Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-02-07
A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER.
The Second District Court Is Now
RlsliHIlg lis Former Prestige.
An Increase In the business There
ana uorc Confidence Trit Among
IdiiRsnt..-i tosor bestowed where
Honor IL nur.

The following article with reference
10 the Improved condition Oi Judicial
affairs In the Second dlstrlo. Ia taken
from tho Beaver UtoH.dn OF recent date:
That the second district court In
rapidly emerging nom the disTepute
under which II nus been placed for
some yean past anu regaining it, old
prestige anu patronage will DO sppsr-
rnt from the following facts aud
hgutet;
within the last year there have been
foTly.'Our civil cases brought In the
Second district court, while Ia the
three years previous to the last there
was only an average OF twenty civil
cases n year, showing an Increase
within the last year Of more than one
hundred puT cent. In the Inst month
thoIo were ten civil cases tlleu,a at when
rate there will have been lii cases
| illnd at tue end oi tho year, or more
than the aggregate Of the last four
yeaIa.
A. 10 terfiioiNi crlminHl cases, they
have incfelssi LWO hundred por cent,
and more fines nave been deposited
with the territorial treasury Ia thu last
six months than had buou previously
| deposited In tour Year, anu halG
II usoi % be t1at litigAn.s would
| take their business 10 the other dis
tflcls Of the Territory whore plssi Die,
because the oiUr Of corruption from
| this uisiTict made them AFRAID TO trust
their business Ia IT. care; and the
larger cases that were brought here
would get transferred TO some othot
district; but this condition n being
rapidly changed under our present ahlu
aud uprig Judge, Hon. q. w. Bartcb,
ami through the splendid and deter
/ mined efforts Of United States District
Attorney J. W. Judd. Not ono case
has been trAnsfefro from this district
since these gentlemen have been with
w, aud not one case has been com.
msnced IN another district where u
would DO As convenient 20 bring Il
here; but, on the contrary, There was
recently % Case Transferred 10 this dis
tflct from the Thifj, In which one OF
the ligigsuie said that tha case would
| have boon brought In title court In tue
! nrst place " hs hal not been AFRAID
| that tue jury would Ue corrupted, aud
| the Reformation" that las been gOiug
! On IN this district no gave as the
reason fur having II transferred back ~
this court, where ho sayu the costs In
! the case will he much lighter than they
would be- M Salt Lake, NJ nil the Wit
| uesaes reside very Eear 70 this court.
Judge Sar.uh aud u. =. District
! Attorney ]. W. Judd are entitled u
! the whole credit ~ this Improved con.
/ dillon OF Affairs n the Second district,
aud for their efforts they Al least have
| the good wishes Of u grateful com.
I nj sHHN -.
| iTrqusntly heard, such NJ the FOL
! lively from letters from two OF
] our host southern citizens. One
! Of them writes ~ friend here, al
heartily endorse the sentiment Of tho
| court aH 90 tho kind OF mon needed tor
! this Ouryl seTvlcg--mep who ARE in-
| tBtnsted and have property OF stake and
who will DO their utmost to sec that
| the laws arc enforced aud bring Grim.
inals ~ Justice, and from another am
/ pleased 10 note the reformation had
/ az the last torn Of court In lhia district
and trust that tho good work will a.!ll
go on"
It's not long since one Of our Fed
eral Oiiloiula made an effort 70 nave
| this district abolished, while all the
| time no anew tho business WAS being
neglected aud tuat thieves were allow
bd 10 run A. large pToyluR ON the prop
! trty OF Uthrir; hu knew, or ought to
/ lave known luAt the people In sons
! parts 0f thlg district were seriously
considering the question OF taking tho
| law into their own hands by tho olu-
fashioned sysieu Of lynch law aud Sc.
| in the iacs " all THIS he represented
10 the department ~ Washington ana
the people at Salt Lake that there WAS
| no busiuess 10 ths second district,