Tombstone epitaph., 1895-01-20
WHAT IT Is.
The Mandamus Issued bv Judge Be,hune to the Board of Supervisors.

NlSOhS or HE toU N UT COCHISE, GREETING.
 Whereas, i. manifestly appears 10 us by affidavit of $. c. Bagg, the petition CT and party benfcially interested herein,
 | That you, the Board of Supervisors of the County of Cocbise, caused to be published in the Tombstone PROSPECT OR, on the 22d day of December. and for ten days thereafter, a notice sd- vertising for bids or proposals for Ger tain printing, publishing and adver- ti-ing, for the county of Cochise, for the year ending Jaunaty 10th, 1896:
 That in response to said notice, and in accordance with the requii ements thereof, sald s. c. Bsgg, & bona fide residen: of said county, and the editor, manager, proprietor and publisher of the Tombstone PRosPEcToR, daily newspaper published at the city Of Tombstone said county duly made and filed his bids for doing the work Of said county printing, publishing and advertising in said daily paper;
 That the only other bid made and filed in response to said notice was the bid of Charles W. Pugh, the editor and proprietor of the Sulphur Valley News, a weekly newspaper published at Wilcox, said county;
 That pursuant to said notice you, on the 5th day of Jsnusry, 1895, opened said bids: that, after consider ing said bids, you rejected the same;
 That s. c. Bagg was the lowest bidder for the job printing referred to in said notice published by you, and that said s. c. Bagg was the only competent and duly qualified bidder for the residue of said county printing, publishing and advertising;
 That the Tombstone PROTECTOR was the only daily newspaper printed in sad county of Cochise at the time when the said oids for said county printing were advertised for, and the only daily newspaper published in said county when said bids were opened;
 That said $. C. Bagg was, and now l., lawfully entitled ;o have ava; ded to him by you, the aforesaid board of supervisors, the contract for said county printing, publishing and ad- vertisipg; and that you have failed and refused, and do still and now fail and refuse to award 10 him saiI con- tract, and that there is not plain. speedy and adequate remedy in the ordinary course of law.
 Therefore. we do command you, that imme distely after the receipt of this writ, you do award to said $. c. Bsgg the contract for said county printing, publishing and advertising for the yea. ending January 10, 1896, as follows, to-wit:
 l. For publishing sll necessary county advertisements, as directed by said board Of supervisors.
 ?. For publishing the delinquent tax list Of 1891.
 3. For publishing the minutes of the board of supervisors.
 I. For job printing.
 Or that you chow cause before me, at the district court house, in the city Of Tucson, in the county of Pima, on the 18th day of January, A. D. 1895, at ten o'clock Of the forenoon of said day, or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard, why you have not done so, and why the said alternative writ should not be made fnal, and peremptory in the premises.
 Dated January l5, A. D. 1895. Witness,
 HoN. J. D. BETHUNE, Judge of thesaid District Court, Witness and attest my hand and the seal of eaid District Court of the First Judicial District of the Territory of SEAL Arizona, in and for the coun- tv of Cncitise at the District