Weekly journal-miner., 1918-07-10
UNITED VERDE IS
 WINNER IN B|G DAMAGE CASE
JOHN HARRINGTON, WHO WANTED S3O,0OO FOR HIS INJURIES, LOSES CASE AFTER JURY HAS BEEN OUT 20 MINUTES.
(From Tuesdays DailvO

(From Tuesdays Daily)
 John Harrington lost his personal injury suit against the United Verde Copper company, the jury which was listening to the evidence in the Su- perior court having required less than 20 minutes to come to the conclusion that whatever injuries the plaintiff might have suffered while at work for the defendant corporation had come about as the result of the man s own carlcssness and were not due to the company's negligence,
 Harrington, who was seeking to recover S30,OO0 from the Jerome cop per firm, alleged in his complaint that he had been injured while help ing to erect a number of concrete forms in one of the main shafts. Mcssrs. Anderson & Ellis, represent ing the defendant, went to great lengths to prove that the company had not been responsible for the in iurics which Harrington said he had received. Wooden models of the shaft and also of the concrete forms were brought into court, and num- Der of Harrington's fellow-workmen testified as to the instructions which had been given them by the foreman of the cement gang. The defense contended that Harrington had not obeved the explicit instructions which had been given him regarding the placing of the forms, and as result he had received the fall which had injured him. The job was perfectly safe one when instructions were fol- lowed. the defendant proved.
 Prisoners Are Sentenced
 Judge Sweeney yesterday sentenc- ed Ouong Guey, a Chinaman who had been convicted on a charge Of attacking a young Chinese girl, to a term of from one to five years in the Florence penitentiary. Frank Tavlor. convicted of an attempt to bribc two officers into releasing him after he had been arrested on a boot logging charge, was sentenced to an indcterminate period of from one to ten years in the State prison. Judge Sweeney overruled motions on part of both prisoners for new trials.
 Blue Monster Faces Suit.
 Oliver Dean yesterday filed sult against the Blue Monster Copper Company, seeking to recover the sum of Sl.OOO, which he alleges in hls com-lair. is due him for cutting o--, mel work. and sinking a ,hai.. Dean s:2tcs than on June 2O' 1918. the company contracted with him to sink a shaft to depth of lOO feet. the pay to be at the rate ot SzO T foot. He was also to run a lOO- foot drift at the rate of SS per foot. On July 5th, after the shaft had been put down 30 feet and the drift had been run in for a distance of 5 feet the company refused to pay him Sz|O which was then due, the complaint states, and the plaintiff has asked judgment for Sl ,OOO. which he alleges would have been his profit on the whole job.
 Probate Matters.
 K. \. Fredcricks, F. G. Brown and T.. \. Hope, appraisers in the estate of the late Robert Kcating, yester- day filed report with the court showing that the value of the hold inps of the estate was approNlmatcly S1, 600. The property consists oi Lots 2l and g in the city of Pres colt.
 Ncill C. Clark yesterday filed pc tition asking for his appointment to the position of administrator of the estate of the late Sabine Raymos, who died on June 3, 1918. The value of the property left by the deceased does not exceed $l,50O according to the petition. The matter will be talk cn up by Judge Sweeney on Friday, July 10. .,
 Bert C. Jones, cxecutor of the estate of the late Andrew Jackson, yesterday filed his petition asking for final accounting. The petition states that the deceased directed that all of his property should go to the cxccutor and his wife. As relatives, Mir. Jackson left three sisters aged 80 S2 and S5 years respectively all of them living in the eastern states: None of the latter were remembered in the will Jackson was carpenter and contractor and lived in Mayer.
 In the matter of the estate of the late Charles A. Bchm, George l. Scholey yesterday filed his petition for letters of administration, the matter to be taken up by the court on July 10th Bchm died on June IS. 1918. and left holdings in cash and in property in the Hassayampa nm ing district.
 NEGROES HANGED