The Arizona champion., 1889-05-18
THAT CoCoAINo MATTER.

he Courier In many things. We dc lot blame the Courier much for op- posing the Coconino Bill, forit is "a poor dog that will not defend his pwn kennel" especially when there { lis meat OF the inside, and we think your words are true: "United we ,Prescott) stand; divided we Pres scott) fall," but we are not in need of sany support from Prescott, conse- luently, we can truly say: "United : we (Coconino) fall; divided we (Co- !; :onino)stand. Wehave been taxed to niustness for the immediate benefit # Prescott. And still you are rot prosperous, and desire to complete ] -he P. & A. c, and unite S200, 0,0QJ or S30O,000 more debt upon Yava- : ,ai, when you are well aware that t will not benefit Northeastern Yav- ,pai two bit piece.
 It Is true "that the old county vas put to great expense to main --..;;in order when the A. &. P. was being built" but how many thousands ,f dollars worth of property did the building Of the 4, & P. bring into Yavapail And have not the residents always paid their taxesl They have received the benefit of sIO,325. That is all, ever since this portion was ettlel, and they have paid into the treasury of Yavapai, at low calcu- .Iation. S300,000 in taxes, say noth- Ing about the A. & P. taxes that , have been paid and those now due. Have we not given more than we ,received}
 Haven't we paid Flagstaff justices 5and constables a great many large soiilsl" We believe for the past two ..years that Flagstafjustices were the sonly ones that remitted mora money : for fines than was paid to them, {aven a balance in that way was due this precinct, and as to the constables sanyone knows they earned their 3cills, but the accursed mileage bills 3that are paid not only to constables, 3Dut to the sheriff is the leach that 5is sucking the blood from Yavapai's streasury.
 Haven't our candidates for office .5een liberal when in Flagstaff cleo 3tioneering}" Yes, they were ike the } 'ooon that bought the skunk, "they needed US in their business" and 1t .only verihes that which we have Said before, that you know ns not, sonly in election and tax gathering stimes, but we think the people in sCcconino have learned lesson, that will make them believe less in Pres : soott candidates than before. We ad- ! init that you have treated every Sbody right, but it is upon the princi- sPle of the Children of Isreal, and smore fully expressed in the words of David, King of Isreal, when he says s'Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, : they shall prosper that love thee. Peace be within thy walls and pros .oerity within thy houses for my brethren and companions sakes, ! } will now say Peace be within thee, , sand the devil take everything out sside of Prescott.
 'Its advocates wanted the largest portion of the old county and big , lot of Apache, and people who looked closely into their bill agreed in say ing that besides wanting more terri tory than any other county in Arizo ] 3na, they wanted the biggest slice of the \. & P. R. R. and freedom from most of the indebtslness of the sold county" The lines, as drawn. in the bill, took in round nun 53ers 1000 square miles from Yavapai, and 10000 square miles of that territory is uninhabitej. excepting one small settlement! From Apache we took 4,000 square miles and l.60O square miles of that is part of the Moqui and Navajo, Indian reservation, giving us d
 county in area of 2I,Ooo square miles, and in the words of Hon C.; l.. Fiyan, eve should have chyomo.. 'icr taking the north lL6oo square, miles, " and we left you Mir Courierl .l2,000 square miles wherein taxable
 property is situated. The terri
 tory nor the debt we were to take
 was not the issue, as all just and
 honest men admit that we took
 more debt upon the bases which the