Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-03-15
QUARTZBURG.
THE PREVAILING SENTIMENT IN THE
 CITY OF TOMBSTONE.
Heavy Taxation Leads to Public Discus sion of the Situation-Disincorpor
 tion Suggested--Other Matters.
TOMBSTONE. March 10th


 EDITOR ENTERPRISE: Since I last | wrote you (and I have been very negligent lately) there has been no material improvement in this city or county.
 Judge Sloan has held an adjourned | term of the district court here. The | treasury indictment cases against ex- Treasuer Ritter and his clerks under went investigation. Two of these in- dictment were tried, one against Rit- ter and one against Taylor his clerk, and both were acquitted So it is probable that all the other indictments will be dismissed. Several civil cases of importance were also tried, and re- suited in defect to that class of men who desire to get other peoples prop erty without giving value for it. The Judge is well thought of here; in fact, people generally appear to believe him a good man, fair lawyer, and an up right judge, and the only exception to this opinion is foundsamongst those of "dark ways are vain tricks"
 Our city fathers and taxpayers have had several meetings with the alleged object of reducing city taxation. The said fathers admit their inability to 1 reduce taxation, or even at $1.50 per hundred on an enormous valuation of property to pay the city's debt under | the present charter, and now agitate l disincorporation of the city and its re- incorporation under the so-called Blinn bill, found on page "A of the Revised Statutes. But whether the taxpayers can make any gain by the change, appears an open question. True, some taxpayers are very much in favor of this change, and particu- larly those few so-called taxpayers more properly called tax-eaters who, under the old system got all or most of the benefit of the taxpayers money and left little for others to take, but who now find themselves estopped from further tax-eating by the fact that others, not their friends, have got control.
 see by THE ENTERPRISE of March 8th, that you have a new correspon- dent from Phenix-a new candidate for share of the abuse that was pre- pairing for MT. Hughes, MT. Stafford, Kajones of Globe, and your humble servant.
 I sincerely wish you and those helpers great success, but fear I can- not do much to help the cause. In fact have about enough to do to at tend to my own affairs, and confess that am getting somewhat apathetic i by repeated failure in the way of "neglecting my stock to preserve the state," and have almost come to the conclusion that reform in government f in this Territory is non-paying in , vestment. The men who go for the
 spells are apt to win and whether the spoilsmen be Democrats or Re
 publicans, I find it always amount; to the same.
 I might make this letter longer by f enlarging upon the stupidity, effront
 cry and general shamelessness of tht
 spoils-seeking law and treasury-wreck
 ing-political 18th legislature, but , leave that to abler pens, such as you r Globe and Phenix correspondents who I hope, will continue their work an(
 not weary of trying to teach the peopl to look to their own business, as some /, times does
 Yours, QUARTZBURG.