Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-11-11

t ''TAMA J1M," of the Agricultural De- s partment, believes that our foreign em
 basey ebouId be provided with SD egri-
 oulturist who can make intelligent ob-
 ssrvetioue and reports especially relat- ing to agricultural and horticultural
 conditions in thoae countries for the benefit of the Amercsn farmer in en- ablirg him to know what he has to com
 pete with abroad and ct home. The Secretary is right. Other countries have their representatives of egricul-
 ture here watching every experiment.
 end development among ouF agEicultur- ists and fruit growers with view to
 utilizing information gained for the
 benefia Of their countries, but We sFe
 wofnIly behind them in this respect. The consequence is that this country
 annually imports millions of dollars
 worth of products which our farmers
 could raise themselves if they had
 authentic information OF the subject.
 4 Republican administration is about
 to complete the Governments connec-
 tion with the Pacific railroads. IS will be
 remembered by come ot the older citi-
 zsns that Republican administrations helped to make the arFap pgements for the building of the Pacific railroads; and Shat Republican administration saw ihem completed, and that in sll people have been carefully and intelli- gently enaIdsd, while the benefit which | has resulted to the country through l thIs means Of communioHti from 1 ocean to ocean cannot be estimated, nor is the com psFative cost Of the road 8 circumstance. Now that the final so ton is to bs coneumated with credit to she Goverameut and the Republican party, it is but;nstural that Democratic editors should emit thelr regulation weiis.
 THE appointment of the Hon. Webster Street to be Chief Justice of the Ter ritory, ts announced by the HERALD on Saturday evening, gives eminent satis- faction to the bar and she people of the Territory. Toe Hon. Street is an able lawyer, thorough Arizonsn, gentle. man whom it is pleasure to know, and one who we believe will do his ut nost to secure the ends of right and nstice to the public. Hon. Street is 3 Republican and has served { one and faithfully as such, but he Is lot taotioniet iu any sense. The Hon. Webster Street ia native . ,f Salem, Ohio. He is about 51 years of .gs and has lived in the Territory lesrly twenty years. He resided in KiDgmBn, afterward , D Tucson and later in Tom bstone- He ame to Phoenix twelve years sRC and ,eceme associated in the practice Of sW with Ben Goodrich and eubse- . uently with Hon. Frank Cox. The atteH partnership WAS maintained un [, il three years SEQ, when Judge Street nd A ttorney General Frazier formed 6 srsnership. i; During 8 part of his residence in 'om bstone hs was Judge Of the County 7, ourt of Cochiee county, which held CO., ? rdinste lrisdicsion with the District ourt, and .meny important cases h ere adjudioated, among others 8 suit evolving certain properties of the Cop 2, CT Queen. one of the most important T lining cases ever brought in Arizona. ., lis decision in the case WAS so satls- 1T setory that She case wse never appeal 7, l. Mark Smith ssid of him st that me that he was the abIasS Judge be- ,, ,re whom he fad ever prscticed- P. Judge Streets education wss gener- a us. After graduating from the high ., ,hool stSalem, Ohio, he YVES gradosss6 om Antioch college. He read law and ] ID 1871 he WAS admitted to the bar in n, slem. After practicing there sdne me he moved to PlttsbuEg, Pennayi- h snie, where be continued in prRctio Eo years end half, and then came to rn rizona. u