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Show THE Dyes sn caren oe ee THE WESTERN WEEKLY. “2 SSS ge > o> >< WTR Te Entered at the Postoffice, Salt Lake City, Utah, as Second Class Matter. pe WONDER <6 creat ALE pre Price: $2.20. 1D: : - - .65. Address all Eau canon’ ao the WESTERN WEEKLY, 37 S. West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Remittances may be made by express, money order or registered letter, at’ our risk, the sender giving his full address. Every possible have effort the WersTeRN will WEEKLY be made to delivered promptly to subscribers; and persons having any cause of complaint will oblige by notifying the office. Changes of address will be made whenever desired, but the postoffice FROM as | well as the postoffice To which any change is made instance. must be given in every ’ Advertising Rates Furnished on Application. G. QO. CORAY, Saturday, SPEECH Editors: J. M. ROMNEY. December AND PEN 1, 1888. vs. BOODLE. vp sett P oassege ee TON, peteeedanth eitiales Fea eas a+ An interesting development of the recent campaign is the increased majorities which the Democrats have received in the heavy manufacturing districts. Such centres of manufacture, for example, as Fall River, and Lowell, Mass., and Bridgeport, Conn., and Providence, R. L, were taken almost with a clean Sweep. Upon this showing the Evening S23eet oes Post, New York, concludes that ‘in the United States, if you have a good cause and good advocates, and get audiences, you need never despair of making converts and winning the day. ‘Boodle’ is powerful; “Soap” is powerful; Fraud is powerful; Prejudice is powerful; Ignorance is powerful; Humbug and Charlatanry are The name of John Wanamaker has sprung into fame very suddenly in a new field. For years he has been known to newspaper reading people as the mercantile hypodrome of Philadelphia. but beyond the limit of his chosen calling he has never obtruded himself. The recent campaign seems to have afforded him peculiar opportunities of broadening his notoriety. A boodle election was on the boards. Boodle he had, and as much of it as any man. Hence the advance from a successful merchant to a successful politician was not a very great performance for a man of his practical turn of mind. He could see that no man who craved political advancement was so sure of getting it as he who purchased for cash, and since the purchasing system had. become legitimatized by National custom, it was quite clear that his privileges and prospects were as great as any man’s, and very much greater than a great many. The National Government was up for sale and John Wanamaker’s $400,000 being the highest bid, John Wanamaker, so. press rumor puts it, bought the ina. >+ 3 anette eaten wherever men can be got to listen and to read. “But’—the Post continues, “it is useless to deny or evade the fact that the vote has shown that the farmers, on whom the tariff-reformers relied with some confidence, and from whom the Republicans expected but little, are at present either opposed to or indif- ferent to changes in the tariff, and that no seriouschange can be made until they are won over. Winning them over is a much more difficult country, is apt to get stiffened by want of contact with his fellows, by hard work, often solitary work, in the openair, by inability to find much time or wakefulness for read- ing, and by the monotony of his ‘Receivers. Allowance. THE TRIANGULAR SQUABBLE OVER CHURCH PROPERTY. Ex-Judge 0. W. Powers Added Combination. The matter of the THE to The receiver’s compen- sation came up in the Supreme court on Wednesday. U.S. Attorney Hobson was present to represent the Government. Judge Zane was also on hand with his petition ir behalf of the school trustees, redueed to writing as the court had di- rected. The document was read by At- torney John M. Zane. It was very lengthy and bagan by explaining that under the laws of the territory trustees of school districts receive and hold all property and expend all moneys belonging to said schools for the improvement of school grounds, the building of houses for school purposes,. etc. .The schoo] districts especially named in the writing, in whose immediate behalf the Judge petitioned for hearing Seventh, Highth, Ninth, were the and Twelfth districts of Salt Lake City. The document then describes the churvh property in detail now in the hands of Receiver Dyer, and alleges that certain portions of the same have been rented to the church without authority from the court and contrary to the intent of the law. It further states that the receiver had recovered by suit certain tracts of land; that under authority of the court the receiver had compromised the said suits, <> —> <ip~ + —-<- “a THat “BooDLE is powerful,” has become a quite popular belief since the church receiver and his attorneys put in their bill for services rendered. SS >t [Correspondence =r of the Western Weekly. AMERICAN A peculiar POETRY. sadness American poetry. pervades a lness little akin our to the dreamy melancholy of some natures. and far removed from that desperate dejection which breaks. forth among the songs of the South, like the eruption of a midnight volcano, showing a chaos of ruins. It is rather a note, scarcely to be and, when discerned, the plaintive look of life may is unique. The have been heavier burdens of elsewhere, civilized, but often highly cultured, were’ condemned to face the emergenci-s of barbarism. . With invincible patience they have triumphed over the wilderness, yet weighing upon all their utterances, is the unconscious protest of the over-burdened. Our poets survey Na- ture ina spirit different from the keen delight she awakens in. those less thoughtful, but physically stronger. calling, all the phenomena of which recur with almost unbroken regu— They cast upon her the meditative glance of the philosopher rather than larity. There is no class on which ths rapturous one of the lover. Such a habit lies more heavily, to whom ponsive tendency, in nations or indivithe old ways seem safer, to which viduals, is an unfailing evidence of novelties, including new ideas, “The