| Show TIM taimy MARSHAL M A USUAL that rac alej ivar er city liar has ever been unfortunate in of a city marshal is perhaps not nol 0 fro o great a secret as might it is gohd however with many people lierval outs to decline declare that no matter who is elected to tie the office of city marshal of this city will sooner or later prove himself unqualified for tile the position this has not been so much the case with the choice of the th people eople in their last selection as times still there is room for improvement pro it may be that tile the cause of this 8 neglect of duty on the part of four our deaca officers has been from the fact that the city council colu icil have not provided sufficient remuneration that a man could devote his entire attention to the duties of such office realizing this status 1 f il lairs low is it th n that men still willingly accept fice and say by such acceptance that they will serve the people and then olen go back on them the curfew ordinance recently adopted by our pity city fathers is comparatively a dead letter ordinance it is true bell rings and often the marshal will pas just after its ringing through a crowd of little fellows who come cot ne within the meaning M of 1 isaid said ordinance and never request them to go home or even speak to them the ordinance is very explicit on vis this matter now tile city council coune ii may adopt and a id pass the very finest ordinance in ill fact may have a model code hut but if they fait fail of being carried out on account a of the marshala mar ie glien cc they avail nothing no thins not only olly is is this particular ordinance a faree farce on 0 n the books but many others from the same cause whether it is fear or participation on the I 1 part art of officers who have thu the control of ahe theae e things is not positively known know it is that they I 1 as 1 s yet but certain are as they are it is claimed by some that the OIL marshal has no right to step into it t 0 a rians mans place of business no matter how public it may be say a saloon I 1 and d quell a disturbance thib 8 simply nonsense non sence the ordinal 0 reads co itra wis to this and make it the duty of the marshal to abate abat such nuisance if this were true then slugging 13 wills mills a gambling C hells houses of disrepute etc might mig lt bl curried carried on to any extent so long at as the proprietor did not complain I 1 no arrest would be made tile the city council of beaver cit is composed colli posed of a set of men inen who are careful and often it is th though 0 aught too careful of the trusts imposed in ill tile ilow how must just those men iller feel to see all their deliberations for thu the welfare of the citizens ot oi our city blasted through neglect 0 the th marshal dors does it reflect creah upon them thein does it speak volumn in favor does it cause the people to lay tho th s bayme where it rightfully 0 belongs do the citizens citizen s look 1 jok over the facts that tho this beni aue n brry bers of tho the city council are deij doing g ahei ej r d u ly the he sloth oth of the city marchal mai those duties performed become a dead letter lilt r hardly if any anything thino goes wrung or does not ilot go at all who gny tile the city COLIt council leil hat inay have do e their dut yand tacy giov rely on ther proper tr let t r to lo we uc bat the matter bu be carried into effect i that officer neglects to doat do aa lit lie should and the people blame blaine tile the council so it stand to lay ay iy and we are sorry that it is to ko for ive e realize that many councils elected by tire the people have be baun tn in their most gangu daneu tile lie hopes by the dilatory acts of tile city marshals with which beaver has las been blessed bles qed now kow it is also quite evident 0 o all thinking 0 minds th tint thit it for the very ver y arduous tasks imposed upon the marshal that ho he should be suitably remunerated rein urn rated even if it takes all the funds in tile the treasury to do doit it anti and in this the council are arc to blame no I 1 man inan can be expected to carry out the full decrees of a city council and not receive a sufficient reward for foor his labors just how far the council have gone in the matter of paying in 0 the marshal fo for his work is not generally gane rally known knowlt but it it is to be i judged ud 0 cd front from the amount of labor us usually bially performed nied by such officer in our city it would be placed ed at a very meagre allowance the city marshal is the regulator to a great extent of the welfare and peace of of any consulla con community julla I 1 lity and for these things ca thecia alic citizens eizens in a largo large de degree g V ree pay thir th ir taxes A reformation in these things is hoped for and earnestly desired by the people |
