The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-28
Governor Brady Casting About
for a State Bank
Examiner.
DEPUTY STATE TREASURER;
NEW PRIVATE SECRETARY
State Engineer, Insurance Com
missioner, Chief Clerk of
the House.
BY C. c. .ARNEY.
.c,aI tn Thc Tribune.

la he5 IL Brady Is actlNoiy caStlng
about for material for a state bank
examiner TO fall vacancy which be Is
soon 70 make by demanding the resig-
nation of the present official Chs per
eonal sppointee) W. G.. Cruise.
Tt was Just before the direct pri.
naries, the last of August that Cruise
finally closed the HALEY State bank,
tt was Just before the state election
that it was discovered that Cruso had
borrowed between thirty-oue hundred
and forty-oue hundred dollars tauthorl-
tics differ as TO the exact amount)
fron this defuuct institution, ON his
note at hand.
The popularity of rcmova of
Cruse at this time by the defeated
governor, occasions some specula ton
as tn its object.
The law providing for the creation
of this office, state bank examiner
makes il be personal appoptcc OF the
governor for a term of four wears. OF
course Hawley could remove CTusc in
stsuter, because ne his flagrant short
couiings in the HALEY bank incident.
1t is suggested that Brady intends to
find como other person presumably a
Mormon) TO appoint as state bank eH-
amjpcr; in fact IL is intimated that no
prefers 10 appoint a Democrat TO. the
place: so his successor, Mr.. HawleY,
will have no reason to remove this new
appointec of Governor Brady.
This is one of The interesting rumors
around the state capitol today.
Deputy State Treasurer,
II is understood that William d. Nc.
Reynolds. the Republican county chair
man of this (Ada) county, aud at pres
cnt deputy in the county recorder s
office. is to he the deputy state treas
urer under Treasurer elect Q. V. Allen.
Mr.. McBeynolds is a Boise boy. Hc
is very popular. very competent, and
will bring to the office all the ele-
lncnts requisite 10 efficiency.
Clarence Dietrich who for two years
has been the private secretary 10 Coy
ernor Brady, is an applicant for the
'position Of court reporter of the Third
judicial district under Judge Carl Da-
Wis. This district is composed of Ada
aud Boise counties. Nlncteuths of tho
business of court of this district is
trausacted in Boise. Judge Davis is
"a Democrat and succeeds Judge Ere
mout Wood. Republican, This stcno-
graphic Job carries with il a S2400 per
apnum salary
Mr.. Orr chapman Of Blackfoot is also
a candidate for this appointment. Mr..
Chapman has been serving Judge Budge
of the Fifth judicial district in this
capacity for the past few months. dur
ing the temporary absence OF the regu
lar stenographer, Mr.. Hamer,
The New Private Secretary.
1t is currently rumorcd, with what
degree of accuracy do not know. that
Reilly Atkinson, the genial secretary
of the Boise Commercial club and of
the Southern Idaho League of Com
mcrcial clubs, is to he the new private
secretary to Governor.elect Hawley.
Mr.. Atkinson enjoys largo acauaiut-
auce in Idaho for ono who has been
here but q few years. He is son-in-
law of the newly elected governor.
This job at present carries with it a
salary of 5000 per month.
Moro than the usual amount of in
tercst attaches to the proba BILE ap-
pointrent Of q state engineer This is
regarded bv all odds the most import
ant appointment Governor Hswley will
have TO make. 1t is probable today
of moro importance to affairs in; Idaho
bined which Governor Hawlcy will
have to make.
1t is matter Of no possible con
cern to those most vitally interested
whether he follows his political bias in
making this appointment OF not In
fact. IT will be disappoi ntmeut to
many Democrats if he should do this
the very best material obtaipablo for
the place.
Too Small Salary,
II is recrettablc that the state eusi
ueer's salary is but 5000 per aunum
This is not enough to warrant the class
of m5u we should have for the place
It will pay Governor Hawley. il will
nav his party. and it will pay the state
Of Idaho handsomcly TO arise above al
other that efficient considerations in
tho selection of state engineer The
Msckay dam tells story Of the sorry
need of prime service in this office
So does the King Hill project. So Il,
u,aoy other projects under way in tht
= state of Idaho.
The Chief Need.
The foremost thing the state Of Ida h,
has 10 do is 10 re-cstablish tho loss o.
confidence in the efficiency Of ii
state government with the people VIII,
have mopey invested and to invest il
large landed projects ard in land undo
these projects. This situation is ire
mendouslv sensitive at this stage o
tho progress OF Idaho. II is biype
in public demand than any governor
THAN any state engineer or caudidat
for state engineer or any political par
ty, present or future.
Wants TO Be Chief Clerk,
Robert McCracken of Ada county
former member of the house fror
Bingham aud later from Ada count,
is a candidate for chicf clerk of th
House of Representatives McCracko
is lawyer practiciug in Boise. H
vas formerly county attorucr vf Biue
ham COUNT. He is well know
throughout the state. He took an az
tive part i'll the passage of the prescr
local option law.
Insurance Commissioner.
John w. Cage and a. n. Jones, car
from Boise. arc candidates for tt
office of state insurance commissions
which has auxiliary duties ~of state a.
Sountsnt Mr.. Cage is a local Dem