Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-06-07
An Emphatic Denial.
Indianapolis Journal.

The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette | of yesterday contained long state ment concerning alleged irregularities in which United States Judge Wright, of Arizona, and Danlel P Baldwin, of the Wabash Cattle Company, were implicated. The Journals Logans- port correspondent was instructed to call on Judge Baldwin and learn what he had to say in relation to the charges made in the letter. After reading the letter Judge Baldwin said:
 lift was not so absurd, would feel enraged. It is signed w. H. s. who is well known in this community as Ananias Smith. The article has not word of truth in it from beginning to end. The Wabash Cattle Company never made, directly or indirectly, fraudulent entry or proof of land. They do not own a foot of land they have not bought and paid for. No charge has ever been made against
 them of obtaining land or anything else dishonestly, and every sentence contained Tn this article is false. So far as Judge Wright Is concerned he lives POO miles from our ranch and l
 have nothing to do directly or indirect ly, with the law firm of Baldwin x
 Johnston. That Baldwin is lawyer from Mississippi practicing at Prescott, Arizona Territory. never heard
 before of the Kansas City Mining Com pany, and there is not, to my certain
 knowledge, silver mine in Apache
 county, where our ranch is situated. l
 never heard of Blackburn or Hawk
 I know Henry Tuning, but I never
 heard word against him. AS to his
 being a jury briber or controlling the
 Mormons, that is pure fiction. The
 Wabash Cattle Company never had a
 lawsuit, nor was threatened with law
 suit before Judge Wright, or any one
 else. We have never had any litigat
 ed business of any kind. am lawyer enough to keep our company out ot law. My acquaintance with Wright
 was purely professional. l was em-
 ployed by Apache county to enforce
 the collection of something like $75,- 900 delinquent taxes against the Allan
 tic and Pacific Railroad Company.
 I brought suit in the United States
 Court, presided over by Judge Wright,
 and won the case. The railroad com
 pany appealed to the Supreme Court
 of the Territory, and 1 again won.
 From that court the railroad company
 appealed to the Supreme Court of the
 United States at Washington and
 was in Washington on that business.
 was not telegrsphed to go to Wash
 ington and fix things. do not own
 the United States Senate, nor Attorney
 General Miller, nor President Harrison
 and don't believe have any personal
 influence with them The lawyers at
 Prescott, Arizona Territory, thought
 that Judge Wright was persecuted by false charges, and supposed that, being personally acquainted with Attorney General Miller and President Harrison
 could obtain 8 hearing more readily
 than they, and they asked me when
 at Washington to look into the mat
 ter. obtained copy of the charges gave Attorney-General Miller my opin ion of them and asked him to fix c day for investigation, which he did Judge Wright was sent for, and came out of the investigation with hyine colors. President Harrison refused tc dismiss him on the charges, and tho Attorney-General decided the charge: not only false but malicious l wa, not present at the investigation was in Washington in September last and not since. The only Senator talked with was Senator Edmunds and not word was said about Good ing's confirmation, or any other man s . 1 never wrote any Senator or any ont else about Gooding's confirmation, o in any way attempted to defeat 1t Our company does not own Arizon. or Apache county. The law gives u all the rights We want, honestly ant fairly, and we have tried to strictly at . tend to our own business We have nt political influence in the territory ex cept what we are entitled to as citizen , of the United States and we do not us, that fraudulently or in any way"