Arizona republican., 1899-02-16
THE LAST OBJECTORS
Answers to inc Guys Petitions
 Flied Yesterday,

Answers were filed in district court yesterday to the city's petitions for the annexation of the Bennett and
 contiguous tracts on tn north and Den
 his and Murphy's additions on the
 east and northeast The answers CT
 objections were not greatly different
 from those filed the day before in the
 cases of the University addition and
 Seger ard adjoining tracts.
 In the answer relating to
 the Bennett tract the defend
 antd are L. L. Plank, Daniel
 Steele, D. H. Burtis, Shirley Christy,
 c. Campbell Thomas D. Bennett, F. A. Penick, Guy Bennett. S2idee D.
 Bennett, w. g. Pickreu, Jos eph Campbell, H. J. Jessop, F. H. Greene, Margaret Elrringer and
 Irving FuIl. The county of Maricopa also appears as one of the o5jectors. It rligh- be supposed from this >ciTcum- stance that the county is apprchensiye that the city intends to extend its linn it's all over the irrigated and unirri- gated regions of the Salt River valley. But that is net the case. The county only wants to keep the old county hos pital outside the city limits.
 The answer is Q very readable document and is net untinged by sarcasm. It sets forth in the first place that the addi- tion proposed to be annexed is not contiguous to the city. It is also stated that the proposed addition contains only sixteen houses with the usual complement of out buildings. That region is represented to be unftted to suddenly become a part of a growing municipality in that it is 8 community Of simple alfalfa TaiseIs and cattle grCXers whose wagons of hay cOnStan- = Iv crCwd the reads and Wkclse cattle dot the landscape. Turning from this picture of bGcclic freedom, from the maGdening crowds ignCble strife, the answer calls attention to the improve ments which these simple minded in habitants have wrought in thai- midst
 Within the last five years they have spent 0,000 in building good reads and streets. This sum is alleged to exceed the amount the city has spent on all the streets in it's corporate limits wiGhin the same period. So if there is any anneXing to be done there is hint that Phoenix should seek to be annexsd to the Bennett tract.
 The government of the city is de- scribed as an alleged government which has been guilty of many extray- agances resulting in the piling up Of 9 heavy burden Of indebtedness, no part of which the objectOrs want to as- sume. The answer closes with a noti- fcation to City Attorney Bennett that Q jury will be demanded in the deter imitation of this matter. If this de- lightful and sequestered region is to be turned into 8 bustling metropolis, if the lew Cf kine, the hum of bees, ! the yodel of the shepherds and the glad shouts of the plOwmen driving their teams afeld is to be exchanged ! for the shrill whistle of factories, the rush Of trolley cars, the hiss Of es- caping steam, the clangOr Of bells and all that gees to make up the hcarse, i angty roar of commerce.; if these | plain and honest tillers of the soil | these prOpa gators of cattle and sheep | and these growers of alfalfa are to be | ,orced to become attorneys and de1-i t5 1 and bankers and merchants and min l isters and dealers in real estate and | ga pitaIists, the responsibility for tke | startling transformation must rest | IpCn twelve good men and true.