The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-25

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heard good Story the other day.
and 1t is vouched for by gentleman
Of high standing In the community.
It was the day after Pratt and his
henchmen were liberated from the pen
Two gentlemen of Irish descent were
engaged in an animated discussion on
the clock corner.
II say, Mike; said the first speaker.
was We afther seeing the TriDoone this
marnipg
The Triboone? And what's that?a
The paper don't yez known
"oh, yes; faath and haven't. What
Dye moind the woman in the
hack ?''
i s.Regob. do
.'Do yez moind that Pratt was sint
upon the hill because he wouldn't tell
who the old dame waz ~
Deed Il do. z
''Well. the Tfiboone had picter of
both of them this morning both Pratt
and the woonlanr'
/ 'Yez don't say?"
'Begob, I do. And would yez behave
It, but both on themPratt and the
woman was shaking hands,
/ For what ~
II don't know; but did hear it be
said that the idee to be conveyed by
the picter was that he do be con-
gratoolating her on the fact that she
wasn't found out, and she do be
athanking of him because he had made
a martyr of himself for the love av
flerr'
I met q very wrathy member Of the
police force the other day, who seemed
to think that he in common with several
OF the other members, was a badly
abused Individual. He told me the
story of his woes; said he had stopped
men on the. street whom he had an
idea might be suspicious, held them up
and went through them, but finding
nothing wrong had let them go; that he
had searched various houses without
|, the slightest shadow of a. warrant, and
had been guilty OF numerous other
things that constituted conduct I'M
becoming an officer" and when told
him that such conduct should forever
relieve him of his star. he merely
shrugged his shoulders and said ne was
obeying orders.
IT. suppose" i said, in an ironical
way, '4that you would deem it within
the line of your duty to climb tree
and peer through the. second story
window of a hotel?"
He assured me that nothing would
give him greater pleasure.
/ fed.
The Rhodes investigation has ended
Just as every one who knew anything
about the case was certain it would
Rhodes has been exonerated and the
published charges proven to have been
without the slightest shadow Of a
foundation. In fact, there never has
been such farce from beginning to
end. The wild stories told at the be-
ginning OF the trial, of what Rhodes
and others had done. simply made
| those who knew Rhodes laugh in a
most immoderate way-they knew that
I, in contradistinction to other members
of the force, Matt was devoid of
wheels, and 1t was not at all likely
that he would put himself in any such
position. The farce has been played
| out; justice has been done.
But what about the chief?
Did he show the sagacity and
shrewdness that people who voted for
MIN expected?
Did he do justice to himself and to
the city when he depended the pa
trolman on such flimsy and trivial
charges?
Did he do the right thing when he
deprived the city of the services Of
Matt Rhodes for thirty or forty days,
on such flimsy NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
that he must have known would be
scattered to the four winds whenever
full and impartial hearing was had?
In other words, because Of fancied
breach of the rules Rhodes has been
drawing his regular salary for doing
nothing. The city Is out whatever
amount is now or WIS due him at the
time of his rel 3 Element, and mas
received 70 h Inefis in return.
Such a fact shows most deploraole
lack of judgment, to say the least
But to come down to the facts in
the case. 1t will be found, 1 am told,
ON very good authority, that the
whole case was instigated by
members of the force who were hostile
to Rhodes-in other words, by men
who had it in for him" This can
hardly be doubted.
The mere fact Of the discharge OF
patrolman cuts but little figure. But
the light shed in this particular case
only goes to prove what I have before
asserted-that a, system Of espionage,
despicabIe to a degree, has grown up
among members Of the force; that IN
! less a man belongs to 'the gang" ne
| has to put in as many hours to save
his head as he does to walk his beat.
The DAVIS of the Glenns and the Par
kers and others who disgraced previous
police administrations seem to have re-
turned.
An exchange has the startling an
nouncement that diamonds are hard y
If it had said they were hard to get"
I would at once agree with 1t.
Utah will come into the Union with
more population than Wyoming, Idaho
and Nevada combined, and as it has
$4,000 children attending the public
schools, the. prospect of it's remaining
Republican is excellent" So says the
st. Louis G1obe-Democrat. The infer
ence that nothing can be learned in
Utah schools will hardly be appreciated
by members of the various school
boards.
Unless you wear yellow shoes and
roll UP the bottoms OF your pants"
no matter the condition of the weather,
you are not in it.
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