Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-03-25
FROM PRESCOTT.
Glad the Legislature Is no More-ion- (. A. FrankIin-How a Young Lady Clerk Co; Away With a Gall nt Young Man, etc
 pprSCorr March IT, 1888.

Glad the Legislature Is no More-Iion (. A.
 FrankIIn-Hou a Young Lady Clerk Co;
 Away With Gall nt Young Man, etc
 PRESCOTT, March r, 1883. EDITOR CITIZEN:
 Since the adjournment of the legisla- tnre Prescott has resumed its condition of activity. While the legislature was ID session all klnds Of enterprises re mained in statu quo, for fear some sort Of legislation nigh; be enacted inimical to them, but no harm has been done and people breathe freer.
 The last to leave for home was hou (. A. Franklin, or Charhe, as he was famll- iarly called. lie was quite popular per soBally, and ranks as one of the many "good fellowsn that were in the leglsla- tlre. The passage of the general appTo- priatiou act resulted in much sorrow ald misery to one gentleman in Prescott. It seems that one of the lady clerks nad been here before as committee clerA and failed to receive about SlSJ extra pay, voted by the last legislature of 1851. lt was tackled on to the appropriation bill as back pay ID tue item tO pay con tingent expenses of this session. The lady left for the south before Auditor Clark got his seal as provided by law, and a young gentleman of thls cliy gal lantly came forward and ctsneu her Oi- ger ou Auditor Clark for her pay as com mlt,ee c.erk this session, aud also tue order for the back pay, and she went on ner way reIDlcln-. Clark refused 10 Is sue the warrant for the back pay. The young lady Is abeau SlS0, and the polite and gallant young man IS left to n urn. As an instance O. the economy prac- | ticed 1t is Oniy necessary Co say that this | particular young lady receIv1d pay at ,hs rate of niue collars per dIem and ! three dollars per diem back pay, earning | Oy her Iu lustry twelve dollars per day | for 60 days Or at the rate Cf nearly S4OJ ! per month. The Auditor has refused to | pay the amounts in the Contingent Sec ! tion of the appropriatinn bill, until there
 shall have been 8 decision of the l supreme Court upon 1t.
 It Is stated that a mandamus suit | will be brought to test the question. The parties interested in constructing l the Prescott and thirty-tfth parallel | railroad have perfected the organizatiOn of the company and are now m cor ! respondence with parties East to build tue line. It is thought that work will commence On the T, ad ID May or June cf this year and the road finished before
 the first of January next.
 The road commissioners to construc the Howell road to Big Bug via Lynx l Creek are getting ready to go to work at
 an early day. The commissioners named In the Act
 tO fund the floating and bonded Indebt-
 edness of the Territory have already l sent their advertisements to eastern and 1 California papers as provided in the 1 Act.
 ! 0The secretary or the Territory has the copy already In the hands of the printer ] for rne Journals of the last session Of the ] Legislature and Ee thinks they will be
 ready for distribution the last of May
 next.
 Work on the publication Of the sessIon laws will commence on tie 10th of April next sud wIll also be ready by the mid ! dle of June. The city of Prescott IS
 about 10 bulld a city hall which will answer admirably for the uses intended. ] Prospecting m tine neiehbOrhood IS ! qnite brisk and several rich finds are re-
 ported Col. c C. Bean has found a
 mountain of iron ore within a short dis
 tance of Copper Basin and all this lOcali- 1 r. now needs Is a coal field to render ! smelling furnaces more profitable. ] Governor TrItle Is happy now that the ] labor of the Legislative session is ended. 1 He was really worked hard during the ! session and in every act did what he con- scieuti0usly deemed correct. He Is an official who makes fewer mistakes than any other that was ever in Arizona and the Council n passing a complimentary res .lItion to hlm, before # adjourned, | did a well n rited and gracious act. Much ram has fallen here recently and { the weather has been very like summer ! time. Yours truly, CosMoPOLITE.