Show A deal is being sold said by tho the papers of logon logan and anti nepha concern ing tho the boundary of tho tile new ith judicial district about to bo be created ond and tho the place or places of holding courts therein and tho me people of tho the two towns aro are loud in ad advocating their claims for the location wo ivo would like to see both euphi and logaa logan supplied with facilities for transacting court business but think that eastern utah a more in need of a term or two of court each a 5 car than any other portion of utah nepha ie Is only about fifty miles from provo and logan about sixty miles from ogden while price is seventy ali 0 miles from 0 and tho the other towns of emery grand and uintah countes are from ono one hundred to two hundred I 1 anti anu twenty milea miles distant these three count counties les la ing cast of tho the range ha lim e a population of from alf fifteen teen to twenty thousand people and supply sufficient litigation to justify tho the holding of t two terms of court annually and wo we think it is unjust to form tho the people hero here to td make tho the long and expense trip to provo in attending C court it has a been our lot to reside for a short timo time in another territory iz dakota and we might L say that counties of 0 not half the population or wealth that either county in eastern utah po possesses messes were biln 0 gi en terms of court the presiding judge of the district going to the different counties to hold it this is the rulo rule in colorado and all of tho the states and it should bo be here people from all 0 or er utah are forced tribute to four towns just four places in this large territory by being compelled to respond to a dummond summon d as a juror or a subpoena as a witness and not one in ten homo home after a cession of court without having more than his fees and milage amounted to saying nothing at all about time this can be a elded and it SHOULD bo be avoided by having liming 0 the court meet annually in at least a dozen more places in utah than it now does EDITOR As a mem ber of tho the county court I 1 avish to answer what appears to be a of fraud against a tho the court in a written to the he judge by ono one J P keller and winch it appears he caused to be published at a special term of the county court in january it was fresoli ed to sell a berli i atil lot at price along t with the jail at the time the wil e of the property was spoken of paper commented fa orally upon it an and it appeared to bo be the wish of the people generally that tho the lot should be sold the law requires that sales ol 01 county property must be made at public auction at the door of the county court house after thirty days protons pren ions notice notile on the 3rd of march harch at 4 p m the time the sale waa was to take place the court was informed that mr keller was expected ex P belted on tho the stage 0 to bid for the lot and the court therefore caused the Ilie sale to be delayed cc in the hope that he lie would arao A 1 I remember of the court be ing informed by one who had passed the stage on tha road that there were no gentlemen pasq passengers engers on bourd bomil 1 therefore the court ordered order piS tho the tale aa to proceed after some bidding c between one mr mcdonnough McDonn OLgh and J B burn the t was run up to blen mr mcdonnough withdrew at 7 the court met and do de dared the property arty sold to J B I 1 atil milburn he being the highest basli bid der now does zes mr keller think his bill bid which had been sent in the form of a tetter letter could hao lim a been cd ed oven even it ho lie had 1000 and it hail bad been delli cred in ahne if it so lie is ignorant of the law go such sales sides tho the charge that many citizens aro are chagrined at the result is I 1 think false doubtless mr keller is chagrined but so far as my acquaint acquaintance anco with him goes lio lie Is ul al cju coups that way the fact is mr air keller lid did not got tho the property I 1 regard his letter an tin insult to tho the court in as much ati fraud could not havu havo existed arder tho the circumstances without its connivance 11 G co selectman editor T 1 1 hao hano read mr kellers letter to judge robert son published in your last weeks week 1 issue aque by which it appears that the county count y has been defrauded for tho the purpose of benefiting a few at the chagrin of many citizens of price mr E ed d tor I 1 am um but an humble do de cipio of bacchus Bac chuy I 1 sell whiskey and play cards carda I 1 follow tho the calling that the worthy mr kelle some bears ears ago abandoned to handle government corn in sacks but I 1 think I 1 should be allowed to say that I 1 bought the property referred to at a fair auction sale and aa as no other person was or I 1 is a interested with me in the purchase I 1 must lo 10 the few that mr keller calls blessed just the samo same as mr keller is the many who aro are chagrined I 1 will admit that the county done clone wrong in selling t me that lot it ought to have given it to mo me instead E cry body knows that I 1 paid the money tint ord built the jail in some countries they pension old soldiers but in castle valley llcy they tarn turn them upon the cold cold world and make mahe them pay for what they get ft it is wonderful how ciomo u men can ferrit out fraud they seem to scent it in the air I 1 think mr keller must be one ene of those men he would be a valuably valuable county officer I 1 think he was a county officer atone time in IV wyoming 0 doubtless he ren dered the territory great service in detecting a and exposing 0 fraud during the time ilme he was in office however I 1 got the lot and mr keller 0 othis his nimo nime hithe in the TELEGRAPH so eboth wo both should bo be happy J B |