weight of care That crushes into dumb despair seem so suspicious, and which is so One half the human race.”’ loath to hear more than one side of Marion Mure RicHAaRDSson. a debatable question. ‘These difficulties might be overcome, how-— _ ever, by tact and parsistence. The To any enesending us eight yearly farmer is hard to persuade, but he All farmers subscriptions paid up, we will cend _ is not unpersuadable. are not like.the English farmer the WESTERN WEEKLY for one &YAwho, during the Anti-Corn Law year. . - — > tion would involvea scrutiny of vouchers and probably an examination of witnesses; but that if permitted by the court to do so, your petitioners, as they are informed and believe, can point out well-founded objections to the said account. “That the reseiver also precened a claim for allowance to himself for his individual services ‘as receiver of $25,000.00; and in addition each of his solicitors presented aclaim for being heard and allowed to protect their $10,000, said claims eggregating $52,865,23; that said claims for allowances and that the fund is likely to be greatly diminished by said claims, the appear- were referred to the examiner in this case to take testimony as to the amount to be allowed; that the United States Attorney for Utah andthe Territorial said compromise which the receiver had not done. The paper then states “that since the p ointment of the reseiver, he has 0)tained possession of 30,000 sheep, the property of the defendant corporation; and after receiving the them without same he any authority rented from this court and without. public notice, to one W. L. Pickard,a surety upon said receiver’s bond, at the rate of twenty cents per head per annum, when the _ custo- “Your petitioners further that they are informed and represent believe that there is property to a large amount, of which receiver has not taken possession, that was owned by said defendant cor- poration and was in the possessson of its agents, or of others for said corporation, against the interests of said schools, and that the United States Attorney for this Territory is also employed against the by its solicitors, Messrs. Sheeks and Rawlins, and by them the first witnesses and produced by the receiver were cross-examined; but afterwards, as petitioners ready been deprived of a large portion of are informed and believe, they were instructed by the defendants not to crossexamine and not to contest the claims of the receiver or of his solicitors, and thereupon they ceased to make any further contest and the examination became and was wholly an ex parte examination by the receiver and his solicitors before said referee. that section 1875 of the Revised Statutes United States provides that a “Your petitioners of the person learned in the state law shall be appointed in each Territory as Attorney for the United States, and he is required to act in all cases as the attorney of the United States, and that it was the duty of the said Peters to so act in this case; that it was his duty to appear for the United States in the main case and tentions about said funds and in the hands of the receiver; in all conproperty that this duty the oath prescribed by section 1878 of the Revised Statutes of the United States imposed, and said attorney had no legal right to appear against the United or to any other sum claim a fee of $10,000 who was and is Territorial and one Geo. S. Peters, who was and is the attorney for the United States in this Territory, as his attorneys and solicitors; that the said receiver was at the time of his ap- employed common by schools, and that Terri- receiver, the receiver himself is an officer of the United States. that they compromise, the are the proceeds claiming said of that schools said lands, bya have and althat these proceeds have become the property of the United States, furnish additional reasons for district schools permitting the to appear trustees in this of pro ceeding. Wherefore, your petitioners pray that they may be made parties to such proceedings, or that they may be allowed to appear by their solicitor or otherwise in order to defend and protect the interests of the common schools that they represent, and preserve so much of the fund as may belong to said schools ; and that such other trustees of district schools as may wish to come in, may also be made parties or allowed to appear, and that your petitioners may be allowed to produce evidence, to prove and substantiate the facts petition, and that stated petitioners in may this have such other and further relief asto equity and as to this Honorable Court may appear to be equitable. And your petitioners will ever pray, ete. T. C. BatLey, Chairman Board of Trustees 7th District. Rupoup#H School ALF, Chairman Board of Trustees, 8th Schooi District. J.F. MinuapauGnu, may be reasonable, and if allowed, it is all the solicitor’s fees that should be al- Sec’y Board of Trustees, 13th School lowed against said fund; but petitioners District. . deny that any allowance for future serZANE & ZANE, vices to any person whatever should be Solicitors for petitioners. made at this time. At the close of the reading Judge “Your petitioners further represent that the amount of compensation—$25,- 000—claimed by the said receiver for his individual services, is grossly exorbitant, excessive and unconscionable; that the allowances to the receiver for his ser- vices must be only for those rendered by himself and he cannot be allowed for services for which his agents and employes may be allowed and paid; that his rights and compensation and his conduct as receiver of this court must be treated by equitable principles, and as receiver he must have been industrious, economical, diligent and strictly conscientious; that the services which the said receiver of said receiver, that, furthermore, the difierence between the amount for which 30,000 sheep aboye mentioned could have keen rented and the amount for which. they were rented is about $5000, as your petitioners are informed and believe, and Commissioner of Schools, is or against the funds in the of said property by the use of