Judson's Appointees

JUDSON'S APPOINTEES

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ARCHIE WILKINSON GETS THERE AGAIN.

He was One of the First Three whose Appointments were Announced Others Will be Made This Week.

Bill Judson, in his great act of exercising the appointing power, says the Detroit Journal, is in the most conspicuous figure on the state political horizon this week. Washtenaw men have declared that it was a privilege to trade horses with the astute and diplomatic Bill, even though they got the worse of the transaction. Applicants for jobs under Bill find it a similar privilege to present their applications and urge them in person, even though they get turned down. Bill is now state inspector of illuminating oils, at $1,500 a year, and has something like a score and a half of deputyships to give out. He says that three of the present deputies have a cinch on a reappointment. These are Frank Fredrich, of Traverse City ; B. F. Brazee, of Ironwood, and A. W. Wilkinson, of Chelsea. Mr. Wilkinson is the deputy in the oil inspection district in which Mr. Judson resides, and is the only one in the list of deputies to be regarded as the personal selection of the Appointing Power, so Bill says. There was a little sentiment about so formal a matter as the giving of the board required of the oil inspector as a guarantee to the state of a proper administration of his office. There were many who offered to go on Mr. Judson's bond, but the men selected by him for this service were H. S. Holmes and W. J. Knapp, of Chelsea. Both these gentlemen were on Mr. Judson 's bond during his term as sheriff of Washtenaw county.