Show I 1 N n I 1 4 i A I 1 9 ismell amen of former county COD fl ty and a ii i I d others sweat blood ING COUNTY commissioners SERVED A SHORT DT a ORDER AUDIT yi y i graft fanty N anty five dola day is to be ped by the out td d taxpayer i ork pierson and county pody ody u ird beally engaged ys 1 lists of 0 told void county tho the bancala of the gene ra of void warrants by the canety taj aurer cod comity ity with a blew bew of b I 1 n e data for the t f actions for the i county ot of moneys law aw to rl tine ing in the public troas 0 at thought that these tied bart bael about four ice hat the bondsmen bon damen of a ilk it W W II orley oliver T harmon will is 0 alved la in ical ns is are also contemplo r on e bandsmer bon bond damen of count t b elvel e NOM and McK lonon tinnon each 0 ear to hae ha year ae I 1 iw by over latfy IH a ag the county 0 lol fol loped loed will vill few 6 ii of direct nc le C she the treasurers and strict ave e bondsmen tor for all tice bout ut ot of the public funds of atlon tion of void warrants ed abw icrine an of their respective alt bout kw goveain Go overa ov erm alme ameti a d re fr ke nullifies nullities ob wag ceso of the taxes for but ilk byear year the order of in all garlaus will govern age ace be order in which wm ww ivor been directed to have t a A iby 1 the county comila fl nd llod it t lis Is aaa falat se ethe the board of county have contracted ob bi bj reason of the la Is w ch j iving ving been previously lea les to euch such contracts op the V legality leg alliy ot of jhb action act 1 in sulad against the g W the county commas I 1 now fae e la in such cases imle adja six anted that the county come a make the contracts or materials aa the case em would seem to be EN kee of action of thi thu to virtually ripe out some chi rites bonda bonds WIS itan lan of th for d it g ruu run of at litigation may I 1 couo aher here innocent pur warrants may Is AIM iles i restitution of mon ch IU its to ignorantly paid 3 take emption and in la turn ches aces there are other to will find themselves r all dl lomma as each er 1 vr w ant becomes d fifel its validity as to all an by 1 orrs a in other cent stent that void raf war 1 rt r anta t hare have leen teen issued to ble parties they may ie I e required to rotund refund the face amount of luab warrants arrants eo so that the loss losses in euch ouch cases will fall upon the we parties la in h favor avor the original warrants wore were drawn that have bave been parties to heavy contracts with the county will lose heavily it t this legal principle should be applied and that it at must be Is the oc of county At larne Q sic hanney who has exhaustively a cx I 1 ined n e wd the law reg regarding adins tho the situa 1 I un the 1 court kruuse elephant 1 appear ai pear tah that the tareo large deficit ac crded im ote county 0 m 0 abet s i n d C r i 0 a 01 the seventy five thou and dollar court house with but forty thousand dollars in cash the diffin r ence of thirty thousand dollars was in excess of the revenues for the current year derived from t fixation and ltd payment automatically in valL validated dated all other warrants war ranta issued during the current year with the exception of baldrichs baldrics Bal sal drics Arles which are predicated upon a statutory obligation 11 and are therefore entitled to be treated as valid contracts taking this view of the case some 0 of f the very large warrants war ranta drawn for the completion of at the eburt house and the payment of extras are wholly void and the county artrea treasurers treasur aurem ers who fitly have received such u ch warrants into their accounts will he liable upon their bonds to make good ioor ami the sufferers 4 the worst feature of the entire appear appears to tg bo be that there Is no lawful meane means by wl which ich any of the void vold obligations may be validated and this means that to in ac scores ores of iastan as poor people and workmen will suffer great losses ro rr suiting from their obligation to return moneys rec received elvad for services cervices and materials rendered and furnished to the county there being no method provided by the law whereby any contract void at the time of ita its making nicy may be subsequently made good the constitutional limitation ae as con construal struel by our supreme court constitutes a perfect barrier against the incurring or payment of any obligation hi in excess of the taxes of the current year and in determining the extent of indebted nesa ness ne sa which the board of at county Is authorized to contract the court haa also held that c must be givan to abat atory obligations euch such as salary contracts acte and other fixed charges which are necess necessary cry to be incurred in the conduct of brunty government these provi ions have w entirely disregarded bv b the outgoing tz boners toners ltd what la is equally deplorable the incoming coning In bull moocher I 1 commissioners immediately I 1 proceeded to put out large larga bunches of rotten and worthless worth leee paper without making any inquiry in to their lawful power thin etain stain 1 upon their official record might light have been had these gentle il i l t S A J men any desire to work in harmony with the other dul elected servants of the people but about their first net act was to organize a war agai against rist the county at attorney tomay colwy clerk and county countr treasurer tr eLurer ii 1 i the conduct of which they employed outside help whom they nought sought by bluff to install in place of these officers ettilio ett tiny ilig kief that the legal adviser so employed at a charge against the county of twenty five dollars per day wae was of no service to the count or to the I 1 Is apparent from the fact that he cither wae was not called upon to adv advirse iise or being called upon did not advise the bull moo chr commissioners of the illegality of 0 their conduct in appropriator revenues of the year 1913 for the tho payment of obligations obliga alons accrued during the year 1912 which Is 1 distinctly prohibited by the constitution