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Show JDBH L. THOMAS IS Gin CT DEPUTY Two New Police Patrolmen Also Appointed at Commission Com-mission Meeting. As if by tacit understanding. last night's meeting of the city commission progressed swiftly to an early adjournment. adjourn-ment. Almost wit lion t interruption, the even tones uf City Recorder Gordon Snow reached the remark. Tiie table is clear, Mr. Chairman." The motion for adjournment met with a rising vote as each commissioner reached Tor his overcoat and hat. Newspaper News-paper men present refrained from impertinent imper-tinent inquiry as to tiie destination of the hastening commissioners, remembering remember-ing with mure tact than is ordinarily credited to those of their ilk that a fistic encounter was scheduled at the Salt Lake theater, at which certain ringside seats were probably yawning. The business attended to during the meeting was largely of a routine character. charac-ter. - Upon the motion of Commissioner Karl A. Scheld of the department of public pub-lic affairs and finance, John L. Thomas was appointed a deputy clerk In t lie civil division or' the city court. The appointment appoint-ment was made necessary bv the advancement advance-ment of A. G. Brain to the treasurer's office, who is to take the place of S. B. Clawson, who was advanced in the treasurer's treas-urer's office to the position of assistant special tax collector, the appointments and advancements being all disposed ol under tiie one action of the commission. C. Jj. Sehuttler, for several years past a deputy in the office of the county sheriff, sher-iff, was appointed a first grade policeman, police-man, upon the recommendation of Chief of Police J. Parley White and the motion of Mayor W. Mont Ferry. A. S. Thompson, Thomp-son, a former member of the police department, de-partment, was appointed to the position of second grade lieutenant. An appropriation of ?S25 was voted by the commission to cover the cost of repairing the intersection at Second East and Fifth South streets, torn up by the recent bursting of a water main. |