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Show BURB1DGE BACK FROM MEET AT L0SJGELE5 Salt Lake Chief Take Part in - Conducting Examination Ex-amination of Candidates Candi-dates for Head of Dept Favorable recognition of Rait . Lake and Ita police department i waa given at the recent confer-1 enca at civil eervice eaamlnera held In Loe Jtng-lrs, when thirty-1 one aandldatea for tha place of, chief of police of that city took the examination, according to Chief af Police Joaeph B. Burbldpe, who - a - A l'1-1-' ' aWr'lOwwaww' B"aaram7Ta, owwarw awrarv" hidge. with tha prealdent at the Vnlveralty af California and a court Judge of Lh Anaelee, wae a aperlally Invited con force with tha four mem bora of tha regular Loe Angriee civil . eervice com-mlaalon. com-mlaalon. , Chief Rurbldae aubmltted twenty-twa twenty-twa written guaatlana and ten oral questions to vo preaented to tha aspiring candidate at the examination. ex-amination. , Haven of the twenty-two twenty-two written gueatlona and ala of the oral guest Ions were e copied and put to tha candidates, the chief aald. "Candlriatea front all parts of the United Statea went to La Angelea.' Chief Burblda aald, "to take tha examination. Ot tha total number who appeared before the board, twenty-aeven were captalna and lleutenanta of tha Los Angelea force. Among thoee who came from out of the city and atate to take the examination were a can-tain can-tain from tha New York City police department, one from Oklahoma Okla-homa and the chief of police of Pasadena. "Im Angelee la la almost a deplorable condition with respect to Ita crime. While there I vlalted one aubetatlon of the police department de-partment where a jail la maintained, main-tained, and It contained 24 men incarcerated for greater or leaser Crimea. Opportunity did not p recent re-cent Iteelf to Inspect any of tha other aubatatlona or ' the Jll at central headquartera, ao I do not know how many prisoners were confined at thoaa placea." Chief Burbldg left Loe Angeles Thureday morning, and when the train reached a point near Yermo, Csl, at about 4 p. m. tha aama day. It waa held up en account of heavy ralna. Sevea tralna wara held at that place aa tha Union Paclfo ayatem until trig a. m Friday on account of the storms, the chief aald . |