Bisbee daily review., 1905-06-20
SALOON MEN SAY THEY ARE RAISING s1.ooo TO FIGHT IN
 CORPORATION.


 A number of the saloon men in Douglas are very much dissatisfied with city incorporation. they claim, but the meat in the cocoanut is that they don't object so much to the in corporation of the city as they do to the saloon license of S125 a quarter. A number of meetings have been held and many caucuses among a few of them and they have decided to form a permanent organization and tear in corporation to shreds and scatter the fragments to the four quarters of the earth.
 John Imsland who was chairman of the meeting, when seen by re porter for the International-America stated that they had raised between $500 and $c00 and that they intend to raise at least si,000 to fight incorpor- ation. Neal & Ross. attorneys of Bis bee have been secured to fight the case and have agreed, so MT. Imsland said. to take il for nothing and pay all costs if they do not win it. When asked why they did not retain some of the local attorneys he said they all gave it as their opinion that incoTpor- ation could not be knocked out, but that the truth of the matter was they did not know how to go about it. Neal &, Ross had informed them they would have to go before the attorney general of the territory first
 Attorney Parsons. who gave the saloon men his opinion at their meet ing and presented their petition to the city council, when seen stated that he had been called upon by number of the saloon men and asked for his opin- s,e ,,,s-Ffnnc EJn told them that mo provision for appeal from the board of county supervisors was provided for in our statutes" He said that Douglas is legally incor- porated The law on this point he quoted to them reads. If the super yisors shall be satisfied that two-thirds of the taxable inhabitants of such viii Iage or town have signed such peti- tion such county supervisors may by an order entered of record declare such village or town incorporated. Under a similar statute in California the supreme court had decided there was TO appeal.
 When the saloon men found they had been turned down on every point they went looking for another attorney and have refused to pay At torney Parsons for his opinion and services He intends to commence suit against them shortly for s100.
 .S-'dge 4. '. Wright. when seen. of Smith, sG.-:- believe at the present the pocket of pceedings that anybody
 Frank Kriterporation out. If they called by the in time there might scribed the scence- was tending bpler said he had been time .4e saloon men but as
 Il not pay him the fee he l
 A nunihd not looked into the mat | were tnen not care to give an opin- | to the
 defengey Ross had also been con-
 Wy by the saloon men and said: | ahe only way to knock out incorpoTa- lon would be to show fraud on the l part of the board of county supervis- l ors and I don't see any chance of do ing that. The time for protest has | gone by
 The saloon men say they have diff 1 davits from four men whose names | are on the petition that they never | signed it and that they have eight or ten more coming up. But they signed l the original petition seven or eight ! made identically the same and filed | together and the lawyers say they cant ever score on this point.
 Some of the parties seem to think it is only a bluff on the part of the saloon men to have their license re- duced
 Neal & Ross, of Bisbee. are not re- garded as men who would fight a case of this kind without a fee and are reported to have asked S125 down and the balance at the end of the fight
 It looks as if the dissatisfied saloon men were putting up against a brick wall Id don't know when they are up against it. Of course a number are not taking any part in the fight and would prefer to have the license still higher.