Arizona republican., 1897-12-16
ducted properly and one of them ably

ducted properly and one of them ably and "comprehensively. The last word is used not unadvisedly regard ing tihe district attorneys office, for by and with the aid and comfor. of the grand jury that office has kept the whole community in motion. The word looks funny and improper but it is all right, unlike a specimen of bad English in am earlier report by less intellectual grand jurymen who informed the public that the books and accounts of the l.reasurer's office were kept in a "workmanlike" man. her.
 An economic reform suggested by the report was the abandonment of centifcation on the back of documents filed i'm the recorders office seaing there was always a certificate on the other side. The two certificates con stituted, in the opinion of the grand jury redundancy obtained at a cost of seventy cenis for each redundancy, whereby the life blood of the county was being unnecessarily sucked. It was further recommended that the board of supervisors auction off the office of janitor to ItIhe lowest bidder instead of employing that official by dark and secret methods. The repo contained besides all these disclos- ureS and recommends ions a single indictment against "a man who, is not now in custody.
 The contents of the report submit ted the night before were made public
 There were four true bills. Editor Charles w. Pugh of the Sou thwestern Stockman and formerly secretary of
 the territorial live stock sanitary
 commission, was indicted in three places for an alleged misappropgia- uion of fees. Dr. H. A. Hughes was indicted for fervency of expression and
 imagery of description in certain ar ticles which appeared in the Arizona Democrat. Both these an1ems n
 were aruaigned yesterday morning and permitted to give bond. When the grand jury assembled for the last i day there was a meeting of the Pho.e- | nix press association going on in the | adjoining room. This meeting was
 neither an adjourned, special or reg
 ular session. Perhaps it would not | have been held at all but for an ur- | gent solici tation by the grand jury to sit as a concurrent body and lend | it's assistance in am impcrtan tmatter which had been puzzEng the grand | jury now for several days at an ex-
 pense to the county of iS36 a day. This subject has been alluded to be- fore in these columns, on the street 1 and on the house tops but in order to preserve a contiguity of description it | becomes necessary to outline again
 the causes which led to the perplexity | of 'the grand jury.
 Last July, while the public was in-
 famed by midsummer iheat and an ap- parently abortive attempt by the gov
 ernment at Washington to effect a | change of the territorial admlinistra-
 tion, and while Ithe administration in
 anticipation of such a change was | hustling to convert the reform school
 at Flagstaff into an annex of the asy- | Hum, it is charged that The Republi- | can contributed to the gaiety of the | occasion by printing a. picture of two cats and monkey engaged in the adjudication of their rights in mor- sel of cheese which belonged to none
 of them. Dr. H. A. Hughes then su-
 perintendert of the asylum, imagine1 1 that he detected tn the face of one | Of the cats am attempt to simulate his Ilneaments and that the ,tist had | endeavorsd to produce in the other | two characters the faces of Governor
 Franklin and T. J. Wolf1ey While the doctor was imagining, the resem- blance of the cheese to the fund set apart for turning the rdform school in- to an asylum burst upon him with the
 violence of a revelation. He con-
 strued the picture to be simultaneous l assault upon his person and his in tegrity and he was inspired with an in- dignation which time seems to have
 been unable ito dispel. For during
 the early days of the session of the
 late grand jury Dr. Hughes had bus
 ness with that body and while there sought to kill two birds with "a single
 stone by procuring the indictment of
 MT. Charles c. Randolph, editor Of
 The Republican, for criminal libel in
 having been responsible fer ithe pub licatiOn of the picture.
 But here curious circumstance was