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Show CLAIMED TO HAVE FAlSrajECOi Said to Have Made False Entry io Help Legalize Gift to Smoot "Mouth." TAMPERING WITH RECORDS CONSTITUTES MALFEASANCE Commissioners Are Threatened With Criminal Suit Following Follow-ing Civil Action. Uesides pinching in (he neighborhood of $lo00 from the county treasury to hand to the Smoot "Mouth'1 on a platter, it is expected that Sale Lako county's aristocratic baud of county commissioners will be shown up in tho light, ot1 falsifiers of their' records in tho county attorney's suit, pending against; them to recover to the county the $H 727.i50 paid to the "Mouth" without warrant for printing tho 1008 delinquent tax list. Tho county treasurer is supposed under un-der the law to be cognizant of tho commissioners com-missioners ' acts in awarding tho printing print-ing of the delinquent tax list, in fact, is supposed to have the list printed under proper authoriz-ation from tho commissioners, commis-sioners, but County Treasurer .lack Grocsbeek received no such order in the present ease. Tampered With Records. Tho commissioners' records show, though, that Grocsbeek was authorized to have tho delinquent, tax list of 1H0S printed in the "Mouth." This prc; tended authorization is under dale of November 2... last year, Avhieh was about the time that' tho commissioners decided in a star chamber session upon presenting The "Mouth" with something some-thing like' $-1,100. presumably as a Christmas Christ-mas gift, but this entry beajs evidences of having been made quito recently, and it is understood that the county attorney hopes to show at the trial of the case that it was made after the legality of the payment was questioned. The going back aud falsifying the record as alleged is thoroughly in keep ing wir.n 1.110 eommiMaiuiiciS) wuoie course in tho mat tor and a whole lot will depend upou the county attorney's ability to show that they went back and inserted an entry in their always brief and imperfect "minutes, several days, possibly weeks, after the cutry pretends to have been made. If this ein be i shown a charge of malfeasance will lie against them, and it is insistently rumored ru-mored that action along this lino niaj resull. Criminal Action Threatened. "Private citizens threatened to bring suit against the commissioners before it was known that the county altomey wns going to proceed against them, and now that the apparent falsification of tho records has come to light tho talk of a suit at the instance of private individuals in-dividuals has become louder thau over. This suit, of course, would be a criminal crim-inal action aud in all probability would charge malfeasance, but there will be ! no action along this line, it is said, ! until the county attorney's civil suit ! has been determined. Tf it should be decided in favor of tho commissioners, which is not likely, the criminal suit to oust them from office might not materialize, ma-terialize, but the public pulse is rather warm .iust now and promises to remain re-main in that condition for some time to come. The county commissioners have made no move in "tho suit filed against them Tuesday. Mackay and Clinton being out of the city. |