Show BOUNTY CLAIMS MAY BE BETAKEN TAKEN BEFORE COURTS In view of the fact tact that the state auditor Mark Tuttle held up ups as s illegal megal bounty claims from San SanJuan SanJuan SanJuan Juan amounting to 2500 It Is likely that the matter will willbe willbe be taken Into the courts for adjudication In a a. a letter transmitted transmitted transmitted trans trans- by the auditor to the clerk o of San Juan county It is pointed out that from the bounty certificate certificates certificates and advices filed in this office by your county county clerk I clerk it appears appears appears ap ap- ap- ap pears that he has Issued certificates cates covering skins presented for or bounty before February 4 the date authorized from this office The state auditor auditor- holds that the presentation of skins and the making of affidavits and cancellations cancellations cancellations can can- can only nl be done the day the certificate Is Issued This Is a different interpretation from which the clerk o of San Juan Tuan county places upon the law Many rany of the pelts presented to County Clerk Palmer of or San Juan county during January and payment for which was wa rejected b by State Auditor Tuttle were caught it it- it itis is declared within the sixty-day sixty limit of the announcement that bounty funds lunds' were available and were only presented for cancellation cancellation cancellation cancella cancella- tion because of the fact that a fur bu buyer r was at hand and th there re was an Immediate marl market et for the furs which might not be had should the furs be held for presentation on February 4 This Is the reason for lor such numbers of claims having been presented from San Juan county and while the state auditor Is doing his duty in disallowing d claims It Is understood that a fight will be made to clear up the matter by getting a ruling by the courts on the question |