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Show 'VTH mESu rtSBU tmM person of Judge Owen P. Thompson of Jacksonville, 111., who is fifty years of age, a native of the state of New York, a graduate of the Albany Law School and a circuit Judge in the Sucker state. Further identification is withheld, but will be forthcoming when Judge Thompson is nominated on the floor of the convention. esteemed evening contemporary, the News, seems to be taking rank as a sporting authority. Time was when a sporting editor for the News would have been as much out of place as a similar sort of writer would be y in the office of the Womans Exponent or the Juvenile Instructor. OUR ; to-da- VITH a flourish of trumpets the Herald announces that it has secured the services of Frederick J. Haskin to write a series of articles for its columns. It is now in order for the News to rise up and claim that Frank Carpenter is working for it as a traveling correspondent. y H s STATISTICS show that Salt Lake City uses less milk than almost any other city. ' The statisticians must have deducted the water from the milk before making the i ! PERHAPS the sheriff and the police have overlooked the fact that the reason Mrs. Hodge killed Ryan was because he insisted upon being tied. PECULIAR METHODS OF JUSTICE Really, it looks as if the board of county commissioners ought to investigate the. methods of this man who holds the position of justice of the peace at Murray. McOmie seems to be a creature of the Luke collecting agency. Here is a case in point. Joseph Elton was sued on the 29th day of September, 1894 before one Whitehome, a justice of unsavory reputation in this city, for a bill due Holly & Taylor in the sum of $23, aci ' r.' cording to the notice served by White-horn- e upon Elton, and which is still in his possession. Supplemental prof. : ceedings had December 5th, 1904, i; shows , that the plaintiffs obtained Judgment in the sum of $73.80 and costs in the sum of $7.25, the latter being excessive, as the judgment was had by default. This judgment outlawed last year. Recently suit was brought by Francis G. Luke, against w Elton, in the justices court of McOmie at Murray. Elton engaged counsel in the person of Judge Sommer, who filed a demurrer setting up that the court had no jurisdiction in the case and that, the .action was barred by the statute of limitations. While this 'demurrer was pending and no notice had been served on counsel ihat it had been set for hearing, counsel for defendant was interrupted iu an argument before Referee William R. Hall, in another case, by a boy who brought at a- notice from the learned judgenot the Murray stating that the case, set for demurrer, the case, had been Mc-Omi- e, . - - oclock. Mr. instructions from Elton, acting under Monday evening at 7 L ftffltnHJMMwi nlttH mfliai i TRUTH. his attorney, went to Murray on Monday evening to see what had been done with the demurrer. He could not find the court In his court room and, looking around the town, finally discovered him, in company with Luke, coming out of a saloon, looking very much like a man who had just taken a drink of something. In reply to questions asked, the learned judge told Elton that he was going to overrule the demurrer anyway, but that he would give him a show and postpone action on the overruling until next day. Upon returning and reporting facts, Eltons counsel prepared an affidavit as follows: Joseph Elton, being first duly sworn, on oath says: That he cannot have .a fair and impartial trial on account of the bias and prejudice of the justice above named: Affiant further says, on oath, that said justice came out of a saloon in Ihe city of Murray with one Francis G. Luke and after proceeding to his office then and there stated to the said affiant that he would certainly overrule the demurrer of the defendant in said action. The court admitted service of this affidavit and then stated to the defendant that he would do nothing more until he had had a consultation and received instructions from Mr. Luke. Later he wrote a letter to counsel stating that plaintiff objected to sending the case to Justice Clark of this city, but that he would send the same to the other justice in the precinct of Murray. There the matter stands. Judge Sommer will say very little about the matter and the information obtained had to be procured from Elton and from the files in the case. But it does seem as if some protection could be afforded from the attacks of this outfit which can drag men away from their homes to petty courts miles away, compel them to employ counsel to defend themselves from judgments on outlawed accounts and cause no end of annoyance. What is the city justice for? All cases should be filed with him and if he is distasteful, then an application for