The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-07-19

,is.e1v lodge No. Q. 7. .. O. F., Of
n fsl,4 has had its charter revoked,
80 of It's prominent members nave
- -, axneUed by an unanimous Eote
ssCm +bs grand lodge Of the Odd Eel
- of this jurisdiction for "consplt-
Nv l5. and anbezzler1ent of funds held IN
- -, for the widows and orphans or
~ orier" and a civil suit VIII be
sought i'm the district court IN ieW
5,rs TO EscOyer some $4,000 claimed
"a have been -misapprOpridJed.
The men charged by the officers OF
he rrsnd lodge with the misapproprla-
rion Of the funds of RidSeiy lodge are
MS Ewing. DR.. u. s. scott Herman
B..5.5ar /. Simoudi. T.. J. VIII
-ismg John G.. TTetheWay. Frank o.
Cs-rbav and John Masginetti. These
men have been prominent in Odd Eel
~ Iodg- work In this community TOR
q number of wears, and every one OF
nom was a member of tie grand lodge
~ fais jurisdiction. Mr.. SlmOndl was
rssf grand master. and DIT. Ewing
was mast grand warden
Thougn odd Fellows have for several
DAVIS bean conversaEt with the Rldgely
lodge scandal the facts have been sed-
ulouslv guarded from the public. An
officer of The grand lodge was IOune
last evening. he teNer. VINO was WILING
m state the facts as he understood
fbeu. on the condition that mis- name
was withheld. He said that all of the
airbt were expelled from the grand
lodge al a special meeting held 10 Try
thaIe on last Tuesday night, and that
they viii be later tried before a sub
ordinate lodge TO be selected ~ Grand
Master Sidney W Darke. when, if the
charges are sustained, they VIII be
eXpe,.ed from The order altogether In
addition to all this they viii, he said.
BE- made defendants in a suit to recover
the funds of the lodge, the suit to be
brought not later than next week
Story OF the Exposure.
This scandal. he said, has been the
chief topic of discussion among the
members Of the /. c. .. F. of this COM
munity for the past week The eX-
ppSure was made on Thursday Of last
WSek, when Grand Master Darke en-
tered Ridgely lodge while il was in seg-
sion, took possession OF the records OF
4 the lodge and carried away its charter.
4 Warren Foster. who is the noble grand
Of This lodge, visited it on Wednesday
. of last week. after having been absent
for some months. He found things in
the records thar he did not indorse. and
=
lodge As a result OF this and the in
spectiOn made by Grand Master Darke
and Grand Secretary Timer. the rec
OrdS were taken in charge. the charter
was Withdrawn and the men named
ebove were notified TO appear for tria
lelore session Of the grand lodge on
Tuesday evening.
The charge against the eight men
was conspiracy and embezzlement. as
stated above. The amount involved IN
Guided between 81, 100 and 81, 200 in cash,
ABOUT sizes worth of stock in the Odd
Fellows building fund and other Sc
euuties. bringing the total up to about
Ae9 as near as could be ascertained
u vas charged by the grand officers,
Ih5 Herald informant stated. that
t-se eight men had divided this
fm3Cnt among themselves as needy
and worthy brothers" as the money
could be- appropriated in no other way,
end that they intended to abandon the
1lse 10 It's fate, leaving the charter
lacked 70 the wall.