Bisbee daily review., 1914-04-29
JONES IS ASSAlLED
 IN PUBLIC CHARGES
 BY EDITOR AYERS

PHOENIX, April 2S.--Public charges of derelictlon of duty are now made by C. II. Akers against Corporation Commissioner F. A. Jones, the man whom he has been persistently push. ing forward for the last seven years. the man for whom he broke with former Governor Joseph II. Kibbey.
 Akers states through his newspaper. the Arizona Gazette. that Jones has gone to Washington to protest before various committees against the repeal of the free tolls clause of the Panama canal act. "a matter which can be of no possible interest to the people of Arizona"
 By inuendo. Akers charges that Jones has entered the service of Wil- liam Randolph Hearst. who has made a consistent fight for rree tolls since the present controversy over that ques- Ftion arose.
 Akers couples the departure of Jones with the visit 10 Arizona of R. T. Van Ettisch, star reporter of the Los Angeles Examiner, one of Hearst's papers. Van Ettisch recently wis. ited Phoenix and Prescott. urging their commercial bodies to pass resolutions opposing the repeal of the tolls clause. In both places Van Ettisch was turned down flat While he was in Phoenix an article appeared in tho Examiner, under a Phoenix date, to the effect that resolutions opposing the pro posed repeal had been passed by the corporation commission.
 Commissioners A. V. Cole and w. P. Geary declare that the tolls question was never brought up at a commis- sion meeting. They deny knowledge Ipf Jones' present whereabouts.
 Akers comments:
 Just what difference the tolls ques- ton could make 10 the people of Ari- zona. whom tho commissioner pre- tends to represent at the senate hear ing, is said to be matter that he alone can understand and an explana- tion of his objects in leaving his post of duty where many matters of vital importance to his constituents arc pending will probably be asked for on his return from his unauthorized jaxnt."
 lt is charged by Akers that Jones |spent two days in Los Angeles before starting for Washington, and that he n a kr nft f.la
 It has been known Tor some time that Akers and Jones were no longer friends. One day Jones said:
 I've been told that anyone who played with Akers very long would be thrown down and thrown down hard. now see where my advisers were right" The final break came over the com. promise as entered into by Commis sioners Geary and Cole with the Pacif' lfc Gas Electric company. of Phoenix. Jones wrote dissenting opinion in which he severely assailed the other commissions. Akers refused to print Jones' opinion and gave his approval to the compromise. Previous 10 that however, the two had had disagree ments. Akers said that he thought they had gone "a little too far in this rate fight"
 At one time Jones was general freight and passenger agent of the Santa Fe, Prescott Phoenix railroad,
 stationed at Prescott. He came to Phoenix about seven years ago and formed combination with Akers. They organized the Maricopa County l Commercial club. an association Of Phoenix business men having lower railroad rates as it's object. Jones' ! knowledge Of rates made his inyal-
 uable and he was chosen as traffic manager, Akers being president of the club.
 | When the territorial legislature ere lated the Arizona railroad commission Akers urged Joseph II. Kibbey, then
 governor. to appoint Jones as mem
 Der. Kibbey refused. Up to that time | Akers had been an ardent supporter
 of the kibbey administration but he abruptly changed his views and
 charged that Kibbey had gone over to the interests" The break of Akers and Kibbey created no less of a sen
 sation than the break of Akers with iJones.
 At the election of 1911. just prior to
 tho entrance of Arizona into the un
 ion, Akers supported Jones for the
 corporation commission. successor to
 ths railroad commission. and Jones was elected. During the first year rthat the corporation commission was in existence the Gazette did not seem
 to know that 1t had any member ex