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Show Published Every Saturday BY GOODWIN'S WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. A. W. RAYBOULD, Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: postage in the United States, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal per year. Single copies, 10 cents. e Payments should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. at the Postoffice at 8alt Lake Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 1879. of March Act 3, City, Utah, under the Ness Bldg. 8alt Lake City, Utah. Phpne Wasatch 5409 pay-abl- 21,-191- 311-12-1- 3 t HAT THE COUNTY OFFICIALS HAVE ACCOMPLISHED nan .who cast his vote for the Republican county officials :r, 1920. has the satisfaction of knowing that events have justified his action, when the record of economy made him. jfirst year of their tenure of office, is presented to has dealt with three of the county departments, in pre-- , tlfints showing to what extent they have improved county ,pthow..much they have saved the voters in actual money lg the year 1921 as compared with the year 1920, the g Democratic profligacy and wild spending. . .te Citizen now proposes to tell briefly the story of the L ice, conducted by C. Frank Emery, a trained officer and every official act stamps him as ever mindful of the ts of his constituents and efficient to a degree not sur- ly other county of the great state of Utah. ge co-work- ers in a wild-goo- chase that rounded them up; the third se man stood trial, but was adjudged guilty. Sheriff Emery states that since the county roads have been paved and so generally improved, that trailing criminals has become a most difficult art. Usually riding in autos and passing over either paved or graveled roads, they leave no trail behind that the officers scent for the criminally disposed can detect, no matter how keen-they may be blessed with. But Sheriff Emery is not condemning county road improvements. Rather he takes great pride in the long stretches of paved highways in the county today and hopes to sec more of them when conditions permit. Another angle of duty, more or less pleasant, as circumstances may direct, connected with the operation of the sheriffs department, a with the state and federal officials in the enforcement prohibition law. The main effort s Family of the sheriffs department is the apprehension of bootleggers and iicial family connected with the conduct of Sheriff C. suppression and apprehension of those who operate stills. This has rys department consists of around seventy, including proven a rather profitable source of revenue to the department the th in office and field work, jailers, matrons, traffic cops. past year. For the first eleven months of 1921 there was collected This large personnel must be directed in its effort to and turned into the county coffers, $17,743 in fines and forfeitures. ople in an enlightened and efficient manner, or pandemon-resul- t. Under the Democratic regime fines and forfeitures for the year 1920 The sheriffs force works chiefly in aggregated only $5,700, and for the three years prior period the . : divisions, of the district courts, orders from which arc total of fines and forfeitures did not amount to as much as Sheriff md must be speedily and faithfully obeyed. Court duties Emery turned in for the first eleven months of 1921. " Sheriff Emery is maintaining a small force of traffic cops who erving summons and various process papers on indivi-i- n criminal and civil cases. Another strenuous duty the are mounted on motorcycles. Sheriff Emery states emphatically ice must perform is the investigation of all cases and that 90 per cent of all auto owners drive within the letter of the lg and putting together of all evidence in state cases, law, but that the 10 per cent disposed to flout and defy the ordinances, cutions may be had. In this important work time is not cause more trouble than his mounted squad can cope with satisfactorwent but the substance of the evidence gathered, often ily. The sheriff is hopeful that the future may disclose plans whereate from $1,500 to $2 000, in inducing law violators to by he can deal properly with this 10 per cent of recalcitrant autoists. and thus obviate the expenses of a prolonged trial. Saves County $1,665.34. The saving above enumerated becomes much more of a reality Emery and his force of deputies have done their work lis connection, that more than twenty law violators have when the fact that a Democratic legacy of $8,291.36, from the year tedient to enter pleas of guilty. An instance that may 1920, was also paid and swept off the books. Sheriff Emerys actual ;d where successful work was done along these lines, operating expenses for 1921 were $117,019.50 as against $118,648.84 t case, involving three criminally minded men, who for 1920 under a Democratic regime. In conclusion it is but just to tacked Mr. Hoirt and his wife, both aged people. for note that the present deputized force of the sheriffs department .is of robbery and inflicted punishment that only the often forced to work as many as fifteen hours a day and never lesv a savage could have thought of. The perpetrators than eight hours. This is true mainly of the motorcycle cops and left no trail behind. They separated and sought refuge the field force. Inspiring patriotism and economy in his force, Sherattered territory. After an intensive period of search iff Emery is ever hunting for ways and means to save the taxpayers ing together of mere strands of evidence, gleaned here money. The results of this policy arc herewith noted. eriff Emery apprehended all three criminals and brought The County Surveyor. ojaf,ce. One was County Surveyor II. W. Christopherson, who was inducted into requisitioned from Wyoming and one from ther was caught in Utah. Two of these men pleaded office January 3. 1921, has kept pace with other Republican incum-- . presentation of the facts gleaned by the sheriff and his bents in the matter of economy. When Mr. Christopherson came co-operat- ion de-o- fi is the necessary work iii co-operat- ion of-th- |