Show FORMER UTAH TREMER SHORT IN HIS ACCOUNTS Accused Official Admits Shortage of Over 70000 Which Bondsmen Will Refund to State Salt Lake City According to information Infor-mation made public Thursday night James Christiansen former treasurer of tho state of Utah who retired from Mace January 1 of the present year is short In his acounts to tho amount of 7002894 This shortage will be made good by his bondsmen and the state will lose nothing Tho discovery of the defalcation cornea as the result of an Investigation Investiga-tion of the states acounts made by tho state board of examiners A peculiarity In tho figures shown upon the books of Auditor Jowkes first aroused the suspicion ot the ofil daIs Salt Lake county was charged with 168000 while the credit to the state was only 10G000 Tho books of the treasurer on tno other hand showed the credit of the full amount so that when they wore turned over to tho present treasurer there appeared ap-peared no discrepancy In Christian sens acounts For the 60000 which had been paid by tho county to the state Mr Chris Itanscn had Issued a single receipt taken from the back of tho receipt book but had destroyed the duplicate and triplicate which by law he Was required to preserve and enter i A previous shortage of iOG2894 had been covered up In the same manner man-ner For tho past three years Jlr Christiansen has been engaged in mining min-ing in Chafey Nevada In which operations oper-ations large sums 01 money have been expended without substantial returns James Chilstlanscn Is a former resident res-Ident of Richfield SevIer county and was In 1ho banking business at the time ot his election to the state treas urcrshlp four years ago last November Novem-ber |