Show OIt 1 A I Om Dm Claim that No Nil n Warrants I Have or II Will be bc I The Th it tat t may mao not lIot b be out ut H it 1 rent nt of on oil the Ule 1 11 bIg bounty bount frauds at ct Al tEL aRt on those thOM which have hae l lien n detect tL i I I 1 MI n i fir w wire r tIled In the tho JUHt the end ond of 1901 i his ius Is Ia I thu Ih by f Secretary of ofU l U t i who was state auditor luring th the bt hut the tho fraud a ero pro i la In the tite case C IC today lull 1 I he It h said paid Ju lui thin this articles of ot cor corporation itro filed tiled anti and I 1 issue u a ru ruIlt for thorn thom showing merely that they were vere left Ill hero here TheIl before net In tog It on them thant we wo carefully them and If anything should be he found of an Irregular nature we WO would only ha hll obliged by hy our receipt to return the articles that lund hat been left lett In the ease oase of ot the tho bounty claims we le have only alvon receipts showing that the tho claims have been filed flied No N o state warrants have beets Issued and the Impression Impre lIlon that the thu I Is g liable because of or Its Warrant having b been cn given out III IK wrong We did 1101 not examine the Iho claims All riK they oame caine In because wo we were not paying thorn them Our receipt r only bound u iou III to thu tho return of at the tho claim or the money r tim 1111 before paying I these thele claims It would have been hoen tim tha duty luty of ot the state to carefully examine Into the tho validity of each one cute foil If It one tine was Willi round found which fraud fraudulent fraudulent then thon the hall hail u a to refuse payment Tho The nt elate auditor J A wards thin vl view w IJo fur further titer thor that tim the lust claim paid tiled Hopt jt 10 1001 and th these so fraudulent claims have largely that titus time there IH Is still 1111 a chance that the tho state tato unity may be he saved caved tho the money culled called for forIn forIn forIn In explaining the action of or tho the boun botin bounty ty law III w Auditor A lid Bold saId BoldIn In 1911 lAnd and 1303 1 0 tho the appropriation of ot was tas not nearly exhausted lI Only was WIS used antI wits Will turned I buck back Into the tho state treasury troll ur The This bill carried for fou 1 1003 03 moi leot nOll lO 1106 an nit ap up appropriation aI of for ouch year eur to 10 become available Jan 1 The he claims for Cor 1903 1908 more than limn exhausted tho tito money on hand hanI and anti the tho appropriation for tor 1001 was used up UI during the Una month of ot that year pitying up bunt back claims Jan Jun 1 19 became available and It win was paid out within two days the tha lust last lu t payment to 10 eWo A n portion of ot the Iho claims tiled filed on Sept 10 ID 1901 1001 On Ott that day Ilay was Will lId ild out nut of nf claims calling for tor or be bo between tween antI and then only showing the of ot the claims been bean Issued A question que lion of ot why tho tim preposterous kills hills were vero allowed to 10 ao o on out record with without without without out Investigation especially when a II tow few men wore wun entering claims for such large lar o amounts him hao been beon freely discuss od 1111 today toda The clerk cieri who made entries In Inthe Inthe Inthe the county clerks cube omee li Is under ar arrest arrest rest the clerk who received re them thom I and lUd certificates for tOI or them In lit the tho state tato auditors office Is II C CH H II Tinge the he present chief clack werk of ot Auditor Kd Eu wards words In reply to the whether tr er r or not he be hail had anything queer looking In the thu claims ho he replied Y 1 YI I did When tho the name of ot and several others began In No November November vember for or large amounts I did not think It U looked straight so no I 1 went through the records and arni kept nn nfl ac Sc account account count of ot the claims of each ellch of ot theae thee men I took these thel big claims down to the county c clerks allies and anc called ached the attention of Clerk Cleric DavIes to them ask III I InK hog him If they were care straight He lie as ai assured cured me they were and that they were coOling coming In on account of at the odd cold weather er en I also allo spoke to one on other clerk about thorn Ih Mr Smith I think It was Val The Tho statement of ot Clerk Tin trey that ho noticed tho the queer took look of ot hi docu documents documents ments ment li is substantiated ll by a it 1 News reporter who happened d Into the audi auditors auditors tors tor one ons evening In November I while he Its was wu extracting the names nam end record recorte of if HP lt claimants Mr called the reporter over to his dp desk U sk k and showed him the Lit list tilt of ot claim remarking on their Urge large site lie He also discussed the possibility pos of ot their being faked and the conclusion was WAI reached by both that the kills kilts were Werf the work of professional hunters bunters who possibly found killing animals n it lucrative hUll husi ness nelli The Jh figure with the lIme of ot tome some of the tho men mon now under tinder surest were published In the Newa the nl t day dllY In an article expressing wonder that t no so large loro a It number ot of wild WillI animals wore loose In Utah |