Arizona republican., 1906-09-01
NORTHERN YUMA co.
 REGISTERS A PROTEST
Fears Effort is Being Made tO Deprive
 It of Voting Privilege.

Salome. Ariz., Aug. 3O-CSpeciaI ! Correspondence of The RepubHcan)-
 The people. of the northern end of l Yuma county are much incensed these l days over the action of the board of ! supervisors in designating only liar 1 risburg and Quartzsite as voting pre- l cincts. entirely ignoring SalOme, Wen ! den. HarqUa Hala. Nicksburg and BraytOn. formerly Bouse's Wells. The | consensus of opinion in this part of 1 the county regardless of political af- l filiatiOns, is that the leading politi- clans in the southern end of the coun- ty, and particularly in Yuma. have the vote well in hand in that section. but are afraid of the many new voters who have come into the northern part of the county and intend to keep as | many of them from voting as possible. by making it so inconvenient to go to the polls that the majority of the vot- CTS will not go. Harrisburg which is designated as the voting place for this section, is the only voting place with in fifty miles in every direction. And when it is known that there really is no Harrisburg now, the store and all
 business already having been moved to Salome and to HarQua Hala it is a
 serious reflection on the supervisors and their actions can only be attribut- ed to ignorance or a deliberate inten- tiOn to decrease the votes of this end
 Of the county. The only actual bona
 fide resident at Harrisburg today with
 the exception of the mail carrier and
 one other, is the unfortunate postmas- ter. who served notice on the govern
 
 not remain much longer and is now only waiting for the government red tape to close up and leave. Salome and WendendaIe are. and have been for nearly two years. regularly estab- ! hshed postOffices and stations on the Arizona and California railway and there are in the neighborhood of two . tO three hundred mining men. miners . prospectors and others in the northern . end of the county who are entitled to vote, regardless of the floating vote of the railroad laborers. Petitions are . being circulated, directed to the board of supervisors. asking that Salome. Wenden. Harqua Hala. and Brayton be made voting precincts. so that vot- CTS living in the live towns along the | new railroad. will not have to ride Il twenty to fifty miles away from the railroad to extinct villages to cast I their votes.
 The actions of the republican coun- ty central committee in ignoring the proxy of John Martin. not allowing the northern end of the county any representation and naming a joint statehood delegation to Bisbee, is not at all satisfactory 10 the republicans of this end of the county. who feel that they are entitled to some consid- eration. If there is a single joint statehood advocate in this end of the county he is careful to keep it a secret, and the delegation from Yuma county, does not represent either the republican voters of this end of the { county or their views, regardless of what the Molly delegation may say or io.
 There is considerable talk in this end of the county of petitioning the coming legislature to annex the north 7rn part of Yuma county particularly that part along the A. & C. road. to either Maricopa or Yavapai county. E in as much as this end of the county Is really only nominalIy d part of Yuma county, being separated from the county seat by several hundred miles of railway and an even greater difference of opinion. At present, resident of this end of the county. or )f the southern end of Mohave coun- -y. to get to the county seat. must go oy rail from Salome, Wenden or liar risburg to Wickenburg, thence to Phoenix MariCopa and then to Yuma pr else through Prescott to Ask Fork ! and then to Kingman, in either case going through the county seats of oth- er counties to get to his own county seat. This works a hardship on par ties having business to transact at the county seat. both in time, money and and because the people k and the county officials at Yuma know nothing or very little about this end of the county, and pay no atten- ton to it except when something is wanted, the people of this section are beginning to feel that their interests might be bettered by becoming allied with the nearer and more congenial county seats, Phoenix or Prescott.
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