Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-06-02
GRAND JURY.
Report for the March Term.
4 Close scrutiny into Public Matters.
Reports and Accommodation Of the
 Various Committees.

To his Honor \. W. Sheldon, Judg
 of the District Court oi tbe First Judicia
 District of Arizona.-Sir: The grant jury empanelled for tho a5iourne.
 March term \. D., 1883. beg leave t'
 report that we have investigated |
 cases.
 We found indictments for murder 1 for grand larceny, l malicious ms
 chiei, l burglary, l misdemeanor and
 dismissed three charges.
 Considerable of our time has been occupied in investigating matters in- troduced by parties having private grievances, seeking redress by means of the criminal law when such parties have ample redress at civil law.
 Our criminsl business would have been much facilitated, had commit ment papers from Justices of the Peace been made according to law. In some cases We fuuni them so faulty, as to be absolutely worthless as evidence.
 We acknowledge the invaluable ser vices Of our District Attorney Judge F. M. Smith in all matters winch require hIs counsel and advice.
 Heretofore the grand jury reports have been filed, and their importance, have not received that attention which the interests Of the public require. The accompanying reports have been prepared with great care and some la sIrsar gross wrongs exist and public monies are misused.
 We question the wisdom of any law which gIyes the power to the Board of Supervisors to issue bonds to ald any enterprise.
 We believe such matters should be left to a vote of the people to be &C., cepted or rejected by them.
 Ou examination We find the jail very insecure and have recommended such alterations and improvements as We believe will render 1t secure.
 We notice in the stone arch over the front door uf the court house and other places In the building evidence that the foanda- ton has settled more in some places than in others, and recommend that the Board Of Supervisors take immediate steps to repair the same.
 We recommend tue BOard of Super visors give much attention tO the build ing and repairing of public roads, there by aifOrdiuE Co the citizens of the county such access tD and from the city as their wants requItc.
 We cal the attention of the Mayor and Common C uuci, of the city ot Tue son to the fact that houses of prostitu. ton openly exist in streets Uf the city along which decent women, children and men are compelled to pa-s.
 That camblm- houses occupy con- Epicuous places in the most central and parts of the city, and that faro, rouge ct nor, monte and poker are l played in the mos; public manner.
 We charge these two eyils-gambling l and houses of prosututIou-wlth beng l the causes of much of the crime com | mitted III the city and county, and that | tO Incense them would be tO legalize the | very worst forms of vice, outrage public | decency and encourage immortality. | We believe the time has arrived when | the respectable clement of this cOmmu- Dity Is sufficiently potent Co demand | that laws be enacted to suppress them. |
 Responsible parties have represented l to the grand jury that the ammunition | used by hostile ApacEes in their several ! raids was purchased Dy tame Apaches l from Tucson merchants.
 As the tame Apaches have a right, un- | der the law, to purchase ammunition, We | appeal to the legislature of the Terri | tory to apply such remedy as in theIr l wisdom may seem fit.
 We also recommend that the leg | isiature shall pass law protect | ing the game of the Territory.
 We call attention to the magnitude of | the county indebtedness. which is at | present Sl,l53l5, and wise public | policy demands that 1t be not increased. |
 We find that the. Board of superyis- ors did, on the 7th of May, 1883, make . an order giving to the Tucson Smelling I Company Sl5,OJ0 in the bonds of Pima | county; that their authority for such action was based on an act passed by the | Territorial Legislature at its last ses- sion entitled an act authorizing the | Board of Supervisors of Pima county to to pledge the credit of the county to as- sist public enterprises. We deem it | quite remarkable that men of fair intel hgence can construe a smelling cOm- pany to be Q public enterprise, or an enterprise of public nature. A pub lie enterprise k one devoted Co public | uses and subject to public control. The Legislature has not empowered, and | cannot empower, a Board of Supervis- i ors to grant aid Co private enterprises. l We most respectfully and earnestly pro ! test against the action of said Board in | piedgiuR the credit of this county in , aid of the Tucson Smelling Company, ! as without authority of law and serious ] lv detrimental to the best interests of this county.
 We urgently recommend that the tax ! payers Of this county take immediate ! steps to prevent the cunsumuatlUn of | this outrage on Pima county.
 II. B. CUllum, Foreman, I. $. Fried, Geo. 4. Gum, John F. Magee. Charles kresham, | Leopoldo Csrrillo, John G. Goodman, | Abe Marx, Richard Starr, | F.. K. Wellington, Anthony Anslyn, Jos ?. Lonergan, Roht. Lloyd, H. Bruus. r.. l.. Caples. Wm. II. Burke. J. A. Ernwder, J. Fl. C.Wal:emath, Wm. <. Edwards,
 Philip Schreitor.
 COURT HOUSE.
 ToTHE FOREMAN OF Tuv GRAND JURY, | Pima County, \. T.. The committee on | the Board of Supervisors and Court 1 House, submit ss follows:
 The business in the Supervisors of- l flee IS conducted in business like and | aaFr gs