Show JUSTICES FAIL TO TOMAKE TOMAKE TOMAKE MAKE RETURNS AS REQUIRED BY LA W Another Scandal Develops in Office of County Commissioners Commis Amazing Negligence Is Shown Also in County Attorneys Office 11 Following upon the discovery that thatA Anton A Lundberg pauper clerk cleric has been working on an Illegal basis and that a county commissioner had al allowed allowed a lowed an unauthorized person to sign his name to checks on county funds comes the discovery discover that some of the Justices of ot the peace in the county have been equally disregardful of ot the law In their relations with the county commissioners There are justices who have made no returns of ot fines for several years there are others who have made partial re returns returns turns and OJ there are but few f w have ve complied compiled with the full fuH requirements of at atthe the law and not only sent In to the county ct nty nor u the fines nel received fc but bu t have hace filed fifed reports quarterly with the th county attorney The law provides that a justice of ot the peace shall make report to the county attorney attorn C once a quarter of all the work of his court with a docket of each case and Its disposition also a statement of ot fines Imposed The money received from fines the justices are required to turn tum In to tho the county treasurer It was sas Intended that the county at attorneys attorneys attorneys office should have a record of ot all cases of a criminal nature in the courts of ot the justices and that he should check up the fines received that the Auditor might know whether the justices were holding out or not nat This has as not been done A few justices not in line Una with county methods have con cone continued to send in reports with unfailing regularity But these have been few Willard Hanson when county attorney attorney attorney ney made no attempt to keep any rec ree record record ord or to compel compol the justices to do 40 their t duty County Attorneys Attorney Neglect NeJl ct There is no record In n the office of the county attorney of at any report from Bingham where here George Lee was jus justice justice tice nor Is there anything on the books of ot the county auditor to indicate that the county has received a cent from the Bingham court Frank J Heginbotham botham tham county auditor says that the Justice at Bingham has returned no fines to his office in at least two years It was the duty of the county attorney to see that these returns and arid reports were made The only justices who appear to a have complied with the law according acc ac to the files tiles In the office of ot the county attorney attorney attorney ney have been Fred J Cooper Cooperjr Jr of ot precinct 9 and J J Williams of Bing ham h Junction both of whom w om reported for forthe the quarter ending with September Even Kven Justice Dana T Smith of at Salt Lake has been derelict in the matter of making reports though tho gh he h has regu regularly regularly larl sent In money received to the county count auditor It was Smiths cus custom custom tom torn to merely remit a chock check for the to 1 tal ta amount of ot the flues fines of his court un until until til Ui recently re when the auditor com corn compelled compelled Wm hIm lm to Itemize I the fines fi 1 s that at the fines for Cor cruelty to animals mfg t be returned dJ to t society s bYI with the l o long lon name r i Justice Charles Holm of ot Murray has baa reported pretty faithfully so far aa an at the receipts of ot his hs office are concerned but he too has ha failed to t file fU a a report of ed atthe edthe the doings of ot his court with the county attorney Anton Lundberg erg justice of ot the peace p ace and pauper clerk has made mado returns ret of ot money from time to time Ume but b pt has nev never never never er taken the trouble to make the re report report port required d of at him hi by law Justice Frank H Bishop Bi hop Is In the same category with Holm He has turned turn d in the ne fines m 3 be he has bas ece but t thas has paM paId little attention to ta the Zaw w re requiring requiring requiring quiring him to report the business of his office to the attorney No Report From Bingham Bin ghan Some of ot the t e justices justice are aro not ot down as having reported rep at all Lee of Bing ham is perhaps the tho worst offender of ot the tte lot Though out of ot office for some little time he has turned in neither fines nor report Bingham Is a good sized town a mining camp ramp with plenty of ot saloons and gambling houses There must have been a few tew fines fine at least Imposed turing Curing the past few years But the Justices are not alone one in tn the matter of not filing reports It was the duty luty of if the county attorney tp compel this thi but he has apparently made no attempt to do so Nor has he filed spy any report of his own stewardship t as coun county county county ty attorney though county attorneys prior to Willard Hanson have done EO so There Is nothing on record to show what Hanson has done during his term In the county attorneys office It is said that Hanson told the commission commissioners ers era that under the law he was not com corn compelled compel pel ed to make such auch a report Anyway he has not done so BO There is no possible way In which the county auditor can check up the Jus Justices tices Qt the peace pea e except through the reports as filed file with the county attorney attorney attorney ney A justice of ot the peace p ce who wants to graft can do so without any trou trouble trouble trouble ble as his books are ar never examined and he has hitherto done as a he pleased In making reports When the attention of Job P Lyon Lynn county attorney was called to the way in which the justices had been report reportIng reporting Ing or rather failing to report he ha said eald that he intended to make a 8 change in inthis Inthis inthis this regard and would Insist upon upon com corn complete complete returns from every justice in the county count The total returns to the county from frem fines in all of ot the he courts during 1908 according to the books of the th county auditor were S and In 1907 they amounted to O They should be muth more |