Arizona republican., 1911-02-21
GENERAL INGALLS,
 TRIES HIS OWN CASE
Digs Up the Law, Arraigns the Pris- oner, and Finds Him Entirely
 Guiltless

A short time ago in publishing the story of-.twO recreant mules which with Engineer Parish have been assisting the United States gov ernment in. making the Salt River reclamation project with it ought to be. aspersions were laid on the char acter of Surveyor General F. S In gals.
 Mir. Ingalls,. aided by mules of n higher order of intelligence and of greater technical training than those engaged in reclamation work. thOug1 bearing the same U. s. brand, is also engaged in helping the government out in another line of activity, namely the surveying of the public lands IL was intimated that the general might have decoyed the deserting reclamation mules into his own cor ral trusting for protection in the fact that both branches of the gov ernment service use the same brand.
 General Ingalls, has been studying over the imputation for sometime and has finally decided to resent it. He is willing to admit that a good mule is a temptation to any right minded person. especially if he be connect ed with the land office. or even the reclamation service; but from all that he can learn Mr Farish's stock was mighty common stuff. without pride of ancestry or hope of poster ity, nor with any special record of individual achievement in the gov ernment service.
 The generals final determination to take offense. however. came after a careful search through the land of flee lore and law. He never does anything hastily and he knows that somewhere in the government pub lications of the last hundred years he can find something bearing on every array of conditions that may beset a surveyor general He found that according to land office folk lore. mule stealing had been a crime punishable by hanging ever since January 20. 1850. and he is deter mined not to be hanged for mule stealing If he has to live a hundred years yet He says that he would not steal a mule in the first place but if he did steal one he would l still object to being hanged for it. <! He does not want to be hanged for |
 
 anything.
 That the old regulations against | mule stealing are still morally upr | held by the government. is evident | from a recent occurrence wherein the Y! code was filed as an exhibit in the l United States senate. It may be found in senate document No. 445 of the second session of the sixty-first congress. on page II. paragraph XII. This document is an address of the of the general land office. delivered Nov. 17. 1909. the1 subject being, "the public lands of the United States The docu- ment was presented by and publish ed at the request of Senator Hey burn. |
 In the course of his remarks the reviews the history of the public lands and the laws gov erning them. dealing quite eXtenslveV with the far west He quotes Tn full the organization and rules or he mining camp at Jacksonville. Cal ifornia, adopted January 2O' lS'o' serving the people of that section as both a civil and criminal code. section XII of that code says Any person who shall steal a mule. or other animal of draught or burden, pr shall enter a tent or dwelling ana steal therefrom gold dust. provisions. etc. amounting in value to $lO0 or over. shall on conviction thereof be considered guilty of felony and sui- fer death by hanging
 General Ingalls, has been unable to find any place where that code was repealed. or to find authority any where under which he could steal mule officially. and personally he mas no use for one. much less an ornery mule. He submits that his innocence is clearly established, irrespective of the fact that the mules nave returned to work.
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