Arizona citizen., 1872-02-03

cation to Hooper, Whiting & Co. for mon- eys in their hands, reply stating in sub stance that you had given them a verbal
 order not to pay over any moneys in their
 hands belOI ging to the estate of NJ. D.
 DObbins, deceased, to any one until so
 ordered by your Court. Will you there fore inform us if you gave the above cited order, and if so, by what authority9 and also please give us the authority for issuing to us from San Diego, an order to
 pay any claim against said estatey
 An answer to the above will oblige.
 Yours, respectfully, A. A. MIX.
 To Hon. Isham Reavis, present.
 Upon the date of said letter at about
 ? P. M., R. B. Kelley called upon de-
 ponent and said that Judge Reavis
 wished to see deponent at the District
 Clerks office, whereupon deponent
 called on Judge Reavis at the above
 indicated place that in conversation
 with said Judge Reavis, he, the said
 Judge, said in substance that the
 detention of the funds in the hands of
 Hooper & Co.,, was mistake and
 intimated that 1t would be rectifed,
 and i'll regard to the money of s. Nav
 Co. that the same was due them, and
 said 1t was in effect as the money were
 stolen, and they could follow it any
 where, which view the deponent con-
 bated and opposed and deponent says
 that the Stm. Nav. Go. have filed an account with deponent for the said
 money, which account has not as yet
 been acted upon by me as admins trator nor by the Probate Court; that
 subsequently,, to-wit, on the ninth day
 of December, A. D. 1871, deponent called upon Hooper & Go. for the funds in their hands belonging to the estate of M. D. Dobbins, deceased, and that the said firm asked until evening to respond to the said demand that on the said day, to-wit, Dec g,
 1871. in company with Clarence Gray, his attorney, deponent called upon John s. Carr, one of the aforesaid firm of Wm. B. Hooper & Co.,, who handed me, the deponent, letter hereto annexed and marked exhibit e." that thereupon deponent took advice of his said attorney, and the next day, or the day thereafter, depo- nent made written demand on the aforesaid firm for the said money, to- wit; Fifteen hundred dollars; that the said written demand was presented by deponent to John $. Carr afore- said, in company with his said at torney that at the time the same was presented, Judge Reavis was in the store of Hooper & Co.,; that upon reading the same, John $. Carr said in substance that he would reply to same, and subsequently, on the 18th day of December A. D.. 1871, that deponent in company with his attorney called upon said John S. Carr, and the said John $. Carr then and there delivered to deponent the letter hereto annexed and marked Exhibit "D;" that on or about the 12th day of De- cember, A. D., 1871, deponent was served with notice to show cause why he should not be dismissed from his said office and be punished for con- tempt, a copy of which Is hereto an- nexed and marked "E;" that upon being served with said notice, ,deponent, in company with his attorney. Clar- ence Gray, called upon R. B. Kelley, Deputy District Clerk, at his office i'll Arizona City, and deponent's attorney asked the said Deputy for copy of the complaint on which said order was made, and the said Deputy replied that the order was all the papers he had in the matter. Deponent fur ther says that at the time of the said service and long time before, the said Court was not in session. that depo- nent has been in close attendance on the said District Court since the same has convened on the 2Jth day of De- cember, A. D. 1871, until this day, and has not treated the Court with any contempt whatsoever, nor has de- ponent disobeyed any legal order of said Court; that on the 3d day of Jan uary, A. D. 1872, the Court being then in session, deponent was called and Judge Reavis in substance said as follows: MT. Mix, you have been cited to appear to show cause why you should not be dismissed from your office of administrator of M. D. Dob bins, deceased, and punished for con 5empt. At previous term of this Court. VOL were invested with cer- ain trust and you have in a ,ontemptuous maDner dlsobeyed the ,rder of the Court. This contempt ,ous behaviour of yours was ill