The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-02
Spoilers IN SAN
JUAN COUNTY
Justice of the Peace Forced to
Resign for BOotIegging
Others Arrested.

Moab, April 3O.-At the state Democratic
convention two years ago. J. X. I>etcber.
clerk of the federal court, took occasion
to say; For ten long years | have had
the honor of representing in the Demo-
cratic conventions of this state a county
of more square miles and fewer bad peo-
pie than any other in the commonwealth. -
Mr.. Letcher was representing the county
/ OF San Juan, and his statement was abso-
lutely true. San Juan is by far The farg-
est county in the state and has biIt s9l
people. good, bad and Indifferent and
Jhe| are by no means all bad For in
stance, good people are supposed to be
opposed 10 the sale of liquor and down
IN san Juan the license for the sale of
intOXlcdntS is the insignificant sum of
$,VOO year, more than 81 for every man.
woman and child in the county However,
theTe were some of the citizens of Month
cello. the county seat, who sold whisky
and DIDN'T pay the $1,000 either. The
commissioners didn't like this and tn
stop the unlawful traffic in this line inn
ported couple of Salt Lake detectives
Ernest GoltZ and L. Turner bv name 10
collect the evidence against the boot
Ieggers.' They have been having a reg
uIar monkey and parrot" time at Month
cello as a result. Turner and GOItz hleU
INTO town, dressed in the garb of nros-
pectors, and pretended to be deeply inter
eSted IN San Juan Oil They were also
altncted with Unsuitable thirsts and
promptly went on a still hunt for any
old thing in the shape of something Ia
drink. Some of the erstWhi!e "boOf-leg-
gers took on a virtuous streak and
stopped snort in their Ubiquitous careers.
1hey dldn have any whisky hadn't had
and wouldn't think of selling a drop if
they had barrels of it. They even had
suspicious of the alleged oil men and
Wrote 10 friends in Moab to verify their
suspicious. But while there were some
who suspected the character of the Wis
ltOrs and at the same time saw the error
OF their own ways, there were others who
qld neither. Justice of the Peace Nephi
Bailey was among those whose sympathy
Tor a man who was dry got the better.
Of him. In misguided moment he al
lowed himself to part with a quantity of
splrltus frumenu for value received. The
cold-hearted commissioners had him ar
rested. They even had the nerve TO in.
innate to him that his resignation rs
justice of the peace would not be unwel-
come. Mr. Bailey resigned. Professor
Wilmer Bronson of the Monticello school
was appointed TO fill the vacancy. and.
on plea OF guilty. fined his predecessor
so and costs of the trial.
john Scott, Martines Johnson and OrsOn
Henry Dalton sat down to a quiet game
OF draw poker. in which the ''oil experts55
held cards. They were arrested for gam
bling and their trials are to come up the
latter part of this week.
At Moab on last SUNDAY night on al
most the exact anniversary of the heavy
freeze of last year, occurred another kill
ing frost, and ii is estimated that from
$4,000 to $4,000 worth of fruit was lost
as a result. In all but one of the orchards
i'm the lower end of the valley the fruit
was simply wiped out of existence. The
heaviest losers are Representative J. p.
Miller Bishop j. p. Larsen and Hales &
Sundwall. On the three orchards of these
men, which week ago they had every
reason to believe would produce thousands
of dollars worth of fruit. there is not
now more than 800 worth all told. All
kinds of vegetables and even the lucern
was bitten TO the ground. The hardy
Pottowattomie plums even failed to with
stand the cold. The orchard of John E.
Brown. while further down the valley
than those mentioned, escaped without
injury. This orchard, however, is pro-
tected from the wind by hills. In the
upper end of the valley and around town
practically no damage was sustained.
About one-third of all the fruit in the
valley was killed.