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Show Local Politics and gossid ? , . The city council is engaging in 1 (large amount of juggling in order to cover up its course of extravagance, and to enable the administration to carry on its policy of wastefulness 'J and dissipation of the city's money Transferring money from one fund to another is a proceeding the legality of which is exceedingly doubtful. It's entirely a new cdparture in the history his-tory of this city's finances, and some-i some-i body may yet have to answer for it. It will of course afford some relief from the present stringency, but it leaves a vacancy in the cash box where there ought to be none, and I1 of course every cent of the money will be needed to liquidate present obligations. w The prosecution in the Sheets case has again met defeat as everybody knew it would. To be consistent, Judge Armstrong could do nothing else, but overrule 'he motion of the district attorney for permission to file an amended complaint in the district dis-trict court against Mr. Sheets. It J now appears as if the entire proceed- I ; iiiR would be begun over again: a new I complaint filed before a committing magistrate and' a new preliminary I hearing had. Then it may be reason- I ably expected that the prosecution I will continue to show its incompe tency and make blunders -enough to j justify the case being thrown out of ' l court again. w Every day it becomes more manifest mani-fest that a new set of prosecuting officers and new judges should be called in to conduct this case on be- n half of the people. Politics and per- I sonal friendships have been injected '3 '"to it t'. a marked degree. These L I should be entirely, eliminated and the I ' case heard on its merits alone. That L j could be best accomplished by the m, change in courts tind prosecution. W According to the ethics of such J; ij things District Attorney Loofbourow Fl. ' is disqualified from acting prosecu-yj, prosecu-yj, tor in this case. In the first place f I he and the defendant for many years II have been warm personal friends and 1 even now while the district attorney W is appearing in the role of prosecutor he is attorney of record for Mr. ' Sheets in a civil cause now pending in the courts. As to the political end of it both the district attorney and the county attorney's sympathies arc with the "American" party. In fact it is fully believed that if they had not been given lucrative offices by the Republicans, they would both be openly in the "American" party today. to-day. The county attorney was one of the prime movers in the first attempt at-tempt to organize the "American" party and there is every reason to believe be-lieve he would have stayed with that aggregation of sore heads if the Republicans Re-publicans had not lured him with the bait of an office. Politicians are casting around for candidates for the mayoralty for the next November election. The Republicans Re-publicans seem to have a strong desire- for Mr. Geo. T. Odell to carry their standard. The Democrats want R. P. Morris, but Mr. Morris says nay, nay. The Amcrikearns crowd may run Mayor Thompson aain, although al-though it would be his fourth term if elected. o |