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Show THE FREE LANCE. The legal bar of Salt Lake numbers in its ranks some distinguished lights. One of the members, Judge Sutherland, is the author of a work on Damages which finds a place in every working library In the country. Different from his portly partner, Judge Sutherland is a small man with a small voice, deliberate delib-erate and maybe tedious In his argument, argu-ment, but keen, logical, and above all things learned. Flashes of wit and sarcasm sar-casm illumine tho entire path of his address, ad-dress, not enough to rivet the habitues of the court room, who delight in skyrocket sky-rocket oratory, but sufficient to relieve the dry quotation of precedents and authorities of its monotony. No barrister bar-rister receives closer attention from the bench than Judge Sutherland. Judge Powers is another author in the legal field, his work being on Chancery Practice. He is a powerful pleader ' before any court, and when he dons bis Prince Albert Al-bert coat, decorated with a tiny buttonhole button-hole bouquet, the aforesaid habitues remain re-main in their seats expectant of the impression im-pression he is going to make on the gentlemen gen-tlemen of the jury. In mining law Chas. W. Bennett has probably no peer at the local bar, while his associate. John A. Marshall, is the Fullerton of Salt Lake cross-examiners. Assistant Prosecuting Attorney At-torney Critchlow is also an adept in that line, and woe be to the unfortunate witness whose conscience or memory is not clear, provided always he be on the other side of the case from Marshall or Critchlow. There Is another Williams, Parley L., who represents the U. P. no less than a fair chunk of legal wisdom. And since his namesake was linked with the prosecuting pros-ecuting attorney, we might as well mention here the chief prosecutor, C. S. Yarian, whose spasm odio rhetorio has paved many a criminal's way to the penitentiary. For genuine satire and conoentrated irony commend us to Arthur Brown; for levity to Theodore Burmcster; for land law to M. M. Kaighn; for obduracy to S. A. Merritt; for depth to Frank Pierce; for height to C. O. Whittemoro. The leading lawyer on the. Mormon aide, and a royal fellow every way, is Le Grand Young. His namesake, R. YV., at one time acting assistant judge advocate-general on General Hancock's staff, is likewise an agreeable gentleman. gentle-man. , . A heavy weight in the legal arena Is Wm. H. Dickson. He is a strong advocate ad-vocate and an 1 unsparing antagonist. He carried a torch in the ranks of the Liberal marchers, and a stove pipe hat, but in the army of attorneys he belongs at the head and on horseback. Soon after the admission of Nebraska as a state, II. C. Lett was elected and his opponent, Furnas, was installed governor. . Furnas is now running the pumpkin shows in that state, while Lett is the populaa president of the real estate es-tate exchange and an eutkuslastio citizen citi-zen of Zion. Such is the whirligig of time. ' Nebraskaos, by the way, abound in Salt Lake, and being imbued with that spirit of progress which tended to give to their state the largest percentage of increase in the reoeut census, they make capital citizens. Weeter and Armstrong Arm-strong are both Nebraskans, who Invested In-vested their bountiful cash in real estate es-tate here. A. H. Mnyne is another enterprising en-terprising dealer in dirt who, however, long disowned his formor love. Wm. Coots is rearing a monument of his contractor's con-tractor's skill in tho Commercial block, while the junior partner of Mount & Griftin has made nis abode with us, and vies with Jupiter Fluvius in keeping our streets sprinkled. The East Side hotel, now stretching Its ample proportions aloft, is being erected by an Omahog, Wendell Benson who bears besides the rare distinction of being an original Maine democrat from Bar Harbor, who never imbibes in Bourbon, or anything else. His cot -tractor Gould also hails from the big town on the Missouri. Endowed as few young men an with physical, mental and moral in.v.mtagif, a veritable Adonis and athlete in one, a Harvard graduate and a rustler of the best type, is Nat, M. Brigham, likewise from Omaha. He is wholly absorbed in his business, being the senior of the firm of Brigham & Mcintosh, and few people hereabouts know that he can make apolitical speech on tariff reform, or obarni the most critical audience with his wouderful teuor voice which possessed by any other man would make his fortune. And more than that he is still a bachelor, Is Rat. M. Brigham. Brig-ham. And speaking of rustlers, there is James II. Bacon, the presidont of the American National bank, and projector of the Deep Creek railroad. A young man filled with a noble ambition to identify himself with the best interests of Utah, he came to Salt Lake city from Illinois, accompanied by a splendid reputation for integrity and enterprise. He has been a factor in our material and social life from the day he arrived here. The future is his. Thero is ample material for the indefinite in-definite continuation of personal sketches and strictures, and the Free Lance will return periodically. ' |