The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-01
Mac s Saturday Chat

The Herald thinks it simply awfully
| awful for anyone to change his views
as TO the interference by the church IN
political affairs. And this is funny IN
view of the fact that the manager of
the Herald was one of the members Of
the first committee that participated
IN the organizing of the American
party,
The odorous Murray Justice Of the
Peace who threatened to kill a news
! paperman who criticized his conduct,
did he live in county that had
competent and vigilant County Attor-
ney, would board at the State s prison
before many weeks if the charges
against him are true, But the Attorney
and his chief deputy seemingly think
| the Office is functionless except to pun
ish political enemies and permit politi-
cal rogues and petty thieves to escape,
1t is reported on information be-
lieved TO be absolutely reliable that
| former superintendent of the county
infrmarv, Mutton Bill Jones' con
| fessed to Commissioner Mackay that he
, had been stealing from the county al
most from the first of his administration.
Jones, it is reported, told Mackay that
he was honest until he took charge of
the infrmary, but that he fell by the
way and that he is guilty of most of
the things charged.
Yes, and he might have confessed a
whole lot more. Things that will be
laid before the public by County At
| torney TO be named by the next Ameri
| can party county convention. Things,
also, that will place Jones in the
States prison some time in 1907 if he
does not leave the county. 4 mission
might save him.
1t is not at all surprising that Com
missioner Mackay, after having shield
| ed Mutton Bill Jones' for so long,
now privately speaks Of Jones as a
| thief. Jones is said to have tried to
| involve Mackay very much as he tried
to involve Bishop Sherwood.
Supreme Justice McCarty has re
turned from several days visit to
friends in his old judicial district in
| southern Utah, so the newspapers re-
| port, 1t would be slander to say the
Judge did not put Smoots deputy
| United States Senator out of business
! in those parts.
DR.. It. Buttinsky Beatty caught
tartar a few days ago. The result is
that he will have to answer in the
courts: incidentally, his professional
Pilue ls Sdlu 10 nave pecn CONSIDERABLY
| rufiled.
One of the doctors s neighbors had
rooster that spent most of his time
Growing under the Doctors bed win
dow. 1t was that kind of a bird that
will be on deck on resurrection morn in
case old Gabe's horn should peter out.
| II the dead can be awakened DR..
Beatty's neighbor' 8 rooster is the bird
that could do the business
Doc. sweat blood for many mornings
and finally he turned his attention from
the pursuit of Doc. Stewart long enough
to hatch a scheme for the removal of
his regular morning annoyer. He laid
| for an opportunity and caught the
rooster In his yard. He would have
killed the brute, no doubt, had he not
remembered that he is the main guy of
the association for the prevention of
cruelty TO animals, and things. 1t
would never do to commit murder. At
least the doctor must have so reasoned
at that particular moment, the bird
not belonging to him. But he changed
his mind a little later in the game
Holding the offender not too kindly
he carried it to his neighbor, good
housewife, who had a sort of maternal
feeling for the rooster, and asked her
to patiently hear his complaint He
Informed the lady that the rooster pos
sessed vocal organism so different
from that he had ever met in his pro-
tesslonal visits that he could not sleep
from thinking about it. Neither could
he accustom himself to its morning
salutations. He said he desired to pos.
sess the bird in the interest of science
He purposed determining how long it
would live with knot tied in its neck
The suggestion of violence was so
strong that the owner of the rooster
promptly turned down the doctors Of
fer of ten-spot for it. Persuasion did
not feaze the owner. Doubtlessly she
did not need the "ten,' or else she
loved to hear the rooster's sunrise So
los. She Informed the doctor that it
was her wish that her pet crow from
that moment until the crack of doom
go, it is, is it2' replied the doctor.
He was as mad as he was when the
jury failed to convict Doc Stewart for
maintaining a nuisance. Without Civ
ing the poor cock n chance to say its
prayers, nor to ask the head of the
humane society TO have mercy, the
irate humanitarian twisted the rooster s
neck and threw, its poor murdered body
at its owners feet
For an instant the tragedy stunned
tho owner, but she soon recovered her
self, 1t is said, and went after the mur-
derer of her chicken with a board. In
dignation lent vigor to her actions, and
she made 1T so warm for the doctor
that it is said he hiked.
Meanwhile the owner of the dead
bird has ordered twelve roosters. They
are all now in the coop and they will
crow to their heart s content, and the
home Of prominent physician is for
sale.
Now the affair is to be thrashed out
in the courts The question Is: Is a
rooster an animal. The defendant
thinks this particular one was a brute
beast,
When Doc. Stewart called Council
man Fernstrom q liar, it is said the
Swede felt he was a few steps nearer
bishopric. He is on the inside and
knows what enables Elder Penrose TO
hold his job, If the doctor were to
prove that Ferny is in fact a liar,
which several heather are said TO aver,
he might be unwittingy boosting the
representative of the hierarchy into an
apostleShiD.