The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-24

Attorney Pence, representing onerllL
Hardy, made a strong plea 10 the
county court yesterday to dechne "
appoint a peace officer at Murray at
salary of SIS per month, but the court
refused to listen to the suggestions
made. although Pence declared ~ ndu
no right to make any such apponti'-
ment. e, ,;+t,
Three petitions have been on ME Win
the court for some time asking LOT Ihe
appointment of a special peace oIllcel
at Murray and the matter came up Iot !
action yesterday. Pence did not ger
there until after Isaac Hadley had peeh
chosen.
Mr.. Pence, addressing the court,
asked by what authority it made TINS
selection and received the eXceeolnSly
definite reply from the selectman 1rohN
Murray Roberts lives at Murray now
that it was made by authority OF law.
Requested to cite the particular
statute. Mr.. Roberts at first referred
Mr.. Pence to the attorney, but later
volunteered to look it up himseH. but
after expending half an hour IN the
search. the selectman decided that per-
haps the county attorney was the pest
man to see after all.
Mr.. Pence made a statement to the
court
seemed to him that the sheriff was a
competent officer and if any appoint
ments were to be made, it should be
his duty to make them, and mot the
task of the court The statutes pro-
vide that the sheriff shall appoint depu-
ties, for whom he is responsible. These
appointees are required to give no
bonds and the action of the court IS
a reflection upon the integrity of the
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then charges should be made against
him and he be called to account.
assertion at this point that
he favored permitting the sheriff max
ing this appointment, as he did all
others, but Roberts interpolated the as
sertion that under the law, the court
could not pay a deputy sheriff, that
it could not make an appropriation
for the salary of the sheriff:
Pence argued that for years and
years the salary Of the Sheriff had been
fixed by the county courts, but all his
talk went for nothing and the appoint
ment was allowed to stand.
Treasurer Lynn presented a tabulat-
ed statement of the tax sales for the
years 1S94-5, which covered a. great eX-
panse of paper and showed the fol
lowing results: There was received
by the county for and on behalf of
all the city and county property and
the county district schools the follow
ing amounts for taxes, interest and
costs: Taxes, 1893, $17,236.63; interest
$2,73S.13; costs, $2,943.25. For the year
1894 taxes, $S44.37; interest, S73.55; costs,
1919; total for the two years, $24, 51497.
This statement was flied.
Justice Sells filed a request for
docket The court having given him
one not long ago the question came
up as to why this demand so soon.
1t was explained that the present dock
ct is half criminal and half civil and
that the justices do not have very
much criminal business, hence the
books do not last. It was decided that
the attorney should be consulted in
this matter, and Sells request went
over.
Bingham is going to initiate Chica-
go, on a smaller scale. o. B. Hardy
and w. ]. Morehead presented a petit
tion asking for franchise for light,
! heat and power for electric roads
which was backed with a petition
! signed by nearly all the residents of
| the town, which petition was referred
to the county attorney.
| Book E, of the county recorders office
is worn out, and as it is a very i'm
portant document, the recorder asked
the court to allow him to make a copy
| of the tome and proof read under
his personal supervision. This was re-
ferred to the county attorney.
| Surveyor Josephs reported that in sur
! veying highways "a and 70 in South Cot
| tonWood district he had discovered that
| private owners were encroaching upon
the road He named two or three par
| court to refer the matter to the road
! committee, with the attorney associaed.
The surveyor recommended that monu-
ments be placed on Thirteenth East street
while other work is progressing, and
| this too was referred to the road COM
! mittee.
While on the subject of roads. the
| court was edited by a communication
! from Franklin Webb, supervisor of the
! Big Cottonwood district, in which he
stated that inasmuch as the Jones power
dam people were changing the. course of
! a road which had been Travelled for forty
years, and making the grade of the
change, Just above the stairs, in the
sable for heavy loads. he wished to serve
notice upon the court that he would not
| accept the same when completed, unless
! by the order of the court. This, too, was
| referred to the committee on roads for
an investigation.
In replying to a notice from the county
court to the effect that its crossings were
not in good condition, the Utah Central
stated that in one instance the county
! had taken away dirt from the crossings
| and that was the reason the places were
so bad. The court by Mr. Geddes an
nounced that the franchise of the road
| should be forfeited, which matter will
| be considered by the selctmen and the at
! torney.
John Birks asked the court some weeks
| ago to send to him a boy named Ernest
| Lythgo, who is an inmate of the poor
farm, to Anaconda, the petitioner being
the uncle of the lad. This request was
| granted.
! the court and asked it to make a return
| or take some action on the paper served
in relation to the North Point Irrigation
Canal company, all of which was re-
| ported in The Herald at the time. The
court informed Mr.. Taylor that he could
! go ahead with his legal proceedings by
| declining to respond favorably to his re-
Taylor will sue both the city and the
Ezekiel Holden of Sandy appeared and
! SAID that the court was trying to make
him tear down a fence across what it
was pleased to designate as county
| cinct. He wanted to know just what the
| court intended to do.
1--WE are going to cut the wires" was
the reply of Christopherson.
THAT is Just what 1 want you to at
tempt. will enjoin you from SO doing
you in time will sue you for damages,
was the cheerful reply of Ezekiel.
.You know that is the location of the
road" said the selectmaD from Farmers
II did not come here to discuss that
point; came here to see what you IN
learned, 1 shall protect my interests. Yor
| will be enioined" and with this ultima