Arizona republican., 1895-07-10
A NOTED SALE. The Arizona Gazette
 Changes Hands. The Close of an Inter-
 necine War.
W. T. Smith Comes Into Pos
 session of the Property.
Mr. J. M. Burnett Succeeds Editor J. o. Dunbar as the Director
 Of the Gazette's Policy.

The Arizona Gazette changed hands I yesterday. Under g mortgagee's sale it passed into the sole control of W. T. Smith, president of the Arizona Ga zette company, and the connection of J. 0. Dun bar who has been intimately associated with the journal for nearly seven years ceased.
 4 little less than two years ago the Gazette company executed a mortgage Tn favor of Col. Wn. Ohrioty for some thing more than $10,00O. Payments ments had been made upon it until there remained due $6750. There was no pressure and the indebtedness might have been carried indefinitely but for an internecine strife which had It's in mediate origin in t,iffirent attitudes taken by stockholders of the company with regard to the investigation insti- tuted some time ago for the removal of Governor Hughes. Mir. Dunbar un- expectedly came to the support of the governor while his princ- pal conireres, W. T. Smith, president oi the company and J. L. B. Alexander, secretary, were equally active on the other side. The strife, though politi cal or rather factional, was not neces- sarily deadly until it became personal and it was determined that somebody must go. An Irish division of the house became inevite.Ya- Either Mir. Dunba on one hand. 3r Messrs. Smith : IL. l. the outside.
 The stockholders unavailingly tried to settle the question, not amicably, be- tween themselves The arbltrament of the mortgagee WAS invoked and then the matter was simplified. It resolved itself into . showdown. The party having the most money or rather the party wiling to pay the most money at the moTtgagee's sale would be triumph ant.
 The sale was sgt for last Saturday. it the instance Of Mir. Dunbar 1t was postponed until yesterday morning at 10 o'clock.
 The occasion was one calculated to create some stir. The transfer of the leading Democratic newspaper in the territory under sucn circum- stance was not an every day event so that when attorney T. D. Ben. nett, the representative of Col. Christy, read the notice of sale in front of the Gazette office, he was faced by a big crowd most of whose membe were unprovided with certified cheeks to give effect to bids. Mir. Dunbar was con- spicuously absent. In fact it had been given out the day before that he had abandoned the fight for possession. The only bidder was MT. H. H. Logan whose bid was $6750. the unsatistied balance of the mortgage. The property was knocked down to him and in an hour the transfer was complete. Mir. Logan was only the agent of Mr 1 Smith, 30 that the anti administration forces had won.
 The question of the editorial manage ment was unsettled, though it had been pretty well understood that Mr. J. NJ Burnett, late editor of the Gila Bend Leader, prominent member of the Arizona bar, facile and powerful writer and a strong an:i-adminlstra. tionist, had already been selected. In two hours after the sale Mir. Burnett was firmly seated on the tripod busily engaged in reconstructing the policy of The Gazette.
 City Editor McClintock was still re- tained indefinitely and it was stated that no other changes would be made until the return of President Smith. who left last night on two weeks visit to the coast.
 There was three days rumor that in the event that things would trans
 plre as they have transpired, the Sat urdav Review would be merged in The Gazette, and that it's editor and one of it's proprietors, A. s. Mills, would have
 charge of the local field; that the other
 proprietor, J. E. Devine, would have control of the mechanical department
 Both gentlemen denied with em.
 phasis that any such movement
 had been contemplated by them
 or that it had been suggested to them.
 There was in fact no proba bility that
 the Review would be absorbed and nc
 probability that they would be in any
 way connected with the affairs of tht
 Gazette.