The herald., 1897-04-18
PHOENIX AND VICINITY
Personal, Business and Political
Intelligence

Personal, Business and Politica
Intelligence
After an unusually cold and disagree
able termination of mild winter, whicl
is the rule here, Phoenix is basking il
all the glory of sunshine and warm day:
and resuming her summer garb of beau
tiful foliage.
Late frosts did some damage to whea
and other cereals, but as a rule the frui
escaped entirely in Salt River valley
For the past month the politicians who
are numerous in Phoenix, have been ex.
pecting the appointment of a new gov
ernor every day. The flock of Repub
l;can candidates are numerous and are
evidently standing each other off with
commendable success. In the meanwhile
Gov. B. J. Franklin fills the office with
perfect satisfaction.
BY the way, Governor Franklins re.
port to the secretary of the interior for
1896 has but recently been issued from the
government printing office at Washing
ton. 1t is now being distributed, and
without doubt is the most able, accurate
and readable document of similar char
acter ever issued. Almost every ques-
tion regarding Arizona that can possi-
bly, be asked is answered most salts
factorily. The report is bound substan-
TALLY and well illustrated, and from a lit
eiary point of view is also marked sue
cess
There are many applicants here and
in other parts of the territory for the
position of chief justice. Judge Web
ster Street and c. F. Ainsworth, both
leading Republican lawyers of this city,
expect the place, and at least half dozen
other applications are in. Street would
fill the bill satisfactorily, but Aims
worth is naturally of an ex parte turn
and hardly of judicial caliber.
The Phoenix city election occurs the
4th of May and the usual agitation of
local questions in connection with eager
candidates galore, furnishes continual
excitement The present city govern
nient is fairly satisfactory. The mayor
III particular has done his work well.
There are, however. certain questions
of improvements which ought to be con-
sidered. Connection with the sewers
ought to be made more generally A
number of people are settling on cheap
lots on the low lands south of the city and
getting their water from wells only ten
to eighteen feet deep. In time this water
supply must be tainted from the seep-
age of the city, and in spite of the wonder
full health of the city, only one result
can follow, unless the ample supply of
city water be utilized and connections
with the sewers made compulsory more
generally.
Joe Campbell the we'll known Demo-
cratic statesman and attorney at law.
holds his old-time place at the head of
the bar here. His figure is always a
striking one on the street or in the court
room, and the number of important cases
In which he appears increases annually.
His business will not suffer either
through the mistaken idea that a presi-
Dental appointment is buzzing about
him-for four years, at least.
The Phoenix Stationery and News
will hereafter be headquarters
for the Los Angeles Herald. Old sub
scribers are requested to call there to
renew their subscriptions and leave any
thing they desire to have published in
these columns. The Importance of Salt
River valley is closely connected with
the prosperity of the entire southwest,
including Southern California. where
Sc many of our residents spend the sum-
mer months and where all of our lead
ing citizens are more or less well known.
DR.. H. V. Clymer, late of Huntington,
Ore, has located permanently here and
is rapidly building up the good practice
which his ability deserves.
RECALLS A NOTED DECISION
Few people not long personally ac-
quainted with Judge w. H. Stilwell of
Phoenix know him as the author of
some of the most able and clear mining
decisions ever delivered from the bench
of the entire country. To uhe ordinary
new arrival in these parts the judge
appears as a leader among the most able
attorneys who practice in the courts
of the west, and of Arizona in particu-
lar in appearance altogether too young
and vigorously active yet to have away
back seventeen years in his past dis
judicial record. Yet such
Is the case. Sometime in 1880 Judge
Stilwell was appointed associate justice
of the supreme court Of Arizona, under
the administration of President Hayes.
He was very young man for such a
position but his knowledge of law had
been acquired under the supervision of
ouch masters of jurisprudence as Ru-
fus w. Peckham, now one of the associ-
ate justices of the supreme court of the
United States. And as a judge he ac-
quilted himself with singular ability.
Before him many big mining suits We're
tried, notably several at Tombstone as
early as 1881. which involved vast in
Lerests, and in which such able lawyers
Of national reputation as Judge CARRIER,
Chief Justice Lewis and Senator Stewart
IF Nevada, Judge Sims of Colorado and
Judge Messick, Harry l. Thornton, Judge
Haynes and William F. Herrin of San
Francisco, appeared as attorneys. In
these cases his decisions stood the test OF
appeal and in more than one instance
we're finally concurred in gracefully by
the losing party. Probably, however,
Judge StiIwells eminence as a mining
attorney eclipses even his judicial rec
ord. Notable among the great legal
,attles which he fought through all the
courts to a successful issue was that
n the case of the Watervale Mining