Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-08
NEW OFFICIALS
ASSUME DUTIES
SHERIFF HAMMEL SUCCEEDS
WHITE
Magnificent Chest Of silver Presented
to Retiring Reeorder-FIowers
for others Who step
Down and Out

at the court house, some to retire to
private life, but the majority to take
other public positions, while the new
officers and their assistants moved In
/ and a general cleanup was made.
Judge Hutton assumed the bench In
department seven to try the Arnaz
| case, while Judges York. Gibbs and
Trask of departments three, two and
four moved out of the court house.
Judge York retired to private life at
| his Pasadena home, Judge Trask Will
take up law practice and Judge gibbs
will probably do the same.
At the present meeting of the legis-
lature plan for the creation of new
&department of the superior court Will
he placed before the northern commit
tees and II Is thought the bill Will be
4 passed and Judge Gibbs, who has
4 proved himself one of the most COM
/ petent judges of the southwest Is
mentioned as probable appointee for
| the position.
In the supervisors department Cap
tain Manning and S. T. Eldridge came
in as members of the board and Cap
tain Brady of Pomona and AL Gra-
ham of Hollywood took their leave
Graham to retire to private life and
Brady to return to his bank at Po-
mona and begin preparations for try
Ing to create a Pomona county.
Charles Patterson was selected chair
man of the board to succeed himself.
Flowers for Clerk
County Clerk Keyes was surprised
yesterday morning by his clerks, who
| decorated his office with magnificent
floral tribute of roses, carnations and
/ violets for their chiefs inauguration.
They were all called into the office and
sworn in by Clerk Keyes during the
day, no changes being made in the
/ present corps.
At the sheriff's office clean sweep
| was made with the exception of Chief
| Clerk Murietta, who Is a necessity to
that department, and Deputy Sheriff
w. A. Gooding, the only deputy to be
retained.
Sheriff Hammel took charge at noon,
| although he spent the morning making
preparations. Calvin Hartwell, former
| recorder and now under sheriff, took
up Yonkins duties during the day and
Yonkin made a hotfoot down to the
city hall to be sworn in as a city coun-
/ Gilman.
Silver for Recorder
To the retiring recorder magnif-
/ cent chest of silver, containing 40
/ pieces, was presented by his clerks,
along with floral tributes suggestive on
Asuch an occasion as retirement, but
Nnone the less pretty, and Hartwell
took them over to the sheriff's office,
&and for the first time in many a day
the office had an air of holiday. At
noon the sheriff turned over his de-
partment to Hammel, after first Sc
curing the release of J. e. Cooper,
trusty in the Jail who had twenty days
%yet to serve.
Sheriff Hammel promptly presented
a good cigar to each of his deputies,
fdistributed the little silver shields to
take the place of the stars now used
and then sent them to work and told
them to work hard and keep sober.
In the Justices offices Justice Pierce,
who succeeded himself went out to
lunch at IL o'clock and observed no
ceremonies. In that department the
new constable, former Deputy Sheriff
Len Cleveland, moved in, and to show
! that his intentions were good he
bought a new desk and had the floor
of the office scrubbed. Chief Deputy
1 Mccullough, who had charge of the
constable's office under Constable Cline,
moved over to the Office formerly oc-
cupied by Justice Young, where he will
| manipulate law and collection agency
/ and from the scores of friends on Nc
| Cullough's list business ought to be
| good for him.
Justice Retires
Justice Young gave up the bench at
the Justices offices in the Fulton block
L y
Stephens succeeding him. Before he
left Justice Young made little speech
to his friends and to his successor, tell
4 ing of the many pleasant associations
during his term in office and speaking
in high terms of the honesty and faith
fulness of Constable De La Monte. JUS
/ tice Young also paid high compli-
ment to Clerk Simpson, who has had
charge or all legal documents during
l Justice Youngs term in office.
There were tears in the retiring JUS
tice's eyes as he left the bench and
Stephens assumed his duties after a
little talk of what he hoped to do dur
ing his term.
His first case was to sentence John
Noland, an old offender, who pleaded
| guilty to a charge of stealing copper
wire. Because 1t was his first case,
Justice Stephens showed the man
leniency and gave him his choice Of
$50 fine or thirty days.
4 Noland took his sentence and Con-
stable De La Monte lodged the first
! prisoner of the administration in the
county bastile.
few moments later Justice Stephens
was called on to perform the first
marriage service of his administra-
| ton. The girl was a rosy-cheeked lit
tie lass with bushes enough to have
caused half the girls in town pang of
jealousy.
Her sweetheart held her hand and
Justice Stephens told them to stand
up. The justice was not quite sure
about the game and for a moment he
seemed as embarrassed as either of the
/ prospectives. He finally went through
the service. sticking strictly to the
legal phrases in order to be sure that
the knot was tied according to Hoyle
and when through he breathed a sigh
of relief.
Many changes were made among the
clerks and appointees and the new ad-
ninistration settled down to hard
work.