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Show I POLITICAL-PERSONAL. Within the next twenty-four hours, and possibly pos-sibly before tho Weekly is In the mails, the Federal Grand Jury will in a probability complete its investigation of the theft of $106,500 from the reserve chest of the Utah National bank some time prior to last January. For twenty hours past the jury has momentarily momen-tarily been expected to close its work and report. Thursday night all the witnesses in the investigation investiga-tion were discharged with the exception of "Doc" Londoner, the Pinkerton detective, who has been here with one or more of his men, since early in January, to the tune of from $1,800 to $2,100 a month from the Utah National. Men who have watched the deliberations of the jury closely expected ex-pected a report Thursday night. Beyond all question of a doubt, as far as every outward Indication goes, there will be from one to three indictments returned. If current rumors are to be believed the jury has stirred the animals in more ways than one since it re-convened for the investigation of the bank scandal. Detective Londoner was not called at the first session of the jury a month or more " ago, but during the past few weeks he has been on the carpet half a dozen times. Some interesting interest-ing statements have been floating about town recently re-cently as emaninating from the Pinkerton agents that they got so far in their investigation of the theft of the $106,600 and were stopped by officials of the bank. The reports may have been true or false, but a personal recital of such facts by Mr. Londoner before the grand jury ought to have livened things up some at the Federal building. When the grand jury returns, an investigation that has cost in hard cash from $15,000 to $20,-000 $20,-000 will have but scarcely started, providing one or more indictments are returned. One or more long, hard trials will unquestionably follow. It is now five months since the first news of the theft from the Utah National was given the public. For the man who could compile a detailed report of the investigation with all its twists and turns, ramifications and not a few very sensational developments, de-velopments, there should be a small fortune and for the public a book that would make "Three J Weeks" read like a congressional report in com- parison. W (? 15 Loose, Spry and Cutler is the three-cornered projectal thrown Into the political ring this week and which is being vigorously booted down the field toward the gubernatorial goal. The governor came out with a very ladylike little statement announcing his candidacy, and the church promptly sat down, on him with an expression ex-pression of positive weariness. The Loose and Spry factions have been at it ever since and it looks very much as though the marshal has a lead that will eventually land him the nomination. v 5 Provo in an hour and twenty-five minutes is going some. Samuel Newhouse ha"s taken down, another record rec-ord and his own at that. The run Tuesday was made in the bIx cylinder Pierce and with seven people in the car. Harold Peery and Mr. New-J New-J house held the watches on Bert from the East Brigham street house, and there can be no question ques-tion of the time in which the run was made. It takes nerve to ride to Provo at any pace and nerve is hardly the word when the clip is one-twenty-five. Fuller deserves a lot of credit for the trip. He has made runs about Salt Lake that entitles' him to a chance in some of the big eastern meets. Incidentally he thinks he can do Provo in one-fifteen. one-fifteen. 5 w t The chairman of the Republican City Committee Commit-tee Chief of the Fire Departmentand Jim De-vine De-vine the man, at that! It would be to laugh long and loudly if it n wasn't for the fact that the mayor has obviously been considering the appointment of this political loop-the-looper seriously. However, he evidently kept his ear to the ground on his way to California, Cali-fornia, for Tuesday back came a wire to Sandy holding up the appointment of Saint Devine for -awhile. The removal of Vail and Crosby was unquestionably un-questionably due, just as Pitt's removal has been due ever since he was made police chief, but the removal might better have never been made than to have resulted in the Devine hunch. Bywater would be bad enough, but Devine is about the end of the limit. If Devine goes in, let's make it good all the way through. Remove Pitt and stick Harry Joseph Jo-seph in to boss Hemple. It would make a large-sized large-sized hit with Hemple. A half dozen men have been mentioned for fire chief who are entitled, in one way or another, an-other, to the place. Of them all Johnny Hoffen- I beck stands as good a show as anyone and in all probability he will land the job, unless someone makes the mistake of taking the worse than foolish fool-ish Devine and Bywater talk seriously. The town needs a fire fighter and needs one bad, though it may take about one big disastrous conflagration to impress the fact on some people's minds. |