Show SPANISH fORK OR IS I RENT AND TORN TORNBY TORNBY BY BIG BIC PROBLEM SPA FORK Au Aug 21 n. What the Republican mayor maor and city council have hac done dono and have havo not done don is th the talk of Spanish Fork Every Ever o of tho the city eity has hae boon been drawn i iut mt t a 1 bitter local fight which will possibly p mean the utter defeat of some come candidates s of tho the coming corn com I iu ing election Tho fight light has spread d and nd when matters are arc thoroughly air aired fd it is s sad ga said ad d that some of the present cou county officials may be mixed up in iho ho tr trouble The TIle trouble arose through tho ting t- t I in lag ing of tho the Spanish Fork marshal by y tho the I mayor and some some- of the tho city Sonic Somo orne of the tho dru drug stores it is said were selling ceiling 1 liquor Quor contrary to a city tJ nance Tho The cit city marshal had been unable un un- able ablo to get ct a case casc against tho the druggists and ned the tho mavor mayor imported importe detectives sto to take take- a hand band in in tho the matter Trouble fol lowed owed S 5 City Employs s 's Detectives The Th mayor made made- tf rt special trip J to o Salt Lake and a d detective by bythe bytho tho the name of Bro Brown u who is said to have c a been beon connected officially with the Mor- Mor Hay liay murder case cast When Brown arrived in iu Spanish Fork the n nt WR t was ns proclaimed on the house tops an and it t was wae I Inot not flOt lon long until Cl C every ono one hid had seen een a areal areal real detective such a as are aro depicted in books Some Somo of tho tim sports 5 of tho the city rity decided de tie- ci ll to take taka a 3 fall full out of the tho real I detective aud as it was his duty to get geta a l case easo of gambling n a against these sports ho o was an easy casy victim to their plot I They interested him in a game ame of poker I took all his money mono and then gave him the ha 6 ha ha 3 1 a fl brief consultation consultation consulta consulta- tion with City Attorney ov ho got gota ot a 3 tio ho pass pats and left tho the c city ty a wiser T man wan Two Jury Trials This experience did not dishearten and hi his the tho mayor maYr two councilmen I three bein being thc the majority in tho council nod Taylor and Burton of tho the Western Detective the association w wore were ro em- em to lan laud land the offenders They The were vero to l be 10 c pa paid d if they produced a cast case against tho drug dru store and aDd moro more i ir if they convicted con the suspected d man These men did their work and landed a case a against t the World Drug eom company ny Two jury iury trials were vero but in lD iii each caso case the druggist was as ICe ICe- quitted The rhe evidence c that the tho liquor must have havo been purchased elsewhere ole else where here than in iu the tho dru drug storo store as it was a known fact that t the tho o World Word Dru Drug corn com pau had never dealt in this special Eany brand rand of of Tho The evidence of spotters spot spot spotters te did not have haVo a great deal of influence iu in fluence with the tho jury Mayor Assails Jury and Attorney At t the last st meeting of tho city council council coun coun- cil eil Mayor Martell took occasion to to caUthe call caU the city attorney and aud tho the jurors j of the tho liquor trials U not not good citizens II He Hein Hein Hein in other ways assailed cd the tho character of the city attorney who ho is 74 years o old So ri rigid i was his bis talk that some omo of the tho councilmen threatened to throw the mayor or out however WIll When n he ho had hod concluded con chided his ra iD ravings City Attorney took the floor Ho lIo said that he hc had hal been a member of the bar since 1379 and had held many positions of oft t trust ru s t. t This is tho the first time timo that Dl my character char char- acter actor has been beon assailed antI and the tIie first time Limo I have ever been becu accused ed of not attending to an any an- Jut duty to rue me Look here bere young man wan if I were younger we e would not settle this matter matter mat mat- ter with wor words s wo we would go o outside and the best man would woul win mIl I cau can not express mv my contempt for your den dence e. e The council meeting ended in ina a J riot It is still the opinion of the mayor that tho the c city t should hould have won the liquor cases and that they should have got ot more moro out of the hundred they paid to the tho spotters It is said enid that tha t the thc cases a against the drug store will willbe be be dropped tho the mayors majors persistence not notwithstanding Disgusted the meeting n of the tho city council 60 anonymous letters w ro circulated and tho mayor and his part of tho the council were given cn some BOme severe criticism nl Tho The letters were signed Juror Tho actions of tho the in iu spending spondin the tho city city's s 's mOM money to employ I spotters and mistrusting the tho marbal marshal marshal mar mar- bal elected by tho the people came camo in in for lor fora a a. considerable portion of the the- lott letters n The Tho lottor also contained the tho key to a certain political combine wb which ch is is said saul to have bavo bC been u made by Georgo Judd of Provo Pro candidate for sheriff and Geor George Georgc e eLems Lewis Lems of Spanish Fork candidate for br assessor It is sa said id that t T Judd udd a agreed to hand band tho the Provo Republican delegation to tho Spanish Fork man if Lewis would A give e tho voting strength th of ot Spanish Fork Fork- to the Provo manIn man In the tho last issue of the Spanish Fork Fork- Press au an article appears which is signed by bJ Moroni Hicks one ono of the jurors In Inthis this article Hicks assumes tho authorship authorship author author- ship of tho the anonymous letters and and says that ho is ready to prove his bis states states- s aud and stand suit for libel The people of Spanish Fork are ure begin beginning bc beginning n- n nin ning to Sit eit up and aDd take notice and wonder what is going coin to happen next The general expression sion is that it w will Jl bo be boa bea a Ion long time before t th thy Pv y wilt will be iu in in favor of placing of-placing the t same mo kind of f officials in office From rom the tho pr present S nt outlook it IL seems that the tho R Republican party is 19 is' is pretty prett well shot to pieces iu itt this end cud of the tho county counts and some come of the best besl known Republicans are aro expressing their tIis disgust concerning tho the actions of the I I. Republican officials PROVO GIRL DIES PROVO Aug 31 31 Fisc Hazel Dean Spafford aged aced 13 died ii in this city SatI Saturday Sat Sat- I after an on illness of five live months Death was caused by hy heart hoart trouble She I was the granddaughter of Mr Ir and Mrs Mr i William Hatfield Funeral services will willbe willbo bo he held beld Tuesday from the residence I South First I West street Provo at 12 clock 0 interment at Sp in ville I tery |