The herald., 1897-06-14
Popularity of the Mayor
of Prescott
TAx-PAYING WOMEN TO VOTE
THE NEW GOVERNOR MAY HAVE
AN AK TO GRIND
An Epidemic Of Jail Breaks and a
Deferred Hanging at
Solomonville

Special Correspondence to The Herald.
PHOENIX, Ariz., June 12.-There Is q
man in Phoenix today who is gaining
in public favor and fame every houi
from the simple fact that he managed
to squeeze through the nineteenth legis-
lature law concerning municipal regu-
lations that has at least a couple OF
very novel features. The man does not
live in Phoenix, and perhaps for this
reason he is more popular here. Yet he
( is prophet of no mean following in his
own city, Prescott, and this fact alone
stamps him as quite an unusual oceW-
renee among men. His name is Will In
o. O'Neil, but he is variously known as
"Bucky" and General O'Neil. He Is
the mayor of Prescott, and ought to be
the governor of Arizona. And perhaps
when Bryan is president-but that is a
story of the future.
Strange to say O'Niel IS Populist.
though people of all denominations vots
for him on election day, and his Popu-
lism is not of the long-haired variety.
The two novel features of his new mu-
nicipal law are: First. extending the
suffrage to taX-paying women in all city
elections, and second, the initiative and
referendum, so far as it may be extend
ed in municipal matters. How this bill
could have passed the nineteenth legis-
lature is mystery that no one cares to
solve at present. For many weeks after
the legislature adjourned no one knew
that these very radical changes had been
made, and only now the truth Of it t.
leaking out. And every body seems to
be pleased with the prospect. Both OF
the reforms offer at least a chance of
something better, and from one end of
the territory to the other there is only
commendation all along the line for thu
author Of them. The innocent little sec
tion extending the suffrage reads: "At
any city election every taxpayer is en-
titled to vote, without distinction of
SEX"
AN EPIDEMIC OF ESCAPES
It has been frequently noticed that
the activity of criminals along certain
lines often occurs in epidemics. Just
now Arizona is having an epidemic of
jail-breaks. Bandit Parker and his COM
panions at Prescott escaped from Jail
by the killing of Lee Norris. Bandi.
Evans of Tombstone manacled hand
and foot, escaped from Sheriff White
by jumping through the window of
moving car that was taking him to
serve ten years sentence at Yuma
Last, but not least, Murderer Chacon
sawed his way out of the Solomonville
Jail after his lawyer had exhausted
every possible legal means of saving his
neck from a judicial stretching on the
18th of this month. OF the five only two
have been recaptured, Parker and
Miller, and the former was caught nap
ping by lay citizen, which proves him
to have been, in spite of his ambition to
pose as a bad man from Bitter creek,
only tenderfoot in the bad man busi-
ness. No one expects any of the others
to be caught. Graham county's dsap-
pointment at the escape of Chacon is
keen, for he was to have been the first
man legally hanged in the county.
WAITING FOR A HEAD
The territorial ship of state tufts idly
in the warm breezes, for there is M
hand at the tiller. The fact that Nc
Cords nomination still hangs fire in the
senate is no longer construed by even his
bitterest enemies as signifying it's pos
sible rejection and the appointment of
some other man. The Arizona guber-