a change of venue would be in order. The law may be defective in this that it may be legal to sue before any justice in the county, but until it is corrected the commissioners can avoid much annoyance to. people by removing any justice who takes a case from another precinct unless same has been sent him on a change of venue. BANK CLEARING DECREASE. .Last week the clearings of the associated banks of this city showed a remarkable decrease. This was due in part to the fact that business has been slow during the hot months, and will doubtless continue .so through the month of August and for the first two weeks of September. But all the decrease is not due to the falling off in business. It appears that the action of two of the banks is in a measure responsible for the showing made. The manner of clearing in this city Is about as follows: A gives B a check on Bank No. 1, where he does business. B deposits the check in Bank G No. 2, where he does business. gives D a check on Bank No. 2, where he does business, and D deposits this In Bank No. 1, where he does business. As check is for $3,500, and Gs is for $1,500. These checks go through the clearing house which deducts the $1,500 from the $3,500 and gives Bank No. 2 a check on Bank No. 1 for $2,000. It will be seen that when four or five hundred checks are handled each day in this manner that it is much easier for the clearing house to do this work than for each bank to peddle its checks around to all the banks and have them checked up. there. Now the clearing house concludes the work of the week on Saturday at noon. The checks issued to McCornick & Co. on Walker Brothers or vice versa, depending upon how the account stands, is payable immediately. But it has been the rule to carry these over until the next Monday and then settle, thus swelling the clearings somewhat. This makes the volume. of business greater by the amount of these checks. We will presume that Walker Bros., owe McCornick $25,000. That McCornick owes the Utah National $12,000. That the Utah National owes the Bank of Commerce $17,000, and so forth. The items alluded to added together assists materially in swelling the clearings. But two of the banks for some months have not been doing that. No sirree Wells-Fargo- s man is from Missouri, National wants its Deseret and the money when due, clearings or no clearings. So they send out after the Through Service TO ST. LOUDS EAST AND THE VIA THROUGH SCENIC CO LOR ADDO KUSAS"! MISSOURI PULLMAN SLEEPING CARS, OBSERVATION DINING CARS. Electric Lights, Electric Fans. . 6.000 R.ECOR.DS TO SELECT FR.OM JING CHAIR CARS scats rwcc),. - -- i Coaches. Day Up-to-d- ate For Berths, Tickets, Folders, etc., address H. C. TOWNSEND, OEM-- MMENGER ANO TICKET AGENT, t T. LOUU money when they have any coming seand they pay the other fellows when owe them, because the they are other fellows from Missouri, too. If this policy was not carried out, the clearings here would not show such an awful falling off during slack times. if . - o TALE3 OF AN UNDERTAKER. Ed ODonnell, the undertaker, tells some very odd experiences. It appears that all who come to him do not want coffins. For instance, on Thursday, while a representative of Truth was standing talking with EM, an inebriated chap came up and said to him: Say, pard, would ye mind getting up from yer cool seat and gettin me a I would not, said glass av beer? Ed, if I knew where the beer was, but as this is the place you come to when youre through drinking inasmuch as my customers do not usually care for beer, I guess youd better go across the corner to Brandts. Then . VICTOR. RED SEAL 7 IN. 10 IN. .I A DELUXE MONARCH 10 IN. 14 The Complete Catalogue Always In Stock. Victor Talking Machines on Exhibition. All Style of Payries Misic 74 MAIN STREET A Ed told some more experiences. was an Irishman, too, chap, and he came in here one night and threw down a roll of blankets, and he says to me, says he: I want a bed. .'You do, he says. What do, I says. kind of a bed do you want? I says to him. Dont get funny, young feller, he says, I am1 an old man and am tired and want to go to bed right away.,. Well I told the assistant to show him a bed. He pulled, down one case containing a casket and another containing a coffin, and asked him which one hed take. The old mans eyes stuck out. He says: Good Lord! where am I at? When we told him it was an undertakers shop, he said let me out of here, and we let him. o D. S. Taggart of the Oregon Short, Line has returned from a few months IN. r b Co., SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH H spent among the wool men who feed their flocks on the Utah and Idaho hills. It is reported that he secured ' the hauling of the lions share of the. wool for his road, which will no doubt be duly appreciated. . |