thc field that the man who is not run ming for some office will be hard to 6ud If Hearst captures the regular Democratic nomination. it is asserted tha, Jerome will run as an independent
 Democrat, representing the "safe and sane" element in the party. However much MT. Jerome's popularity may have dwnded since the last election. it must be confessed that he is a verit. able cyclone on the stump, and can blow away any of the megaphonic or. ators the Hearst party is likely to bring against him. Two New York newspap- ers, The sun and The Evening Post, are already supporting his candidacy.
 shall New Workers pay five cents ar ten eeRts care fare to Coney Islandi
 is ,he question now seitatipg the me. ,ropols. It is estimated that about n quarter of million persons participat- ed in the ear riots that lasted all day on Sunday last as each ear arrived al The point where the trolley compny col. lects the second five cent fare. The trouble followed decision of Supreme Court Justice Gaynor to the effect that five cents was the legal fare. When inc ears got to the place where the sec cnd fares are usually collected, the con. ductors would demand nickel from each passenger and the crowd would refuse. At ench refusal conductors, motormen and the company's special police deputies would grab the re. fractory citizen and try to throw him off the ear. The result was several thousand individual fights, and con. tnnous riot performance. The police department had rushed scores of men to the scene, but as they did not know whether to side with the company or the passengers, they mostly took the part of mere spectators. Justice Gay nor's decision was based on an ordin' ance stating that a street railway com pany can only charge five cents for one continuous ride within the city Tim i's. The trolley company maintains that it can charge ten cents to Coney because its cars run over the tracks oi an acquired steam road, the charter of which permits . ten cent charge. New York was treated to what thu newspapers called "resl wild west ern round up" the other day whe' some steers, which were being conveyed across the hasbor to a local sbattoir broke loose in the live stock boat an' jumped into the water. A passing municipal ferryboat put ont life boat in which attendants lassoed som' of the floating beeves and towed then ashore at Battery park basin, wher the harbor police took charge of tn animals. Some of them, however broke away again, and stampeded int the Wall street district. Luckily it va
 a holiday, and the regular attendance O bulls and bears wss missing, SO tha
 the various streets wese pretty well de serted. The hsrbor squad immediate'. eommandeered some horses and lassoe and went after the fleeing steers in tru
 cowboy fashion. After . short chas the vecalcitrant animals were captured sent on their way, and were soon be
 ing converted into % many sides O beef.
 The various commercial bodies of Ne' York arc beginning to manifest con
 siderable interest in the movement rs
 gently started by the National River
 and Harbors Congress for larger Con
 srsssissal appropriations for watsTwa