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Show MACKAY PAIS Hill FOR TOLL CHARGES Sends Check to Auditor OH'sct-ling OH'sct-ling Telephone Bill of $97.40. Chairman John C. Mackay handed County Auditor Ileginbotham a check Monday for $07.40, tho amount paid out by the county for Mr. Mackay 's private pri-vate telcphono at Granger. Mr. Clinton Clin-ton has heretofore paid $K5, which was tho amount paid by the county for him for the same purpose, and ns soon as the remaining commissioner. J. 33. Cos-griff, Cos-griff, pays over $18 charged against the county, but not paid, for a telephone in tho Commercial National bank building, build-ing, the matter will pass into history. Chairman Mackay said Monday that he had never intended to do any "grafting," and that ho had charged his telephone bills to tho county for the reason that ho was advised upon taking office that this had been customary. cus-tomary. Tie also said that the bulk of his telephone calls related to couuty business. Mr. Clinton said regarding his telephone tele-phone charges that he understood tho matter tho same as Mr. Mackay explained ex-plained it, and, being a now member, had been guided by the precedent established es-tablished in tho office in tho matter of paying for private telephones. |