The Arizona champion., 1889-04-20
CoCONINo COUNTY.

Of northeaStel iaNapai went pe fore the Economical Fourteenth and asked for Frisco county, the Prescottites unanimously cried "Wait two years and you can have a new county without opposition,' but "Fyisco was still born" so says the Journal-Miner, but alter the autopsy was held upon the young corpse and a close examina ton of the "Mother" Yavapai was made it was found that it was a clear case of "abortion" caused by an overdose of "bood's,' and when the people again went be fore the Fifteenth asking for Coco nino county, the same cry went up: The same medicine was or hand and freely administered bul failed to kill the child, although IL did interfere with its growth, and very weak dose of "veto" placed 1t tn the coffin, an act that Gov ernor Wo'fey and his advisers should forever be ashamed of, and no one in the Territory, Republi can or Democrat, excepting St. Johns and Prescott people will say that he did either a wise or a just act, in refusing to break the chains ,ha, bind and hold thousand vol CTS to pay homage to a few politI. cal ringsters and rich men Of the old tumble" down Prescott. ll IS really laughable to read the ar,i cles published by the Journal Miner, Courier and the St. Johns Herald. It would be more credit to you, gentlemen, were you able to give some facts that would show the "Coconino county blll'' 10 be the infamous, unjust, iniqui. tious, thieving proposition that you represent it to be. If you can, Mr. Journal Miner, for it is with you we are now dealing, and will attend to your associates later or. ycu will do better than your strongest advocates were able 10 do before the 18th Legislative As sembly, fer every time they opened their mouths they showed that m all fairness and justice we should have new county, and when their arguments were washed out, there was not even a color 10 be found. We had no faith in your promises iwo years ago, and we have no faith in your promises now, for, as we were told al the beginning of the session. if we got one inch of Va. vapai we would have to fight for it. We have fought. and will fight "knowing that Governor Wolfiey will be the Chief Executive two years hence" until we break the chains that have been rivited upon our wrists by those persons that see justice in no measure that does not pay tribute to "Ma ma Prescott.
 Why are you not honest in your staremenisl Do you think by'fill. ing your columns up with misrep. resentations that it will vindlcate your case and remove the ignominy from you and lift above the peoples censure your man Friday In the first place, Mir. Nj, it is true we would have taken half Of your county and little more, but within that area there is over ten
 
 thousand square miles that has but one settlement and about S5,o)o of taxable property, and as to tax able property we would have about Sa, 500. o.ooo including what we get from Apache, and we leave you only S4,ooo, 900. As to slipping out without any debt "Shich we helped to make" how does this look! and tbe recordsi of Yavapai county will bear us out. In the I3h a bill passed approprialing 5000 to the Flagstaff and Verde road which was bitterly fought by the Prescott people; one passed ap- priating S6,ooo for the Tonto Basin and Verde rod, which was all righ, because it was headed for Prescott, when the people of Ton to asked that it. might go tosthe railroad, and the board of supervis ors appropriated S3a5 to build a calaboose at Flagstaff, which drunk dare not tall against or he