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Show ! -vSMAk SALES. .,, qC0 one of the magazines Some Unio ago oil n ftbout hadfSer who had a .laughter, an old fa"" er. ,tePi Tho glr, wh1 wfl for a typewriter and bored If'yftan until he finally promised th6n her one. Now tho old man was tog t ml thrifty. He was not going frUf .At a hundred bucks in a ma-to ma-to invest a nun h chln,e1 nn ale Ho know the city ri of the neighboring town. He C u d at Is offlco and found him in. Am to say that clerk's name NC n t Jolm S. Crltchlow. This clerk IT in! He wasn-c up to any coal I office or rooting around any summer i cZt He was there at his desk. 1 The cl'crk said tho city had a machine B .hat had been condemned and he was I Shorized to sell it. Price? Ten B d0TlioBold farmer shucked out a greasy I 1,111 of tlio "X" variety and tendered I t0 tho clerk. No tho clerk could not I lal-o It The farmer must go to the I treasurer, pay him mo ten dollars, Ieet a receipt ana upon ino presenw-tion presenw-tion of the same tho machine would be delivered by him, the clerk. The farmer had to wait an hour for tho treasurer, who was off to dinner. din-ner. When ho returned ho paid the money, got tho receipt and hastened back to tho clerk. But he didn't get tho typewriter. It appears tho mayor needed a typewriter type-writer for his office and concluded that that .condemned machino would answer an-swer his purpose. So ho sent down while the treasurer was at dinner and got It When tho farmer asked for it ho was told tho mayor had taken it and to go back to tho treasurer and get his money. Ho applied for the cash. Did ho get it? Hardly. The treasurer Informed him that his money mon-ey had been placed in tho general fund and there was no way to get it out except by applying to the city council. It was. in vain that the granger grang-er pointed out that ho could see the Identical bill; tho treasurer was obdurate. ob-durate. Tho long and short of tho story is that It took weeks, aye months, for tho agriculturist to bo recouped. Salt Lake county has n tax deed system that resembles that story. It i Is a poacherlna. Tho man who do-I do-I vised It ought to have a bushel of i medals. Hero is one caso in point. I A. T. Moon bid in a picco of property at a tax sale. Fifty eight dollars was j tho upset price and tho certificate- was I made out to him. In justice to tho present treasurer we exonerate him from this bit of work. It was well, let's say It was Billy Dale. Billy can stand It. After tho certificate had been made out it was discovered that the same bit of property had been sold to another man. That ho had papers showing it was his tax certificate. Moon applied to tho county commissioners commis-sioners for a refund. County commissioners com-missioners looked wise, called in tho I attorney, who also looked wise and read an opinion from a former county attorney who must have looked wise , when ho wrote and delivered same, to tho effect that while tho county has Power to take money in tho manner and form this was taken, it has no Power to refund on account of Illegal or irregular tax sales. Now wouldn't that jar you? Of course Moon was wrathy. He h nu Bma11 stunt around tho joint DUiidlng that caused people to stop ! ""'J marvel. Ho haunted tho auditor ana tho treasurer and tho commis-Flnally. commis-Flnally. through some roundabout round-about way he got a promiso that his money would bo repaid, w Ui niC!Urtimo Mont Fisher is ? . has credited a part of that rs..t0 cit-y schools, another portion tL us ato fuml antl somo moro to ine city general fund and whatever other funds are exlstant. Result: Mont has to ask tho board of education to reimburse tho county for its part; the city council for its part, tho state-for state-for its part and so on and so forth, ab liuitiim, ad infinitum, et cetera. That is a chain lightning scheme, isn't It? Oscar Grosholl had a similar caso. He was informed that lie was buying tho Dudler farm at a tax sale. Ho informed Mrs. Dudler, who looked up the records and smiled a happy hut diminutive smile, when Oscar told her ho would have to have tho money or take a deed. Told him to take a deed. Oscar investigated and found tho county had, through an error, sold him a tract of government land up the canyon for wlich ho had pad $2S. Ho applied for tho return of his money. mon-ey. Commissioners told him ho had not made out his application in proper prop-er form. Ho asked what was proper form and they advised him to consult a lawyer. Groshell protested that a lawyer would charge him $25, and all ho would got back would bo ?3. Tho commissioners kept him waiting four years, and then ho hired Frank Stephens. Ste-phens. After filing an application in satisfactory form and manner tho bill was cut down $8, because Lcn Hardy had overcharged Groshell for fees which the county did not have, and finally fi-nally Groshell got ?20, of which Stephens Ste-phens charged him $15 for services rendered. And still wo wonder at crime. |