Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1908-06-21

! Good Queen Anne of England whose
name is chiefly remembered through
the fact that it is applied to a GER
tain style of architecture, was re-
sponsible for a clash of authority
here this week that Threatened at one
time to develop into a genuine battle.
The estimable lady herself, having
been dead for the better part of two
centuries, had no direct hand in the
affair. 1t all came about because of
a grant that she made to one of her
subjects in 1903, when New York was
a British colony, of the land-largely
mixed with water-lying in the East
River between Manhattan and Long
Island, and known as the Sunken
Meadows. The recipient could not
have claimed any great degree of
royal favor for the grant, as it's name
implies, is under water except at low
tire, when part of it is visible as
a mud bank. It's only use for two
centuries has been as a resting place
for laundering ferrypoats or eXcur-
sion craft that have run aground
there. Recently the city authorities
conceived the idea that the munich
pality could make use of the sub
merged tract by filling it in and max
ing it a part of Randalrs island.
where additional space is required
for New York's penal institutions.
City engineers were sent to survey it
but news of the project reached the
ears of members of the Jones family,
the present claimants to its owner
ship, and the officials were met by
armed guards who refused to permit
a landing. For a time it looked as
though there might be a lombard
ment and a siege, but finally both
sides proceeded under flag of truce
to a police court where the magis-
trate decided that the proper course
for the city was to proceed civilly if
it desired the property. The owners
of the submarine estate have since
expressed their willingness to- part
with it for the trifling sum of 81 ,0OO,-
600.
1t is a crime for one person to sell
out his business to a competitor and
to engage in the same line of trade for
certain length of time, according to
the statement made by Judge Golf to
a grand jury here this week This
seems a surprising doctrine to the
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many sales involving goodwill which
are made with such provisions every
day, but it is declared that these
stipulatfons are in restraint of trade
and so contravene law and public
policy. The matter came up in the
course of the investigation of the ice
trust. This inquiry, or rather the pro-
tracted series of inquiries into the
business of this concern, has been
dragging out it's weary length for
such period that it is only when
some such incident as this occurs
that the public is reminded that this
particular trust busting excursion is
still under way with little prospect
apparently of ever arriving at any
thing definite. 1t is said that the ice
trust officials have got so into the
habit of being Investigated that they
feel uncomfortable unless a force of
official experts" is engaged in going
over their books or if by any chance
they fail to be summoned before one
or another inquiring tribunal at least
once a week. These investigations
have come to be regarded as little
more than farces by the taxpayers
who have to foot the bills, inasmuch
as it is practically unheard of for
one of them to accomplish anything.
LONGACRE.