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Show WARRANTS HELD UP. Ogden Commissioners Take Action to Protect Creditors of Heman. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN. Dec. 29. Aa a result of the city having been made defendant in a caso tiled by the. California-Arizona Construction Con-struction company to obtain payment for asphalt sold to G. A. Heman. the Salt. Lake contractor, the. commissioners today passed a resolution withholding all warrants war-rants due the contractor until such time as creditors have been paid In full. The largest individual claim presented to the hoard of commissioners Is that of the Union Portland Cement company for more than $7000. According to creditors who have appealed ap-pealed to the hoard for protection, claims lor labor and materials to the amount of about S12,iioo are held against Contractor Heman for paving work done In Ogden during the past few months. Tho commissioners com-missioners decided to take immediate steps to protect the creditors, the provision pro-vision of the contracts being that the contractor shall pay for labor and materials ma-terials used in the public improvements. Despite ,thc commendable attitude of tne city commissioners in desiring that all creditors be paid, the attorney for the asphalt company, which holds a claim ot about $2000, dec-hired today that he probably would tile the complaint In tie case tomorrow. He, as well as the m , .r,1'1' are of le opinion that the w ithhold tig of the contractor's money will be the means ot adjusting all claims without a multiplicity of legal entanglements. en-tanglements. The settlements will be further hastened, has-tened, it is believed, by authorization troni the Lafayette, National bank of St Louis to release tbe amounts due. the contractor. con-tractor. Early in the progress of the work in Ogden Contractor Heman assigned as-signed his contracts to the St. Louis bank. Until today no estimates lor the improvement im-provement work done by Mr. Heman had been presented, but the board passed on a number of them at this morning's meeting. No warrants were ordered drawn, however. All of the estimates for i paving and grading work, with exception of a grading estimate for S3366 3:! totaled $79,269.21. The, one estimate not I allowed was referred to the hoard as a I i committee of the whole. |