Arizona republican., 1914-06-17
Suit of Judge R. E. Sloan Against Everybody's Set tied After Ridgeway Con- pany Finds Itself With out Slightest Defense
AMPLE AMENDS
 WILL BE MADE
An Unknown Money Con- sideration and a Complete Retraction of Blighton Article to Be Printed in August Evervbody's

The libel suit of Judge Richard F.. Sloan against the RidgeWay Publishing company, growing out of the pubhca- tion of an article by Frank II. Bligh- ton in Everybody's Magazine in April, of last year was settled yesterday by the agreed upon payment to Judge Sloan of a substantial sum, the amount of which has not been divulged, and an agreement to publish in the August number of Everybody's a complete re- traction of the damaging statement contained in the Blighton article.
 Suit was instituted promptly after the publication and the Ridgeway company filed an answer which was still more libelous than the original article, indicating that the com pany was determined to make q stubborn fight. for more than the money involved in the action was at stake. The reputation of the maga- zine was concerned
 The publishing company has since made the most searching investigation of the record Of Judge Sloan and it's attorneys were compelled to admit at last that they had found nothing on which the Blighton article could nave been based. They therefore asked for a settlement which has been pending for several days.
 The Brighton attack was made in an article under the caption, Uncle sam. Lawbreaker' purporting to dis close irregularities in the conduct of ii was particularly attacked in connec- ton with the contract between the government and the Pacific Gas and Electric company which it was charg- ed had been furthered by Judge Sloan While governor, acting as counsel for the Salt River Valley Waters Users Association. The character of the con- tract as described by Blighton was such. that to assert that any man had had any part in it would be regarded by the readers Of the publication, un- familiar with the contract and the facts in the case, as a serious indict- ment Of him. As a matter of fact, the contract was entered into long before the relation of Judge Sloan with the water users association was estab- iished
 The Blighton article went farther. outside of any possible shortcomings of Uncle sam, with which the writer was supposed to be dealing and reiter- ated the libelous charges which had been made against Judge Sloan while his nomination for United States dis trict judge was pending in the sen- ate
 The first surprising thing was that q magazine of the standing of Every body's should print so damaging an as Sault upon man of Judge Sloan's prominence without an investigation of the charges and without. at least a slight investigation of the character and reputation of the man making them. Hardly less was the surprise that without investigation the maga- zine should make such an answer weeks after the libel suit had been filed
 The retraction feature of the settle ment is unique. It is not recalled that any great magazine has ever before made such, a sweeping retraction, though newspapers in the hurry of publication, lacking the time to inves- tigatc dangerous matter have ire quently been compelled to do so on the discovery of error