Weekly journal-miner., 1918-02-13
COBB-WOOD FUSS WAS OF LONG
 DURATION
T E A R-UP IN GOVERNOR HUNTS OFFICIAL FAM ILY WAS LOGICAL SE- OUENCE OF ROW START ED A YEAR AGO.
(From Thursdays Daily.)

Hunts official family circle had been busted into divers and sundry pieces by the internal strife which had for some time been brewing, created quite bit Of interest locally, especially among the Democratic politicians owing 10 the fact that Homer Wood one of the chief actors in the drama Of disccntent which was enacted at the State house on Tuesday, is Pres colt resident.
 While there is no doubt but that the ill-fceling which existed between State Engineer Cobb and Mir. Wood was brought on principally by reason oi the fact that Mir Cobb resented the efforts of the Commission of State Institutions( of which Mir. Wood was chairman) to direct the expenditure of the moneys used in his department It was learned yesterday hat Mcssrs Cobb and Wood had lacked a con siderable sight of being friends ever since both were elected in l9l6 as presidential electors to represent Ari- zona.
 The trouble first arose over the question as to who should go to Washington to cast the States vote m the electoral college Wood favor cd sending a local female politician, while Mr. Cobb himself desired to go When 1t came to a vote, Wood voted for the lady, the third member of the States electorate voted for Cobb, thus putting it up to Cobb to either vote tor himself or for the Prescott wo, man. Cobb's desire to go to Wash, ington was evidently so strong that he did what many men similarly plac- cd would not have donc-he voted for himself, and by so doing, he received the two votes required to send him to the national capital. Wood, his friends say, was not good loser in s,ncc has spent goodly part of his time whetting up his old tomahawk preparatory to separating Mir. Cobb fIom his official scalp if the opportun- ity ever arose.
 At the time the commission of State institutions was created, the powers oi the old board of control, which body the ncx commission supplantcd. were greatly enlarged and instead oi merely having control of the expenditures of the State university and one or two other State institutions, broad powers were conferred upon the com- mission, the organization having juris- diction of all business affairs per taining to the management of the two State normals, the University, the capitol. the State asylum and the State road department. Heretofore the management of the State cngi- rccr's office and the matter of his expenditures had been left solely m ;hc engineers hands, and recently when the commission notified MT. Cobb that it would hcncciorth direct l.im as 10 the manner in which his de- partmcnt should spend the money ap- propriatcd for its uses, Mir. Cobb waxcd wroth and intimatcd that the commission could go to a certain well-knCwn winter resort which IS generally supposed to have a temper aturc muchly in excess of that prevail cnt at Yuma during the hottest months. The commission, in its cf- fort 10 prove that it had control of the road money, fortified itself with d voluminous opinion from Attorney General Wiley Jones, wherein the States legal advisor maintained that the State engineer was merely two spot so far as his having any right to spend the States road money was concerned. It was at this point that Mir Cobb directed his letter to Gov crnor Hunt, in which he made some rather startling accusations against divers members of the Hunt official family, and which later resulted in Governor Hunt calling upon MT Cobb Tor his resignation.
 At the time Hunt rcinstatcd all ot his former appointccS, he took, as matter of course, the rcsignations ot all of them so that in case of trouble, he could officially dispose of any of them. Mir Woods resignation was dated ,atc in January, the date hay ing been placed there by Gov. Hunt himself, according to some of the local politicians. And Mir. Wood. hay ins at last succeeded in prying Cobb loose from his official position, made 10 kick when Hunt asked for his rc signation. Cobb has heretofore been one of Hunts chief licutcnants, and thc governor is said to have been a bit pccvcd al Mir. Wood because Of fact that the latter had caused Ircal between the two. This was the reason attributed by local politicians foI Hunts demand upon Mir. Wood that he step out of the best appointiyc position in the State, notwithstanding the fact that the excuse advanced by Mr. Wood for his withdrawal was that his business affairs had become too