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Show SHERIFF ANNOUflCES HIS ! APPOIHTEES FDR Bill Long Expected Annnouncement Has Been Made which Makes John Knudsen Chief Deputy, Robert WeDs Lower Bingham Deputy and Joe Melich Highland Boy Deputy. I At last the anxiety is over and now the people know the names of the new peace officers of Bingham "and'TEe camp. For months there had been much speculation as to who would make up the personnel of the new deputies and many wild guesses were , made, but that feature of the game is now over. John Knudsen of Copperfield is chief deputy, it had been expected by quite a number of people in the camp that he would land this plum and he got it according to expectaation. Mr. Knudsen has been In the camp for a number of years and has made good in handling his department of work for the Utah Copper company. He is a man strictly honest and adheres closely to what he believes to be right As an officer he is ever ready and possesses the requisite nerve to discharge dis-charge ithe duties of his office. He is a man of sterling qualities and can be depended upon to govern the camp in a goodly manner. He is a veteran of Spanish-American war and came to Bingham from Mt. Pleasant where he served as county sheriff of Sanpete county for several terms. As a lieutenant of Chief Knudsen Robert Wells will preside over the destinies of Lower Bingham. He is an o'd time resident of Bingham and one who has met with success here, having hav-ing accumulated a comfortable fortune for-tune by close application to business.. He had been engaged in various lines of activity in the camp and for a long time had charge . of the Bingham Commercial club. He is well known in the camp and lis well prepared to handle the affairs of the office in a , -rightful manner. t , , In Highland Boy ithe deputyship ' ' plum goes to Joe Melich, a prominent ' ' " merchant and business man of Phoenix. Pho-enix. He is also ann old timer in the camp and one who has made money here. He has extensive business here and also in other paarts of the world, being prominently connected with a corporation which was formed a year or so ago to ship farming implements to the shores of the Atlantic sea. He is a natiive of Serbia, but came to this country many years ago and is thoroughly thor-oughly Americanized and speaks perfect per-fect English. He is thoroughly con-' versant with Highland Boy and the conditions there and is in a position to properly direct the governmental affairs af-fairs of that portion of the camp. This in short is the main change that takes place with the change of party administrations. And owing to the peculiar location of the camp and conditions here the people have been greatly interested in who would fill the office of sheriff's deputies here. There are some who want a closed town and others who waant it open and as time paasses on the people will know what the changes mean. Bingham Bing-ham is something different from the valley towns and other cities in the state, due to some extent to the great number of nationalities who reside here and this has been held out as a reason for a wide open place. Still there are many who ithink the town has been too free and too open to meet the exigencies of the times and that a reasonable enforcement of the law should be had. The administration now in charge promised reform during the campaign, but just how far the reform measures will be carried remain re-main .to be seen. |