The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-07-29
STATE OFFICIAL
PRAISES COUNTY
ATTORNEY GENERAL KUHN HERE
ON VISIT, PLEASED AT PROG
REss SHOWN BY CON-
MUNlTY.

Attorney Genral Franz c. Kuhn, who
has held that position almost two
months, he having been appointed to
fiji the vacancy caused by the eleva-
ton of John f. Bird, the former in
cumbent. TO the supreme court, passed
the major portion of yesterday i'm
Houghton, having come here from on
tonagon the evening before, after
Strengthening out the tangle into which
Justice Of the Peace Store OF Green
land had gotten himself. The attorney
general spent an hour or more yester-
day calling upon the county officials at
the county building.
He spent much time in conversation
with Judge Bentley of the probate and
juvenile courts, the two men having
something i'm common. inasmuch as
Attorney General Kuhn was Judge Of
the Probate court and, by virtue of
that office, judge of the Juvenile court
in Macomb county just previous to his
recent appointment. Attorney General
Kuhn expressed il as his opinion that
the placing of the juvenile cases in the
hands of the probate judges was a
mistake. giving IL as his belief that
this branch of the judiciary work OF
the state should be taken care of by
the judges of the circuit court as
these jurists have at their command
the entire machinery for the dispens-
ing of justice, such as the sheriff's Of
flee and the other court attaches.
Praise for Houghton County.
As the attorney general was leaving
the county building grounds, his at
tention was directed 10 the juvenile
detention home on the rear portion of
the east side of the lot. He seemed
somewhat astonished and said, We'll,
although the state law creating the ju-
venile court expressly states that each
county shall furnish a separate deten-
ton place for the Juvenile prisoners,
the same 10 be presided over by ma
trOn. Houghton is one of the very few
counties of the state To provide such a
home. This county is certainly much
more progressive in many respects
than are the older counties down in my
part OF the state. My own county has
no separate building for the detention
OF the Juvenile prisoners. it seeming
TO be Impossible TO get the county
board to do a thing i'm this -dircti0n."
This was not the first compliment
a t,ff .f la ut
torney general during his trip to the
county building. as just n few minutes
before this. while Sheriff Byers was
showing him through the jail he broke
out with a statement on the good con-
dition Of the Jail. as compared with
jails in other parts Of the common
wealths. "The manner IN which the
jails Of Michigan treat their prisoners"
said the state official, lis little less
than shameful. Few Of the jails are
large enough to accommodate the num-
Der OF prisoners which they are called
upon TO house. especially just before |
a term OF the circuit court and many |
Of the Jail buildings are absolutely un-
1T for human beings TO inhabit. When |
you get the new addition built 10 your |
present Jail. ! dare say you will have |
one OF the most complete and up-to-
date jails in the state or the nation"
County Officials Capable.
81 have been much impressed" said |
Attorney General Kuhn, with the high |
character Of the county officials I /
have met during my travels in the up |
per peninsula and Houghton county |
seems to be as fortunate as any of the |