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Show December G, 1887 Fleming died. Dooly paid the funeral expenses, amounting to $104.53. But be did not perform the other conditions of the trust. He did not sell the stock and convert it into money but, according to the allegations of the complaint, admitted by him in his answer, collected and retained several dividends on the Ontario stock. The heirs made a demand upon him that he sell this stock and give them the money, but he refused, and then by Hall & Marshall they began suit. In the answer he averred1 that he had no information or belief sufficient to enable him to answer the allegations that the plaintiffs were the children of Michael Foley, of Killan, County Wexford, Ireland, and denied they were said children. He admitted having collected dividends amounting to $500 on the Ontario stock. He declared he had searched for the heirs, but said search was unavailing until Nov. 1888, when he found the plaintiffs and informed them of the facts of the trust. In his search for these heirs he spent $60.75 which, he naively adds is a proper charge against the estate. cents Sixty dollars and seventy-fiv- e would buy a lot of postage stamps, but let that pass. In his answer Mr. Dooly pleaded possession of cash to the amount of $2375, besides the Btock. He closed his answer by asking the court to determine the heirship of the plain- tiffs and to pay him for his services, incidentally mentioning that$l00 would be a proper fee. The case dragged some, but finally in April 1891, four after Fleming passed away, Jears Zane, who had succeeded to the bench, gave judgment against John FI. Dooly for $4,994.74 and taxed no costs. Instances of a similar kind might be multiplied, but the above are sufficient to give some insight into the man's methods as revealed to the courts. Now if he can only get into the Allen G. Campbell estate, what a field he will have to work upon, if he should go on the same plan as he did in the Norton and the only excuse for even giving the public some sligbtiusight into them is the fact that Dooly holds a public office of great responsibility and trust and has held offices where grafts' could be worked whenever he possibly could. In his present capacity of chairman of the board of public works, he practically lets all the contracts for city work and has done so for two and a half years.- The other members of the board, the city council and the mayor have been mere puppets who jump when Dooly pulls the string and he has strings of some kind on nearly all of them. Since he got rid of Former City Engineer Kelsey, the only city official who dared to stand between him and the city treasury, he has had clear sailing. All the evidence points to his having been interested financially in all contracts of any magnitude let on behalf of the city for two and a half years. Things have come to such a pass that contractors will no longer bid in competition with Doolys favorite contractors. It is no use they say. Every time some pretext is found to throw the contract to Doolys favorites regardless of whether they are the lowest bidders or not. A contractor must make his peace with Dooly before he can ever hope to get any city work. As to the inspection and sufficiency of the work Dooly undertook that part of. the business himself and ignored the objections and protests of the former city engineer, and as usual bulldozed the city council into accepting his say as final. The exaction of penalties ' for breach of contracts by Doolys - favorite contractors are practically unknown.' Such was his power with the had the form lute city council that-hof contract so changed as to put the entire business of letting contracts for public works and passing on the sufficiency of the work into the hands of ft ft the board of public works, which meant The private character and doings of into his own hands. Dooly is practicMr. Dooly are to some extent his own ally the contractor, inspector and in fact the whole thing. He lets the contract practically to himself, and then as the representative of the city passes on the sufficiency of his own work. This is no exaggeration, but absolute cold facts. Such a state, of affairs does not exist in any other city in America. The iniquity ef the new form of contract was apparent. Former City Engineer Kelsey alone raised his voice against it. He did his utmost to enlist the press on his side. He got some case. TIME TABLE. IN very DEPART. For Ogdon, Cache Valley, Omaha, Chicago, Denver, Kansas City, St. 7.00 a Louis and intermediate points For Ogden. Butte, Helena. Portland, San Francisco and intermediate 9:45 a points For Ogden, Omaha, Chicago, Denver, Kansas City, St. Louis and Sun 12.60 p Francisco For Ogden. Denver, Kansas City, 6.00 p Omaha, St. Louis and Chicngo For Ogden. Butte, Helena, Portland, ftan Francisco and intermediate 10:50 p points For Tintic, Mercur, Provo, Nehpi and 7.53 a Mantl For Provo, Nephi, Milford, and 7.05 p intermediate points For Garfield Beach, Tooele and Ter7.45 a minus ARRIVE. From Ogden, Portland, Spokane, 8.85 a Butte, Helena and San Francisco.. 9.10.a From Ogden From Ogden. Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha, Denver and San 05 Francisco From Preston, Logan, Brigham, San m m xn m xn m m xn the ft ft Dooly insisted on having an iron wa- ter pipe line laid up City Creek where it was not needed, the present pipeline being sufficient to carry all the water in the summer months and during the other months of the year the old pipes carried all the water needed from that source. All the engineers in the country are a unit in saying that wooden stave pipe is superior and more durable than iron pipe, and the cost of wooden that stave variety is only about one-haof iron pipe. If a new pipe had been needed in City Creek it should have been of wooden stave and would have lf m xn p m cost $30,(100 instead of over $50,000 which Francisco, Ogden and Intermediate 6:50 p xn points From Ogden, Unite, Portland and 8.10 p m San Francisco From Callentes. Milford, Nephi, Provo 9.85 a m End intermediate points 6.00 p xn From Untie, Mercur and Nephi From Garfield Beach, Tooele and 600 p xn Terminus Dally except Sundays. D. E. BURLEY M. SCHUMACHER, G. P. & T. A. Act. Traf . Mgr. D. S. SPENCER. A. G. P. &T. A. 201 Main St. City Ticket Office No. 250 Telephone meager recognition from Deseret News, but was turned down cold by both the Tribune and Herald although there was no question as to the justice of his cause. EFFECT APR. 1. 