The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-12-14
Incidentally Formed
State Organization,
Fee System Discussed But NO
Stand Taken.

meeting Of several of the sherins OF
the different counties of the state was
Reid in this city yesterday afternoon IL
TOOK rlsce in room one tf the Congress
Square hotel and was in session nearif
all Ct the afternoon. A curious feet CON-
Lected with the gathering was that al
though 1t came on in this city neither
the sheriff Of Cumberland county CT any
&c his deputies were in attendance. Whe
Sheriff Despeaux was asse1 about th's
last evening he said "No, Was not at
the meeting nor were any of the DEPUTIES
of Cumberland ccunty there. have not
ths slightest itsa what was dons. Several
DAYS ago l was notified that there was
geing to be srch a meeting"
The sheriffs who were present were:
George Il. Huskins CT andre: coggin.
Charl IS E. Piper Ct Line In, James Il
Tnc xer of Oxf1rd Charlss Il. Brown OF
penobsc IT.. FRANKLIN p. Pennell Of SOM
erset Samuel q. Norton of Waldo and
Usher b, Thompson Of York. The depu-
ties who acc ompanied their chiefs were
L., j. Renouf, 5. s, Andrews and John
II. Gcliwaite Ct Bidde ord, A. L. Fogg
of Sanf lrd, j. A. York and James IL.
Miles Ct SEQ, who were from York I;
jams W. Chapman Of kezar Falls, Al
bart 2, Bsssett and Thaddeus Cross OF
Norway, who came ON Oxford; Frank
l. Harding of Madison, CHARLES b. Has
kfll If Pittftisld and Il. 5. Parsons Of
North Anson, who came from Somerset;
and Jesse III Souls and Maynard Pierce
Of Auburn end Albert f. Dwelley of Liv.
9. more Falls, who came from Androscog-
gin
While the meeting was in session re-
porter If the PRESS called, hut obtained
no Information. 1--WE have nothing at
all to give out about this meeting" said
one of the officers as ne stepped to the
door in response to rap. "There Is
nothing to be said and It will be some
time hef ore we get through After ad'
journment many Of the sheriffs and their
deputies hurried to catch their trains
home The othere remained in the city
over night. They had but very little to
say egarding the meeting. 81 am
always glad to say what I can for the
newspapers, was the way that Sheriff
Brown If Psnobs,ot county pleasantly
sxrlaired matters. "But the fact is that
there is not a great deal to report on this
meeting CT ours We got together and
enjoyed a social time. The idea emanated
from York county where the sheriff and
his deputies have met several times in a
social sort Of style. SO 1t happened that
when we got together at the hotel here
tn. S afternoon we at once proceeded to
seleet Sheriff Thompson Ct York county
as the chairman Ct the meeting and Dep
uty Sheriff Goldthwaite also of that
county, to act as the secretary. We dis
cursed II number of matters of mutual
concern. One thing that we talked about
was the suhejct of protecting the officers
in the matter of getting their pay from
some attorneys. Did we touch on the fee
system of which you newspapers have
had cor siderable to sayF Oh, yes, we
talked about that but took no decided
stand on it. We met to form a state or
ganization and 1t was the unanimous
opinion that we organize such a boiy for
mutual protection. But we did not get
far enough along this afternoon to elsct
officers for this organization
None of the sherihs stated when they
wo uld hold their next meeting