The border vidette. (Nogales, Ariz.) 1894-1934, 1899-07-29
NOGALES.
Political Wrath Subside With District
Court Adjournment.

The following article taken from the
Los Angeles Times dated July "a, will
be of interest to the many readers of
The VIDETrE who do not read the
Times:
The lack of mental repose that has
marked the citizens of Nogales for
these many days past has almost dis
appeared with the adjournment of the
first term of the District Court for tn
new county of Santa Cruz. Even the
newspapers are quiet and the charges
and recriminations that flew so freely
fortnig lat go have not been succeeded
by bloodshed, although a black eye or
two have been resultant features.
But the end is not yet. While per-
sonal epithets no longer fill the news
papers and factions no longer yawp Oh
the street corners, the trouble has been
taken into the courts on serious
charges.
The situation for week was in the
hands of the grand jury. Two of the
cases before it were those of the UIl-
mann brothers, accused of felony i'll
that they, assaulted Allen T. Bird, edi-
tor of the Oasis. They had been bound
over by Justice of the Peace Taylor
under $4,000 bonds The cases were
ignored.
Then there came the inning of the
Chenoweth section of the local Re-
pubIicans Chenoweth has been incum-
bent of the office of Collector of Port
of Nogales, place from which he had
Just been discharged because of the
charges of carrying dummies on his
payroll The charges were pushed,
particularly by E litor Bird and by
Willis P. Harlow, district attorney OF
Santa Cruz county.
Bird has been indicted, and his
trial set for the next term of court in
Santa Cruz county, that converting
December 30. The charges sgainst
Bird are two, both of criminal libel.
One concerns an article published by
him charging that the board of su-
pervisors had entered into contract
with representatives of the Pauly
Jail company of st. Louis, for the
erection of steel Jail of four cells at
price of $500, while the work was
in reason worth only $1,000, and in
sinuating that the $4,000 balance was
nothing more than a rake-off for the
members of the supervisoral board.
The second case involves the same
item for which Bird was set upon by
the Ullmanns. 1t was to the effect
that the mail of prominent residents
of Nogales, political opponents of
Chenoweth, had been tempered with,
aud that the janitor of the custom
house Zone of the Ullmann brothers, }
had even been allowed to look over
the letters on the mail cars.
The charges made by the grand
jury against Col. Harlow are really
not indictments, though amounting to
about the same thing They are sac
cusations," and if proven will mean
his ousting from office on the grounds
of malfeasance. One of the charges
is serious, indeed, and, if true, will
mean trouble for the State Depart
ment. 1t is, that, upon request OF
Mexican officials, Harlow, as District
Attorney, caused Deputy Sheriff
Flewelling to araest four Mexicans,
deserters from the Mexican army;
that after the Mexicans were arrested
they were taken directly to Harlow
office; that thence Harlow aided the
deputy sheriff in escorting the men tc
the international line, only few
hundred feet away, where tie foul
were delivered over, utterly without
warrant of law or extradition, tc
Col. Emilio kosterlitzky, commandant
of the Rural Guards of Sonora. The
result was that within ten minutes
the deserters were stood up against
an adobe wall and were riddled will
bullets.
The second charge against the Dis
trict Attorney brings attention again
to the Collectorship fight. There is {
statute in Arizona that forbids the
carrying of weapons in settlements o.
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