| Show GANT GET HI IS MONEY 1 r A 1Illtwj Muser 600 Claim Is J I I Held Up r AUDITOR RICHARbS FIRM 3 SAYS EXAMINERS MST PASS ON I o Board Referred Musser to Legislature and That Body Allowed the Amount But State Official Continues Con-tinues to Hold Up the Warrant For Services I Territorial Days t J Milton 1usser who was fish com missioner when Utah was a territory realizes just how It feels to be so near and yet S far He Is in a position to sympathize with any unfortunate who K may have had a cup full of satisfaction H pushed away whe he was about to bury his face in It In the language of street Mr Musser Is up against The story of the e garC wardens tribulations began a long time ago Mr Musser served the territory at 3 time when its lake and streams did not abound In plump specimens of the finny triI Realizing the lack 1fr Musser bought a plentiful supply of the playful but ossiterous carp and lake with the stocked the water oJ Utah Hundreds of unhooked carp the progeny ot Mr Iuses frt setting a there to this daY to rise up and cl him blessed Thee are also hundreds hun-dreds dt gamey bas that fire the blood ot the angle and afford hini much enjoyment en-joyment a well as some tribulation Mr use put In the bass and he dId other things along the same line pie catoral elsewhere Claim of 600 For his services and expenses he calme the modest sum of 600 Somehow Some-how or other the claim hung fire Although Al-though considering the laborer worthy ot his hire Mr Musser made frequent applications for his stipend it was never alote to him Finally early in March last he went before the state decIsion board of examiners and asked for a The bad suggested that in vIew of the fact that the work had ben done in territorial days Mr Muser should apply directly to the legislature for r lef This he did and while that body was In atclo mortis Mr users claim was aIe wel and placed on the appropriation lst The Itch and game man thought his troubles were over but he finds now that they have just begunAuditor Auditor Richards Balks Then he called on Audio RIchards for a warrant for his 600 that official after due deliberation declined to issue I the desired paper He took the ground that C could nol lawfully fill out the warrant until the claim had been again paS on by the board of examiners a body which had previously washed its hand of the mate Mr Murser sent a typewritten corn munication to the auditor yestcrda r I which he told his tribulations at some length He said that It seemed strange to him tat Mr Richards was pin out money on other clams allowed by the legislature and was holding up this one although the services were ren bred faithfully sO unselfishly and cre s falhful unseUIsl adS ad-S profitably to the stte In reply Auditor Richard wrte that hI could still see no reason for Issuing the warrant He wrote tat the claimants claim-ants only hope s fa as he kny was In the courts or in some fixture legislature legis-lature Therefore unless 1lr 1user ca get a judge of competent jurisdiction to mandamus Mr Richards into seeing thins his way hell have to waJt at least a year and a half longer for hIs o mOle |
