Arizona citizen., 1872-02-03


 judged that said defendant be and is hereby dismissed from the office and trust conferred upon him by the order so made as aforesaid, and that he desist from any further interference ill the administration aforesaid, under the penalty of the law; and it is further ordered that the matter of the admin istration of the estate of M. D. Dob bins, deceased, be remanded to the Pro- bate Court of Yuma county with direc- tion that the Judge thereof, at the earliest practicable moment, proceed in the selection of some one or more suitable persons among the creditors of said estate to administer thereon to the end that the same may be brought to speedy settlement.
 l certify that the above is a true copy as taken from the records on file in my office.
 JOHN W. DoRRINGToN, Clerk. By R. B. KELLEY, Deputy Clerk.
 Appeal to Supreme Court.
 In the District Court, 2d Judicial District, in and for the county of Yuma and Territory of Arizona. In the matter of the order to show cause why A. A. Mix should not be dis missed from his office as Administra- tor of the estate of M. D. Dobbins, deceased.
 To Isham Reavis, Judge of the above named court, and to John w. Darlington, Clerk thereof - Gentle men: You and each of you are hereby notified that the undersigned appeals to the Supreme Court of this Terri tory from the order of the court dis missing A. A. Mix from said office of Administrator of the estate of M. D. Dobbins, deceased, and will rely on appeal upon the record of said cause, and upon the affidavits of the mem- bers of the Bar as to the manner in which 1t was tried, as also to the atf- davits of persons who were present in the Courtroom. A. A. MIX. sworn Details of the Case.
 Territory of Arizona. county of Yuma. Personally appeared before me, James $. Spann, County Recorder in and for Yuma county, duly con- missioned and sworn, Alfred A. Mix, who being duly sworn deposes and says: That on or about the 9th day of November A. D. 1871, R. B. Kelley made application to the Hon. Probate Court Ill and for Yuma county afore- said for letters of administration upon the estate of M. D. Dobbins, deceased; that the deponent was then acting as administrator of said estate by virtue of letters granted by the Probate Court aforesaid, and opposed said application. The said court denied the application of said Kelley, from which decision he then appealed to the District court, 2d Judicial District The appeal coming on to be heard in the said District Court, Isham Reavis, Judge, the deponent was called into the court and was asked by the Judge If the case was not compromised, whereupon deponent answered that he had understood that the court would make some order in the case. The Judge then asked deponenu if he would be satisfied with such order as he should make, and deponent replied that the order of court must satisfy him and the order was made dis missing the appeal and appointing R. B. Kelley as co-administrator with de- ponent. The court also gave some verbal order in regard to settling up the estate. That subsequent thereto, to-wit on or about the 26th day of November 1871, deponent, as admins trator, called upon Wm. B. Hooper & Co. for the sum of fifteen hundred | dollars coin in their hands belonging to said estate, and that they gave the deponent letter hereto attached and marked exhibit B that on or about the 2Oth day of November A. D. 1871, deponent received letter from San Diego, signed Isham Reavis, and ad- dressed to MIX & Kelley, admins trators, &c., which letter is hereto at tached and marked exhibit A; and that subsequently, to-wit, on the Sth day of December A. D. 1871, de- ponent wrote letter to Hon. Isham Reavis, as follows, copy of which letter is now on file in my office as Public Administrator of Yuma county, Arizona Territory:
 ARIZONA CITY, A. T., Dec. s, 1871. Sir: We are in receipt of a letter from