Arizona republican., 1913-02-26

didn't know The incident of his sub- tracting $2S and some cents from the Palmer claim was brought out. He said that Mir Burns had a claim against Palmer which he had been asked to collect, as a lawyer running a collection agency. that he had submitted the claim to MT Palmer. it was for grocer ies for about S280. and that Palmer had paid it when his warrant from the state for which he had been contracting ar rived First he paid Palmer the money then Palmer paid him the $2S0.
 In this transaction with Mir. Burns afterwards he had charged ten per cent of the entire amount, upon the ad- vice of other attorneys in Florence. The statute 35S0 of the civil code was read to him. in which it is prohibited under pain of never being allowed to hold of flee in Arizona during the lifetime of the offender if any additional charge was made to any person working for the state for doing anything for that person in connection with any business of the state. His answer was that he was not aware of that statute. He was excused.
 James Shambly. a lawyer of Florence was called and made d statement re garding the advice he had given. He said Wansley had not asked him about the law but merely about the amount and that he hid not know what the matter was based upon. He then made d statement upon the prison manage ment in favor of working prisoners upon the county roads. He said he be- lieved the entire expenses of the peni- tentiary would be paid by the counties hiring the prisoners to do this work if the law was made so as to make it possible.
 G. l.. FOrber, a salesman for the Hill company was called and said that he did business with Warden Sims at the pen, and that the warden had told him that all bills must be under $25O or they could not be paid prOmtply be- cause of the provisions of the statute. He did his business solely with the warden selling him wholesale lots and the warden was a very shrewd buyer. He said he had been told by merchants of Florence that he could not sell them as he sold the prison
 Charles H. Pauley. also salesman was called and stated that Florence prices were generally 9 per cent high CT than those of Phoenix
 Secretary Osborn of the board of control was called and identified two warrants which had been paid to the old Dominion Commercial company. One of these was in connection with the work done by the prisoners on the Globe highway, in which the agree ment was that the county of Gila should pay the difference between the cost of the work and supplies at the prison and the cost on the highway. At the request of MT. Jacobs he read from the letter head of the claim. the name of c. w. P Hunt, president of the com pany and said that was the same gen. tleman who is governor of the state. He said that greater care was being taken now in purchasing supplies than in the old administration when he had been clerk of the board and that the state was saving by the careful buying. He said much of the buying was done by the superintendent and that this had been done both under the old ad ministration and the present one.
 Matt F. Bryan, captain of the guards was the last witness before the even ing recess He testified to the guards going to town with the prisoners said he believed two men ample to protect sixty prisoners, even if strung out over two city blocks. He denied the circus parade rider had worn tights and de- clared the garb he had on then was that of clown. There was a guard in the wagon that had carried the men to town.
 There were seven or eight guards