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Show Officers Practice Polite Deference Nebeker Out-Gastons Smyth; Smyth Out-Alphonses Thomas; Thomas Out-Hooligans Both. With a statesmanlike bow, Luciau H. Smyth, United States deputy marshal mar-shal informed United States Marshal Aquila Nebeker yesterday that the morning mail had brought documents calculated to impose a long journey upon some member of the orrice force. Toe documents referre'd to were subpoenas sub-poenas for C. P. Bingham and G. M. Pickup of Roosevelt, Uinta county, requiring the presence of the two men iu Erie, Pa., before September 21 as witnesses in the federal court there. Immediately Marshal Nebeker called a council of nis deputies. lie deferred in favor of them with regard to the offered opportunity of a vacation to be spent in Uinta, and requested that Deputy Smyth and Deputy David Thomas sot tie between themselves which should go to serve the subpoenas. Polite deference on the part of Deputv Smyth in favor of the marshal was objected to by Mr. Nebeker, who stated emphatically that he had no disposition dis-position or desire to monopolize the opportunities op-portunities for travel into the scenic localities of the state. Thereupon Deputies Smyth and Thomas became solicitous so-licitous toward each other, each being sure that the trip would do the other's health much good, and each willing to withdraw in favor of the other, that the benefits to the physical well-being of the other might be assured. The question is yet to be decided, the situation at present having assumed the appearance of a contest in deference defer-ence in which the amused marshal is secure with first honors. |