Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-06-07
OUARTZBURG.
PAYS HIS RESPECTS TO HIS VAR
 IOUS CRITICS.
Getting into Fighting Trim and Ready for a Fracas--A few Explanations and a General GrOwl at Things Political---Will be Heard
 from Again.
TOMBSTONE, June 2nd., 1890,

)f the time, and when at home very | busy. And this Is why have neglect ad my promise of late, but hope to be more punctual in future.
 There is very little news here ex- cept that which you have already re- ported
 The failure of the attempt to dis incorporate this city was a surprise to the friends of that movement, and the of city officers by the governor was still greater surprise.
 The late murder of MT Hardie in Fucker canyon in this county, is gen erally attributed to Indians, yet there are few who think that it may have been the work of American or Mexi- can bandits or both but the reasons for this latter opinion are not appar- ent.
 There IS nothing new in mining circles, nor IS there likely to be, until the silver question is settled in con gress. The outlook for the cattle in dustry has not improved. The Bis bee mines are still producing abund antly.
 The political pot begins to boil all ready. All other industries may be at a standstill, or even retrograde, but office-nolding is sure to pay under the present state of affairs.
 We have had grand jury at the May term of this District Court, which made its report in which it found some fault with the board of super visors and its management of county affairs, but though the records of the county for the past year showed sev- eral bills allowed by this board to deputy District Attorney, while the full salary of the District Attorney as commuted by law, ($2,5O0 per year) was paid to that officer, that grand jury failed to find any fault with that double payment or to inquire by what authority the board exercised such generosity in the disbursement of other mems money. I find no fault with the deputy for taking all he got, nor with the principal officer for talk ing his salary so long as he can find the county generous enough to pay him $2 300 year as the officer and besides pay another man for doing his duties for him, but if there be no law allowing or requiring this double payment, and 1 have found none, then I do find fault with the officers entrusted with the care of the peo- ple's money, when they make me pay fully s per cent. yearly taxes on the real value of my property and thus rob me to be generous to their politi- cal or private friends.
 In reference to the political pot, there are at least eight we'll known candidates for office now, and about half of these have been for six months or more quietly buzzing and button holeing and begging their friends, and of all these there is not one who has ever made or owned $100 worth of property in the county except what he made by office holding. Sos it is pretty certain that election this fall will be, at least in this county, on the same plane as heretofore.
 have seen an article published in the Yuma Sentinel headed-"Quartz burg" in which am accused of pub fishing in THE ENTERPRISE ia lot o vicious islander directed against the Hon. George W. Cheyney, Territorial Superintendent of Public Instruction one of Arizona's most honorable anC popular citizens," and in which my criticisms are called "the senseles
 mouthings of such vonemous hanger.
 on of journalism as Quartzburg," anC
 asserts that they should not be toler
 ated." Now 1 call THE ENTERPRISE
 and its readers to witness that 1 havt
 never used one word of islander, O
 even of insinuation against MT. Chey
 ney. True I did, as an e!ector ant
 taxpayer, ask him to explain his ac
 tions ilI the manipulations of tha
 glorious 10th legislature, and to tel
 me and my fellow electors and tax
 payers whether he solicited our vote
 for the purposes for which the resul
 shows too plainly that he used them
 to gerrymander for the offices witt
 the chances that we have to pay tw
 sets of territorial officers. And I als
 take you and the public to witnes
 that there is more islander, abuse an,
 foulmouthedness in that Sentinel al
 ticle of about two inches than eve
 emanated from pen of mine. But
 is plain that honest John, of the Sen
 tinel, being participant in the wor
 of that glorious 18th, took the alarn
 and believing that "Quartzburg" wa about to show him up, made haste get in the first blow. But John ma
 rest at ease "Quartzburg," is afte higher game and don't care for Joh
 or his malignant misrepresentation . at least for the present. But if it eve becomes proper for me to show u honest John in his true light, I war that gentleman that have a neigl bor who says that he knows the hi tory of Yuma County commencin with the year 1869 or TO, when a ce
 tain honest gentleman was appointe clerk of the District Court of the coul ty by his brother-in-law, the judg z and how thereby and therefrom tt debt of that county was commence and created by the clerk and h , brother-inlaw, the judge; and WI 2 knows all about the peculations ar extortions in office in that coun :. during the succeeding ten years, al the prosecutions and convictions f
 these offenses; convictions of count , officers kindly set aside and the pros U cution dismissed by the judge on u ground that litigation between a cou D ty and its officers was "unseemly ar unproftable.
 My grandmother, the Epitaph, h !. also been kind enough to pay me V compliment and call me "Bumme1 . etc. Oh, dearl with what consul mate grace and appropriatene'
 comes this elegant term from Il
 editors and managers of our respect " ancestress
 $ It is plain, MT. Editor, that in u Q opinion of these so-called journalis e the privilige of islander, libel, false is situations, foul abuse, and all sorts e praise and blame-belongs exclusiV l. ly to themselves the party organs al 70 would-be organs and so welded a d they to this opinion, and so jealous =, the imagined and long usurped rigl