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Show (By C. D. McNeeley) CONSISTENCY, THQU ART A JEWEL Early this month things commenced happening and they kept i on happening till some things happened that apparently were not scheduled to happen in this town. Plans were laid for raids and the raids were carried to the limit, but that is not the question in ' point just now. As an aftermath of this work, and following close -' in the limelight something rather unusual happened which has set 1 afloat all kinds of rumors and talk. We do not know the full facts in the matter, but the talk is persistent. Right after the work two of the deputy sheriffs quit the camp. The high sheriff himself was here the day on which this occurred, and the people said that he cashiered the two officers . for grave offenses, but the Salt Lake papers said next morning that they had resigned. We do not know whether they resigned or not, but we do know what the people are saying. The people say that the sheriff caught them red-handed in the act of grafting. graft-ing. It is said that the matter developed from the arrest of a man the dilettante of a woman who conducts a rooming house here and he was imprisoned on a charge of vagrancy and some other offense. This woman it appears had money and she was grieved over the incarceration of her dilettante, and she Dusied herself trying to secure his release, but all her efforts proved abortive. Finally, according to the talk, she called the said deputies on the phone and asked what It would take to get the man out. The reply was $300 in gold, and they demanded her to bring the precious prec-ious metal to them in a bag. The woman declined to make the -visit, but requested the officers to call at her place of abode for the purpose of effecting the deal. It is said that they made the ( trip and again demanded the rake-off of $300 in gold. "And it developed that the sheriff and one of his assistants, so it is said, - wre secreted in the house at the time and heard the conversation. ' And the sheriff came out and q ueered the deal and dismissed the two deputies from the service. ' ' As stated we do not know that these are the facts in the case, hut that is the talk on every corner. If it is untrue these men are being greatly, wronged, but if it is true how can the sheriff, knowing the facts, let them off so lightly as the mere dismissal from office? The m en they arrested here charged with bootleg-ging bootleg-ging have been dealt with in a very severe manner. Are they any better than the men charged with selling intoxicants? Is not the alleged offense of these former officers more heinous than that -of selling liquor? There is no argument to the question. But it's up to the sheriff to come out and deny these charges if they are untrue, and if they are true it is his duty to see that criminal v action is instituted against them. The men who were charged with violating the statute prohibiting the sale of intoxicants have been prosecuted with great vigor, and if the charges against these officers are true is there any good reason why they should be immune from the operation of the law? "Consistency, thou art a jewel ; sought by many but possessed by few." |