The weekly Republican., 1892-07-28
TUCSON TALK. A Rumored Change in the Court Bench. The Transfer of Judge Kibbey to Prescott. The Action of the Land Grant
 Claimants,
 
In Refusing to Submit Their Claims to the Arbitration of the Land
 Grant Court.

TUCsoN, Ariz., July 26.-[Special. ] effect that there is to be q change in the judges in the territory. that Judge
 Wells of the Prescott district is going to. or has resigned, that Judge Kibbey of the Florence district will be trans iered to Prescott, and that Tucson
 lawyer will be appointed to the va. cancy, Judge c. w. Wright being prominently mentioned for the place.
 How true this may be l cannot say, but
 Il Judge Wells reslgns, as has been rumored elsewhere, the other changes may follow, as rumOred.
 We have been having considerable excitement down in Pima over the ,and grant suits. The people cannot understand why the grant claimants,
 who were so loud in their wishes for the establishment of Land Grant court
 having special jurisdiction over this class of cases, are now so very aversC about going into the Land Grant court
 with their cases. Neither can they m ierStand why they have rushed into
 the District court with such Ppe sd, un-
 less 1t is 10 avoid going into the Laui Grant conrt, as the District court has always been here, and they could have gone into that cOgrt at any time hereto fore, when they were exhibiting go much anxiety about the establishment of the Land tiraut court; but they did not see i to do SO then, aud is is onlv yl lntA H.f gtlnh .att into our District court has been eyinced, Instead of testing ihe titles
 before q court with power to go in per. son 10 Mexico, where the original records can be inspected and all the flaws in the papers discovered, as was the case in the Algodones grant, which the court wiped out after careful in- 3pectlOn. This rather unusGal state of affairs has caused uneasiness and gus. piclon, and the settlers propose to do everything in their power to get these cases before the Land court instead oi our District court, and have them de- ,ermined by court particularly rstab- ,ished Co hpndle these peculiar cases. II 'he claimants are honest in their oft expressed desire to have nothing but lheir own, why should they resort tu other means than the natural ones, as people loon at it, as the Land court is certainly the proper tribunal for the cases. and was created With special powers to meet the emergencies that tn1st ol necessity arise in the careful investigation of the knoity problems connected with Arizona land grants.
 Most, if n0t all of these grants that the owners iiatter themselves are "per- feet grants" within the meaning of the law bad conditions precedent, which ID 99 per cent of the cases were not complied with, and they are not per feet grants. NO matter what excuses they may have to offer Tor ,he non. compliance of the law the fact remains that continual possession did not occur, and that close investigation into the iacts oi the cases, will disclose most -haky state oi affairs. Ii the claimants are willing to abide by thorough ex animation ol their claims, the Land Grant court is the place for them tu bring their suits, and their present course IS going 10 raise howl such as we have not heard in a long time. and to which the present plutterings are simply prelude.
 Candidates Tor the county offices at the ialI election are coming to tbe front tapidly. and 1t looks as though none of ,he Oilicss will bs vacant for want ol good material 'o fill them. The Re publican party expects to have some thing to ray rhia fall about inc county offices, and are in good shape to say that somc,hing effectively, unless some nonsense occurs before cleo tion, which is moi probable. The Dem ocrats expects to make points out Of the land grant eases, inst how, remains jo be sreu. II" ublicans 10 man are veNemrn'iy opposed to any snap Iudgment being arrived at bv land grant claimants, and will promptly re- Pudiate any snrh moves. The owners 1i these grai,ts consist of rahid Dem- ocrats in many cases, who will move in ail direcrIous to get thelr enormous claims through, and in some cases the ! owners are Republicans, but Demo. | rrats and Republicans alike want fair l play and are bound to have it, whether or no.