The Snowflake herald., 1918-11-01
Snowflake Herald:

stories circulated during the pre-
primary campaign: One story is to
the effect thtat Snowflake School
District lost $500 through my ne
glect. This may not be the exact
wording of the whispered tale, but
as near as / can get it. The facts
are that in preparing the notice of
sale of the $4,000 school bonds Of
Snowflake district all bids were re-
quired to be accompanied by a cer-
titled check for $500, drawn on a
National bank. At the time sub
mitted the draft Of this notice Mr..
Teeple objected to the requirement
that such certified check should be
on a National bank, since there was
not a National bank in Navajo
county. This requirement not being
important was not insisted on by me,
since a duly certified check on any
solvent bank was good. Keeler
Brothers of Denver were the sue
cessful bidders for these bonds and
their check accompanying bid was
drawn on Keller Brothers, Bankers,
Denver, Colorado, and duly certi-
fled by the bank. The ALI Highest
say, l understand, that this is
wrong.
When a check is certified by the
bank on which drawn it ceases to be
the obligation of the maker or
drawer and Immediately becomes
the obligation of the bank certify
ing it; hence this check was and is
the obligation of Keller Brothers,
Bankers, of Denver. This being so,
it becomes important to know what
is the capital and assets of this
bank. By referring an any Bank
Directory you will find that Keeler
Brothers, Bankers, have capital
stock of 100000; surplus and un-
divided profits, $4,000; deposits,
$175,O This being so, this check
is as good as any other paper is
sued by the bank and must be good.
But, if bad, how am l responsible
as County Attorney?
Also some had much to say about
appeals taken by me from the
Local Board to the District Board
as Government Appeals Agent,
which office came to me, as to other
county attorneys, as a request to
render a patriotic service without
paw. In order that there may be
no misconception as to the reason
for my action, let me say that un-
der paragraphs 20 and q of the
draft regulations prescribed by the
President, it became and was my
duty to appeal all cases where ex-
emption from military service was
claimed by reason of dependency.
1t later became likewise my sworn
duty to appeal all cases of deferred
classification on account of depen-
dency where the registrant had
married since May 18, 1917. The
order in the latter case reads as
follows:
In order that District Boards
may review all classifications by
Local Boards in cases of mar
riage since May 18, 1917, and
secure uniformity of action, all
Government Appeal Agents are
instructed to appeal all cases
where Local Boards have grant
ed deferred classification in
either class two or class four
on account of such marriages.
Mr.. Reynolds, in arguing that
Larson must be defeated, said that
there was no harmony between
Teeple and the County Attorney.
This is true to the extent that / did
not go to him for instructions in
conducting the office of County At
torney, which was, of course, the
crime limited at by Reynolds.
/ have been criticized for the err
rors of the court presided over by
Sidney Sapp.
For example, take the case of one
w. F. Brewer, who was charged by
an information filed by me as Coun-
ty Attorney with the crime of in
Producing intoxicating liquors into
the state. Burbage and Clark were
counsel for defendant. They moved
orally to dismiss the information
for the reason that no order of a
committing magistrate was on file
holding the defendant to answer.
There was a that time a decision
of the Supreme Court holding that
in any misdemeanor case no order
of magistrate holding the defend
ant to answer is necessary, which
decision was in a liquor case the
same as the Brewer case. The case
was dismissed. On September IA,
1918, Judge Sapp tried a case that
of Allan VS.. Allan-for divorse, when
there was on file an affidavit dis
qualifying him as judge. Burbage
was urging the matter for trial,
and was successful, even though the
statute and decisions of the Supreme
Court are to the effect that the
Judge of Superior Court must, inn
mediately upon the filing of an af-
fidavit of disqualification name
another Judge to try the case, and
has no authority to do anything but
name another Judge in his stead.
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