Arizona citizen., 1872-02-03

contempt.
 The Clerk of the Court is required to spread this order upon the Journal of the court, and cause a copy thereof to be made under hls hand and the at testation of the seal of said court, and deliver the same to the Sheriff of Yuma county for service as other pro- cess. December 18th, A. D. 1871.
 ISLAM REAvIs, Judge.
 In witness whereof, l have hereunto set my hand and seal of the court of of the 2d Judicial District, in and for the county of Yuma, Territory of Ari- zona, on the 12th day of Decem Der, A. D. 1871. J. w. DoRRINGToN,
 District Clerk.
 By R. B. KELLEY, Deputy Clerk.
 1 hereby certify this to be true and correct copy of the original order in said cause on file at my office.
 J. w. DORRINGTON, Clerk. Action of Judge Reavis in the Case
 for Contempt.
 Territory of Arizona vs. A. A. Mix. Order to show cause why he should not be dismissed from the office of Ad- ministrator of the estate of M. D.. Dobbins deceased, and be punished for contempt.
 Now on this Sd day of January A.. D. 1872, this cause came on to be heard upon the citation heretofore is- sued by the presiding Judge of this court at chambers to the defendant to appear in this court at its adjourned November term, to be holden at Ari- zona city, in the county of Yuma and Territory of Arizona. on the 25th day of Dec, A. D. 1871, to answer an alleged contempt of the lawful authority of the District Court. in this that the said defendant had in the view and knowl- edge of said presiding Judge at cham bers contemptuously disobeyed the lawful order of said ourt made and entered at and during the November term, A. D. 1871, of said court, ap- pointing said defendant co-adminis- trator with R. B. Kelley on the estate of NJ. D. Dobbins, deceased, in a cause, then pending in said District Court, on appeal from the Probate Court of said county, wherein R. B. Kelley was the appellant and the said defendant Mix was the appellee, involving the question of the right of administration on said estate, of the parties litisant and said cause coming on regularly to be heard at the time aforesaid, by agreement of the parties entered of record, said cause was dismissed and an order entered by said court appointing both the said R. B. Kelley and the said Mix administrators to act conjointly in the administration and settlement of said estate; and it ap- bearing to the presiding Judge of this court at chambers in his presence and view that the defendant Mix was dis obeying and disregarding the order so made and entered as aforesaid, and to which he was consenting party, in a derisive and contemptuOus manner, and in that connection he, the said Mix, wrote the said presiding Judge, during the recess of the court and while he was at chambers, an and contemptuous letter touching the proceedings aforesaid, in which the said defendant Mix de- manded of said presiding Judge at chambers, in an insulting, arrogant and contemptuous manner, his au- thority for doing certain acts and things concerning the subject matter of the order aforesaid and the pro had hereunder and 1t further ap- bearing to the court, that on the actual view and presence of the Judge hereof at cham bers, that the said defendant Mix, in contempt of the lawful order of this Court so made as afore- said, and in direct violation of the powers therein conferred upon him to tct in said administration conjointly with R. B. Kelley, did on the 11th lay of December A. D. 1871, at the own of Arizona City, in the countysof Yuma and Territory of Arizona, and tt divers other times before that time, attempt to possess himself of the sum # fifteen hundred dollars in the gold ;oin of the United States, said to be- ong to the estate aforesaid, then in he hands of the firm of Messrs. Hooper, Whiting & Co.,, doing business t the said town of Arizona City, without the concurrence, knowledge