Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1889-08-07
More About Apache coun,v,

M wore About Apacne Counsy.
 .sThe JoURNAL-MiNEk in an edito- rial of recent dates insinuates pretty strongly that the courts of Apache county are run by click Or. to put it in plain language, the officials of this county pack juries to secure certain ends, without regard to law or evidence The JouRNAL-MrNER, has from time to time, made many comments on local matters in this county, of which it does and can know nothing. The manager of that paper will take the statements of a few, some of whom, perhaps. will be casied upon to plead guilty or not guil- ty" to offenses of grave and serious nature, at OUT next term of court, for gospel truth, and publish to the world ses of the most infamous nature
 Il and against men who are as far
 ethem in the scale ofmorality, homes
 d integrity, as the heavens above
 earth. Such course may be jour- .-stic, Tn estimation of the mana ge. ot tha: per-he may think he is doing the ountry a service in abusing and vi E rlen whom he does not kn' rhav never heard of, but we are ,ce ss that we look at 1t in aU iffereut light Our idea is that he is lendirg and prostituting his high cs'.ns for .he gratihcation of the base ai ler' 0na, vindictiveness of a lot of .n-Sr, ulogs scoundrels as ever dis sraced any community.
 If the JoUNAL MINER will send representative to st. Johns, andlet him get lis. of the grand and petty jurors who served at the last term of our dis trict court and make rigid inquiries. that paper will learn that the two branches were filled by men belonging {. both politica! parties, and taken as a whole they were representative men. Let him investigate further and he will | d that their characters are beyond re- F. bach. that they are men of more than a' rage ability, and that they represent ei ;he law abiding and respectable DOT ton of the people of this county"
 The above is quoted from the St. Johns Herald and only gees to prove the truth of the position the JovRNN-MINER has taken in regard to affairs in Apache county. This paper has net received its information concerning affairs over there from either of the sources intimated m the above article. A representative of the paper was preseat and witnessed for himself the way in which things are run over there during term of court year age
 Bu, since we are accused of taking statements from individuals who are preludiced, we will now ask the Herald If i, Is no, matter of record on the min uses of the district court, that at the re cen, term of oeur, two persons were in dictei for burglary there; that one of them pleaded guilty to the charge; that afterwards an indictment was returned against both of them for grand larceny, sha, he vas allowed to withdraw his rlea of guilty ,e burglary, and being called on to plead to the charge of grand larceny, both pleaded guilty to petit lar cenyf Is this a prejudiced misstate- men,, or is 1t a matter of court recordf If the latter, will the Herald tell the req ron for ita The JouRNAL-MINER can do 50, but would prefer to hear from our contemporary.
 taain, Mir. Herald. does the court rec If your county, of the April term.
 .. show that several persons were ally banished. That is that persons -r -ged with rious crimes were permit ted Q leave territory. and that in- iictp,. nts - :..inst them were not prose cutedp q, if the Herald desires to ma its arge against this paper of n reseL..rg, it would be good plan to gy back to the court rec 1rds of the April term of 1887 and sus,l .;'en in full SO far as they relate ...e above cases. The editor of the tIers,d will remember the names of the D utie-, they have escaped our memory .t present.
 The inlimation thrown out that either | udge Morrison of Apache county or E. | Sanford of this county have been our .formants in regard to anything that has ,,neared in this paper. is absolutely | lSc.
 + is absolutely true that no unpreju-
 >ed man can attend term of count | nere without coming to the same con asion that the JoURNAL-MINER has
 pressed ID the matter.
 That no mistake may be made, or that
 misconsruc:ien may be placed on $ article. in reference to Judge Wright,
 ose friends seem to be more sensitive ]. ,he matter than he Is himself, we will , c, what every one certainly must un-
 >,and, that he IS not responsible for
 existence of two factions m that
 .aty, neither can he control juries,
 srand juries, nor prevent their prelu-
 from appearing in their actions.
 in so far as his own actions areoon-
 ed, sthey appear in the count rec.
 we believe heis willing to assume
 responsibility and we leave that to
 eofle to judge as to his being right , .rong in the matter. |;
 prominent representative os the
 ais,rs,ion speaking of the Behring's