Bisbee daily review., 1916-03-03
JUDGE B0UGHN SITS IN SUPERIOR COURT
 FOR NEXT TEN DAYS
A. C. Lockwood Will, in the
 Meantime, Conduct Court
 in Pinal County, Hearing
 Finals of Priority Suit.


 TOMBSTONE, March 2.-(SpeciaD Judge Otis J. Boughn, of Florence.
 has arrived here and will remain for
 the balance of this week and all of
 next week, occupying the bench in
 the superior court in the absence of Judge Lockwood, who will leave for
 Florence to hold court there during
 next week. He goes 10 Florence to
 sit in the final hearing Of the priority
 suit in the matter of George Lobb vs. Avenette, ct al. The case was brought in August, 1914, for the purpose of determining the priorities to the wa ter in the Casa Grande valley and the
 final hearing has been looked for for a number of months with interest by many of the residents of that valley. The testimony in the case was taken by Referee John w. Walker, and this evidence was transcribed and submit ted to Judge Lockwood and a time set for the filing of the briefs by the various parties, this having been done recently and the matter is now ready for a final hearing. It is ex- pected that it will take the judge a week or ten days to finally dispose of the matter. Judge Boughn will hear all of the cases that have been set for trial during the coming week.
 The case of John C. Davis vs. the International Commission Co. is set for trial tomorrow and is an action for debt. The plaintiff alleges thar the defendants sold him in July, 1915. 9,2O0 pesos of Carranza money for the sum of S621.O0; that prior to the transaction the defendants had re- ceiyed wold that the Carrahza money had been declared of no value and that notwithstanding that fact they sold it to him; that shortly afterward he learned that the pesos had no value and went to the defendants and asked for the return of his money which they refused and still continue to re- fuse. Richardson and White appear for the plaintiff and Cass an Sdames for the defendants.
 V. E. Woods, of Bisbee. this morn- ing entered a plea Of guilty to burgla, ry in the second degree and was sentenced to serve a term of not more than three years in the peniten- tiary. He is victim of the morphine habit and presented a pitiful appear ance while in court. In sentencins him, the court told him that it was for his own good that he was sent to prison, that he would have a chance to be cured of the habit and that he would write a letter to the prison stating his condition ana ask them to assist in curing him of the habit. There were two others ad- ] dicted to the same habit sentenced ! Chas. Chick and D. B. ! Symthe. They will be held there . until cured of the habit. There are at the present time more of that . class in Cochise county than there has ever been for years and all of them as soon as they are out of the /. dope will steal in order to renew their supply There have been a num- Der in the county jail during the past few months.
 Taken to Florence.
 Michael Murphy, convicted of the murder of Sergt. Lawrence at Camp Douglas, and sentenced to serve from len years to life; William Alexander and Theodore Parker. colored, who plead guilty to burglary in the second degree in the robbing of a ranch house near Apache and sentenced to serve not more than three years: -has Chick and D. B. Smythe, who plea of guilty to breaking iail at NacO while being held on a ,harse of burglary, and sentenced to serve not more than three years: V. 2. Woods. sentenced to serve not more than three years. for burglary. were taken to the state prison today 70 begin their sentences.
 Making Up Brief. |
 County Attorney John F. Ross is at work making up the reply brief to be lied in the supreme court in the case of the State vs. Bert Aaron. The brief filed by the attorneys for the Dlaintiff was sent to the county at- .oney by Attorney General Wiley Jones with a request that he make he reply as he was familiar with al he facts and circumstances surround nS the case. Roos expects to finish he brief during the present week and send it to Phoenix. The case will be argued before that court some time next month or the latter