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Show REPORTED SHORTAGE CAUSES SENSATION Alleged to Have Been Found in Accounts Ac-counts of Idaho Penitentiary; Former For-mer Warden Denies Charge. Special to The Tribune. BOISE, Idaho. Sept. 22. The report of State Examiner Clarence Van Deu-svn, Deu-svn, who alo holds the office of state auditor, that his accountant, Walter R. Seymour, had discovered stock unaccounted unac-counted for." amounting to $13,31.(59, on the books of the state penitentiarv, caused a genuine sensation not only in Boise, the capital, but over the state as well. The report covers a period from 1P0S lo nd including 19l(if or during the time that John YV. Snook of Salmon was warden of the state prison. elaimiug that tl) official books of the iienitentiary wers not auilitoil; that his books and accounts balanced with the state treasurer when he resigned and retired from office, and that the attempts at-tempts to show a shortage arc the result re-sult of his political enemies. Tho state' board of prison commissioners, commis-sioners, comnosed of Governor Alexander, Alexan-der, chairman, Attorney General T. A. Walters and Se-retary of State W. T. Dnughertv, liavo received tho report and ordered it filed, .lust- what further fur-ther action they will take has not been learned. So f:tr thov have refused to discuss tho report. Jt is known that a number of conferences hnvo been held and that members of the board have t'one over the report in detail. Attorney General Walters will yrobably render an opinion : later as to the riphts tin. state lias in the matter of following up the allea- ! tions contained in the report. |