Arizona republican., 1920-05-13

and complete one and he did not want to oppose any direction it might take.
 MT. Royce opposed the contention of MT. Bullard, and Mir. Jones likewise did so. suppiementing his objection with a reiteration of his previous dec laration that no attack should be made upon him anyhow. Governor Camp bell supported the position taken by Messrs. Boyce and Jones. and Mr. asked permission to file a protest against the qualification of so biased a member as MT. Jones to sit in iudg ment upon his client. There was an other prolonged war of words, ending with a gracious permission to Mir. Bullard to file any sort of a protest that might please his fancy, the board afterward to determine whether any more would ever be heard Of it.
 1t Gets Oily
 The oil industry was unexpectedly brought into the hearing. Tn the course of the examination Of John Gungl, an attorney of Wilcox who was put on the stand by Mir. Struck meyer. the attorney stated that a client of his who had made application for 1 the lease of a section of Iand adjacent to his homestead claim had been turned down in favor of subsequent applicant MT. Gung'l was asked if the successful applicant was the owner of any oil stock. The attorney replied that he was. He further stated that the stock was in MT. Moeurs conn pany. 1t was the purpose of the prosecution, no doubt, to show that this relation in the oil business be- tween the successful applicant and the commissioner had inclined the lat ter favorably toward the applicant This incident provoked another rather bitter controversy, out of which grew the statement that many cattle men had become interested in the oil company with which Mir. Moeur was associated On cross examination the witness was inclined { othink that the successful applicants had not bought the stock as a condition precedent to l the granting of their applica tions. but that after they. had been granted 1 leases they had been moved by grati- ] Jude to purchase the stock
 Tell of Their Pliers
 Mir. Moeur was given an opportunity 10 speak or his flier in the oil business. 1 lie said that ne was one of the organ l Esrs or the Burk-Leader Oil company, ! which he believed was a merftoricus enterprise. He had invited many of ] his friends to get into it. Evervthine was regular. The articles of the com pany had been prepared in the office or the attorney general by Mir Whit ney. Mr. Moeur said that he had gone 10 that office because he wanted the tfcAN tAOllS Attorney General ! Jones desired to get it into the record that the preparation of the articles wa : not a part of the official business of ms department and that Mir Whitnev Tn their preparation had acted in his prlvdte and not in his official capacity MT BuHard here wanted to know if any Of the members of the board were owners of oil stock. Nearly all of them admitted a modest reaching oytt for sudden wealth. But. Governor Camp oel nad resisted the lure, and the at torhey general believed he had also oseh proof agalnst this manifestation or aVarice, but he was not sure Mr 1 Bullard. in the way of refreshing his memory, asked if he was not the DOS sessor or the Chino Valley stock of un-
 fragrant memory. At this point the search ran against stone wall and the inqulry was turned back toward land office matters
 Forgeries and Dummies
 The first witness Of the night was Justice Of the Peace Charles E Rol- i ton Of CouFtland. His testimony though interesting. was understood tc felate to shortcomings, if any, within the board rather than within the offics of the land commissioner. He said ina, in his capacity of justice he had talxer the Yledgement of many appli. cations for leases and for purchases ot state lands. He had also heard a greai many complaints of fheir failure. ant some of these had been investigated: that now about 30 applicants who bac failed were prepared to bring sui, against the land department. Tn one case, he said, a suit had been brought for the cancellation Of a lease that bad been secured by forgery The r,iatreI was heard before the land board. the members present being Messrs. Jones Boyce and the then state treasurer. D
 r. Johnson. He said that a demlsrrel 70 the comp pialnt based on, the grouns
 ehat me persons making it were no
 interested parties had been sustained
 lnat eney hael not themselves male ap
 pi1cauoh TOT leases. Then, said tke wit
 ness, the case was kicked out.7 Al. torney General Jones correcte,i thf s,.ii' ent with denial that it had beer k1cheu out put that the pleadings wer, louhd 70 De defective, though ther,