Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-01-04
FROM TUCSON.
FRYING-PAN HINTS OF DARK CON
 SPIRACIES BEING FORMED.
Upon Which He win Soon Turn Blaze of Light--Newsy Topics Treated
 Upon, Etc.

EDITOR ENTERPRISE The prosper ity of southern Arizona has been re- tarded at every step of her material progress by wicked conspiracy of un scrupulous men to control the most valuable lands in the territory.
 The audacious claims of Mexican grant owners caused the honest set tiers of Arizona to almost despair of ever being permitted to live in peace upon their lands, free from that con stant drain of expense and those sore annoyances which are the curse of laboring mans life.
 The public pulse had hardly ceased to throb with fervent gratitude to Sur veyor-General Johnson for the noble stand he has taken in his praisworthy report on the Peralta grant, when the town has been filled with the ugliest rumors of new land ring, the most infamous that has ever been conceiv- ed by the mind of man. I cannot give you the full particulars now, as some few of the details are as yet unknown even to your correspondent; but the scandal is connected with the proposed segregation of the San Carlos Indian reservation. Frying-Pan would solemnly warn all of the land officers of this territory to give this business wide berth, if they would preserve for themselves that reputation which is dearer to every worthy public officer than silver and gold.
 The Mexican grant owners, who have, like huge octopus, fastened themselves upon the vitals of Arizona and sapped the life blood out of her prosperity, are about to be shaken off, and it behooves the people to see to it that other land rings, equally odious, are not organized in fraud and rascality, to combine with the willy grant owners in 8 brazen effort to rob the people of this territory of their | heritage.
 I shall turn the full blaze of light upon this business in future letter, so that the people of Arizona may know who are the friends of good gov ernment. The manipulations of these conspirators, their names and pur- poses, will be exposed, together with
 the evil consequences this abominable
 conspiracy will have upon the future
 of Arizona.
 The scurrilous attack upon the Hon. | Harry R. Jefords which appeared in
 the St. Louis Republic of recent date,
 is unworthy of the individual who
 wrote it, however low he may be in
 the scale of humanity, and if, as ru
 mor has it, the pen of a brother law
 yer and public official at that, in-
 dited the same, then, its author is
 unfit to be named in the same breath
 with honorable gentlemen, and he is
 an everlasting disgrace to the dignified
 profession which his talents ought to
 qualify him to adorn. Harry R. Jef-
 lords is every inch the peer of any
 lawyer in Arizona territory, and his
 abilities have won for him an enviable
 position in the front rank of his pro
 fession He is the acknowledged lead : CT of the bar in his own county, and his traducer could well afford to aban- don the lucrative trade he is now fol lowing, could he earn the same fec Harry R. Jefords does in the legiti mate practice0&the law.
 The same canNbe said of William
 Herring in Cochise county thatI havt said of Mir. Jeffords. The only faul to be found with either of these gen tlemens by their brother attDrneys, i that tlses arenslch steIl,ng, hIgh sou ] cd. honorahl "a z{leal< <leinen that tie ftr h6l irz5 M rn8 $ enxce<i taFe of f}l 2 3r6!;s 14lIk 1a< Esis;1sass of tsss sdt5i1 " miinffy bNzlf< {Hen7selyes s7te<eb1
 b IlIhM rtrIis6t hes it that she boar of supervisors Of Pima county, feelin
 1ctii b6F see Billy Barnes lose the ia little Income he so long illegally re I ceived from thle country fTAasur , without rendering dollars worth 0 service in return, have employed hin t in the sinecure position of legal advis or of the board on tax questions. : has always been my opinion that tn
 District Attorney was paid the sum C |. twenty-five hundred dollars per yea
 for that very service, and the employ
 ment of Barnes, if true, is either a sa
 commentary upon the ability Of Di e trict Attorney Hereford and his brigt e young assistant, CT else it is useles |. and urwarranted expenditure of th T county funds which the taxpayers ( y our already overburdened county ca e ill afford to stand. An explanation d in order, gentlemen ~-.-
 u The U. s. Land Office has been T, |, moved from the old quarters to ol roomy, attractive building on CongTes IT. street, just below Stone Avenue. TT
 work of the office is being rapid 'e disposed of by the new incumbent E and from present indications all "olC 50 business will be off the dockets with IS the next sixty days. If "green horn
 can not only perform the current wol IL of the office, but can at the san 'h time dispose of such mass of old bu mess in so short time, it is difficu Y to find any reasonable excuse for u H. office having been behind so long u le der Fred w. Smith; and the inferen e. is strong that it was purposely ke 'n so. By the way, Smith has not y pc returned and the "mourners' bencl IS is still full lu Supt. Noble, of the Southern Paci T. railroad company, returned last nIel
 He is on crutches. having spraili at his foot by jumping down Q fQurtee st foot embankment at the scene of t 10 washOuts. After a long consulfali Al- with Col. Jas. A. Zabriskie, MT. Not Ill finally concluded not to sue the col H. pany for damages, as it would be il
 possible to prove to a Tucson jury l yond reasonable doubt that Ste oI Brodie might not have performed t at act without such serious consequence :e and hence MT. Noble was presumat lls guilty of contributory negligence. 'e Yours, etc.
 'st Tucson, Dec. 31, 'S9. FRYING-Pl vii