1902. the iron variety will cost. But then Doolys favurim contractor didnt handle woodenstuve pipe. That's all there is to that. A former city council wanted to lay a pipe line up City Creek without the intervention of the board of public work. The proposition was to do the work by the day, the city employing the men'. It would have cost less than $20,000 then, but Dooly, on a techenical point, had the cit enjoyned bv the court from doing the job in the way proposed and now he has had it done in his own manner, at a cost of had his. He will retire from the bar.k over $50,000. This man has' been the not voluntarily, but he will iie greatest enemy Salt Lake City ever has admitted as much himself g0. anil ex had. pressed the hope that the management ft ft would allow him. An When he was president of the Board recently quoted him as evening saying that Sal! of Education, he was tbe whole thing. Lake business men retire only when He was it. That was the time when they are taken to the cemetery. He his mind on that new school houses were being built and changed He thinks about now is the proposition furnished. There were lots of con- for him to retire. Most proper time people will tracts to be let then and Dooly got in agree with him on that point. When a bold mamhas demonstrated, when his hair his. graft in th way. did ne become that the writer has is bleached with the frost of many wiactually seen him step down from the nters, that he is either an unmitigated president's chair after the board meet- scrundrel or an unmitigated ass or both ing, collect th6 'warrants for payment it is time he retired from public life, of work done by contractors and walk ft ft off with them carefully stowed away And now a word with you Mayor in his pocket-booYet he would have people believe be had no interests in Thompson. Why did you appoint this the contracts. For unadulterated gall man Dooly chairman of the board of there is not his equal in the land of the public works? Why did you take his. brave and the home of the free. side as against Kelsey when von ft ft knew Kelsey was honest and competent and Dooly was neither? Why An evening paper recently gave some details of the life of Harry Duke. It have you forgotten or ignored your pledge that Dooly would told of him keeping mistresses and not be chairman of the hoard of public of and the December 31st last? Why public notoriety works after gambling which attended his immorality. Why do you risk your good name, your didn't the paper say something about future political prospects and the reputation of your administration for a man Mr. Dooly's immorality? Why didnt like Dooly? Why are you even it tell of the luxuriously furnished your influence to keep Dooly in These questions are' on bank? he maintains in town where the of of the people, of thousands he entertains his ladies of easy the lips Have Lake. you any answer to virtue? .Why did it not tell of Salt make? the ; ft ft midnight revels in which gay old- Lothario Dooly was a particThat Civic Federation which was inipant until it became a public scandal? stituted largely by Dooly, some years Why jump with both feet on Duke the understudy and let the principal go ago, for the purpose of prosecuting Joe free?. Its the same old thing. Too Morris and the other members of the many people in this town have been then board of county commissioners on afraid of Dooly for years. They get down on their bellies and wriggle and the charge of boodling in the matter of crawl when he frowns, then they go the purchase of furniture for the city away and curse him deep and low where and county building, was a very funny he can't hear them! In the statement of organization. The idea of Dooly prothese facts about Mr. Dooly the writer secuting anybody for boodling is exhas no malice. Dooly never injured tremely ludicrous. Those patriots to the fund, it was undehim. It is true lie frequently tried, as he did to many, many others but in rstood, were giving the money in order the writer's case his bluffs were always that the guilty might be punished. It, called and he always got ' the worst of however, turned out, after the county it. He was only four flushing. Dooly attorney had fooled away all the money anything, that rightly has the reputation of being an without accomplishing loan to implacable enemy. He would get after the patriots were only making a even a man who worked in the streets the county. They demanded repayment for his daily bread, or a $G0a month and brought suit to enforce tneir declerk if he thought they were opposed mands and they ultimately recovered the to any of his schemes and there was no amount of their supposed donations was duplicity or meanness he would not with interest. A great institution stoop to in order to accomplish their the Civic Federation. ft ft undoing. ft ft As long as Mr. Dooiy persists in his has Every dog day and Dooly has holding a public position of trust and k. anti-electi- on now-usin- - "Bhe Pistnola. The time has now come when it found that The Pianola is an necessity in the home. With it anyone can instantly produce the masterpieces of pianoforte literature. No daily practice required to be in a position to entertain your company. 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