Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-04-12
QUARTZBURG.
4 PLAIN TALK UPON sEAsONABLE
 SUBJECTS.
The Contest in Tombstone--Mining Mat ters---The late Decision of the Stu preme Court---Severe Structures
 upon Political Corruption, etc.
TOMBSTONE. Anril 7th.

letter the disincorporation and re in- corporation question has advanced 2 several strides. First, the third, or , middle party, that advocated total , disincorporation by legislative act, has given up the ghost and the fight is < now narrowed down to two parties- the taxpayers on the one side and the taxeaters on the other. Second, the necessary number of names have been subscribed to the petition to the
 Board of Supervisors to call an cleo
 ton as per the Blinn bill the petition
 has been granted, and the election is
 called for April Both, with the chances
 very strong in favor of the election be-
 ing carried by the taxpayers.
 Still there is great deal of opposi-
 tion to the measure, most of which
 appears to be caused, not by any dis | like or distrust of the measure itself, | but by the fact that the agitation in
 this direction was first commenced by |
 two or at most four men who, during |
 the past six to seven years, have con
 trived to absorb most of the taxes paid
 into the city treasury, and the use of
 the city water works which cost at first
 $13,000 to 5000, while the taxpayers
 had to pay for all repairs to that prop
 erty, and the further fact that the same
 agitators are taking advice from the
 same legal light who engineered all that
 business for his lawful fee, and the
 resulting fear that the joker Is there,
 somewhere, though no one can point
 it out.
 But I think by the end of May the
 city of Tombstone will be governed by three trustees appointed by the Board of Supervisors.
 There is little general news. Bisbee is still prosperous, turning out it's forty ! five to seventy tons of copper per day. The Iroquois Mining District is still , doing we'll with hopes of large mill in the near future. Dos Cabezas dis trict begins to prosper and gold mill, ) it is said, will soon be in operation 3 there.
 Capt. Tevis, of Bowie Station, has ], sold an interest in his large group of l mines, to St. Louis parties, and has s started in to work vigorously.
 r Tombstone and Cochise county l. generally has not improved much :. since January.
 That which occupies peoples at t tention here lately is the so-called l. mandamus case-George w. Cheyney l. vs. J. Y. T. Smith, Territorial Treas d urer-in which Cheyney sued for his e salary as Superintendent of public It instruction, lately decided by the Su- Il preme Court, styled the political, or if two-to-one judgment, and reported ir 1t the Phenix and other papers, tht 1r opinion of the majority and the dis
 senting opinion.
 I, Your correspondent not being per le sonally interested in the fight, vii ia not undertake to say which dog ha IT, the law on his side. Men here gener Id ally take sides according to politics 1e but with clearly apparent prepon SC derance not only by lawyers, but b, IT, layman as we'll, in favor of the dissent nt ing opinion.
 n- But to the honest, the thinking, tn sit public-spirited and taxpaying tax-riC K den citizen, this political decision ri- following up and growing out of tn ce disgraceful action Of a trump of tn et- now notorious 15th legislature i he holding sessions for the first time ely Arizona's history twenty days after th
 time generally understood as the linn
 of it's sessions, waiting for the appoln
 ment and arrival of & governor to
 vide amongst them the plumber of u offices as 8 reward for their absolu )od of tba rao,,1o -r;tt' ot ,aoat etror put orol,al,iJit, ttat +I,a to,oo,,ar. ,vo,, have to pay two sets of officers, is su 7ll' gestive of many humiliating though .oi :n. and queries-thoughts which, apa nv ny from the enormous taxes, territorif pies county and city, he is called upon ol pay (and which he could remedy lii' economy in his household and perso "p al expenditures) and the continued i
 crease in the debt of the territory al ,e 'ne every political division thereof, go ( liH 1 rect to his heretofore boasted price VII" 'L citizenship and liberty and to @ '@no hopes for the continued progress humanity under the glorious fiber
 and right of self government, pl al chased by the tears, the hunger q ''"S the blood of his noble ancestor on' thoughts and queries to some of whi ut '9 9 1 will not now, in deference to t 70 judicial character of these men, gi utterance.
 e VI No doubt these judges are each " Iins satisfied for himself, that he has do 'c9C; yeomen service for the heelers a ito" strikers, the machine men, the t isi' eaters and public plunderers of
 io' own party, and has thereby meri car the gratitude and support of all sr ,: ,euo in future political contests, and W 'ioii that consciousness of work well do
 UT leave them for the present, reserv ,. my right to pay my respects to tn ''Iei and their work at future time oy thank God, I owe nothing to cit 'hey party nor to their judges, and { Ane afford to have an opinion.
 nes. And now as to this Hon. MT. Oh {. o!1 ney, who, find, is greatly befou u ID with praise by the organs of his pa anu as pubic spirited citizen for proc ; some an. ing this political decision, and tn noU by settling the question, forsooth. 'r'ioI Let me ask this Hon., did he,
 fore election, when canvassing for VI
 to elect him to make laws, tell the hs' dependent men of both parties, an no party at all, that he would use T, 41,a lnllutHCo allu pOWci SNCh Aiiii : oa;o a;e their votes solely to make fight ,eEi', ,9S1 the spells of office, to put the law' n;oas' the territory in confusion and to n ;,o ;oo of the taxpayers pay two sets Of ioo sd I suckers2 My recollection and ths , nIt "lie. several others in Tombstone is tha ,,,"sl. did not, but on the contrary that .ns ans promised, if we elected him, thai NoS would exert himself to make law lpfro pfou the interest of the people. And 'eIole : has he done 1t? Let all those PGss1 I: remember the shameless plunder ittLo" thar Tritle, Churchill and their F
 'nGf ;i, thieves of the infamous 18th and . ;a"d WI. see how much greater has been th ltally, ."nny na,y. Ui ,l,n ~ nnost;on M for him Ar oo"n' oord; this Hon. Cheyney can stand
 no1 stench of his own work and lool