Arizona republican., 1899-10-10

(do this and make necessary improve ments will require an assessment of $132 a share, which. it is thought. will
 be met willingly. As soon as the canal has been re-equipped the water will be put on cash basis, the proceeds go- ing to make the property better Mr.
 Braley has also bought the landed in-
 terests of the O'Neill estate under the
 canal and will settle the property with California coIonists.
 PETITIONS POURING IN.-Peti-
 tions from most of the additions for
 admission to the city limits will be be-
 fore the city council at it's meeting
 next Monday night. The Dennis addi-
 tion petition is said to be almost unan- imous. One which W. C. Foster has
 been circulating in the northern addi-
 tions is nearly so and the one
 from Murphy addition embraces
 much more than half the res idents and property owners. The signers must represent the prop
 erty. not numerically. but in the
 bulk. All the petitions now in have been submitted to Assessor Luke to see if they represent more than half the property. and to City Attorney Darby to determine if they are correct in form. The Simms petition was pre- sented by c. NJ Frazier and R. Allyn Lewis who said it represented nearly everybody in their bailiwick We do not want any electric light out in our addition said Mr Frazier No water. no sewer no work on the street, TO police protection, nothing at all but the privilege of getting into Phoenix to pay taxes and help support this mag nificent city,
 THE WORLD WANTS PEACE.- The New York World has undertaken to prevent bloodshed in South Africa while the New York journal is offering an internal policy to the United States. There has been received from the World, at the office of the governor of this territory petition to be signed and addressed to President Mckinley authorizing him to mediate between England and the Transvaal. This probably is only one of about forty five similar petitions which have been sent out by the World Governor Mur- phy, who is now in the east. has not been telegraphed for to come home and sign this petition, and when he comes he will perhaps neglect to sign it. If there were twice as many states and territories as there are and the govern
 
 tition the president would almost cer- tainly not act upon it. He has already almost said as much. His friendly offices have not been requested by either of the most interested parties and England, for one, has announced that the subject is not ripe for medi- alton and never will be. Dom Paul in response to an inquiry by the World. said he was ready to be iabored with, but that is not construed to be an offl- cial request.
 IT STARTED IN PHOENIX. The New York Sun has for some time been throwing a couple of columns of it's editorial page open to discussion con- corning ''The Immortality of the Soul" This fruitless debate is sometimes par tially relieved by the consideration of other subjects almost as difficult of final and satisfactory settlement. Among these subjects is the origin of the word .-rubber-neck," which is just now dividing time with ''The ImmOr- taIity of the Soul.'' One Sun cor respondent U. w. says he believes the word is a product of the west. He first heard it in Phoenix, Ariz.. four years ago, when it was applied to the outer members of the crowd which col Iected about the gambling tables when an unusually heavy play was going on. U. w. believes that the word was first used by a roulette dealer and was so expressive that it came to be applied to all those who put them selves out of their way to see any thing. On his return east J. w" found that ''rubber-neck both as noun and verb, and ''rubber-necking' as a participle, had preceded him and was threatening to fasten itself on the English language. The Sun is of the opinion that "rubber-neck' has passed through it's probationary eX- istence as a slang expression and should be admitted to full member ship in the association of good strong English words.