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Show FORMER UTAH TREASURER SHORT 111 HIS ACCOUNTS Accused Official Admits Shortage of Over $70,000, Which Bondsmen Will Refund to State. Salt Lako City. According to Information Infor-mation made public Thursday night, James Christiansen, former treasurer of tho stato of Utah, who retired from ofllco January 1 of tho present year, Is short in his ncounts to tho amount of $70,628.94. This shortago will bo made good by' his bondsmen and tho stato will loso nothing. Tho discovery of tho defalcation comes ns tho result of an Investigation Investiga-tion ot tho stato's acounts mndo by the state board ot examiners. A peculiarity In the figures shown upon, tho books of Auditor Jewkes first aroused tho suspicion of tho ofll cfnls. Salt Lako county was charged with $168,000, whllo tho credit to tho stato was only $106,000. Tho books of tbo treasurer, on tno other hand, showed tho credit of tho full amount, so that when they woro turned over to the present treasurer there appeared ap-peared no discrepancy In Christiansen's Christian-sen's acounts. For the $60,000 which had been paid by tho county to tho stnto, Mr. Chris-Hansen Chris-Hansen had Issued a single receipt, taken from th'o back of tho receipt book, but had destroyed tho duplicate and triplicate, which, by law, ho "was required to prescrvo and enter. A previous shortago of $10,628.94 hnd been covered up In tho snmo manner. man-ner. For tho past threo years Mr. Christiansen has been engaged in mining min-ing In Chafoy, Novada, in which operations oper-ations largo Bums 01 money havo been expended without substantial returns James Christiansen Is a formor res Idcnt of Richfield, Sevier county, and was In the banking business at the Onio of his election to the stnto trcos-urcrshlp trcos-urcrshlp four years ago last November. Novem-ber. ' |