Weekly journal-miner., 1915-04-28

also, that the board had told Clark to stop paying his cooks with the coun- tvs money and that regardless of this Clark had gone ahead and paid the cooks with road certificates. Heap said that in June, 1914, he met Clark and Clark told him that for six months he had been paying his cooks on certificates against the boards orders. He then told how Clark had offered to pay this money back to the county if the board would not make the matter public as he said he could not afford the advertising he would get from it.
 After an objection of the county attorney against question asked of Heap by Attorney Anderson, whether the way Clark run the road construc- ton work was saving to the coun- ty, which was sustained, Anderson said: "Wc are trying to prove that the defendant was acting in good faith and was saving the county money by running the road gangs in the way he did" Heap was then asked if he had ever eaten any meals at the camps, O'Sullivan objecting and was sustained. Anderson in reply, stated: "We want to prove that if these camps were run By the county that the board had right to eat at them and if they were run by Clark that the members had no right to eat meals at the camps without paying for them."
 Four road certificates made out to cooks were then given to the jury to examine to prove that before the board told Clark to stop paying the cooks, road certificates were made cut with "cook" entered after the mans name, and after the supervisors told him to stop, he entered them as having worked on the road.
 Belcher was placed on the stand to identify certain demands and road certificates which Clark had turned over to him through the Prescott National and he said that he had turned them all over to State Ex- aminer Plunkett.
 NJ. P. Lacy, in charge of the work on Slate creek road testified on cross examination that he and three men working under him all boarded at Clark's mine; that Clarence Eckert, working at Clark's mine, sharpened all tools for the county road gang; that the road employees used the tramway and cars in construction ot the road, all of which belonged to Clark or was being paid for by him. Anderson asked him whether the county had paid Clark for any of
 his, but an objection by the prosccu- ion was sustained.
 Dennis Remington while on the
 stand said that he had worked on the
 Slate creek road and had indorSed a | blank certificate for his wages and in | return received a check for $45. The l road check which he had indorSed
 vas entered as an exhibit and he identified it. On it the time marked in was for Y days at s pc- day, | making a total of $5l, out of which
 lc had received $45. He also said that all the men in the gang that he
 worked with were paid by indorsing blank road certificates.
 The prosecution then placed Martin l Fredericks in the witness chair and ne told how Clark came up to him in
 Prescott and hired him to work on the road in Slate creek. He said Clark comes up to me one day and
 says: I have a mine and l want you to work i'll the mine and on the Slate creek road and while you are work ing in my mine l will put one of my tool sharpcners to work on the road in your place." Fredericks also told how he was put to work carrying water and chopping wood for Clark s boarding house at the mine and was paid on certificates. He also indorsed blank certificates. He said that while ne worked ill the mine, Eckert, Clark's tool sha.pener, worked on the tools used in building the county road near there
 Jack Hawkins, who was placed on the stand, said that he was cook at the Slate creek boarding house and that he cooked for both men working in Clark's mine and men working on the county roads. He also was paid with a road certificate.
 Ed. Wicks testified that he had worked on the Slate creek road and sharpcned tools when Eckert could not get away from the mine.
 w. w. Terry, Williamson valley farmer, gave evidence that he had worked on a road in that section for Clark during the winter of 1914, for four days, had indorsed blank cer- tihcatc and had been given a check