Show COMMISSIONERS i NOW ALL SERVED I II Suit I of County Attorney to Re ReI I I cover Peoples Money Well Under Way I IRELY HAVE NO LEGAL DEFENSE WILL RELY ON TECHNICALITIES I TO i i All three of the county commissioner I have hae e now been served with the sum summons mons n 11 the suit Instituted by Job Tob P t Lyon county attorney to force them themi In i ito i to return the county funds looted for fortne fortne the benefit of Senator Smoots organ I amounting to Commissioner J E Clinton received the tile papers paper from I Deputy Sheriff Robert Hobert Bridge Saturday and arid Jonn John C Mackay had received the thet th I t document the day before Both had hall 1 been away hway wa all an the week and the deputy deput was vas unable to find any member of the county government before except Wal Walter Walter ter LeI J Burton The commissioners do not take Mr II Lyon Lon at all seriously In the matte and believe that they will easily easil escape from the tM consequences of their raid on the county count treasury Mr r Mackay laughs at any idea of serous result results I following the tie action The commission commissioners tnt ers say y that Booth Lee Badger have advised them t that they are all right and they are willing to abide by that I counsel coun el Demurrer Is Expected A demurrer Ter is III expected ex ted to the com corn complaint complaint plaint as soon as the legal time is up The commissioners it is said saki will II endeavor en deal deavor or to escape through technical technicalities They wilt will demur to the com corn complaint complaint plaint filed by the county at nt attorney attorney torney and will endeavor to throw the toe responsibility of oC not calling for bids for the printing of the delinquent tax list on Ute tile county count auditor setting up that the law taw requires that official to advertise for bids If IC anyone As Judge M f L Ritchie of oC the district court has already held that the auditor can do nothing without the tI authority of the tM there does not appear to tobe tobe tobe be much show amow for them in lu that direr direction direction tion ton The county attorney will endea endeavor or to bring the case to trial before tile the summer vacation but as the commis commissioners commissioners and their attorneys will set up every legal obstacle there seems scarcely a chance that this will be bedone bedone bedone done County Attorney Lyon and John A Groesbeck county treasurer have re received received received many letters letteN and n verbal congratulations congratulations congratulations on their efforts to protect pro t the county courty treasury from the depredations of the con in behalf of the tI or organ organ organ gan of or the federal bunch Most of these have come from members of the same party the better class da of Republicans not desiring siring do that an organ oran shall b bp be maintained by an illegal gift to it df tit the peoples money mo Minutes The county attorney will attack the records and minutes of oC the meetings of the county commissioners There Thele is said to be evidence that these were al altered altered a by the commissioners r after the county attorney had insisted that the looted funds be put back Then a res yes resolution ordering the making IDAn of a con contract contract contract tract with v ith the Republic Republican en an to print the lists lits was w inserted in the minutes minute of the previous meeting This Thi 1 was wa after the th work ork had been b done and andI I patti paid for forIt forI forIt pi I It I is said si that tt Hiram E K Booth who is president of the Intermountain Re Republican Republican publican company as well wen as a federal buncher and head hed of ot the law I firm fr which is i defending the commissioners advised adIs that this be b done dom It I is further said that Walter Valter J Burton who bo is least in the matter of the Illegal guilty pay payments py payments ments menu and a who is said l to be disgusted with wih the th whole hol affair had bd vainly pro protested protested tested against thus tampering with wih the th records of the th board bOrd Mr 11 Burtons pro protests prot protests tests t t were we unheeded and the stenographer stenographer stenographer who has hs charge of the th minutes minute was ordered order to make the th change Record Is Clouded The letter lUer written formally by the th county treasurer to the commissioners on calling caln attention to the fact the work cost ct four times tR the t amount paid pi in any previous year yer was ws never made mad a part of the record and still II reposes re in the th C Mackay Mr Groes desk dek of John II Gros becks protest however r did Us its work ork in another way wy |