Show HOLY MOSES BANE l The Grand Old Patriot Short in His Accounts THE GOVT SUES HIS BOXbSMEX Mr Dlckioo Hinder a Cbarmlnl Clue With 1C N HatUIn P II Lnnnan and Other Defendant I Mbss M Bane the Holy Moses of Republican Utah carpetbasgera of land office fame of antiMormon fame of Peirce and Griffits fame and of fame In halt a dozen other odorous and malodorous mal-odorous directions has enrolled his name in the proud muster of crooks where Sumner Howard r T Van Zile Wm Nelson and others so brightly shine and gazing from afar in his retreat at Spokane Falls has the gratification of beholding his bondsmen sued by the government for a little shortage of some 1500 in his accounts as Receiver for Utah Territory The amount to be more precise b 152023 and bondmen in question are James I Lowe R N Baskin 0 ingratitude and lastly but not by any means leastly that RomanIrish patriot of auage antecedents the present Democratic Dem-ocratic wing of the Republican Tribune buzzard Patrick Henry Lannan When Moses several years ago brought his highly moral presence to bear on the Receivership in this city and swelled the ranks and the heads of Republican F O As by entering his name alongside theirs in the great struggle to down the Mormons he was overrun with applications from I compeers who burned to endorse their names on hb bond From their eacer ranks he selected the three gentemen ndmed aboveMr Lowe because his I name carried weight and Messrs Bas Kin and Lannan because they were congenial I con-genial souls who could understand and appreciate himgentlemen who were engaged tne same great cause with himself that of traducing villifying and holding up with horror the immoralities ot the Mormon people while they made all they could out of the results that peoples labors These gentlemen then guaranteed to the parent government that Moses M t ldM I Banes official course should be full of rectitude or in the event of a failure they pledged themselves to the tune of I 30000 good and lawful money of the realm Time wore on and Moses waxed slack on his emoluments he filled bb time drew hb salary denounced the Mormons Mor-mons and received the grand bounce as many a better man had done before him closing up hb affairs he departed for Spokane and entered a partnership wits the very Griffits with whom his name had got mixed up in connection with some missing stock of the Reverend Rever-end Peirce But like many another great and good man his deeds lived after liLa His books and accounts were duly forwarded to the auditor in Washington where they lay to await their r surrection when red tape should sound the blast Their turn finally came and last March the auditor was greatly affected to discover a little discrepancy dis-crepancy of 1520 23 in Mr Banes accounts ac-counts Just how it arose whether an overdraft shortage superabundance of expenses or what has not yet transpired trans-pired anyway certain it is that during the month of March last Mr Dickson was electrified to receive a stack of douracnts from the AttorneyGeneral and a communication instructing him I commence suit against the bondsmen bonds-men of Mr Bane forthwith I I rorthwith in Mr Dicksons mind i means about truce months and the papers have just been promptly filed An odd feature of all this b thcJact that Mr Patrick Hears Lannan tWas informed by Mr Dickson as soon as the papers arrived that he was under the necessity of commencing com-mencing suit against him how Mr Lannan received the intelligence we are not positive it is said he was greatly touched Recalling the excessive I exces-sive adulation worship and slather hb organ had bestowed upon the great moral patriot and reformer of the Land Office we think it natural to suppose he was The odd part of it b that Mr Lannan knowing of Mr Banes shortage short-age and the threatened suit three months ago and publishing an oUoged newspaper yet preserves the silence of I the tomb all that time upon so Interesting Interest-ing a topic and forcec upon pin HEEALD the usual but painful duty of being the first to apprise the public Allowing thirty days for the proverbial drowsiness of the Tribune in matters of local newsthere are still sixtv days unaccounted for and we regret re-gret to say that they cannqt be accounted for except by adopting the supposition that Mr Lannan strongly desired to hush the matter u and informed Mr Dickson that be would settlo without a suit if he would only keep it quiet This we are in farmed is the fact Mr Baskin is not here however stern duty calls him elsewhere and Mr Lowe who went on the bond out of pure good nature pre sumablv having a distaste to shouldering shoulder-ing the load at least until the virtuous Bane could be heard from has declined to pay up and hence the suit is filed iir Dickson was asked if he could not wait until Mr BasKins return before proceeding to extremities but referring to his letter of March last from thq department I de-partment the Prosecutor found his instructions in-structions sa d forthwith and the forthwith having just expired there was no alternative and the suit was filed as above detailed The case of The United States vs the bondsmen of M M Bane will be followed with peculiar interest by the shockingly immoral and corrupt people of the Territory of Utah |