Arizona republican., 1897-12-17
THAT "SALTING" SUIT.
Facts In Relation to It Not Furnished
 by the Denver Parties.

According to the Associated Press, suit has been instituted in Denver against W. O. Bashford, one of Yava- pal ccunty's oldest and most respected citizens, for $50,OOO damages, resulting from misrepresentation which he is alleged to have made in connection with mining claim called the 'Jer- sey Lily" and the report goes fur- ther and states that he actually ''saited" the mine.
 A gentleman from Prescott who is advised-to some extent at least-of what the facts are, gives them to The Republican as follows
 ''Mr. Bashford and others owled this mine and wanted to sell it. MT. Bashford personally went to London and spent considerable time in Eng land, and company was formed called the Jersey Lily company, linn tied, and shares of stoch were issued, and some of them were delivered to MT. Bashford and his co-owners as the purchase price of the mine. Then the English parties composing that com pany sent out their own representative and caused this mine to be thoroughly investigated and reported upon, and as the result of the reports of ther own experts, agreed to spsnd $25, eco in developing the mine, making MT. Bashford their manager, and he has gone on, under their directions, and dome the development work and ex- pended considerable proportion of this money, all of which he has ac- counted for.
 "Tlhe expectations of the English men, based upon the repre esentatiols of uheir own selected experts, have not been realized, and they sent some of their directors over here and these directors who are located at Denver-under a representation to MT Bashford that they wanted to discuss the affairs of the mine and It's condi- tions, etc, with birn-induce1 him to go to Denver After deceiving him in4 this way and causing him to go to Denver, they availed themselves of his presence duethst- foreign surisdie- tion to institute this suit against him, their real purpose being to extrica.e themselves from their obligations in connection with the future deve op- ment Of the property. In addition to that, they sent man to Prescott ac companied by detectives, under the pretense that he was to take the man. agement of the mine, and their real purpose was to get into possession and have access to the mine and the get colored testimony with which, in the future, to try their case in Denv5r. Of course, this action was patect to MT. Bashford and, up to date, these parties have not been permitted to have access to the property.
 ''So it will be thus seen aha. the only deception practiced in .conneoticn n with the matter has been that of the representatives of the English com pany.
 Of course, it is prana ure, as we'll as irregular, to seek to prajudil.e mat ters which are in the courts, bus it is fair and just to Mr. Bashford tha. his friends and nedghbors should a. leas- hear this much Of his side of the Gu5s-
 tion The final determination 'sf the matter will, of course, be left to the courts.
 'FTom my knowledge Of NJ. Bash 1 ol,r
 long residence in the coun.y, it is to me inconceivable that he should hare 1 been guilty of the bad policy-Trot to
 put it on any other basis-of making
 any false representations, for which,
 of course, he could be held legally ! responsible"