The Arizona champion., 1889-05-18
THAT COCO NISo MATTER.

II a'N "s' r'f''oS' ! lot blame the Courier much for op-I ; ,osipg the Coconino Bill, forit is "a loor dog that will not defend his! 'wn kennel" especially when therel ! Is meat on the inside, and we think your words are true: "United we, a Prescott) stand; divided we (Pres- ! scott) fall," but we are not in need off ! S.ny support from Prescott, conse- B 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 not prosperous, and desire to oompleteI 7 the P. x A. 0, and unite S30c. 0o0l ! or $500, ,00Q 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 .lin order when the A. x. P, was| ; being built" but how many thousands : # dollars worth of property did the building of tbs 4, < P, bring into Yavapail And have not the residents ]always paid their .axesl They have received the benefit of Sl0, 325. That Is all, ever since this portion was ! ,ettlel, and they have paid into the, treasury Of Yavapai, at low calcu- ation. $500, in taxes, say noth- ling about ghe A. & P, taxes that have been paid and those now due Have we not given more than we, receivedl
 Haven; we paid Flagstaff justices Sand constables a great many large bills" We believe for the past two ; years that Flagstaff justices were the only ones that remitted more lGoney j for fines than was paid to them, aven balance in that way was due .this precinct, and us to the oonstables anyone knows they earned their sbills, but the accursed mileage bills that are paid not only to constsbles, ' but to tha sheriff is the leach that lis sucking the blood from Yavapai's treasury.
 Haven't our candidates for elficc ; ;tsen liberal when in Flagstaff cleo stionesring% Yes, they were like the coon that bought the skunk, "they needed us in their business" and it { sonly verifes that which we have said before, that you know ns not, < lonly in election and tax gathering |timss. but we think the people in IOoconino have learned Q lssson, that will make them believe less in Pres. scott candidates than before. We ad- init that you have treated every body right, but it is upon the princi- < pie of tho Children of Isreal, and more fully expressed in the words of David, King of Isreal, when he says 5'Pay for the peace of Jerusalem, they shall prosper that love thee Peace be within thy walls and pros lperity within thy houses for my brethren and companions saLes, I Twill now say Peace be within thee, T and the devil take everything out lsids of Prescott. Tss adyocates wanted the largest' portion of the. old county and a big| lot of Apache, and people who looked| closely into their bill agreed in say :! ling that besides wanting moro terri tory than any other county in Arizo Ina, they wanted the biggest slice of the A. & F. R. R, and freedom from, most of the indebtedness of the; old county" The lines, as drawn:
 in the bill, took in round num- !
 bers l7,000 square miles froms
 Yavapai, and 10000 squares
 miles of that territory is uninhatitsd.
 excepting one small settlement. S
 From Apache we took 4,00o squares
 miles and l,6o0 square miles of that { is part of the Moqui and NavajoE
 Indian reservation, giving us aS
 ,ounty in area of 2l,00o squared miles, and in the words of Hon. C.s
 L. Flynn. eve should have.a chropos For taking the north ll,6oo squares
 miles" " anti we left you Mr Courierl l2,oOo square miles wherein taxable { ia 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