The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-11-10
CHANGES IN
The OFFICES
FOUR IMPORTANT OFFICERS
ARE TO RETIRE.
Tommy" Daniels, the Veteran
County Official, Will Have Been
Twenty-one Years in the Service
Of the County When He Has Com
pleted the Term for Which He Was
Elected Last Tucsday-.Deputy
Sheriff Ryan Another Veteran
Likely to Remain.

| oheiih rydH AHOtneT NeteIdn
Likely to Remain.
| When Monday, January 6, 1901, comes
there VIII be quite a general change
about in the offices of the court house
Four of the incumbents of the most
important offices retire and with thew,
very likely. will go number of their
| deputies and clerks.
Sheriff Pryor quits the court house
ana. incidentally, politics. after having
served the county well and true for
nine years. successiveiy, six years as
| prothonotary and three as sheriff.
Deputy Sheriff Frank Il. Ryan, who
mas been in this one position under
every sheriff since Randolph Crippen.
with the exception of a part of Sheriff
Lewis term, is counted upon to be re-
tained by Sheriff-to-be Schadt. and
there would not be much surprise
manifested il the incoming sheriff
would avail himself of tie valuable
services of Deputy j. II. Ferber, who is
his kinsman, and with whom he is on
the best of terms. socially.
Clerk of the Courts Il. p. Daniels will
continue in the office in which he has
grown up from boy, and those hav-
ing business in that particular Office
will not regret it. In fact. 1t would be
perfectly satisfactory to these patrons
f Tommy" Daniels was given a life
incumbency as clerk.
is A VETERAN.
Incidentally, Mr.. Daniels may be
| mentioned as the veteran county offic-
ial, If we except "Uncle" Jake Ritter,
chief custodian of the cOuntys welfare,
who draws salary as tipstaff. 1t is
eighteen years ago, this fall, that Mr..
Daniels went into the clerks office as
q deputy, under his uncle, w. q. Dam
iels. He continued with him for nine
years, was deputy to Clerk John II.
Thomas for six years. and is now clos
ing his third year as chief of the office.
When he has concluded the term for
which he was elected Tuesday, he will
have been a county official for twenty
one years. And it is saying only a part
of what might be said to voice the
unanimous opinion of the habitues Of
the court house that the county is Mr..
Daniels debtor.
Recorder-elect Emil Bonn went into
office as a deputy to Clerk of the Courts
Thomas in January. 1891 and has been
in that position since. He made per-
sonal friends very rapidly by his gen.
eral amiability and courtesy, and
politically he won a place in the front
rank of the party lieutenarts by his
effective work in South Scranton in
every campaign. Three years ago he
was slated for the office of recorder,
but, at the request of the leaders,
stepped aside, in the interests of har-
mony. This year he was somewhat
chaGrined to find himself called upon
to make a hard fight for the nominal
tion, but fighting is one of his strong
points and after two strenuous Strug-
giles his ambition is finally attained.
SUCCESSOR NOT KNOWN.
Who his successor will be in the clerk
of the courts Office is not yet even
limited. 1t is understood that Elmer
Daniels and Charles j. Mirtz, the pres
ent assistants in that office, will be re-
tanned.
Who Mr.. Bonn will take with him
into the recorders office has not yet
been decided. There is some talk about
the court house of the return Of Miss
Hattie Taylor to the position Of chief
deputy, which she relinquished a year
ago, after a long incumbency in the
position, but nothing has as yet de-
veloped to verify this rumor.
Recorder Fred Warnke. who retires
after one term as Il county official, will
likely be heard from again. His big
victory over Charles Heuster, three
years ago, and the very creditable
fight he put up against the aggressive
and popular Bonn. makes him eligible
to Il prominent place in the ranks of
formidable candidates on the enemy's
side.
County Treasurer NJ. j. Kelly, who
under the law cannot succeed himself,
will leave the court house immensely
richer in friends and admirers than
when he entered it, and he was one of
the most popular and generally ad-
mired citizens of the county when he
did enter. He was fortunate. too in
the selection OF his deputies and the
same regret will attend the departure
of Mr.. Coyne and Mr.. Gaffney as that
which will go with the leaving of their
chief.
This is pre-supposing that Treasurer
elect j. \. Scranton will install new
deputies. Nothing has been learned of
what Mr. Scranton proposes to do, but
that he will take in with him new
force IS hardly to be characterized >as
n violent presumption.
TIlE. PROTHONOTARY.
Prothonotary John Copeland, who
will enter on his second term next
January, ls one of the most popular
men who ever held county office.
Three years ago he won by seventy
votes. This year, his plurality over
the same opponent is upwards of 1,400.
Generally speaking, the Republican