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Show THE WATER-BOND MONEY In spite of all demands, and in spite of three abortive trials of the present city officials to account for the bond money, ll is still unaccounted for First there was a demand In the Council Coun-cil for an accounting, which was sneered at and called forth a torrent of abusive tontempt from the church's chief agent in that pious body. Then Mayor Morris made a partial accounting. account-ing. Which he admitted to be Sncom-pletel Sncom-pletel Then the Recordet made another an-other Htatement purporting to account for the money and all nf the contracts. Thai alo was Incomplete and unsatisfactory. unsatis-factory. Then, the other day. tire Auditor took h pass at It ami made an accounting. Which further shut up the blinds and was such a muddle that no one could get much idea) V hat it did purport to show, save thut It demonstrated that there Is not much over two hundred thousand dollars left of the million, after the payments on existing contracts con-tracts ate met And now the thief liar among ten thousand comes forward with a proposition propo-sition that there is upwards of six hundred hun-dred thousand dollars left In the water bond fund That llar-in-chlef omits to Include In his statement the amounts fixed on contracts entered into, which ate as trul an absorption of the money as though the . ash had already been paid out ihe amount of money that thus stands pledged for payment, perhaps accounting for the difference In the total amount left in the fund, shown between the figures of the Auditor and those of the chief liar But Ihe chief liar would no doubt say. If he had the candor to speak truly, that all he was trying to do was to make as favorable a showing aH DOSSlbU for Mortis, with no regard whatever fot the truth f w hat he was saying. The plain fact Is that so much of the bond money has been spent and tied up in contracts that there Is not enough left to do the things that the administration adminis-tration pledged Itself to do when it was asking the taxpayers to vote the bonds. The i'tah Lake Improvement was estl- I mated to cost two hundred thousand dollars; that has not been made, the canal repairs and fitting up was to cost twenty thousand dollars, and have not been attended to. the Knudscn and other water rights that are absolutely essential to the success of the water 5t heme, have not been obtained and now, after the opportunity to get thus on faorable terms bus been negligently allowed to pass, they may cost any where from fifty to a hundred thousand thou-sand dollars, possibly more- The plain fad Is that the Incompetent Incompe-tent administration that is about to go Out of office has wrecked the water Si hi me by Its lack of forethought and preparation Its breaches of faith with the people in spending large sums for useless things not specified in Its address ad-dress to the taxpayers its fHllute to get needed watei rights when they COUld hove been obtained at compara-tlvely compara-tlvely small cost, and Its refusal to put ' in the I'tah Lake improvements and to put the canHl In order, as it agreed ! with the people that It would do No i amount of K ing, squirming, or ooked- , up accounts can possibly get over the broad and damnable facts. |