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Show COMMISSION HAS VERY BUSY DAY Number of Officers Appointed for Juvenile Ju-venile CttKts of the State. Salt Lake. April 4. Tribune: .The juvenile court commission met again Saturday morning and turned out another batch of appointments ar.d also lived some salaries. Guardello Brown was reappointed ch(cf probation officer of the juvenile court of the third judicial district, at a "salary -of $9(j0 a 'ear. a reduction of $100, and Charles A. S perry and George A. Cole were renamed as assistants, as-sistants, at a salary of $900 a year apiece. No action was taken in regard re-gard to Mrs. A. L. Young, matron, but Mrs. Harriet James was reappointed assistant matron, at a salary of $600 a year. The appointments were made upon tho recommendation of Judge E. G. Gowann. No action was taken upon the appointment of Coun'y Clerk Wit-cher Wit-cher of T. L. Irvine, a former deputy sheriff, whoso appointment as a deputy dep-uty in the county clerk's office the county commissioners refused to confirm con-firm because he was an insurgent while clerk of the juvenile court or Salt Lake county. A closer study of. the new juvenile court bill, it is said. Indicates that this salary Is to be paid by the state, out of the juvenile court appropriation, and, if no, Mrs. Wlt-cher Wlt-cher will have stolen a march upon tho aristocratic band of county commissioners, com-missioners, who apportion tho political politi-cal pie for Salt Lako county sometimes. some-times. Judge Gowan's salary was fixed at $1,500 a year, an Increase of $500; likewise that of Major M. A. Breeden, as executive secretary of the commission. commis-sion. A. A. Noon's salary of $700, as Judge of tho juvenile court of the fourth judicial district, and II. A. Ped-ersen's Ped-ersen's similar 6alory. as Judge of the first judicial district, an increase of $100, were confirmed, and Judge Vol-ney Vol-ney C. Gunnell's salary, as Judge of the second district, was fixed at $800 a year, an increase of $200. In the fourth district, B. F. Roper of Provo was appointed probation officer of-ficer of Utah county; Fred L. Clegg of Wasatch county, and' John Davis of Uintah county, at salaries of $500 a year each. These salaries are based largely upon up-on the amount of work and the exhaustive ex-haustive comparison by Superintendent Superinten-dent of Public Instruction A. C Nel-con Nel-con of the salaries hitherto paid throughout the state. The schedule on an average 1b an increase of about $25 for each probation officer, and brings the average yearly stipend to a trifle over $100 a year. Tho salaries range from ?f)00 in hls county the highest to $50 in the more remote and smaller. counties. The salaries of the probation officers offi-cers of the second district were fixed at $600 each, but no appointments were made. It is likely, however, that H. C. Jacobs will be renamed as probation pro-bation officer of Weber county, W. W. Rose of Davis county, and T. S. Wads-worth Wads-worth for Morgan county. The chief probation officer of Cache county will receive $500 a year, the same as the probation officer for Utah, Wasatch and Uintah counties. The commission adjourned subject to the call of the chairman. |