Show ALA WIER ARRESTED A F Groves Charged with Conspiring Con-spiring to Defraud HOW TfflEJBLUE JAY WAS FORMED A Rather Questionable Transaction Miller Convicted Ecterts Case Goes Over Until Today There is an old adage Physician health heal-th self Attorney A F Groves probably thinks this ought to be changed to Lawyer do fend thyself and Mr Groves will have Ian I-an opportunity putting the latter injuno tion into practice As before stated Mr Groves is a lawyer by profession and incidentally an organizer organ-izer of mining enterprises It is because of his proclivities in the latter direction that Groves the lawyer will have to get Groves the organizer out of his present dilemma It seems that some time ago Harry Donovan Dono-van who has organized many mining companies and Mr Grove negotiated with Alexander Wood of Beaver county for the purchase of somevaluable mining properly owned by him and July 23 last the negotiations were conducted The agreement was that the organizers should give Mr Wood a mortgage on the property for 15000 and 100000 shares of stock of the par value of SI each The company was duly organized under the name of the BlueJay Mining company and was capitalized at a round million The stock sold well and it is alleged that in disposing of the same the projectors assured the purchasers that the property was unencumbered save for a claim of 400 which the Horn Silver company held In the meantime Mr Wood waited for his mortgage He waited a long timein fact some two I or three monthsbefore he got it and then the document proved to be a rather shaky affair The 100000 shares of stock however how-ever failed to materialize Patience finally ceased to be a virtue and Mr Wood hied himself to Zion and uncorked his ire by swearing complaint charging Groves and Donovan with conspiring to defraud I Offlprr R ORpillv tnnlr fho Inwvor J1uUL tI D VJUY I UUll uu IiWY into custody last night but Mr Donovan has not yet been arrested Mr Grove was taken before Judee Gee and was released upon giving a bond in the sum of 1200 to secure his appearance for examination A J White and Mr Bolton becoming his sureties The matter will be investigated sometime some-time next week |