Bisbee daily review., 1918-09-19
WARREN DISTRICT TAXES STEPS
 TO PROTECT INTERESTS IN THE
 COURT HOUSE REMOVAL MATTEL

Residents of the Warren district in- terested in the progress and well be- ing of their community, have been invited to attend a meeting at the Bis bee City park Friday evening next at s o'clock, when the county seat re- moval question will be discussed and considered The Warren district has been forced to take a hand in the pro posed court house removal through the activities of Douglas, and tho Warren District Commercial club, act ing in conjunction with the mayor and city council; have called the meeting.
 At the meeting a permanent organi- zation for the prosecution of the work will be perfected. plans to be follow ed will be outlined, proposed sites for the court house will be discussed in Bisbee, Lowell and Warren, and other matters will be taken up. A speaker to explain the status of the question at present and to explain the legal questions involved will preside at the meeting, but the discussion will be general and everyone will be request ed to give ideas and join in the or ganization work.
 Following is a brief statement of the history of the case by c. W. Allen, president of the Commercial club, and chairman of the clubs committee working in cooperation with the may or and city council.
 "A year ago last spring Douglas started a movement to change the To- cation of the county seat under the county seat removal law of our state statute. A committee from Douglas came to Bisbee to confer with the Warren District Commercial club, ask ing cooperation to secure the county seat for the Shelter City. Under the very unsettled conditions the Warren District club did not consider the time opportune for the removal of the county seat or for the agitation of the matter and discouraged the project as best it could. However, a committee was named and was par tially successful in securing a site for this district in order that it might not be caught wholly asleep. The matter was then temporarily dropped as far as Bisbee was concerned.
 Douglas in the meantime. disre- garded Bisbee's admonitions that the time is inoppOrtune, went ahead, is sued and secured signatures for peti- tions to bring the question up at the election and carried out a complete program and campaign agitating coun- ty seat removal throughout the coun- ty. It is understood they have three sites selected for submission and there is a feeling about the county that unless the Warren district acts, Douglas will possibly secure the coun- ity seat Indications of today are that the county seat will be removed, through the activity of Douglas. The Warren district has a better chance to get it than Douglas.
 We have been forced into the fight, but through fairness to the peo- pie of the northern part of the coun- ty and of this district, the Commercial club has decided that the voters shall 1 have an opportunity of designating this district as one of the proposed [ sites and of voting on this districts proposed site. We wish it to be known that the Warren District club would not have taken a hand in the matter had it not been forced to do so, and that now that we have taken |