The Arizona sentinel., 1885-03-28
EDITORIAL NOTES.

y of the Treasury and declined.
 The act passed abolishing the grand jury system far overbal> ances the enormous outlay for our Territorial Insane Asylum and the salary bill, which takes effect in the largest of our counties will in itself make saving within the next two years of a sum fully equal to, if not exceeding, the much abused appropriation bill.
 Although the papers of the Territory have, without a single exception. condemned the actions of the Thirteenth Legislative As sembly, still there are many Of our citizens who think that dur ing the session there was passed many acts, which will be produc- tive of much good to the Terri tory and be the meant of saying 8 large amount of our now wasted revenue.
 In the heat of their passion, unjustly caused by the revengeful spirit in cutting down the sub- scription bills of the various news papers, our worth editors over looked the many beneficial acts passed by the Thirteenth Legis> lative Assembly and no doubt when time has cooled their heated brows they will give the abused thirteenth some slight recogni- tion of its good deeds and not let it sink into oblivion as band of ignorant law makers.
 The following from the Cochise Daily Record is a splendid epi- tome of the lale Phineas B. ming: "The death of General Phineas Banning, Of Wilmington. Cal, which occurred iu $ o Tran cisco, removes @ qusIlt figure from the polit 8cial .o- som- msrcIai life of Southern ..-f3r- ria l-nrr1 es eva-v Cl-'Ear a-,e T many
 9a l E. -o- oIaIe, vas at ~Iv ume at the head of the na> tional guard of southern Califor> mia and later became more con- spicuOus as the proprietor of the important tug and lighter system of San Pedro.
 The following explains itself, and 1t is well~merited tribute: To His Excellency, F. A. TritIe,
 Governor of Arizona:
 We, the undersigned, Demo- cratic members of the Thirteenth Legislative Assembly of the Ter ritory of Arizona, desire 10 ex- pIess to you, as individual Demo- crats, our appreciation of your most excellent qualities as a man, and our endorsement of your course as Governor of the Terri tory:
 Members of the Council-Jno. Howell, Alonzo Bailey, w. c. Bridwell, Robert Todd, Thos. F, Weedin. R. N. Leatherwood.
 Members of the HOuse-S. M. Franklin, Wm. linus, D. J. Bran- nen, T. T. Hunter, D. K. Ward- well, Luther Martin, J. s. Arm. strong, J. A. Brown, W. A. Wat kins, Samuel Purdy.
 President Grover Cleveland is- sued his first proclamation on the 18th instant. It is about the in- trusion of white settlers upon the Oklahoma lands within the Indian Territory. In his proclamation he says: I, Grover Cleveland, president of the United States, do hereby warn and admonish all and every person or persons, now in occupation of such lands and all such persons as are intending, preparing or threatening to enter and settle upon the same, that they will neither be permitted to enter upon said territory, nor if already there, to remain therein, and that if due regard for and voluntary obedience to the laws and treaties of the United States, and this admonition and warning be not sufficient to effect the pur- poses and intentions of the gov ernment, as herein declared, the military mower of the UniteQ