Bisbee daily review., 1903-06-12
MONEY IS UP
 TO FIGHT 1T
LOCAL sTocKHoLDERs WILL
 FIGHT TO FINISH.
SOUTH BIS5EE CASE

The South Bisbee Copper Minin:
 and Townsite company held an i'm
 portant meting last Wednesday, fol
 the purpose of raising funds to nght
 the Los Angeles stockholders in theii
 suit against the latter, which will come
 up for hearing in the superior court oi
 Los Angeles county soon. Several , thousand dollars was subscribed by
 local contingent, and it is said that
 they are prepared to make one oS the bitterest lights on record for possession
 of the property.
 The case Is one which has been of
 great interest to the people of Bisbee ever since suit was brought by Maurice Denu and Martin OHare. A Review
 reporter called on one of the promi- nent stockholders connected with the l case last night, and in reply to the question: What are the circum- satnces leading up 10 the suit brought by the loeal stockholders against the Los Angeles stockholders of the South Bisbee?' he had the following to say:
 The cause of this suit, Maurice Denn and Martin O'Hare, plaintiffs, Vs the South Bfsbee Copper Mining and T0wnsite company, and W. F. Bots ford, c. B. Jones, Hud W. Lewis; John A. Fairchild, F ". Gilmore, estate of Thomas Rowan, NJ. O. Chadbourne ct al. is the absorbing, witfout any con- sideration whatever, of 2,S09,000 shares of the capital stock of the company by the several defendants as. members of the board sf directors. The suit was brought fr the purpose of having these shares, illegally and frauduIently absorbed, cancelled. In addition, We are suing for sz5,9G dam. ages, thus making the suit a big one. there being over s9O0, 900 involved
 Tn law, the defendants lave abs0-- lutely no case, but are fighting on a principle that wins many cases-a long sack They will not win in this case, as a stubborn and intelligent fight wilT be made The defendants will not win, because their sole defense is a long sack. and the plaintiffs fn addi- tion to the foregoing, have cousum- mated a plan by which they have. in twenty-four hours, replenished their little sack with several thousand dol lars in cash. Inside of one week from the present day they will have S25, 900 at the command of the executive com mittee of the local organization who are associates of the" piaintifsin the case.
 "The names of the leading defendants are W. F. Botsford. who has a death grip on l ,s95, 900 shares, but whose grip will loosen before he dies; Dr. c. B. Jones, the oily Ephrafm who formerly posed as secretary of the South Bisbee company. comes in for little smaller amount, but still large-t one, 255 900 shares; Hud w. Lewis, an escaped politician from Ohio, alsoi claims to be the bona fide. lawful anCsl righteous possessor of about the same amount as the aforesaid Dr. c. B. Jones, 255,000 shares; likewise John A. Fairchiid, he Of Alcatraz paving trust fame. We find that to his fin gers have stuck only ten small shares of the aforesaid stock, he being guy sufficiently smooth to have conveyed 25O odd thousand shares to his wife, and like the famous war record of Sen ator Ingalls, of Kansas, Ire now pro poses to hide behind the petticoats oT the fair sex. And there are several others of the defendants who Nave shown little enough regard for their better halves by likewise conveying to them their stock, the means by which 1t having been obtained causing it to smell to heaven, all of which, e~think, shows but litrfe regard for the inno- cent feminine portion of their families.
 Not having been present when the steal was made. but judging from the amounts held by the different parties to the steal, we are led to infer that the crime was perpetrated in about this manner: When they met in se- eret session, and after much delibera- tion, had finally concluded to divide up the large amount of stock among them selves, it seems that tfey must have given W. F. Botsford the preference. He being leader in the churvh, and muCn gwen IO uOIy WOIuS anu Oi uS- vout bearing at all times, they thought it but an honor justly due him 10 give him the first swipe at the swag. So he took the largest slice. The bal ance having no claims for such prefer ence, they divided the balance that was left. in about equal proportions aU olg-themselves.
 Tt seems that in some cases the east, but in a great majority of cases California, thinks that in the streams of Arizona there lives no fish but the sucker. But in this case they will find not single fish of that species.
 "The plaintiffs in this action, very nearly all of whom are residing in this county. are fully persuaded that
 when the trial is had in department three of the superior court of Los An geles, there will be weeping, wailing
 and gnashing of teeth arising from the
 stools of repentance upon which the defendants will be seated.
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