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Show THE COURT REMOVAL TO MIL-FORD. MIL-FORD. Tnn i)isiU'cn fails to see wherein lies the public advantage, of removing the seat of the Second District Court from the rustling city of Beaver to the delapidated, tumbled-doum water tank depot of Milford. While some changes are good, vet we believe in this instance in-stance the change lias not been made with a view to that end. The Beaver Ui vn ion expresses itself in this pointed manner in the premises: The recent proclamation of Gaver-'nor Gaver-'nor Thomas appointing t he March term of court to b-i held at Milford i ri-btf-ad of Beaver, is manifestly in favor ol but two individuals, viz: the district judge ami the assistant U. S. district aUorne-. Both of these gentlemen reside in Salt. Lake city and do not. as the law evidently ivniemplates. reside within this judicial district. When i court time arrives the officials in qucr tion come down from their home?, m the metropolis, run the court almost al-most dailv lrom nine a. m. till 12 p. m. and then hasten with all speed back to the territorial capitol. The convenience- of thus? two salaried gen-j gen-j tlemen is in reality pitted against the r great inconvenience of the jurois. witnesses and litigants; the majority of whom come lrom the spction of country east and southeast of Beaver. Of the "two hundred names drawn fr jurors for t lie present year there is not . o..vn from the recion immedi ately around and west of Milford. The removal cannot therefore, for the reasons rea-sons herein cited, be in the interests ol either economy or convenient1, lor on the one side ve have two individuals, the judae and the attorney, important fojw-h. iiodoubt in their official capacity, ca-pacity, 'who l'V Ibis change, of procedure pro-cedure are saved a staee journey of about :52 miles, while on the other hand there are from seventy-five to cm hundred people w ho will be com- pelled to journey that distance, and then from lack of ado quatc accommodation, for the Milford Mil-ford caravansaries are notoriously deficient, be compelled to lodge and camp ojt in all ludicrous shapes. The .Milford people are certainly not to blame IV r their agerness to have the court convene iu the.r little burg, for in view of the early extens'oti of the I railroad south, it will douh:!ess be their last opportunity, and they are right to grasp it if they c in, but there are many other matters to be taken iiito consideration. not the least which coupled w it h their entire lack of jail RfCommodiiti'm f'-r criminals, are re-i i.-nvd to in ths b-regoing articles. It must b-.i coniVssFd that a summary of j the whole matter of removal of the j torn! reeals the fact that it is not for the eoinomical and expeditious trans-' art ion of the legal business of this judicial district, but simply the saving of a journey of Hi! miles on the part of th:1 two chief court officials. A vigor-' oti.s kick ought to be made to the department de-partment ol justice, bv the people at large. j |