Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1906-08-08
DANGEROUS TO FOOL WITH
 COURT.
(From Sundays DaiIy.)

commanding him to allow attorney J. r. Wilson and mining engineers Doran and Martin to make an expert exami- nation of the Copper Hill mine, John J. Jackson. superintendent of the Cop per Mining Syndicate, operating that property, was yesterday sentenced to serve 60 days in the county jail and to pay fine of si00.
 Glenn Hall and Emmett Fitzgerald, two hoisting engineers employed at the camp. who. on the instructions of su- pcrntendent Jackson, removed the throttle from the hoisting engine after the writ was served, were not adludged guilty of contempt. Hall escaping cen sure on account of his youth, and Fitz- gerald on account of deafness, it being believed that he did nor understand the import of the court x order.
 lt appeared from the testimony of Wilson with his experts visited the camp for the purpose of making an ex- animation of the underground work. ings. and was refused admittance to | the mine by superintendent Jackson. Hot words followed, and attorney Will son left the place after giving Jackson to understand that he would return and examine the property. After securing writ of injunction on August l, he left this city for the Copper Hill camp on August . arriving there about 10:3O in company with A. ]. Doran and w. J. Martin as experts to make the cx- animation. and Ed. Foltz. who was to act as hoisting engineer for the party. A short time aftc- reaching he camp, Jackson returned there from n visit to Skull valley, and on being informed by attorney Wilson that the sheriff would arrive there in short inc, went into the mine and gave orders to . miner at work there to remove tlac three lower ladders in the shaft, and also to shoot two holes which were drilled in the face of the crosscut be- fore the noon hour While in the mine. deputy sheriff John Merritt arrived on the scene, and called down the shaft to Jackson and asked him to come io the surface. Jackson came out in about 10 minutes. and before the de. putty could reach him, it appears, gave orders to his engineers to remove the throttle from the h6isting engine. stating that tho valve needed to be ground. Merritt immediately start. ed to read the writ of injunction to him, but was interrupted ny Jackson, who suggested to the deputy that he would read it himself. that he (Mer. ritD appeared 10 be nervous. He read the writ aloud. and after concluding told the deputy that the writ could be read to all the employees at the camp in the dining room N the dinner hour. It being then almost I2 o'clock this was agreed to, and both left for the dining room when the whistle blew. where the writ was read aloud by Jackson to all present. Despite the service of the writ, afteUartaking of dinner, engineers Fitzgerald and Hall removed the throttle from the hoistinp engine, and when attorney Wilson de. manded that Jackson allow him the privilege of using the hoist for the pur. pose of lowering and raising the ex. Perts, Jackson informed him that the hoisting plant was the property of private individual, was not owned by the Copper Mining Syndicate, and therefore not subject to the injunc. lion. Wilson told Jackson that Mir. roltz was there to run the engine, but Jackson refused to allow Foltz to take charge of the machine, on the ground that he did not know that he was a hoisting engineer, and in any case WAS not familiar with the levers or the stations underground. Further con. versation followed during which Jack. son, while in the heat of passion, made an insulting remark about the eourt m reply to a statement made by at. torncy Wilson.
 Attorney Wilson and party after. wards returned to this city, where a warrant for the arrest of Jackson was 'ssned, his arrest following later as he was returning to camp from here at late hour. The affair is the outcome of some hithcu'fy or misunderstanding between 'he management of the Copper Hill Mining and Smelling company and the directorate of the Copper Mining Syn. |