Show aho pays for II 11 there are seven tramps who stole chickens in springville Spring ville serving sentence in the county jail they are such cases as lehi american fork fiovo spanish fork and take care of under their city government the reason assigned to sheriff brown for throwing the burden of Spring villes petty larceny cases on to the county is that springville Spring ville hs not sufficient jail room the reason in our estimation is not a good one A municipal government is supposed to mean that the incorporated city can bear the expense of its legal prosecutions and take care of the violators of its ordinances the county government is not supposed to have much to do with a municipal corporation either as to the care of criminal cases or indigent persons in theory we believe that is true though in practice it is more or less violated the county we believe is looking after indigent cases in most cities of the conaty the criminal cases however the cities have been bearing the burden of in most instances themselves we have not the figures at hand of other cities in the county but prove last month had 21 cases in the police court mostly tramps and gome fifty dollars was spent in feeding tramps it is quite an expense on the city but only one case of petty larceny was thrown on to the county and that was a case where the tramp got out of the city and was captured by sheriff brown A gentleman in the office from american fork while this was written said that all tramps bad been cared for by that municipality and telephone communication with other cities gave ns like assurance in view of this we believe it la wrong for Spring villo to send its petty larceny cases over to be cared for in abo cauntay jail if one city is allowed that privilege other cities must be placed on the esroe footing and soon municipal government would then mean nothing precincts have no other way to care for crim inala than to send them to the county jail ant cities are supposed to have even if they have not and faither more from the published financial statement of the county it would seem that the county government is not in a condition to care for many city criminal cases |