reasonable dilligence as receiver, and that his Williams, and for the receiver in the taking of such testimony, and no one appeared for the United States or for the said common schools; that,on such examination the defendant corporation at first appeared claims to have rendered were largely performed by the agents and employes willful negligence, or through combination with the agents of the late corporation. : “Your petitioners represent further that said receiver, after he entered upon his duties as such, employed one P. L. justice; said after said receiver qualified; and that he could have taken or obtained possession failure to do so was from want of attention to his duties as receiver or from the facts that the of of this hands of the receiver; that the sum of 310,000 claimed by said Solicitor Williams, if it be intended to include services hereafter to be rendered said receiver, as well as services heretofore rendered, approval, necessary, to the ends Commissioner of Schools in that the said land was worth $225,000, which they had valued at $84,666.15; that the order of the court had required the its ance of some one for the common schools is rendered absolutely tory States, receiver to report the interests. The petition concludes that “in as much as the common schools of this Territory are interested in the funds and property in the hands of the receiver, to the value of the real estate and the rents and profits thereof, and of the proceeds of the real estate converted into money by the receiver, in the compromise, and that no one is appearing in behalf of the common schools and resisting claims, Commissioner of Schools both appeared recommendation of the receiver and his solicitors who had deceived the court mary price was from forty to fifty cents faint, oft-recurring per head, and that in such renting of observed at first, said sheep the fund sustained a loss of reminding one of weariness frequent $5,000. in the eyes of American women. Is not this characteristic, indeed, the voice, of a national weariness? In many respects the history of the white race on this continent amount, to be used and applied’ as the land would have been; that the approval of the court was giyen solely upon the to the court for < matter than the winning over of but they fell upon those mercifully the “wage workers.” Of all classes blinded by ignorance. Since the wildof civilized men, the farmer has ness of primeval nature was tamed by fromthe earliest ages been. hardest races little less savage than the forests they felled. Here, people, not merely to persuade. His mind, like the mind of every man who lives in the — Reap the court proceedings in and taken in lieu of the said land the sum of $84,666°15, or notes to that the church suits, and—“reflect.”’ powerful; but Speech and Pen are a match for them all put together, a - WANAMAKER IN POLITICS. WEEKLY. The Local News. agitation, “thanked God he was not open to conviction.” PUBLISHED Every SATURDAY BY THE WESTERN PUBLISHING COMPANY, Saur Lake Crry. BURRCHD HOR OnE YEAR, Six Monts, THREE Monrus, WESTERN: that this from said view of his entitled to amount should be deducted receiver’s compensation (if in breaches of duty he is deemed any compensation), and if it be that he so rented said sheep in return for any benefit to himself or in the hope thereof, then he ought not to receive any compensation, and said contract of renting should be disapproved and the receiver held for all loss to the fund in pointment, and is now, United States Marshal for said Territory; that as receiver he presented a claim for allowance to him for clerk hire, compensation to solicitors, agents, and employes, for consequence of such wrongful renting. that not having yet been made parties to this proceeding or granted leave to through The petition states that $5,C00 would Zane stated that the petition had not been verified because the rules of chancery practice did not require it. Attorney Hobson thought such a document should be verified, for if the alle- gations were true the receiver should be dismissed and his attorneys progeeged against. Mr. Williams was quite agreed wita Mr. Hobson that the attorneys should be dealt with if the propositions were true. Charges that might scandal-monger, verified. he be written by any thought, should be Judge Zane said they proposed to proceed according to the rules of equity, provided the court would. permit them to appear in charges fully. the ¢ase, and to prove As tothe sheep, Mr. Dyer himself the renting of the had said he had rented them for twenty cents per head and witnesses in the recent examination had stated that- they . themselves -.|: would be willing to pay forty cents. On motion of Mr. Williams, O. Powers was allowed to appear in ease as additional counsel for the ceiver. . Judge Judd, of Provo was absent, W. the reand Judge Zane expressed:a wish that the full bench should be present. Mr. Hobson objected to any further delay, when Judge Sandford explained that it was impracticable for Judge Judd to be present. Judge Zane then proceeded with ‘his be ample compensation for the receiver: It then charges the receiver with claim- argument on the question of being ading through his solicitor that the com- mitted to the case, which was delivered office rent, stationery, and other ex-: mon schools of the Territory had no. in- with much the same pointedness that penses amounting to the sum of $7,865.53 terest in the money and notes received characterized the petition. A heated deappeal herein, your petitioners have not examined the said report of expenses of the receiver sufficiently to point ‘out ob- jections thereto; that such an examina- the land compromise, or the rents collected from the real estate now in possession of the-receiver. The petition asserts that the claim is unjust, and that this attempt to defeat the rights of the schools shows the necessity of their bate followed, after which the court adjourned till the evening session, | ~ On reassembling it-was obvious that all hands were agreed upon the propriesy of an investigation,and the following decision was rendered : é |