The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-27

SIlnSlnS reDuhe 10 Iue HilLtdSe-llidhelS
and salary grabbers on the county
board yesterday.
1t was over the insane man, Kelsey,
who was declared incompetent by a
board of physicians last Saturday and
ordered sent to the asylum at Provo.
1t will be remembered that the asylum
authorities would not receive the man
from the sheriff without a certified
copy of the finding.
At the opening of court yesterday,
Sheriff Hardy asked the court for
some instructions in relation to a
disposition of Kelsey. HE is in jail"
said the sheriff, *and the accommodate
tions are not such as to improve his
mental condition. / have no place to
put him unless it be in one Of the
cells, and if he should take a, notion
to become violent l cannot answer for
his safety"
Geddes began sparring for an open
ing at once. Cant you take him to
the asylum?" he asked in that tone of
voice for which he is so justly cele-
brated
mo, sir; the authorities will not re-
ceive him.
"Wen, why won't they?" asked Ged-
des.
Because 1 have not got the proper
papers; the authorities demand GER
titled copy OF the findings, and 1 have
not got them"
Won't they take him on the original
papers?" continued Geddes.
Il got Mr.. Pike to take one man that
way" was the answer of the sheriff
He said to me, Mr.. Hardy, l will
take this man as a pure matter of ac-
commodation to you, but no more. In
future you must have the proper pa
pers.'
Geddes then turned his attention to
the county clerk. stanton" he in
quired, Il thought your objections did
not lay in the direction of recording
papers and making copies, but in TAX
fThey all belong together" was the
cheerful reply. II am willing to do all
this work if 1 am paid for it. was
not at this hearing and cannot say
what was done. Hence cannot certify
to it,"
well, where are the papers; cannot
the probate judge make copies? What
does all this mean, anyway? Can't we
get a man in the asylum any more|'
DIES fired at the clerk, the probate judge
and every person in particular.
THE papers are in the hands of
the county physician, as far as
know" said the clerk, while Judge Me-
Nally declared he had no right to use.
the seal to make certified copies save
in the absence of the clerk, who was
it's custodian.
81 move TO refer it to the attorney"
said Roberts, who took up the trail
where Geddes left it and saw a chance
to get out of dilemma by chucking
the responsibility upon Whittemore.
James K Gillespie, who had been
sitting quietly, a spectator, at this
point asked PERMISSION to say a few
words. 1.-THE man is insane and in a
bad way" he declared. He is liable
at any time to become worse and do
himself violence. A jail is no place
for an insane person. Iron cells are
not proper places for madmen. The
court ought to do something in this
case. 1t is a shame that man must
be treated in this manner He is
human being, if his mind is gone"
Right here is where the selectman
from Farmers got in his work. Il
agree with Mr.. Gillespie that some
thing ought to be done he said.
We're sent here for
Then seeing that the mileage-makers
did not do anything, say anything or
act as if they intended doing anything
or saying anything, he added:
''Charley, you go on and do the work.
will guarantee the payment of the
fees. If this court will not pay them,
1 will pay them myself"
Now, most men under those circunl-
stances would have felt little and
mean; small and contemptible; infin-
itessimal and mediocre, but GeddeS and
Roberts never moved a muscle in their
faces. Their hearts, which burn with
love for their fellow men, throbbed on
in the same fashion as ever.
The papers were made out at Mar
TINS expense, because that court will
never vote to pay him, and the unfor-
tunate ordered sent to Provo.
It wasn't a satisfactory meeting for
the Geddes family, taken as a whole,
from the beginning. The reading of
the minutes gave him pain, because in
them was reference to the action of
the court in relation to the clerks fees.
Geddes claimed the resolution did not
contain anything in relation to fees
for recording, but merely had reference
to the matter of attendance. This I'M
expected QlHIIGE OIL CIOW WHICH ll1e
selectman from the Third precinct fed
himself, was a surprise to all present.
save the clerk himself, who was .'onto
the curves" better than outsiders.
Il cannot help what you mean," he
declared; 1.-THE resolution stands there
and. speaks fer itself"
That part of the minutes reading
about the action of Judge McNally put
ting a motion, was the part which
caused a pang in Roberts heart. 1t
was evident that Charles was annoyed.
But the minutes. were approved.
Having arrived at the felicitous stage
of the proceedings, the court proceeded
with some routine business.
In order to construct a road from
Tenth to Eleventh South streets on
Main it is necessary for the court to
buy some land. And who is more
selectmen? No person. So the matter
of the purchase was referred to the
selectmen with power-sort of min
listers plenipotentiary, as it were, on
land purchases, as it were.
Selectman Christopherson, who has
been acting as an auditing committee,
on the report of the county clerk re-
ported that all books, papers, accounts,
figures, papers and other
matters in connection Herewith were
and the same was approved
and ordered filed away for future gen.
erations to read.
Road district IL. by its supervisor,
fled report, which was ordered stored
In the vault
William Ridd and a parcel of his
neighbors asked the court to construct
4 bridge across the Utah & Salt Lake
"a nal IN fha street. ca1itI of sToxrf,a,c