Graham guardian., 1895-03-23
DEPARTED HOPES.
Ihe Prescott JOurn al-Miner Bewails the
I0gs of ha Prfaon

- ANVuds
Take the court house we south.
ern brigands.
Send Pete Kitchen up this way
Immediately.
Arizona's new Gila monster-the
Southern Pacific.
For rent, 80 acres of prison
ground. Apply to the Board of
Supervisors, Prescott.
What is the matter with import
ing few dynamite throwers, pro-
vided they are expert ones.
Wanted-A grub stake. Address
Clerks of the 18th legislature. Best
uf reference.
Since the legislature adjourned
they are commencing to sandbag
people near Phenix again.
Yuma papers are roasting Pres
colt. From climatic standpoint
the roast is the other way.
The creation of Navajoe county
does away with the election of a
councilman-at-large in Arizona.
Begins to look as if this was an
"of'' year for the penitentiary.
Arizona has still some legislators
who may be put down as "ring
tail snorters."
Speaker Carpenter is not like
the cat-he won't come back-to
Prescott.
Arizona is sucker of the first
water, for putting "Carp" in
the chair.
Malta Carpenter, while in the
Richlieu Saloon in Phenix last
night said: "We had to win by
rulings, or else lose the peniten-
tiary. They had u.s."
A Yavapia member of the House
remarked in Phenix: "Don't wake
me up until the extra session comes
Prescott again goes do wn taking
big dose of the legi slative emetic.
Defeat spurs us on to victory how
ever.
If the prison bill passes the
House we feel almost like inviting
the whole legislature up to the pen
itentiary.
To prevent the removal of the
prison, the fillibusterers would
wreck the Territory. Paste this
in your hat.
Arizona should Immediately call
on Secretary Carlisle to issue a
million so year 10 per cent. bonds.
They will cover all future fillibust-
ering tacticts.
Cowardly Maricopa. 1t wants
all we have in Yavapai, and sneaks
to our aid only at the last hour.
The Arizona Kicker will have
columns of good reading matter,
and the worst Of all, it will be true.
The 18th legislature goes down
in the history of Arizona as devoid
of honor and cursed with corrupt
ion.
May be we are not fit for state
hood. Indiana even is not in it,
in the closing hours of legislature
work.
Phenix can "chew hay" for the
next two years.
The Indiana Legislature is not in
it with Arizona.
Skinner, of Graham, is what his
name would indicate.
The Prescott clerks will arrive
next week, if walking is good.
The "filly busters" of the south,
is now the proper way to write it.
Let's annex to California and
have good place at theSS. P. ta-
Bile. We are only eating the
crumbs nowadays.
1t is said that the S. P. used au-
tomato air brakes to hold down its
garroters in the legislature.
Secession is in order, and the
first man who speaks against it,
knock him down with a blade of
alfalfa hay.
1t is said that Speaker Carpen-
ter will visit Prescott next week.
1t is also useless to state that he
will visit Yuma before doing so to
load up with genteel supply of
"gall" in addition to that he is
noted for carrying always.
The Phenix Herald says that the
"remaining Journai-Miner man must
have bad liver" From the looks
of things in Phenix since the legis-
lature fiasco, the old hen of the
Herald must be troubled with
"botts."
Senator Stanford in his life said
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