The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-16
Logan Still Excited Over His Sud-
den Departure.
RACE FOR PosToFFICE
WILL BE SEVERAL CANDIDATES
FOR THE PLACE.
Suits Filed In Logan and Salt Lake
By Creditors of the Departed
Wheat Speculator-Bishop Wright
of Hyrum a Heavy Loser-Legal
Fights In Prospect.
Especial to The Herald.)

Logan, May 15.-Orson Smiths disap-
pearance continues to agitate the pub
lie here. Nor are his creditors the only
ones who are showing unusual activ-
ity. Church people are speculating
upon his probable successor Several
parties are after his implement agency,
among them being the ex-Dostmaster,
Jed Nj. Blair, and the old list of ap-
plicants for the postoffice is coming to
the front again.
One of the leading aspirants at the
time Smith captured the prize was Jo-
seph Odell, the photographer, a popu-
lar young Republican. He had some
excellent endorsements before. but the
ecclesiastical position held by Smith,
and his ability to help the Republican
party because of his church promin-
ence, made him an easy winner. An
other candidate was Robert Murdock,
who lost both legs in a railway accident
about four years ago and who deserved
some consideration, not only through
sympathy, but on account of the work
he has done for the Republican party
in Cache. Murdoch was one of the few
members of his party in the county
who remained true to the Hanna organ
ization through the campaign of 1896.
Bishop Thomas X. Smith, father of
the fugitive debtor, was also an appli-
petition circulated in the various &C.
clesiastical wards of the county. If he
preserved this list of names he may
have another opportunity to forward 1t
TO the powers that be. In the mean
time he has charge of the postoffice,
and will probably be allowed to remain
there at the request of the bondsmen
until a permanent official is named
Suits Have Been Filed.
The B. Y. college trustees have filed
a suit in the district court to recover
from Orson Smith 1861, due as final
payment for IL 81 bushels of wheat
which the college sold him, and the
last of which was delivered the 3rd
of the present month. Attachment pa
pers have been filed with the suit.
Smith had paid 81, 800 on the deal.
The First National bank has pub
lished a notice that 5000 bushels of
grain in the Logan elevator will be
sold on June 1 to satisfy their mort
gage on the same for 81, 000-
This suit and sale will bring other
complications. Bishop John F. Wright
of Hyrum is reported to be the largest
individual loser. being out, according
to reports, about $4,000. Part of his
wheat was sold and men were haul
ing it away from the Smith elevator
when the word came of the failure
The First National banks attachment
stopped the hauling and was made to
cover all the wheat in the Smith ele-
vator, since the bank people claim to
have a chattel mortgage on the grain
in the elevator.
over this and on some of the other
wheat deposited with Smith there Will
be a fight in court, as it is said that
Smith mortgaged it Illegally.
The tithing Office, or, as 1t is now
known, the bishops stOrehouse, had
900 bushels stored in the elevator, and
Agent Martineau will legally resist any
measures of the bank people to hold
it. The B. Y. college will also take
legal measures to secure the balance
due on a parcel of wheat sold to Mr..
Smith some time ago. And all this
means legal contests with the First
National bank.