Show COUNTY PRINTING GRAfT CASE CS BEfORE ARMSTRONG Booth Paid by County for Defending Steal of His Ow Own Pap r. r While Iho tho count county commissioners were meeting next door deliberating what thc they could ollia mb ilo in th WI of J as as- sibling till the Iho party part in the election tomorrow ii h by appointing Jl hOt hosts of workers deputy sheriffs and thus Ihus relieving re rc lieving tIme Iho I party art from paying them for the days day's labor Jurl Judge George Gorge G. G Armstrong was hearing heuring argument in mu his lila on one of If theIr gratis for the tIn benefit of or their party organ olan The judge judge- took time tIle matter ot 01 today's nr argument ent under nailer advisement Tho The argument ar was on the demurrer flied filed by br time the county to tu time the o answer submitted 1 by 3 the Iho commissioners an and amid their bondsmen Time The suit auit wa was wai brull brought ht in behalf o of time thc count county against arain l time the commissioners and their bondsmen to lo compel restoration tel td iho tho treasury ut or illegally paul paid to the Intermountain Inter Inter- mountain ll on the advice of its president Col oJ Hiram E E. Booth for or the tIme delinquent tax la last t. t The Time ame sanie paper hid done domme time the work before in ilL for when it secured tho time contract under tender Colonel Booth who is ig president of the Iho company roam com puny pany publishing tIme the paper which was a beneficiary of the time steal also abo in ii for fol another in the time form forum of bf t a i retainer as lS attorney to defend the commissioners com om missioners ra against tho suit of or the time coun ratio t ly ty He lIe appeared for tor them with BarnaJ Barnard Bar nard naJ 1 7 T. Stewart Tho lliO ground upon winch which Mr lr J 1103 yoa asked tIme the court to lo sustain the demurrer demur demur- rel to lo tIme Iho o answer I wits w. that no bids hills for tIme the II ti of the Iho tax lax list lisl were rc 1 risked asked 1 as required 1 1 hy J ltv law that no contract was malIc for time the that the county tra treasurer was not di- di reeled to lo advertise for the time of the Ji list t as liS required mind and that the claim for or tin tho p printing wa was not approved l bv l' time tile he as time the law requires lie c contended that tho the as I given Ji to tho t lie t was it-as not miot to time the lowest 0 bi bidder der nail ami was therefore invalid the Iho provision tro o of the tho law hatt heio being specially tl designed to protect rt the tue count a against extortion The Time board of commissioners he lie held stands in the same light t as a municipal cur cor and are only Iho tho a agents oJ of the hue county Those who lie contract with them t mm do ao so mo 0 with a 1 knowledge of the time limitations of their powers He lIe cited various cases to lo maintain the t I points Mr Stewart argued r that t the r. r commissioners com I missioners luau had acted udell in good Joo faith nn and I tho time county had hiatt received t tue benefits of ur the time printing Ho lie contended limit thit t time Hit commissioners were a hotly tumid and that tile they were it not hot expressly I bound II hi lo statute but must exercise c their discretion i cret oll in iM aU matters pertaining pertain lag ing lo to tIme the welfare of rh the county Colonel E 10 B. Booth Boot h foil followed II briefly that hint the tin state stale in iii time the affirmative answer m had letti no not mint been heen that thai a hill bid luul asked from s paper and ammil the Iho work work- done clone The Thc cont contract met had hatI been hen and ancI the time county hall had benefited The Flue county attorney in closing sai said that if time the tont contention of tb Iho tho defense is true Irue the commissioners could ulo ItO M hs thc pleased please at all aU timea in in accepting III in spite of to In tIme the contrary There would then be he no protection ful CI the time coun county t a against tI i extort extortion ion |