Arizona republican., 1909-10-31
Voiced by Grand Jury in Its
 Final Report ADDRESS TO LEGISLATURE
To Provide For Creation of Some Such an Office as That of Public Examiner Abolished by the Last Leg islature.


 grand jury of Pinal county in its final report last week is significant 1t amounts to a prayer for the reestab- lishment of the office of public eX- aminer. abolished by the last legis lature. The grand jury was composed for the most part of democrats. Says the report:
 Pursuant to the law and the in structions of the court we have exam ined into the conduct of the affairs of this county by its public officers. and so far as we are able to learn. they are conducted as is contemplated by the law. The reports of the several special committees who examined into the accounts and conduct of the several county officers are hereto attached and made a part of this final report. We regret to say, however, that the time usually at the disposal of the grand jury and our general unfamiliarity with the various systems of accounts used in the various county offices is so limited that our investigations along these lines are of little practical bene- fit to the tax payers and citizens of this county. Because of this condition .sf affairs and for the reason that these matters can be more carefully and sue cessfuIly handled by an official whose special duty it would be to inquire into such matters and who would be fully competent to make examinations into the financial conduct and transactions with respect to the funds of the county. it is the sense of this grand jury that the representatives of Pinal county in succeeding legislatures should use their best efforts for the creation of such an office"
 Pinal county. it will be remembered is the home of Councilman Thomas Weedin the foremost advocate of the law for the abolition of the office of public examiner and but for whose ac- tivities, it would have failed.
 The grand jury found that there were other things the matter with Pinal ac counts The court further says:
 Tt has come to our notice that public gambling in the towns of Florence. Kelvin, Ray and Mammoth. all situated in Pinal county. is conducted. We have examined into these violations of law and find that such is a. fact; that public gambling is being conducted in the above mentioned towns. In Ray, Kelvin and Mammoth, gambling is conducted openly. with money and other considerations of value in full view of the public in the various sal oons of these towns and without any remonstrance or actions on the part of the local or count.- officials.
 We find that road houses and houses of prostitution are being con- ducted on the public highways of this county; that no restraint is placed upon prostitution in the towns of Ray. Kelvin. and Mammoth, all of which tends to the lowering of the morality and decency of these communities. Par tiuclarly fragrant cases exist on the public road between Kelvin and Ray. where a road house with a house of prostitution run in connection there with is conducted by one George Elm met
 Tn the town of Mammoth. there ex- ist two sale o7s with houses of prosti-
  one of which the two classes of busi- ness are conducted, under the same roof These two saloons and houses of prostitution are located on the main street of that town.
 Because of this condition of affairs Se respectfully recommend that the county officials be instructed to take such action as will result in the stop ping or abatement of these violations of the law"
 Judge Kent who had spent the week in court at Florence returned yester- day. He said that the criminal dock ct of the term just closed was longer than usual and embraced more impor- tant cases. Some of them had been Ignored by the grand jury and in others the verdict had been directed.
 The civil docket took up very little of the time of the court There were very few contested cases at the late term and, for that matter there have been very few for several terms. It may be said of the people of Pinal county that they are not quarrelsome
 The most important of the criminal cases was that of Jose Lopez, found guilty of murder in the first degree for the killing of Maria Espinosa last August, the jury fixing the death pen alts.
 Judge Kent set the execution for January ,. When he directed Lopez to stand for his sentence, there was no