Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1908-01-08
Summary0f The Records
For The Past s.
Years
Large Grist Of Business
Turned Out By
Judge Hicks

III rfIilIAs fl"NiNN anu 'A'NA p
iiO estate. during the year 1907, Pro.
bate Judge G.. 2. Hicks almost equalled
the record of the ten probate judges
who preceded him ia the Office and adj
ministercd it's affairs from the date of
It's institution i'm 1861, to tae FIRST of
January. 1895. From 1864 TO 1898
there were 300 estates entered for pro.
bate. only lI7 OF which were closed
and distributed.
OF the 40 estates settled and dis
tributed iu 1907, twenty were entered
for probate I'm the COS, ten in the 7O's,
forty-eight in the SOS, eleven in the
9O's and the balance since January l.,
1900, nineteen being Of last year.
The number Of estates entered for
probate in 1907 was fifty.siN. Nine of
thirteen wills offered for probate were
admitted, leaving four will cases pend.
ing.
Seventy-eight estates are now under
administration, twenty-three being
guardianship, nineteen under wills
and thirty.six intestates.
Ten insanity cases and one adoption
ease were disposed of during the year.
One hundred and seventy.eight cou.
pies were licensed TO wed, ten Of which
have failed 10 return the marriage
certificates endorsed.
Supervisors accounts in the amount
Of s3,707.5I were audited.
Ia addition, calendar was compiled
from the records and files, showing a
complete abstract of the proceedings m
eacn and every estate entered in the
probate court from its organization in
1864 to 1895, covering period Of
thirty.one years. This calendar con.
meets with the calendar opened at the
beginning Of the year 1895, when the
present incumbent assumed the Office
of probate Judge.
Some interesting information and
data Of the administration Of estates
entered for probate in the early DAYS
~ shown in the calendar.
In the CO.'S the jurisdiction Of the
court extended from the Utah line on
the north to the Pima county line on
the south and from the line of New
Mexico on the east TO the Mohave
county line on the west, embracing in
said limits the present counties of
favapai, Coconino, Navajo. Apache.
Marieopa, CHA and parts OF Yuma.
Pinai and Graham counties. Exclusive
jurisdiction Of the adjudication of
titles TO mining property was then ex.
efcised by the court and the records
show considerable mining litigation.
principally in the vicinity Of the Vul.
ture mine, and Ia VIVA, is now known
as the Hassayampo and Walker dis
'rlcts. Many OF the estates ontcred
Tor probate were OF persons murdered
ny indians. The assets of such ga.
tates generally consisted OF minino
'ia'ns' hre arms, auntine knives,
camp on'hts, horses and burros. Guns
hunting knives ana pistols were an.
praised a. prices ranging from $3.50 TO
sooo' oeing more valuable than some
ieai estate now within the city limits
Oh Prescott. Common saddles were then
worth $40 and horses ranged In vsiue
from 500 20 $500
a number Of the persons whose ss.
'@'es we're administered luriug that
period arc remembered By old time
resident The estates Of Dr.. Charles
Leio' tae physician VINO came moro
WIN ne party thai organized the 6rs,
eiV'l government .n The Territory !
w heanehamp, : J.. Upton A !
Montero, L. Gerkels, J. H. snmmors
fred Meggers, 2. wcggers Robert Me-
NY r. Luthy, John Simmons. Roho,,
snort Patrick Burns, G.. A. Nob,o II
H. Van 5ibler Pauiina Weaver. .Jobn
=, bourko W. 4. silvertou and hos,
OF others 7erc administered nnor ~.
sucH wei known pioneers as Ipaao
joan seward, Charlie r. Gen..
Judge N Z. Griffin and Judge Jobo
huSh' The latter was administr,to, 90
Wv 'S'a'e u Pauline Weaver, who dis.
covered the Weave district. which
now bear his name Judge Rusb 90
ported to the court ina, no 80