Show SOME COUNTY PAP Commissioners Clerk and Three Newspapers Engage in Red Hot Wrangle LAWSUIT IS THREATENED ALL CLAIM TO BE WORKING FOR FORLONG FORLONG FORLONG LONG SUFFERING TAXPAYERS The county commissioners opened bids yesterday for tor the publication of notices of the sale of property for delinquent taxes ta cs and litigation is threatened over the awarding of the contract The bids for forthe forthe forthe the publication of each name and description description description tion were vere as follows Herald Her ld 31 cents Tribune 25 cents Telegram m li cents Deseret News 17 cents is Intermountain Republican 9 cents The last bid on its face was the lowest lowes It was somewhat ambiguous however and ana the county commissioners instructed County Clerk J U 11 Eldredge jr to ascer tain tam whether the 9 cents meant for one insertion or for tor the requisite five inser Thereupon arose a dispute Mr El EI dredge claims that the Intermountain Re Republican Republican publican an is willing to print the five lye times for 9 cents the commis commissioners understand that tee Uie 9 cents means that much per Insertion and claim that under the motion adopted giving to Mr lIr Eldredge the contract Is to togO togo gO pro to the Deseret News as the next lowest bidder Kelly Threatens Suit Sult Meanwhile Elliott Kelly manager of the Telegram has served notice on the com commissioners commIssioners missioners that to protect outraged tax taxpayers ta taxpayers payers he will ill bring a suit to compel the awarding of the contract to the paper which he represents It appears that the Deseret News bid was received by tele telephone telephone telephone phone after aCter the other bids were opened Later it was reduced to writing In the meantime Mr Kelly had mailed to Clerk Eldredge another bid revising his first bid and offering to do t th work for 13 cents This was received after the bids had been opened but Mr lr Kelly con eon contends contends tends that It was fully as legal as the telephone bid of the Deseret News Is Complicated Affair The affair is thus badly complicated If Mr M contention Is correct the Intermountain Republican Is the lowest bidder if the commissioners commIs understand understanding inS ing in of the meaning of the Republicans bid Is correct the News Is the thc lowest bid bidder bidder bidder der if it Mr Kellys contention is correct viz that the Deseret News bid was il ii illegal legal because It was telephoned after the theether theether ether bids had been opened Is correct coupled with the presumption that com commissioners commissioners commissioners missioners Interpretation Int of th the tho Republican Republican Republican lican bid is correct COIT ct then thee the Telegram Is the lowest bidder Clerk Eldredge says that he ho will sign signup signup signup up a contract with the Intermountain Re Republican Republican Republican publican this morning mornin County Count Commis Commissioner Commissioner Mackay who Is valiantly backing the Deseret News says he will tell Mr Kelly what he thinks of him when he sees him and that h will call down Joe Eldredge |