Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-21
uliuols School Ma'am Timidly In
cIires of Educational Con-
ditions in Utah.
BLIND JUSTICE ON BENCH.
.,,,,.r Practise Obtains in Municipal
Court Hawkins Divorce Case
---Welch Family Reunion.

o,den. May 21.--"Where Ignorance is
,lss Ills folly to be wise" is an apt
saving that can apply to school teach
,5s as well as to the ignorant. A teach
,r in Illinois who is to be pitied more
,bsn censored has written to Superin-
,,ndent Allison of the public schools,
asking for information regarding this
sreat tract of land called Utah and
| shout the wild and barbarous conditions
that exist here.
The letter which is from Paxton. Ills.
"a as follows. the name of the young
lady being omitted
Dear Sir-Snce applying for the po-
stlon in your high school. have de-
cidod that | was too hasty i'm doing
sn before / knew more about the con-
ditions.
II am aware. OF course, that ma
iority Of the population in Utah are
Mormons If there are no evangelical
churches i'm Ogden, il the school is I'M
der Mormon influence. and If the
teachers are Mormons, l would not
wish TO work there for a year. am
a member Of the United Presbyterian
church. hut could be content if there
was n Presbyterian, Methodist or Con-
gregatiOnal church.
1T would probably be requesting
100 much to ask you to inform me on
these points, though it would be a
great satisfaction to know.
"If the conditions are such as /
have described, will you please with
draw my application. | realize the
uncertainty of my receiving The APP
pointment, but ! would not wish to be
even an applicant under those condi-
tons.
(signed) Respectfully yours, Jen-
ME NJ"
superintendent Allison gathered up
number of pamphlets and circulars
concerning Ogden. its history. resource
es. etc. and sent them Ia the young
lady. He also enclosed her application
and other correspondence bearing upon
her request about the school teachers
life in Utah.
WHERE JUSTICE Is BLIND OR
STUPID.
ogden. May Elm the police court,
yesterday before Judge Murphy,
Walter Sehafer. was arraigned on the
charge Of immortality and placed
under $500 bonds pending his pre-
Aminary hear lg
Robert Ryan and Patrick Duffy were
sentenced To 20 days i'm Jail upon the
charge of mendcicancy. The defendants
entered pleas of guilty to the charge
Before the court passed the sentence
Ryan informed the court that he had
offered to do some work to pay for
a meal which was denied and he
was arrested later. The young mans
story had no effect upon the court and
h. was sentenced to serve 90 days,
While Ryan and Duffy were sent up
for 20 days quartet of negroes and
three or four other defendants charg-
ed with the same offense as was Ryan
and Duffy were allowed to go under
a suspended sentence.
This case represents only one of
many which come up almost daily in
the police court a travesty of justice.
The trouble in most of the cases has
been that there has not been enough of
an investigation conducted.
HAWKINS DIVORCE SUIT.
Ogden, May 2l.-ln the district court
yesterday afternoon Judge Howell
granted a decree of divorce in the case
OF Margaret Hawkins against James
VI. Hawkins upon the grounds of ex-
IRENE cruelty The case has been one
'nat mas attracted considerable amount
Of attention on account of the promi-
hence OF the parties concerned
The court decreed that the home
stead be vested in the Wife, the plain
I'M, and the children as co-tenants, tho
VIE having a one-half interest and
the children a one-half interest. 50
that as a practical result the plaintiff
gets about $500 worth of property and
the defendant. because h. is given the
team and wagon. gets about $500 worth
OF property and the other $1,000 worth
Oh property, that Is to say. the remain
Ing $500 in the homestead and the $500