Show CAUSES GREAT SENSATION oneida irrigation district busts ousts officers and names new directorate preston ida jan 34 arthur W hart recently deposed secretary of the oneida irrigation district has been recently arrested charged with the embezzlement of of the company funds and will appear in court at at 10 thursday morning to enter his plea the arrest of hart has caused the most profound sensations in this sec alon of the state it has been hinted for months that all was not well with the funds of the district and for dome time orson P ciunel an expert accountant of salt lake has been practically in charge of the books and funds of the acting as treasurer pro tern george C parkinson treasurer of the gnesda irrigation district and president of the idaho state and sav ings biank of this town has also been deposed A henderson a local realty man who was of the board of directors of the district wag ousted from the directorate shortly after the first ut tho year mr if la understood has not been connected in any way with the company for a month but that hart and henderson were only recently deposed now officers have been appointed to fall the chairs of those ousted by citizens in the district as a result of alleged disclosures made as lo 10 tho handling of company funds joshua adams has succeeded hen as the chairman of the board of directors stephen callan is the new secretary of the district and peter maughan has been named as the third new director orson P hurcel the expert accountant has been chosen to fall the position as treasurer for the present but will give way later to the selection of acho dia brict tho arrest of hart was made on th i recommendation of mr rumel ana george E gray of who has been engaged by the district aa special counsel to probe into the handling of funds of the district for alte last year or more though information has been tiled against only one of the former members of the directorate it is believed that others will follow and that the greatest sensations in the history of section of iho state wall bo sprung tho oncida irrigation district covers about acres and in all of this territory have the power to vote as to the management ot the district the district has been heavily bonded and about of the bonds are held in tho east it is understood der stood that murmurs of the mismanagement were carried to the interests in the east and that the investigation which caused the arrest ot hart was set in motion at once |