| Show IS A misdemeanor since a few rattlebrained rattle brained individuals have been malting an effort to raise a big commotion about the mayors fine ot 10 for having been found guilty of a misdemeanor many of the people have asked tho question how serious ia the violation of law that constitutes the off erne of a misdemeanor t A misdemeanor ia tho smallest possible violation of any law probably no man lives to the age of twenty one years without having been guilty of a misdemeanor the governor of state every supreme judge and district judge and every officer of the state has been guilty of a misdemeanor al eoma time st probably of the people of ogden arc guilty of a misdemeanor every month of the year here arc a few crimes known as misdemeanors end soilo of them are even anoro serious s to ride a bicycle on certain sidewalks to ride a bicycle without a lamp to carry concealed weapons to fire a gun in the city to slap a man or boy to swear or use obscene language to write obscene language and expose it to view to get drunk to threaten a man or woman to use a rubber shooter or slung shot to shoot with an air gun in the city to keep a vicious dog to fail to remove a dead animal within three hours after death to buy cigars or merchandise and have it charged to the city as medicine for the poor for an officer to get medicine for his personal use and have it charged to the city to let your trees bang over the sidewalk to place a sign on the sidewalk to let a wagon or other obstruction stand on the sidewalk to fail to pay license to drop a bottle shoe tin can dish rag or a bone in any opening that leads to a sewer to throw a piece of old meat or decayed vegetable or fruit on your own or neighbors lot or in the street to violate any rule of the health board to have alie measles or v hooping cough in your house and fail to notify the health board to have ono of your children go to school when any member of your family is sun cring of measles or whooping cough to try and ride on a street car and refuse to pay to walk on the grass of the city parks to cut a leaf or twig from shrubbery or trees in any city park for a physician to fail to register his address with the health board every time he changes residence for any person to molest or hander the chairman of the health board or any officer of said board while in the discharge of his duties to fail to connect with the city sewer maini to throw or sweep orange peeling or other rubbish an the streets to throw a pan of potato pe elings on the ash pile in the yard unless the ash pile is and a cover fastened down to let a water main or hydrant leak under a house to have any barn or manure pile that smells is a misdemeanor to have a pig pen cow stable or dairy within the fire limits of ogden city to rent a room without proper ventilation to rent a room without proper sewer connection to throw a dead fish on any street or lot of ogden city to throw B hand bill on the street or sidewalk or lot to stick a hand bill on any fence barn or house with out the owners consent to throw the hide of a dead cat or other animal on your lot or on the street and leave it to old boots paper old clothes hats caps tin cans broken bishea or any one of them or any other gibbish in your back lot is a misdemeanor punishable by fine or 09 days in prison or both to send a man to the pest house for he has not got the disease to send a man to the pest house for egariet fever alien the man has only the measles or pneumonia for a city officer or individual to get drunk for a city physician or other officer to disturb the peace for a physician or other man to threaten to kill liia neighbors for a physician to carry a concealed gun for a physician to curse a police officer or any one else on the public fc treet i for a physician to fail to register a birth or a death for a cita physician to unlawfully draw money from tha acty TO take a newspaper from your neighbors lawn ta tack a card on a telegraph pole to drive 0 horse fast to run a locomotive or train in ogden over eight miles per hour to in a railroad car without first obtaining permission to open a gate or bars of any enclosure without permission from the owner to shoot or kill quail in ogden city to run a locomotive in alie inhabited part of ogden city without continuously ringing the bell for the 0 8 L ily to let a car stand on alio track on second street for a chief of police to ride on a pass and charge the railway fare to cut the smallest possible piece from a telephone pole and so on alie standard could probably show up a thousand different deeds or acts that under the law are called the crime of a misdemeanor such acts too that are daily performed in ogden by hundreds of people by some not knowing eliat they arc violating a law yet every one of them could bo arrested if a skunk moan enough could be found to swear out a complaint read over carefully the above acts each of which constitutes a crime and then point out the man or men who would around town to entrap some one guilty of any one of those minor offenses who would be small enough to file a complaint for the violation of two thirds of the of fenics above described and who would swear out a complaint if a person in the performance of his duty should unwittingly and unintentionally be guilty of violating one of the acts above described as a misdemeanor T and j suppose if in the discharge of your official business you should the ogden pest house and the per son who does the cooking should shake hands with you and that shaking of hands was a misdemeanor who would swear out the warrant for the arrest t yet that was the evidence upon which tho mayor was fined the shaking of hands with the cook Is it not about time that the enemies of the mayor should go away back and eit down I 1 if they have not the good sense to do that will not some person who lias some sympathy for the deluded mortals go to them and say in all kindness that the matter has gone far enough that it is time to stop Is it of any benefit to ogden city for the people to show to the world the asinine qualities of an alleged attorney and physician so far as the mayor ia concerned it makes no difference no amount of abuse can hurt him but does it do alio city any good napoleon once said pull me down and france goes down with me so too with ogden the mayor as the head of ogden city cannot be injured without injuring the city in utah everybody knows the mayor and no abuse will injure him at home but can you degrade the mayor in the eyes of the people far away from ogden without degrading or belittling ogden and her people we have completely shown by the above that if skunks mean can be found to make complaints alie district judges and supreme judges and every officer of the state and ogden city and weber county can be found guilty of a misdemeanor and a great deal more serious are committed before the eyes of all the various officers than have been charged against the mayor personally wo do not care but as an officer of the city we purpose to maintaining the dignity of that office to the beat of our ability and the time as come to call a halt and we call it |
