Show CONTEST ON POSTAGE STAMPS County Attorney at Provo Differs from Undo Sanas Officers Provo Sept 12 There ifa difference the Postofllce department of opinion bctwecn partment and County Attorney Evans on the question of i the legality of sendIng send-ing tax notices as drop letters mailing them in the towns where the taxpayers taxpay-ers reSIde after hnvinsrsenc them thereby there-by carriers and placing alcent stamp on them The opinion of the Third Assistant As-sistant PostmasterGeneral against the practice was given In The Tribune a few days ago The County Treasurer by request of the County Commissioners Commission-ers submitted the question to County Attorney Evans for an opinion and he has haidcd the following to the Treasurer Treas-urer Provo City Utah Sept 12 1900 Hon Otto F Walmberg County Treasurer Utah County Utah Dear Sir Replying to your question a few days ago Inquiring whether tax notices would require a 2cent stamp will say It Is my opinion that you can send the tax notices to your deputies in the various va-rious precincts of the county by express ex-press or carrier and have the deputies mall the notices at the various post ofllccs by placing a 1cent stamp upon each Better dropped at such postolfice These letters will then be delivered as other drop letters and I do not think complaint can be made In handling this business this way Yours very truly JACOB EVANS County Attorney The Treasurer thinks he will act in accordance with the opinion of the Attorney At-torney In Judge Johnsons Court MantI Sept IS Most of the day yesterday yes-terday was consumed in hearing the case against Thomas W Blackham Jr of Moroni The young man was brought Into court on the charge of fornication The Jury after being out one hoar brought in the verdict guilty and Mr Blackham was sentenced sen-tenced lo sixty days Imprisonment in the county i jail State vs Alexander II Poulson charged with having committed perjury per-jury Mr Poulson was acquitted Ernest Jorgcnson and Louis Nlelson pleaded gullly lo the charge of burglary bur-glary These boys are of good respectable respec-table parontage who have the sympathy sym-pathy of the whole community in the sad mistake that their sons have committed com-mitted It Is hoped that this will serve as a lesson to other boys Sentence was set for September llth In Judge HartsHCourL Logan Sept 13 This business was transacted In Judge Harts court yesterday yes-terday afternoon The will of Cyrus W Card who died here last week was filed for probate and the hearing on the appointment af executors set for October 1st The will names as these executors C O Card Althea C Greaves and C TV Card The estate Valued at 5i500 is bequeathed to nine heirs The will of Robert S Nelson deceased de-ceased was alsp filed HeMcft an estate es-tate worth 2750 500 cjf which IB be queathcd to his slster lnlaw MarIon Smith of I < ogan the balance goes to heirs In Scotland In the suit of Thatcher Eros Banking company vs Samuel McMurdic the attachment at-tachment issued on property of def de-f was vfreated on thc norlhvest quarter of section 28 township 12 i In Judge Booths Case x Provo Sept 13In the JFourth DIS trlct court the demurrer In the case df Mrs F V C Plathenbrtick vs Provo City was overruled Mrs Emily Blanchard of Sprlngville lio has been out on parole was recommitted recom-mitted to the asylum Mrs Anna Clark of Jehl was examined exam-ined as to her sanity by Drs Pike and Hoblson but was not considered a lit subject for the asylum Miss Clark Is about 37 years of age and has been weakminded since she was 20 years of age when she had an attack of typhoid ty-phoid fever Smallpox on Increase Sprlngville Sept 13The smallpox is still on the increase Four new cases have developed here They are all In the family of William Palmer The victims are Mr Palmer his son and daughter and a young lady who lives with the family The boy caught the disease Jn Wyoming |