Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-04
THAT IS THE QUESTION AG|- HATING G0SS|PERS IN
 CAPITAL CITY
Busy Tongues Wagging Over Stories of the Long Dead Past and the Things That Win Be Done to Kibbey if He Dares to Turn Down Measure.

PHOENIX, February 3.--What will happen when Governor Kibbey or act. ing Governor Page, the secretary of the territory, vetoes the Weedin bill abolishing the rangerss That is the question which is agitating the capitol to it's foundations at the present time
 That the bill will be vetoed is as certain as anything in politics is be. fore it's actual accomplishment. The bill originated in the council Its father is Weedin of Pinal, editor of the Ari- zona Blade of Florence, and fighter of the old school. In the, course of his political career Weedin has been fought in his ambitions by Governor Kibbey, and Weedin is one of the best rememberers and best haters that ever lived. He is philosopher of the old eye for an eye and tooth for tooth school, and if the governor vetoes the Weedin measure, the fur is going to fly in the council chamber
 A whole lot has been written about the reason for the present visit of the governor to Washington. Those on the inside know that he went east to strengthen his fences in the face of the protest filed in the archives against his confirmation. The governor has records put down in black and white during the time the governor served Graham, Gila and Pinal counties.
 Away back in the time of Ben liar. rison there was certain governor of Indiana whose family connections dove tailed with the family of Kibbey. The favof of this certain governor was vital to the success of Benjamin Harrison in his first battle with grover Cleveland in 1888. This governor, whose name, I believe was Thurston, supported the frosty statesman of the HoOsier state right Loyalty and one of his perquisites for so doing was the appointment of Kibbey as judge of the federal courts of Pinal, Graham and Gila counties.
 Soon after the inauguration of Grover Cleveland a case came up for trial in the court at Florence in which a woman was accused of adultery with member of well known eastern famiy. De. fending the man was Francis Heney, now celebrated as chief counsel prose cutting the millionaire grafters Of San Francisco. On the first day of the trial the jury was secured and consid- erable evidence taken.
 On the evening of that fateful first day Francis Heney dropped into the Tunnel saloon. There he found q num- Der of the jurors engaged in playing the old fashioned game of hearts. Heney innocently dropped into the game. The next morning Judge Kibbey was quietly informed by some MT. Trouble of the affair and Heney was called before the court, openly castigated in his honor E choicest invective and fined Sl00.
 A certain member of the present council standing by heard the judicial rebuke to the attorney. He went to Heney with the information that while he was playing hearts with the jurors Kibbey was eating tomales with the buxum woman defendant in the case Heney, furious, lost no time in going to Kibbey and making certain demands The next day by order of the judge certain parts of the record of tue Jay previous were expunged and the fine remitted. Later the facts were laid before President Cleveland and Judge Kibbey was removed by telegraph whil. holding court at Globe.
 That is the record which will be re vamped in the council chamber as sure as Governor Kibbey or his deputy, See retary Page, sees fit to veto the ranger bill. The facts are we'll known to the governors friends. That the governor will hesitate in the pursuit of what he believes may be his duty regarding the ranger or any other bill, none of his friends, nor his political foes, for that matter. believe. His friends declar, that the dragging up of these olc charges which in nowise effect the gov ernor's integrity, they argue, will only react on his aecusers and make the gov ernor a bigger man than ever in th' new state to be.
 But Governor Kibbey's implacabl' 1 foe in the council will not stop at thu emasculation of the court records. II speech which has already been care fully thought out and type written fo
 the occasion, little incident is related which when repeated after nearly twen | ty years will call many merry smil' among territorial attorneys who wit messed it originally. In the town O Florence lived an old washee maj named An Kee. During the judicia incumbency of Judge Rouse, who sue ceeded Kibbey on the bench, an orde
 was passed requiring every Chinamai along the border to register. Kee re fused and calmly informed the inspec
 tor that he wished to go back to Chini
 and if deported would save his fare
 But Kee finally admitted to the inspec l tor that the reason he did not star for China on his own hook was tha
 Judge Kibbey owed him forty dolla