The herald., 1897-04-12

ZUO Japanese lmpOfteu-perHdpS only "
swell the ranks of the idle whites when
the canaigre harvest is over?
Motives of economy doubtless impelled
j. w Benham, the local manager, to
bring in his little yellow men-where-
upon motives of necessity impel the tax
payer to go down in his jeans and
pungle up for the maintenance of poor
farms and such things. And so the
world wags.
A GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERY.
There is a startling rumor to the effect
that Mayor Monihon will not be a cam
didate for reelection this spring. l am
panied to hear this, but suppose States
man Goldberg is correspondingly joyful
thereat The cause of education, espe-
cially that department known as ge-
ography, will suffer with the retirement
of Mayor Monihon to private life. 1t
was Mayor Monihon who discovered
that the Amazon river flowed through
India. He made this discovery at the
late irrigation congress held in Phoenix,
during the course of a learned address
upon foreign irrigation works and meth
DDS. He pointed out that the valley of
the Nile in India was not sufficiently
watered by the Amazon, hence the need
Tor extensive lTTiSdllOH NOAho NiANA~'
At the conclusion of his eloquent address
some one ventured to point out, first,
that the Amazon river arose in South
America.
"Of course it does" said Mayor Moni-
hon, "but it flows from South America
into India does it not"
OF course this settled the matter and
no one cared to carry it any further by
| suggesting that the valley OF the Nile
could hardly flow through India even II
the Amazon could
| However, if the department OF geog-
raphy suffers by the retirement OF Mayor
| Monihon, the loss will perhaps be more
| than compensated for by the gains that
will accrue to the department of bellies
| lettres in case Aaron Goldberg's lofty
ambition is requited. Mayor Goldberg
would still be opposed to them news
papers," but his innovations to his bold
and original researches into the fields
where Lindley Murray treads with care
| and circumspection will be even more
amazing than the geographical re-
| searches of Mayor Monihon.
B. A. Fickus, ex-chairman of the
| Democratic central committee, is also a
candidate for mayoralty honors. The
weight of the territorial administration,
so long as it remains in the hands or
| Governor Franklin, will be cast against
| Fickus, who is very decent gentleman
| and quite popular inside and outside MS
PARTY, and in favor of them newspapers
| Goldberg" OF candidates for the same
| office-there are others.
An inexplicably passionate desire TO
become city marshal of Phoenix mas
seized with deadly effect upon about
one-half the population of Phoenix AT
| this early date there are six avowed can
didates on each ticket, and there are
about 600 men in each party who would
like to have the lightning strike them at
| the conventions.
| This is a most extraordinary state of
| affairs when one considers that the sal
ary attached TO the ONCE is only S1OO q
month, and that the office, as rule, un-
makes all the men who are unlucky
enough to get into it. Everybody re-
members Billy Blankenship when he was
bright and strong and popular and hat
money-the day he became city marshal
Other names might be mentioned, bu
none of them would point moral more
strongly than the name of the man who
is now city marshal.
| 3 His name Is Gus Clark; his fate mel
ancholy In the extreme. 1t is not known
outside of a very small circle that the
mayor and recorder have been compelled
| to forbid Gus to make any further col
| lections of statutory fines. But this Is a
| fact and it has been going on for a year
or more now. There would, doubtless,
have been a case in court against Clark;
but it was decided to go as easy upon
him as possible.
| About year ago an attempt was made
to expert the books of the city marshal,
but no books to speak of could be found.
Some few notes were broAght to light,
but these were in bad, bad way, and
| it is probably the case that even Clark
| himself had no idea of the amount of
money he had collected. The fines came
| from the disorderly houses, of which
| there are many in Phoenix and the
amount collected from all of them makes
| very neat sum per month. when de-
| posted to the credit of the city fund. But
| Clark failed to deposit the fines regular
ly-or even at all. Then a quiet investi-
cation was held, the details of which
were not printed by the city papers-for
Gus is a good fellow and when he gets
out of office he may straighten UP again
and become useful citizen once more
Gus was first-class tinsmith and had
plenty of money in his pockets when he
became city marshal. The office spoiled
good tinsmith and did not make a good
marshal of him.
Another man that this office is playing
the deuce with is William Limbrock,
who was, until month or so ago, very
good shoemaker. Just as joke come of
the boys around town who ought to
have been at other business, put him up
to running for city marshal He stands
less show of getting the office than / do,
and l would not take 1t if it was served
up to me on a silver service But Linn
brock thinks he can get the nomination,
and now he is spending all his time and
his scant savings in making the rounds
of the saloons on Washington street and
asking all hands to name their poison.
There's something fatal about the Of
flee, and I'll tell you what it is-it's the
evil influences of the disorderly houses
from which the man who holds the office
must collect fine. Some men can stand
little of that kind of association, but
no man can stand it habitually.
The true inwardness of all these recent
railroad deals becomes apparent now,
and it seems quite clear that the Santa
Fe and the Southern Pacific are not GO
ing to be rivals in Arizona any longer.
The Santa Fe is to have northern Ari-
zona for its own and the Southern Pa