Show IMPORTANT FEATURES OF SUIT AGAINST COUNTY COMMISSIONERS FOR ILLEGAL RAID ON TREASURY t Record for Eleven Years Number Price Total Year descriptions per description paid S Ne News 7 su 1 is 7 1744 s 1 eret News 1 News 12 J sa jj 11 j 1 s g ii 11 9 iIi 1 fl 12 roc We 1905 the e was secretly awarded without competition to the Republican and a method of pa payment employed contrary to that designated by law in order to c cover ver up the high price i Walter J 3 Burton who is regarded as the least culpable of the three county commissioners in the recent raid on the county c funds is the only one so far to be served with papers in the suit brought by County Attorney Job P Lyon to recover the peoples money illegally paid to the Intermountain Republican John C Mackay got away to Wyoming and Chair Chairman Chairman Chairman man James E B Clinton I 1 down in the southern counties They will be handed the documents on their return The bondsmen of all three were served yesterday y The commissioners c will be de defended defended defended fended by b Booth Lee Badger the head of which firm Is also head of the news newspaper newspaper newspaper paper which profited by b the illegal trans transaction transaction transaction action Burton only came into the thc raid by b acci accident accIdent dent and had nothing to do with its in inception inception The giving of or the work to the tI Smoot organ was settled before he came into Ulle off ce Trusting too much to hi his hip colleagues colI les and nd it is said particularly misled by Mackay he did however howler sign the Ule voucher which gave ge the money mone to the organ Insert in Minutes No Xo order was ever entered on the books awarding the contract at the time It was not until after the delinquent tax list was printed that anything in reference to the advertising appeared Then TIlen taking alarm from a letter addressed to them by 11 John JohnA A Groesbeck county count treasurer the com corn it is said tampered with the minutes and ami ordered inserted a resolution resolution resolution tion giving the work wok to the InterMountain tain tam Republics Republic n The money was Ille Illegally gall gaily paid paW on December 23 2 and the insert in the minutes was not made until De December December December cember 27 Z The evidence concerning this will 11 show that not only were the commissioners guilty of or malfeasance In office in paying the money mone illegally lI to a party paper but they falsified their own records by insert inserting insertIng insertIng ing in records of a meeting something that never neer took place at the meeting This and other matters will I if th the commissioners allow the case o come to trial Should Lyon prove v lous bus in the action and compel the repay repa repayment ment of the peoples money mone steps maw mav follow whether taken by Lyon or by somebody some bod else cise to remove the commis commissioners commissioners from office The amount paid to the Smoot organ for advertising the delinquent tax list for lor 1918 was S ii In 1805 1506 Ib the list for The Telegram In 1907 re to received Some Particulars The Republican got 11 cents for each description in 1986 1906 Q 6 and the Telegram 12 1 cents in 19 This year the amount would figure up to between 57 7 and 58 68 cents a description The law provides for the payment oj of 25 S 5 cents a description as the maximum price In the attempt to cover up the th scent the bill bin was put in differently from previous years and read 25 cents cen an aninch aninch aninch inch It had always alwa s been figured be before before before fore by the description as provided in the statute The advertising was not In the regular advertising columns but was an insert added to the regular edition The prices paid for or this advertising the past ten years range from U 11 cents a de description description description to 21 cents Each Ench city paper has had the work and won It In fair com corn competition petition by tender over the others This last year Jear is the first when no tenders were asked In 1893 1593 Living Issues printed the list There Thre were then descriptions and at 12 1 cents this concern received The Deseret News was the successful bidder In 1869 1509 at 18 cents and for descriptions received In 1809 1909 the advertising went to the Her Herald Herald ald aId at n cents and the total price was for fOi descriptions The Tribune was the successful bidder in 1301 1901 and received 21 1 cents a description There were of or these and the total cost to the county was The News was the successful In 1942 getting the contract for 14 cents a II description and receiving for of t these The TIte same paper got the contract in 1903 1003 at IS 13 1 cents a description and the total paid was for 7 de descriptions descriptions descriptions The Telegram came into the competition tine tion in 1904 lOOt bidding 11 50 57 cents a tion Hon and receiving tS for of or them thorn It again was the lowest bidder in 1 1045 printing 81 descriptions des at 11 H 47 4 cent each and receiving The InterMountain Republican bid on the work in 1806 1100 at 11 cents It got the contract printed descriptions and re ree r ive e for doing it A ain am the Telegram was the lowest loest in W 16 bidding IS 1 cents and printing 10 d dt for tor which It received the 1908 1008 list contained descriptions or 5 less than the Telegram re received received for printing nevertheless without l the formality of for or ten tenders tenders tenders ders the Smoot organ was given the print printing printing printing ing for O or 58 is cents a description Treasurers Protest When the tie bills came in and were passed up to the county treasurer John A Groes Gross Groesbeck Groesbeck Grossbeck beck as a charge charle against his department he protested He wrote a letter first to the county c auditor who refused to act and then to the commissioners calling at attention attentIon to the th grievous overcharge and objecting to the placing of it against his department It was when hen the commis commissioners commissioners received this letter that they the tam tarn tampered tampered pored with the minutes and inserted the resolution n No attention was paid to letter A little later the commissioners informally asked Lyon Lon what they should do about it Lyons reply was immediate Put back the money mone When hen they refused to do this he gave them warning that he would compel c them to lo do so s and has now instituted the suit Usually the advertising of o the delin delinquent delinQuent delinquent quent fax list amounts to about half halt of the amount received fron tax sales salee This year eer it cost twice as much as was re received received received Both John A Groesbeck county count treas treasurer treasurer treasurer and Job P Lyon Lon county attorney have taken a strong stand in the matter matteri neither caring to stand by b and see the treasury looted to support even een the party part organ S |