Arizona republican., 1892-07-27
THE CAMERON FRAUD,

In yesterdays local columns mention was made of the fraudulent land grant claim of the Camerons, which has fsl- len like pail upon the southern portion of Pima county.
 Hundreds of honest, hard. working settlers have been served with notice that their homes, the fruit of the labor of many years, are to be taken from them to enrich the rapacious coffers of the Csmerons, the most notorious frauds that kaye ever disgraced Ari- zona by their poisonous and malignant presence.
 The settlers on the land embraced in this fraudulent claim of the Camerons have united to carry the matter into the courts and have its validity tested, but pending decision cloud has been throw over the land titles in Pima county that will retard it's growth more than ten years siege of the leprosy or the smallpox. Persons seeking for in- vestment or homes will not purchase land in litigation. aud the present set biOiS "iiA DV OpissCh VI SpcuI NtlS lllllc money accumulated by years of toil, in defending their bones from the de- spoiler and robber, instead of building new houses, planting crops and i'm. proving their land.
 That the settlers have withstood these indignities with patience and iorbear- ance, while greatly to their credit, is yet unusual. The defense of the home and the fireside ia the first law of all nations, and the Camerons should con graduate themselves that their fraud ulent claims have been permitted to go peaceably into the courts without find- ing themselves driven from the csuntry, fate that in many older communities under the circumstances would be con sidered perfectly justifiable.
 10 is stated that the Camerons them selves have admitted the invaldity of their claim, and their sole object there fore is to extort money from the settlers or prevent the vacant range lands from being occupied. But in any premise their claims are fraudulent outrages and the courts should lose 10 time in de- claring them to be the frauds and pre- tenders which the people of Pima coun- ty and of Arizona generally know them to be. The rights of the settlers should be and are inyiolate, and the Peral,as and the Camerons and the other pre- tenders, frauds and robbers should be dealt with by lev as they properly de- serve.
 But the singular and unprecedented thing about the whole affair is that Brewster Cameron, the worst oi tho Cameron outfit, is permitted lo continue to hold the office of clerk of the dislrIct court of Pima county. Involved in moi c litigation with more people than any other man in Pima county, his further retention in this important position be- comes public calamity and d public disgrace.
 It is said that the fees ui the clerk in his own cases amount to d large sum annually, and that he is continually bringing ejectment and damage suits Tor the apparent purpose of securing the fees involved. But be this as 1t may, the fact remains that he is most improper man for the place. The courts cannot afford 70 have breath of suspicion directed towards them, and defendants in the Cameron cases cannot be blamed if they lack con fidence in court in which he is one of the principal officers, having charge of all the books, testimony and judgments in cases in which he himself is an inter- ested party.
 It is understood tha; charges have been filed with the department of jus tice st Washington requesting his re-