Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-12-27 | Page 2 | Courts to Return Old Exhibits Collection of Relics is Unique Retiring Judges Clean House

Courts to Return M 91 Old Ex Exhibits i i it i Collection tion of Relics Relic Is K s Unique Retiring Judges Clean House DS of exhibits In old I Ilaw Ilaw T THOUSANDS law cases that have formed unique museum In the vault of the courthouse are to be cleared out ont and returned to their original owners before the year ends The removal of ot these various old relics Is IB a part of ot the general housecleaning that marks the re retirement retirement re- re of the present Judges Among these old exhibits are bottles of beer vinegar pickles and various arlous kinds of fruit There are also models of mining appliances including miniature shafts that have been used in settling property property prop prop- ert erty rights One of ot the odd exhibits that must go is a miniature electric line the posts being set in a wooden frame and strung with wires A large model of ot an old muse mine that cost thousands of ot dollars was recently returned to the lawyers In the case The removal of ot these old things was made necessary from the fact that the records that will identity identify most of ot them are written In shorthand shorthand short short- hand and as the clerks will retire when the Judges go it will not be possible for the new clerks to determine de de- de- de termine to whom they belong Exhibits from Judge Morses Morse's court have been collecting for sixteen sixteen sixteen six six- teen years all the time he has been serving on the bench He is trie senior of ot the retiring Judges in point of ot service Judge Lewis has served for tor thirteen thirteen thirteen thir thir- teen and a half halt years and during that time there has baa been a mass mase of ot exhibits accumulated In his depart depart- ment These have Joined the large array of ot exhibits from the other courts v Judge has has' served for tor twelve years and eight months while Judge Armstrong has served twelve years Thus Thus' they have ha added materially to the museum of ot exhibits that is now being abol abol- Th Th Junior of the retiring Judges Is Frederick rederick C. C Loofbourow who has been on the bench for five and anda a half halt years ears Another thing that will disappear from it Its accustomed place In the courthouse i is the large American flag that decorated the wall wan of ot Judge Armstrongs Armstrong's courtroom This big flag was placed there at the request of ot Judge Armstrong to Impress impress impress im Im- im- im press the applicants for citizenship citizenship citizenship citizen citizen- ship papers who were assigned to his department The big flag was removed from the wall wail of the room yesterday and it is understood that It will be used b by the ell city on some flagstaff The retiring Judges are planning for their return to civil life lIte Some of ot them have already alread rented offices and will take up ordinary legal work as soon as their successors are Installed