Arizona republican., 1902-10-16

cring to keep his wife from crying.
 The couple are past middle life, and
 have the appearance and manners of
 aristocrats. Mrs. Evans is connected
 with the leading families of Cleveland.
 This trouble is all caused by liti-
 gaton which l have had with the Key
 stone Copper and Gold Mining Com
 pany,' said the doctor, when asked for
 his side of the story, the former presi-
 dent of the company was Charles B.
 Mclean, president of the Lincoln Ma
 tional bank 0. Pittsburg. The old
 board of directors are sueing me to try
 and compel me to make a deed to the
 company of a new group of mines pur- chased by me of one A. P. Gunther,
 and known as the Great Scott group of mines. These mines were bought with
 my ctvn money for which l agreed to
 nay 5,CC0 in money and give 4,OOO
 shares of the capital stock of the Key
 stone company. The reason I withheld
 the deed is becau~e the Keystone com pany violated their contracts set forth .n the options Of purchase which was that they should sell treasury stock t1 pay for these mines. In@tead of doing this, they, without my knowledge, l being one of the presidents and a direc tor O. the company. borrowed$1b.- coo and put the property in debt. This
 was done after I had been in Pitts
 burg and had more than enough treas
 ury stock subscribed to make the pay mont, but they refused to deliver the stock subscribed to the subscribers.
 These violations of the contract, in ad- dition to cthe~s, caused me to withhold making the deed until these matters I~s saF1 hi 11e
 l had paid to keep the credit of the
 mine"
 MT. Evans then explained that he had to keep the miners at work until their wages were paid. as under Ari- zona Jaw miner cannot be discharged until his back wares are paid up. He said he does not claim the deed is his, but the courts of Arizona have held that the deed is. his only weapon to roroe the company to do as it has | agreed, and until the contract is lived up to he will retain the document, which is now made out and in the
 hands of his attorney in Arizona. Tae board of directors which is do- | ing the fighting. is composed of the fol- lowing Pittsburg men among others: E. M Mclean. w. s. Wilson, J. w. Smith, s. Strassberger, w. J. Strass- berger, w. S. Huselton and J. H. Utt- Hey.
 Mir Evans says that the mine is good property, so much so that the claim is made that the directors who are try ing to freeze him out have chance to recapitalize the holding and sell il for | $5 GOO.
 Early Wednesday morning, Mrs. Ev- ans routed Attorney w. s. Anderson ! out of bed and explained the case to him. The attorney immediately took
 the legal steps to have his client re- leased. He applied for and secured a writ of habeas corpus before the pro-
 bate judge. and the accused was taken before Judge Ewing for a hearing | Wednesday morning.
 Mr Evans has been in Arizona for a number of years, and was formerly an | Ohioan. lie has been interested in
 many mining ventures, and is a promt- CT of note. He claims that the whole ! transaction is simply to get him into l Pennsylvania. and in order to do so a | criminal charge had to be made to get the requisition papers. which he will | fight to the last ditch.