Arizona republican., 1913-02-14
COUNTY FIGHT
 OPEN HEARING
Committees of House and Senate Hold Public Hear ing in Senate Chamber Under Chairman Harri- son and Facts Disclosed

There is to be no let up in the fight for and against the division of CocOnino county. This ultimat- tum has been practically issued from both camps. Both sides prepared their strongest array of facts and arguments yesterday for the public hearing before the joint committees on county and county affairs and in two largely attended sessions in the senate chamber let fly at each other with right good will.
 Senator Harrison of Santa Cruz presided at the hearings. Both com mitteeS were seated on the presi- dents platform of the senate at the hearing yesterday afternoon. Rep resentative Thomas MaddOck led the fight before the committees yester- day in behalf of the proposed county He was aided by Will N. Harben of Williams of whom dame rumOr says He will be the county attorney for his pains if he wins"
 Senator Fred Breen likewise Col onel Breen and also likewise Editor Breen led the scrap against those who would divide his constituency. Colonel senator editor Breen repre- sents singly and alone the largest constituency in the state in point of square mile representation. He prefers Coconiho county as she now is. In the committee hearings Breen is ably assisted by Judge Doe T. A. O'Flynn and Judge Jones. By the time the afternoon session had ar rived the strong Flagstaff delega- tion had so arranged their case as to present a solid front against all attacks and to hand back a few heavy shots on their own account. So much so in fact that the pro- penents of Hunt county were by no means encouraged at the result.
 The charge was made that the eastern end of the county had de- prived the western end or Hunt" county of their share of the. tax expenditures as well as of repre- sentation. Th.t roads had been built to benefit Flagstaff and in short every thing was done for Flagstaff
 Judge Doe explained to the com
 mittee that there was always jeal- Ousy between the smaller towns and the larger in county and that every time there is an election the representatives of the county seat go to the other section and ask what they want and are told nothing This is not because nothing is wanted butt because of the jealousy between the two towns.
 Mir. O'Flynn' conducted the exami-
 nation in chief of D. A. Cameron formerly county assessor. Mir Cam eron presented some startling figures
 He said that while he was county assessor the western end of the county had paid from less than one-third of the taxes up to about one-third raises caused largely by the work of his office. Flagstaff is situated in about the middle of the county and in nearly every in stance the easiest way to Williams is through Flagstaff. Many times within his memory two of the three supervisors had been chosen from the proposed Hunt county section
 MT. Flynn here read list of about 40 names all of whom had been county officials and had lived in the western part of the county.
 He denied that any road construc- tiOn had been made especially ad- vantageous to Flagstaff on the con trary the work was done to benefit COcOnino county and Arizona.
 MT. Maddock asked if it was not a fact that no representative from Coconino had been elected to the house of representatives. MT Cam 1 erOn said he doubted if one would l be again after this county division | fight. This caused a laugh.
 The hearing then dragged on until l after five o'clock. Whether another | open session of the committee will ! be held is not known now Miss | Ruth Thompson and Miss Ruth Gray l of the senate stenogra phic force l took the testimony and will trans 1 cribe :he notes.
 STILL MORE EXAMINATIONS
 The local civil service board has
 again sent out leaflets calling for ap-
 plicants for examination for positions in the classified civil service of the United States. Probably the most | interesting of those is that called
 for March next for the position of clerk carrier in the local postoffice | Any person who weighs less than
 125 pounds at the time of applica- | tion is disqualified without proceed ] ing further An accounting and sta | tistical clerk is wanted for the Inter- l state Commerce Commission. There
 will be vacancies in the division of carriers accounts. The examination l takes place on March and 6. Po-
 sitions pay from twelve to sixteen
 hundred dollars per annum. An as
 sistant in experimental therapeutics 1 is asked for on March 10 and a gen
 eral clerk in departmental service examination in Arizona offices on 1 March