Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-03-08

so many years past, and which with but little amendment was as perfect and satisfactory code as any com monwealth needed or could desire, and in the substitution therefor of that conglomeration of inconsistent and imperfect laws denominated the "Re- vised Statutes" I can find no other
 valid excuse than in the ignorance and incompetency of the members of that Assembly which permitted them
 to be persuaded into the absurd be- lief that commission of three lawyers,
 however competent for the task on general, principles could in the space of the six weeks time allotted to them for that purpose, frame an entire new code suitable to the growing demands and diversified interests of the large and rapidly increasing population of our Territory. Still the injury thereby in- filcted upon our people was not wholly without redress and by no means com mensurate with the almost irreparable damage done us by the office-holding muddle in which we now find ourselves through the ill-judged and over-zeal- ous partlzanship-not statesmanship-- displayed by the interruptions majority of the Fifteenth. If this present muddle does not prove to be the 'last straw" which shall serve to break down the apathy of our citizens and arouse them to a sense of their re- responsibilities as voters and their duty at the next election to select good and true men, irrespective of party, to represent them in the Sixteenth Legis- lative Assembly-men, who, beyond | peradventure of doubt possess both the ability and the will to remedy in so far as the same are capable of remedy, some if not all of the many ills which now burden the Territory and threaten to disastrous extent it's chances for future prosperity-then indeed are our people wholly dead to their material as well as their politi- cal interests and our hopes for the future greatness of Arizona either as State or Territory entirely fallacious and without foundation, and the efforts at reform of Morpheus Kajones and his colaborers, like all similar efforts heretofore made in this Terri tory, will have the consciousness of good intentions for their only reward.
 But if do not draw this already too lengthy epistle to close, fear that both you and your readers will regret that my contribution of pavement to Yuma's climatic rival was not far more extensive than it is.
 A few words as to local matters and l have done for the present-as to the future 1 make no promises. You are, of course, aware that Salt river valley, with its immediate tributaries, has en- tered into the general competition
 some time since inaugurated between the various sections of our glorious republic on the subject of flood pro- ducing capacity California has had
 her innings in good shape and, that
 Arizona might not be wholly left in
 the shade, and as we'll to disabuse the eastern mind of the altogether erron- eous idea that this is dry and desert
 country, we may now point with some degree of pride, mingled, of course,
 with due amount of regret, at the ac-
 companying loss of life and property,
 to the raging flood of the Salt river,
 two miles in width at this point, which. swept before it dams and railroad bridges, and as unauthenticated rumor
 III US wIId ana ungovernaDss ts1 sss s,safs 2 as also to the breaking by the floods of the two reservoir dams at Walnut , Grove, on the upper Hassayampa, ! with the reported loss of forty-two lives and an amount of property as yet unestimated as to value. To the credit of Phenix, be 1t recorded that as soon as the news of the Walnut Grove disaster reached here on yester- day, the sum of $750 was raised within few hours, for the benefit of the sur viving sufferers by the flood and relief
 party dispatched at once to the scene of disaster. Although our railroad , bridge at Tempe was damaged on last
 Friday night, so as to be impossible by train, our mails were, through the 3 indefatigable efforts of the superin- tendent, Col. Masten, delayed but two 5 days.
 By the way, what has become oi your correspondent, Frying-Pan? His ' strictures on the jury and other in . cidentals connected with the Wham l robbery trial met with the general ap- 3 proval of the denizens of this law-abid- ing valley and seem to be fully borne out I by the facts of the case as they reach us here through eye-witnesses of that :, judicial farce. Lucky for that outft ' that they are without the pale of Phe [ nix justice, or else many of the par ticipants in that, now casus celebre who now hold their heads so high [ while their well-filled pockets jingle r their ill-gotten gold, would, ere many
 moons elapsed, be peeping through t the bars at Yuma. Is it possible, with T so much proof of open bribery said to . be ready at hand, that the authorities | at Tucson will let the matter rest | where it now is? BUZFUZ