The Arizona sentinel., 1897-02-27
THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT
WILL HAVE TO ANSWER FOR MIR,
 DUBB'S MALTREATMENT.
His Wife Tells the Tale Of the Cruel ties and Indignities Offered Him.

 ago left here with double team and wagon with capitalist by the name of J. A. DubBs of Pittsburg, Pa., on a visit to the Sulphur mines in lower Cafifotnia. The journey to the mlne was made in safety and they were Oh their return home and within fifteen miles of United States soil when they were overhauled by Jose Bustamenta of the Mexican gendarmes and two rurales and put under arrest.
 In company with She two rurales by order of Bussamenta, Dubbs and Norton were started at once on their long journey to Ensenada, which oc- cupied eight days on charge of On reaching the Cocopah it was found impossible to continue the journey further with the wagon and it with the harness was left behind and the party continued the trip to Ensenada on horseback. "On their arrival Norton and Dubbs had hearing before d magistrate and were ordered locked up for the night. Mir. Dubbs offered cash bail for him self and Norton but the magistrate was obdurate and said they must go to jail for the night it least. '' ''
 As a last resort Mir. 'Dubbs asked permission to telegraph an:infuentiall friend in San Diego and the same was granted. On receipt of; the dispatch, MT. Booth, who proved to be the friend, acted immediately and the Governor of Ensenada was appealed td for clemency. The Governor went to the magistrate but failed to get them released but succeeded in having the magistrate allow them to occupy one of the officers rooms in the jail under guard. - VI
 The following day g lawyer was secured and after paying himia fee oi $200.00 and depositing $7O0.O0 more as bonds for their appearance in that city when wanted they were allowed to go on their way. Mir. Dubbs hired a guide and horses to take them to Tia Juana, a distance of 40 miles for which he paid $45. The distance was travelled in IS hours and horses changed enly once.
 On Norton's arrival here he was arrested by Speese on a charge o felony as was also Mir. Dubbs the same day m Los Angeles.
 In the Los Angeles Herald of Thurs day we glean the following:
 Yesterday such case occurred that pre- sented somewhat unusual features, anc that raised the question whether the sheriff can arrest and hold an individual upon { telegraphic dispatch alone.
 In the morning Sheriff Burr received ( telegram from NJ. Greenleaf, sheriff o Yuma county, asking him to arrest J: A Dubbs, stopping at the Van Nuys hotel, as he held warrant for his arrest on charg. of felony. The telegraphic instruction was to .t:aet quick" and Sheriff Burr dIG so, fol within the hour, and without any difficulty he found MT. Dubbs at the Van Nuys hotel But the latter gentleman had something t( say about the matter. He is the secretary and treasurer of the Pittsburg Asphaltun company, and also president of the Cali fornia Asphalt company, with properties il Ventura county and headquarters in Pitts burg. He explained that several weeks ag( he arrived at Yuma for the purpose of in vestigating a sulphur mine across the Mex ican line. With this end in view he. en- gagged a double rig, procured a guide anG started out from Yuma across the border The mine was duly inspected, and upor the return trip, when within about Efteer miles of the line MT. Dubbs and his guide were arrested by three Mexican rurales fol smuggling horses into the southern repub lie. The team and outfit were confiscated and the two prisoners taken, at the expense of hard eight days journey, to Ensenada At that point Mir. Dubbs appealed to th' American consul, but he was apparently impotent to extend aid of any kind, and st by putting up $7O0 bail, Mir. Dubbs was re ferred to that official to the City of Mexico answering to our secretary of the interio department.
 After this exciting experience Mir. Dubbs with his guide, came to Los Angeles, anC the latter was paid and his expenses de frayed back to Yuma. Meantime, how ever, MT. Dubbs had written the iverymaI from whom he had hired his team, from Ensenada, telling him how the outfit haC been contiscated, but promising to settle matters as well as he could upon his arrlva back in the United States.
 This was the status in the case yesterday morning; when sheriff Burr received tht telegram referred to and proceeded to make the arrest. Realizing that the case wal somewhat exceptional, the sh eritf tele graphed back to Yuma regarding the mat ter and received return ''wire'' to the of feet that $455 in United States coin would settle the matter with Speese and the off cers' costs Mir. Dubbs wouldn't pay any such sum, and so he was placed under ar rest. At 40 clock in the afternoon, througf Attorney Mcfarland, he sued out writ O habeas corpus in department six and ther the question came up whether the sheriff i empowered to arrest person upon a mer, telegraphic dispatch.
 After outlining to the court the facts a. given above, Attorney Mcfarland contend ed as legal proposition that the sheriff cannot arbitrarily arrest any man on tele graphic instruction, unless in the case of ; Fugitive from justice," and then he mus go before a justice of the peace and swea out complaint.
 Judge Allen said there was no legal au thority for holding the defendant and dis charged him.
 Mrs. Dubbs stated that her husbands sys tenn had received a terrible shock as re suit of the iphuman treatment received a the hands of the Mexican officers. He wa compelled to travel over a hundred miles il all kinds of weather, on horseback, to En senada, and when he arrived there he wa treated to,every indiginity by the authori ties at that place. .:E'
 ''The blame of the whole affair."" saiC Mrs. Dubbs, "rest upon the Mexican GUS toms officer at Yuma. My husband triet to find him in order to get instructions a to the law Ill regards to carrying his outti across the boundary line. When that dig nitary was at last found it was III condi tion of drunken stupor, and MT. Dubb could get no further information from hin than that he could go ahead and every thing would be all right.
 Again, when he was arrested hv tn, ruracs Mr. DGbhS expitineT N'ln !.r 'ya and offered tu make everYt,ln-; ;ll r.,... they ,uid take him pack tn Yurna. In stead of this, however. he was forced [, travel one hundred mics on h,rsebacl through rain and snow to EnSenada.