Deputy Sheriffs At Ypsilanti

DEPUTY SHERIFFS AT YPSILANTI

A Lot of Men Wanted the Job

FOUR ARE APPOINTED

And One More as Good as Appointed--Ypsilanti Crooks Will Have to Toe the Mark

The making of appointments does not tend to make the couch of the appointing officer a downy bed of ease under the best of circumstances. Sheriff Gauntlett is just going through the experience. Ypsilanti is the storm center and the trouble seems to be that there are too many good men there for deputy sheriffs, and each has his friends who seem to be bound that he alone should be appointed.

On coming into office Sheriff Gauntlett appointed O. B. Westfall deputy. Since then he has made three other appointments of deputies in Ypsilanti, James L. Lowden, Zina Buck, and Martin Cremer, and has announced his intention of also appointing Millard Fletcher.

There has been a vigorous kick put up in certain quarters on Mr. Buck's appointment. His petition for the appointment, strongly drafted, was headed by John P. Kirk and signed by both the supervisors and most of the business firms in the city. It is as fine an array of names as ever signed a petition.