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Show ANOTHER MALACCOUNTING. The old gang has made another attempt at-tempt to at I unt for the million dollars voted toi satei and sewer bonds. Tie figures as made this fifth and (presumably) (presum-ably) final time from that source, show-that show-that nearly all the money Is In the city treasury, and that it will be the duty of the Thompson administration to account ac-count for it all It Is the most reckless and mendacious menda-cious attempt yet made to account for that million dollars But it is false on the face of It. No account 1r taken of tin $40,000 thrown to the birds In the purchase of a one-fifth Interest In the Bast Jordan canal stock, nor of the more than J50,tao taken from the water fund and added to the sewer fund. These two Items leave the water fund at less than $750,000 Instead of the, jsr.n.iiOii si ited. und correspondingly reduce re-duce the balances alleged to be left. Inducting the $400,000 (approximately) (approximate-ly) admitted to be tied Up In contracts and expended, from the real amount of wuter bond money left, the balance Is only about $;160,000 instead of the $460,000 claimed to remain. The former reports showed that not more than about $2.10,000 Is in fact left, after meeting the obligations imposed by contracts already al-ready In operation. And there are yet the water rights to obtain from Knud-sen, Knud-sen, which may tall for anywhere between be-tween $50,000 and $100 000, besides the SjiumwHi stipulated for to make Improvements Improve-ments at l'tah Lake, and the $20,000 to clean and repair the canal. The five statements made by the old gang, no two of which agree and none of which Is either complete or accurate, emphasize tho need that the new administration ad-ministration should make an absolutely strict and correct stutement as to thw condition of this million dollar fund. It" It does not, we shall hear later on a Wail that the American city administration adminis-tration received a million dollars for water and sewer Improvements, and squandered the money; when the fact Is, that the money h.nl pretty much all been squandered or tied up In contracts b f're the American administration came into power. |