The herald., 1897-06-07
A BIG SCARE
Ariz0na's MurdererS Will
Not Escape
THE MITIGATING BLUNDER
FASHIONABLE EXCURSIONS TO
THE sEASHoRE
Women Of the Territory Who Are
Taxpayers May Vote at City
Elections

manner OF the California law. In at
tempting to enact tie new law 1t at
tempted to repeal the existing murder
law. but neglected to provide for the
pending cases. Under the operation of
the new law, which passed both houses
Of the legislature and was duly signed
by the governor, a great many murder
under the old law, must have gone scot
free OF the crimes with which they were
charged. The number Of Arizona bad
men that this defective law would have
liberated has been variously estimated
at from Is to co. and the advisability of
attempting to call an extra session Of the
legislature to save the territory from
the ravages Of these ruff1ans was at
least seriously considered 1t went even
further Down in Cochise county Dis
trict Judge Bethune was hasty enough 20
instruct the grand jury that the notorious
Zach Taylor could be indicted for no
graver crime than that Of manslaugh-
ter-although Zach deserves hanging,
several times over.
ONLY A BIG SCARE
And now it proves to have been only a
big scare. The Nineteenth legislature
enacted no such law, and Judge Be-
thune and everybody else in the terri
tory were bit too soon in their conclu-
slions. There was mitigating blunder
in the law as passed, and so there is, no
law at all. The blunder was technical
and clerical, but 1t evidently invalidates
the whole laundering law. It proposes
n nm tsrryfx
Ill.," chapter L., entitled, "Of Crimes
Against the Person" And "Title Ill" is
some other law entirely. and has moth
ing to do with Grimes Against the Per-
son." The error. 1t seems, exists in the
original bill offered in the council by the
gentleman from Yavapai-who, by the
way, is not a lawyer.
Mr. Norton, the Yavapai councilman
who introduced this bill, is a man of so
many sterling qualities and made such
gallant stand for iavapai on the pris-
on question that no one has yet sought
to blame him for bringing this great
scare upon the territory. And it ap-
pears now that he was entirely blame
less in the matter and merely a tool in
the hands of rascally and deeigning
lawyer who had q, client whose neck, he
thought. might be kept out of the moose
by this tricky and defective law.
The man whose conscience burns him
as he reads these lines need not be
alarmed-as yet. His name is known to
many already, but his identity Is still
safe from the public prints. He over
reached himself in this effort and now
his client will hang.
TWO LINES TO GLOBE
There is good deal of activity in rail-
road matters in this territory-a circum-
stance that speaks eloquently for the
Immediate future. In mining, cattle sell.
ing and railroad building Arizona is
certainly enjoying boom at present
The latest bit Of railroad newe comes
from Deming, N. M, and promises not
only the connection of the two great
trunk lines controlled by the Santa Fe
but also the development of the Sar
Carlos coal fields. The news is that
party of surveyors are laying out a
new route from Deming to Globe. Mr..
Bayard, former superintendent of the
Gila Valley, Globe and Northern rail-
road, Is in charge of the work, and It
Is upon his authority that the statement
is made that the Santa Fe will build in
as direct line as possible from Deming
to Duncan, to Solomonville and to
Globe. Now the project of line from
Phoenix to Globe is near it's fruition and
construction work is expected to begin
almost any day. These two roads to
Globe will give the Salt River valley
direct communication both east and
west over the Santa Fe system.
Another beneficial result will be the
tapping Of the coal fields on the San Car
los reservation. This means cheaper
fuel and more manufactures for Phoe-
nix and the surrounding country.
EXCURSIONS TO THE SEASHORE
Although the warm weather ha as finally
set in, and hundreds have left the city,
either for the cool sea breezes of Southern
California or the pine tree attitudes of
Northern Arizona, Phoenix is yet a very
lively city, and this without counting
the almost perpetual political strife that
hovers over the capital city. What, with
electric fans. ice water, s'prinkling,
bathing and such modern accountre-
ments Of Sweltering civilization, Phoe-
nix is much more desirable summer
residence place than any city east of the
Great Divide. And people are beginning
" AAiQ ling Ouk uS SUMMER DODuld-
tion Of Phoenix this year exceeds, by a
couple Of thousand or more, that of last
year. Two factors in particular make a
summer residence in Phoenix agreeable.
One of them is the delightful evenings
and the outdoor life that is posrlble and
pleasant after dark. Another is, the fact
that lese than days ride will take one
to the cea shore. The Southern Pacific
people are wide awake to the exigencies S
Of this circumstance, and are running a
eeries of excursions between this city
and the City of the Angels at rate for
the round trip that 10 tempting. The first
excursion left here on the 3rd, and was
pronounced decided success by the To-
cal railway managers. Among the Pull
man travellers on this train were: From
Phoen.x-Mrs. Clara Coats, Mrs. K. M.
French, g Bianchi, d. j., Kavanaugh, J..
B. MeSkimmons. Mrs M. J. Sargent,
Phil @. Brennan. e. pustman, Mr.. and
Mre I. M. Taylor, Mrs Charles Young
ptrom, Mr.. and Mrs Theodore Hafrner.
From Tempe B. McCabe, Andrew
Nelson.
| All Of these excursionists went away
with ninety day tickets In their pockets
| ana a yearning for the salt sea breezes