| Show THE CLIMAX REACHED Furniture Contract Cost K A Andrews TwentySeven Thousand SAYS A DENVER MERCHANT WHO GOT TiE DOODLE THAT IS THE QUESTION IV I Sells Testifies Regarding Macadam Mac-adam Loose Methods Thoroughly Exposed His Company Furnished Rock the Other Fellows Dirt Some Shoes Bought at Haynes Store as per Voucher 132 More Coming on Monday A climax was reached In the county Investigation yesterday when It was shown by a wItness that the agent of the K A Andrews Furniture company had openly stated that the contract for furnishing the building cost his house 27000 W H Sell secretary of the Quartzite Quartz-ite Macadam company was examined and while nothing wrong as regards his company Is charged or was developed devel-oped his testimony goes to show the loose methods employed by the old county court While engaged in buying buy-ing material it left the weighing of the same to the sellers instead of attending at-tending to that part as the interests of the county demanded Mr Sellss evidence regarding the manner in which the work from Twelfth South southward was performed per-formed was also an apt illustration The Sensation of the Day John Mitchell a merchant of Denver Den-ver furnished the sensation of the day as stated aibove Do you know a man named 11 Ha name ken 2 inquired Attorney WTiititemore I Yes sir State if you ever met him in Denver Den-ver I verYes sir I met him in the Brown i Palace hotel I What conversation if any took place placeWell placeWel Haken was in Denver closing clos-ing up a contract for the furniture of the capitol building He spoke of the contract with Salt Lake city and county and said that it had cost 27 000 Whats that said Mr waiitte more moreHe He was talking in a general way regarding contracts He said i costa cost-a great deal of money to get contracts now He mentioned the state house at Austin Texas and the joint building build-ing at Salt Lake This last contract cost the firm of Andrews Co 27000 Did he say to whom he paid I No in fact I gathered from his talk that it was his brother who paid he money He said that his brother engineered en-gineered the deal The contract with the Andrews Fur I niture company was signed by this same man whom Mitchell met He was here a short time ago but did not linger long departing almost as suddenly as he came There may h e some significance in this fact Now the question arises who got the money J jj Some Figures The figures of the contract are County 55497325 city 52789093 total 8256478 Deducting the commission the contract would be for 55586478 The advance in the prices of furniture was doubtless added to provide for this commission in addition to profit This accounts for the high rates charged for the chairs tables desks and sofas Sells Testimony W H Sells one of the Quartette Macadam company testified that his firm was a corporation originally composed com-posed of C H Jacobs Frank Officer H T Ball W H Sells and William McQueen Some changes have since been made W P Noble Frank Hines and L P Palmer becoming members The total number of stockholders was eight each holding fifteen shares of the capital stock of 10000 The witness here identified the contract con-tract with the county and his company for work on State road There was also another c ntract I provided that rock should be delivered at 5142 per I cubic yard at Eighth South and State I road Afterward the additional price of 30 cents per ton at any poInt on the road below Eighth South street The selectmen however InsIsted that it should be paid for at the rate of 30 cents per cubic yard instead of per ton and the money was paid at that rate The company has always held that it was entitled to 10 cents per yard more The original contract was for 4500 wds Yes sir The bills show 13816 yards at a cost of 52376407 How do you account cos hisJudge Judge Blair was east when Mr Ball Mr Hines and myself Bal were ordered or-dered by the county board in session at u he old courthouse togo on and zurnisn rOCK until stopped Was this before you had furnished I the 4500 yards No I was afterwards We had furnished 6000 yards Were all members present when you were ordered to go on Yes sir All three Did you ever stop furnishing rock Yes We stopped three weeks after we reached Twelfth South This first contract was let after I advertisements calling for bids had been printed Yes sir You made no additional bids No We got the order from the court They told us if we didnt do i some one else would There were other I bids opened when we got the contract con-tract Some were lower than ours but it was for lime Did anyone else besides the members mem-bers of your company ever get any money or profits of this work No sir When we reached Twelfth South we were 5800 behind How about Hajrer We hired him together with the county each paying half50 per month each We did not pay him after reaching Twelfth South You paid for the weighing Yes sir Against our united protest We agreed that i was not right for us to pay for weighing our own material ma-terial and were told it was all right We said it looked bad but the selectmen select-men said so ahead Witness said his company paid 60 cents per ton in cash every two weeks I never discounted a bill He had noticed I no-ticed that his company was compelled to put in clean rock while Cahoon I Haynes et al used anything they chose The other peoples crusher wouldnt keep scarcely any teams going I I couldnt crush over thirty tons a day They used plenty of dir This closed the examination and the I committee adjourned to meet again Monday at which time more sensational I sensa-tional developments are anticipated Some Interviews Councilman Cheesman and Councilman man Lynn of the joint committee were seen yesterday in relation to < the Denver mans testimony I imagine that the Andrews company com-pany will investigate this matter said the former They cannot afford to allow such an assertion to pass without investigating it The corporation corpor-ation makes contracts all over the union and cannot afford to rest qufct ly under such an imputation That is a fact sid Mr Lynn and this matter should be probed to the bottom I any such deal has punished been made the guilty ought ito be Pauper Accounts Voucher 132 is mighty Interestln readin It is in Harry Hayness favor fa-vor and is for shoes furnished the poor The poor wore pretty good leather according to Voucher 132 Three pairs fine shoes 59 one pair felt slips 150 five pair fine shoes 1625 > two pair mens shoes 550 one pair Congress shoes 275 All of date of Nov 5 Items of molasses hay potatoes po-tatoes and other groceries are being investigated and reports will be made soon In this connection Dr Allen disclaims dis-claims any knowledge of many of the bills which he says were charged to the pauper account |
