The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-03
Translation Officially Complete.

The transaction is officially complete.
The papers are all on file in the County
Recorder Office
PIT. |, 7. II, OF the Revised Codes
of Idaho says in See. 6975.
Pt. I. T. II; Sec. 6975-Each officer
or district OF this state. and every other
person charged with the receipt, sare-
Keeping transfer or disbursement OF
public moneys, who either;
.. Loans the same or any portion
thereof; or having the possession or con-
trol OF any public money. makes profit
out OF or uses the same for any purpose
not authorized by law.
Is punishable by imprisonment in the
state prison for not less than one nor
more than ten years and is disqualified
from holding any office In this state
IL would look as if Mr.. Thomas SAINT.
chairman Of the school board OF
district No, IL at Clifton, Ida; j. NJ
Mccoy, secretary thereof; Mr.. Simp.
son, the superintendent of the county
schools of Oneida county, should have
chance to serve their county no longer
IN office.
Where Money Went.
What became OF the money, and
why was such sacred money so easily
rcached9 1t is generally understood
that tins money was the amount of the
assessment Of Marion Henderson, the
favored contractor on the Oneida irri-
CATION district ditch for the defense of
the thieves Parkinson and Hart. but
Tor whatever purpose it was obtained,
crime has been committed. Does the
state and will the county submit TO
such robberYl The attention of Gov.
Brady of Idaho is most respectfullv
called to this felony. The attention of
the state superintendent of schools is
also invited, AS to the attorney gen
OF the attorneys for the defense of
Parkinson and Hart In their recent
trial at Malad. Having sworn to en-
force the laws Of the state of Idaho,
he was foremost in preventing. their
execution. He, therefore, is requested
TO stnnd aside and allow the governor
or Inc court 10 appoint some attorney
OF ability, deceucy and sense of honor
to prosecute these robbers of the school
fund of district No, II.
Know No Law.
That the judicial officers of Oneida
county know no law, or are so
careless of the law, is shown
again in the methods by which the
settlers of the village Of Clifton were
reated.
The site was entered for and on be |
lalf of these people by Probate Judge |
;. ID. Davis, a good Mormon, He lives
II Malad, the county seat. Upon n !
:ertalu day came Arthur w. Hart of |
Orcston, attorney and counselor at law.
lis letterhead says so. Accompanied |
~ Albert Henderson of Clifton-and |
~ the way they are the same old |
ecretary and president of the Oneida |
rrIgatlon dlstrict-and representing to
he court that they had been appointed |
~ the citizens of Clifton to repre-
cnt them. and further reciting the
act that while Malad was only twelve
niles away over the mountains. il was
matter of hundred miles around and
wo days of time; that it WAS a hard
hp TO have to lose so much time in
back and forth to get their
eeds.
Acting unadviscdly, we will saw,
udge Davis signed a numbcr-ho does
ot Know how many--of blank deeds as
rebate Judge, and placed them in the
ands of Arthur W. Hart, who robbed
he Oneida irrigation district, for dis
rbutlon. Hart proceeded to I'll them
ut at his discretion. charging as hirh
S SIS per deed, the court charge be.
lg only So Graft again for Arthur
'. Hart, president of the Young Mems
lutuai Improvement society.
Criminal Prosecutions.
The criminal prosecutions of Parlsin.
IN and Hart fell through the failure
the officers Of the First National
ank at Logan TO answer subpoena TO !
opear at Malad and testify. The civil !
mt against the same defendants for {
lc moneys takon to purchase the Arm !
rong failed in an even more scanda
us manner. with the evidence all in,
le case argued and submitted TO thc
Try. When this august body of Park
son s and Hart s peers adjourned to
'nsidcr their verdict they were ad.
'esscd by one of their number Ira \
allcr. bishop of Holbrook ward and s
Isbop's Counselor Camp Of Plcasanton +
IT upon any question before them but d
at they must not decide against Park. ii
son who was the president of the =
AXE Of zion, nor against Hart. for
as he not the president of the Young 4
en- S Mutual Improvement association. L