The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-09-22
ITEMS FROM SANPETE.
SEPT. p, 1882.
Editor Herald:

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Editor Herald:
The names of the gubernatorial
appOinteeS for the county of SAN
pete at last appear. Tie ancient
city CT Manti, the seat of the
county, the central focus. is left out
IN the cold; the distribution of
officers IS scattered and Mt. Pleas
ant and Spring City come largely
to the front. Perhaps this portends
a removal OF the county seat to one
OF these two places, but the true
centIe OF the county is Chester
The nominee for probate Judge
brings to the W0Ol-sack an enlarged
legal experience that must grace
the seat and Gdorn the judiciary. l
cannot conceive how the appointee
for county clerk, Mr. j. D. Page. Of
Nj. Pleasant, can meet the require
mentS AZ Manti and attend The
County Court sessions, for I know
Of no law that allows him deputy.
The law, page 1872, section PA, Com
piled Law, authorizes the appoint
ing Of deputies by the clerks Of the
various courts. There are but
four courts authorized by the
Organic Act, viz: the supreme.
district, probate and Justice.
To construe county court
into q court at all, would be illegal.
Ephraim is now well blessed, hav-
ing two Selectmen. 1t would have
seemed more appropriate to have
had the sheriff live at the county
seat, for there are the records, place
of sales and the jail. I DO not know
the appOintee, Sumner J. darkness,
only as person connected, as l am
informed, with the freight depart
nent of the Sanpete Valley Rail-
road at Wales, the extreme west Of
the county. OF course he can have
deputies. It also, at present, seems
out Of joint fer the assessor and
collector TO live remote from the
county seat, but there is nerve and
ability IN the person appointed, and
[ opine that the same characteristic
of fairness VIII govern him as did
when he acted as UniteG States
commissioner for this county.
My friend, the new probate Judge,
comes in for more than his share of
honOrS. [ see he IS TO be the pre-
cinct justice for Spring, and his pu-
pill, Charles ROff0rd, is to be his
henchman; nor has Mr.. Abner
Crane, a recent importation from
Bingham, been forgotten as "a
J. P. fer Mount Pleasant. He
is br. why son Of Vulcan.
1t has been the usual custom for the
probate clerk to be the county clerk.
Now, this latter is elective, and the
former can, rs by law is provided,
be appointed by the judge. 1t
would be desirable, if changes are
to be made in the regime of this
county, that the changes were for
the better, but as the outlook now
is there is the shadow of grave
doubt. [ am Intimately acquainted,
and while argue no i'll for ills sake,
nor as disapp 0inted one, cannot
fOrego the foreoeding Of miscon-
ceptiOn in the choice of some in the
reformatOry programme; but time,
the great healer and solver of
events, must determine the expert
ment.
There has been for years a daring
violation of law here by some, so
much so as calling for an internal
revenue inspector. he inspector
came armed with names Of those
who figure principally among the
"circleS." do not, at this writing,
remember a single Mormon on the
list Of persistent violators Of the
law. Perhaps the term viOlatOrS is
too harsh-call it eyading the law.
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