Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-01-30
EDITORIAL NOTES.

It makes one weary to read in the Phenix papers about the Journal Miner abusing the legislature, when the paper has not even made the slightest criticism of that body. It is pretty difficult to criticise until something has been done to base criticism on.
 Anysproposition to make two terri tories of Arizona is on a par, so far as reason or justice is concerned, with the proposition to divide Yavapai county. It is a remarkable coinci- dence that the argument used in each instance is economy, that two coun- ties or two territories can be run cheaper than one.
 Mary Ellen Lease has filed suit for divorce from her husband at Wichita, Kansas, on the grounds of incompatibility and failure to support, The trouble between the couple was reported to have been patched up some weeks ago, but this would indi, cate that the patch was not big enough to cover the trouble,
 Miss Carrie Nation, in her saloon smashing crusade, in Kansas, shows how inconsistent and fanatical one can become. That she is an earnest and enthusiastic temperance woman there is no doubt, bu: her actions are calcu- lated to to do greater harm than good to the cause she represents Fanati- cism never produced any great re- forms.
 = It is stated that the latest proposi- tion made on behalf of Clark county is that the new county will agree to assume one-half of the indebtedness of Yavapai county, while by the amended lines proposed it would take only about one-fourth of the taxable property as shown by the present assessment roll. This on the face of it seems fair, the only trouble being that with valuation as other prop erty in the county is assessed, the United Verde Copper company's plant and mines would have a valuation of at least one-half or more of the pres ent valuation of the entire county.
 The boundary lines of proposed Clark county have been amended of late. It must be conceded that these lines are much fairer than those ori- ginally proposed. The lines as amended commences at Cottonwood springs at the Maricopa boundary line and follows up the Agua Fria river and Lonesome valley, striking the U. V. & P. railroad about two or three miles east of Jerome Junction, inter secting Coconino county line south east of Ash Fork where it makes its turn north to the Santa Fe Pacific railroad. It leaves all of the rail- roads in Yavapai county except the United Verde & Pacific and about two or three miles of this road will be left in the old county.
 Speaking of a recent article in the Journal-Miner on county division, the Jerome Reporter says: "In the dis cussion of this question Editor Mar tin should not lose control of his tenn per to such an extent as to call the population of Jerome and the Verde valley a gang" In the discussion of this question Editor Thompson should not lose the truth. The Jour nal-Miner's reference to gang" did not in the remotest manner refer "to the population of Jerome and the Verde valley" but was explicit in ref erence to gang of politicians, office
 
 seekers and others actual tpd solely by selfish motives, who are trying to work the population of Jerome and the Verde valley on county division.
 The governor of Missouri recon mends that kidnapping be made capital offense.
 The Southern Pacific sack, accom- panied by Harry Carpenter, has made its appearance in the 2lst legislature. Courier. The editorof the Journal Miner has not seen the. inside of MT. Carpenters sack, but he was told in Phsnix that it contained Clark county copper and sulphur smoke.
 MT. Aliens echo is working both sides of the political road on county division. In and around Jerome he tells democrats that with the creation of Clark county they will have strong democratic county under any and all circumstances. To republi- cans in Yavapai he offers the argu- ment that with Jerome out, Yavapai will be republican county. So far as the Journal Miner is concerned. there are no politics in the county division question.
 The Prescott Journal-Mine seems to have it in for the Arizona legisla- ture. In fact the J. NJ. probably wants to abolish the legislature be- cause it is not republican.-Enter- prise. If the Journal-Miner has con- tained anything uncomplimentary to the legislature it has escaped the eye of its editor. It is willing to judge it by its acts. If the present body | does any thing worthy of commenda- tion the Journal Miner will not be slow in congratulating it and os hold ing it up to public view as something new in its line in the territory.
 A Camp Verde correspondent of our contemporary raises the doubt as to whether ". A. Clark favors the division of Yavapai county and inti- mates that the scheme is Mir. Aliens solely. The intimation given out of, the money that will be spent, if necessary, tn secure if is tha hl.st nuidonno thnt l