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Show TOOELE. County Court Jumble. Tooele City, April 6, 1S75. Editors Herald: Yesterday the residents of this quiet town were treated to a novel : scene. The appointee of the decapitated decap-itated Webfoot to the office of probate judge of Tooele county, together with one E. C. Chase, claiming to be a selectman, have been trying to oust some of the legal officers composing! the county court of this county. At the regular March term the court stood two and two; yesterday it stood two against nothing. The members of the court had been notified to appear ap-pear at the court house at 10 o'clock a.m., on Monday the 5th instant. Selectmen Bates and Atkin were there on time, but the "ringites" had not matured their plans sufficiently, and the miDUtes show roll called, Foote and Chase answering ; not a quorum present. This was not the case; Foote was not at the court room when this was done, consequently conse-quently Chase adjourned the court. At 2:30 p. m. court convened. Roll called as follows: E. S. Foote, E C. Chase and George Atkin. Atkin asked ths court if Cyrus H. Bates was not a member of the court. 1 Foote said he knew of nothing to that effect Atkin Baid that Bates had 1 filed his bond according to law. The clerk was asked to produce the bond. On examination the bond was found to be informal in one point, the oath of office had not been subscribed sub-scribed to. Foote moved that C. W. Bates is not a member of the court. At this stage of the proceeding Atkin and Bates withdrew from the room, the former before he left en-i en-i tering his protest against the pro-I pro-I ceeding. Foote decided that a quo-! quo-! rum was present, and immediately Chase moved that W. R. Judd be ap- pointed assessor and collector. Ho ! did not state for what nor how long. 1 Motion seconded by Foote and do-clared do-clared carried. Up to this time . Foote looked careworn, and seemed to feel as Beecher is described ; jq oiftinrr nn tha " rairnofl oJrroa " After the terrible leap for power his features assumed their wanted hue, nd he seemed to feel better. Business was now dispatched "at 2.40 pace." Those two dignitaries seemed to be all sufficient, aud thought they would surely be entitled to their fees for tho .lay's services. Several bills were allowed al-lowed amounting, in the aggregate, Lo nearly $500. Toe clerk called the roll on each motion, Foot and Cnase voting in tho affirmative. Near the close of this evor to bo remembered session there was a consultation be tween all the members of the court (two)and after a good deal of scratching scratch-ing the following motion was read by the judge and afterwards by the clerk: "Moved that Isaac F. Spang-ler Spang-ler be appointed to the office of selectman, to fill the unexpired unex-pired term of C. W. Bates, who failed to qualify according to law." Motioned, seconded and carried as usual. After reading and accepting of minutes, court aojourned until the next regular term, unless sooner called together. The Rev. Ernstus Smith of the M. E. Church was in the rcom and gave his approval to I the doings of the bogus court. 1 Could the mission jurist -now let out to grass have seen his protege assuming places and honors that did not belong to them, and with grim satisfaction voting men out of office who had been legally elected by the tax pay ers, I think he ( Mc K ea n ) would havo held up his hands in holy horror, and would have exclaimed exclaim-ed "no wonder 1 have loit ivy head, when my pupils can beat their master in deviltry, and stoop to means that I their chief never thought of." Si-etator. |