Show LICENSE RETURNS SHOW GAIN Total of First Quarter of 1908 as Compared With in 1906 RECORD BY SHERIFFS SHERIFF'S MEN Activity Displayed in Keeping County Collections Up to Date r S Tho The report of count county license collections I lions rot for the thc quarter ending March mch 31 ii has been in the tho sheriffs sheriff's office and It shows hows a 3 net Increase over o other years Tho The report compared with tho the first filst quarter quarter- of 01 1007 1907 is as 11 follows 1 1307 1907 ios 1905 t J Butchers A 2 If 14 t Merchants j. j Liquor eo 00 k Total Jn In this showing tho the 1908 report does doe J f not appear to to be as large as that o ot oC 1907 1007 but bill that Is accounted for Cor or h by th the fact that at tho the beginning of or 1907 t 4 when 0 the tho lh sheriffs sheriff's department tool took i charge chargo of oC tho the license collections a deal of oC delinquent money mone wa was great collected b by a system of or energetic l' l prosecution of or the license ole work No Xo r. r lit st quarter In th the next net few fow years I Is J expected to show as ns much as the first firs if q quarter of br 11 1907 10 0 j. j for t that ha treason reason f J Comparing Hh With VIlI I not I In 1906 from which a fairer comparison com corn parison may mar be drawn with 1108 tho the t 1 q report shows that butchers' butchers licenses amounted to while merchants merchants' licenses totaled Sl or 01 about 00 less les than was colle collected led In oS If andt and t 1907 1901 The liquor licenses In showed a total of oC t In the butchers butchers' license alono alone was the total greater for fOl tho the first filst quarter of or 1906 than for either cither 1907 1007 or 01 1908 That is accounted for b by the fact oct that tharIn In 1907 the amount of or tile the butchers butchers' rg license was reduced one half the revenue rev rev- from that source therefore Ire Ire- Ing decreased Another nother feature of the tho count county li liquor II- II quor license collections was brought U up before the tho board of count county commissioners com coin l. ml missioners by the tho sheriffs sheriff's of office CI g in Murray On the first of April a number of the thc saloons at Murray lurra Bingham Junction Junction Junc Junc- tion tron and vicinity asked l for a few days' days L co before paying their quarterly II- II cense This request was mado made because of oC tho the pending decision In tho the smelter smeller matter malter J If ii the decision rendered last Saturday was found to bo be ers adverse to the smelter smeller interests the saloons i would have closed down However the tho decision granted a n. stay ta In n. n the tho c enforcement of or the tho decree the smelters smellers the and and the thc loons I r agaInst l j. j decided d d to 10 rC reopen Tl Thc e board of at S county commissioners under tho the law could not authorize tho Issuance of a J license for less than one quarter quartet and andl l the saloon Faloon keepers lost the sl six sic days das In which they were closed down The They i ha e now taken out licenses for the 5 current quarter and arc are again ain dispensing I ing In booze to the smelter smeller men who have hn i been given employment |