Arizona republican., 1910-02-26
TEMPE DERARTMEMT
z. ". GR,FFsx,
 Manager
A Question of Dates
 Threshed Out h Court
The Jury Before Which the Case Was Tried Found Against the
 Defendant

The time of the local justice court yesterday afternoon was pretty Well 1 occupied in hearing the case of the | Territory vs. Louis Anderson Ander- son was arrested yesterday noon at the instance of Stephen Hughes. who charged him with disturbing the peace , and using threatening and abusive language. Anderson pleaded not gull ty t1 the charge and was given a jury , trial at s:30 in the afternoon. The jurors were the following nam ed: Wm. Strong. Henry SandoZ. Ju- Iius Hansen. Louis Stripin. Archie JanZ and Jessie Long. A number of witnesses were examined. among them
 being M. q. Odell. Jesus ValenZuela. George Compton and Henry Schos- husen.
 From what could he gathered from tEe testimony offered. the whole diff culty hinged upon q difference nf a few days time Hughes stated on the stand that he engaged Anderson to work for him on Friday of last week and that he started work Saturday morning When they came to a sci clement the latter part of this week
 Anderson declared that he had gone to work Wednesday morning and de- msnded pay from that date on. rather than from Saturday. According to l! Hughes when he declined to settle on this basis. but paid Anderson from Saturday morning. he was invited by Anderson out into the street to further argue the matter. Also Anderson ap- piled good many improper names to Hughes. and was not at all choice
 in his selection Of the words he used in conveying his thoughts. He was even so bold as to call the rancher a liar with various qualifications. In
 court yesterday afternoon before the
 court could silence him he again in
 timated that he doubted Hughes ve-
 racity He used a little more care However. in the selection of his lan- guage and characterized Hughes as
 'confounded prevaricator. Yesterday
 morning when Hughes came to town
 he found Anderson still waiting for
 the settlement for the three days he
 claimed. He even followed Hughes to
 the railroad where he was engaged in
 loading car of hay and while there according tO Hughes, Anderson threat
 ened his life and applied language
 compared to which that of the day
 before was mild. IL was at this june
 ture that Mir. Hughes resorted to the
 law. Anderson was making life un-
 pleasant for him and was interfering
 with his work.
 Anderson on his. part was confident that he had started work on Wednes- day. He declared that he had irri- geted all that night. but the books of ZanjerO Schoshusen showed plainly
 that there had been no water on the
 Hughes ranch that night: it had been
 turned in on Saturday. It seemed
 plainly that Anderson was mixed in
 his dates and was running a few days
 behind
 The jury evidently took this view
 of the matter. for after being out
 short time returned verdict of gull
 ty as charged. Judge Carr assessed
 fine of ten dollars or as many days
 and Anderson was taken to Phoenix
 on on the evening train. There is
 something little odd about Anderson
 He is man of good appearance and
 appears % have some education.
 Whether or not he is just a little off
 mentally remains to be seen.