ution that these men have been more interested li ili getting even with their political opponents ponente op and I 1 in n carrying out extremely foolish and anthon lauc policies in their attitude werd the heavy taxpaying interests lute of the county than they have been tn in and performing the duties of their office aa as required by ily law must be apparent to the most casual observer by eo so dolac they have merited and are receiving the contempt of the general public rhth doe does not look took with favor up ou either ather favor klara or persecution entering into the motives of public ervand vervant clark ail 11 1 county attorney Uc notwithstanding mhd contempt con and disregard with which hie opinions ren dred ded d ed the board have been received belr on detecting the condition of the county tr troa eury aury prompt concluded on page ight li N 4 neltson Nel tsou KHi president ot at ibe the P I 1 tee commercial and savings bark has been confined to his hla home at sit pleasant with rheumatism for wera l daya deys lie ll 11 la Is to be in arico aa as soon as ho ha to a able to be aroutin in connection with the awen ty thousand dollar cabb lown made tho the months ago through the outgoing commissi commissioners oneri X lison eon has the ote at per cent mrs L N eldrage entertained taw bombers mom bers ot the bridge club yesterday afternoon refreshments ate s served and prizes 1 riven given miff 1 1 ks IS cah U a 17 lu eda OR 4 A 4 IGNORANT PERHAPS r k E m i F i A I 1 m y S B BOTH 0 tit W ir from page a one le advised both the clerk and troa uror altuna either olther or honorins honorl ns en any of the warrant warrants order al ext issued by sharp and hamilton and thereby protected proto eted those thoe officers and possibly burch amr c ol 01 tho the void warrant arrants A no so ordered issued against loase which would havo have resulted to n them from their notation flotation however R Is un ile ilore der lood stood that a number of euch such warrants war ranta auts wore were already certified and in some trist instances anees were honored before z the county attorney a opinion WM w bought sought and given mitt tent I 1 amon he the vast aggregate of invalid warra warran n are the warrants war runts ie Is bod quod in favor of the I 1 expert I 1 nd munde aggregating two thousand I five hundred dollar dollars and covering cover tae ills his in auditing nc ne cohinta of the c clerk and treasurer abose ternas of of flace expired with the our ar 1912 ono of HIA tho egotistic docu meat meats ever written by anyone other than theodore theodoro roosevelt Roos eielt Is tho the report if this katno edmunds on page five of this report edmunda shows an 41 actual of warrants be yond the debt limit of 00 the itt or incompetence of edmunds to earn twenty five hundred dollars or twenty five It hundred undred cents ns an auditor Is apparent when it la Is observed that in order to manini minimise mise to approximately ten thousand dollar dollari the extent of void warrant ho lie iwa assumed that the on tiro tiff debt was bonded when his re rc port dort hows shown conclusively thit he azo the bonde bonds to consta of but aart n ty thousand dollars do llara so lie rant mast have hayo known if he be knew any wasas at nil all upon the subject that the bo actual amount of old told warrants war ranta k at t the time he prepared ht hit s elate state mont we was la tu reality in excess of alve thousand dollars why did edmunds make thie this blunder blun derP was it with ft view of whitewash tiff fil the very obvious frauds that had been attempted upon the taxa payers a find andl perpetrated upon tarrant holders und tor for the purpose of directing the natural censure of the public ewh might be expected 41 to follow a emiely ag clerk clork gwllym jonea jones arad and II 11 W treasurer neither of whom had Huyth lus whatsoever oever to da dh ulab abe contracting of at the void vold a ilont alon or the or orde derin of alid t leau boe of beyond the lawful debt limit of the county cout ityl t old and lil As a again VAut units well knowing its ft report avows tint thit farrants gar ranta aued to himself would be entirely invalid and void permit the county auditor to certify hie his warrants war ranta as being within the debt limit a 0 1 these barranti war have passed into the lie hands ot at innocent purchasers although chev are rotten fecto and void and the innocent purchasers of uiese warrants will VILI he be r required to make inake rotund to tho county treasurer in cases where ther have bon bion cashed by the county countr or ira n buee u where hero they have not been cath cash d to lose eiery dollar of 31 the money advanced lu in their pur chabe from edmunds it edmunds Ed knew know the w rants to iw be ow and he must have known suell to te the fact boasso boa uso bla statement maln ed figure figures compiled b hin iselt the debt limit to hare haye ex elded 00 on july 31 1912 we nay say that he should bo be brought back to carbon county and compell exl d no 0 o face the charge of money money anler false pretenses la in presenting Sen ting tor for payment what he lie knew ia bo be a void warrant edmunds Kd munda of all men knew that he ae as gerpe bratina A fraud whan be he received money on euch ch warrants war ranta ismeal to aatu himself after the debt limit ct of the count for the year 1913 had bad become exhausted this action hould should be instituted him hint at ince once ju n order that he lie may acae trial for this fraud at the same time that jonee and snyder are tried this new light thrown upon tho the character cf ct edmunds arrants a very close scrutiny of hta import i the accuro 7 of which should bo be by competent und ind honest men before it I 1 Is used to nn either of the county ex official it U so strongly condemns and hold holds up to corn and OSK ONE hlll G ib lb SURK sum THE REPORT WAS NOT iby AN A MAN SIAN I 1 it nt it mitt IAO 1 the bull moocher COA coil oro should be adv ady leed toed and they may so a well take it from the advocate that the le of playing fast od 1 loboe with the fund funds of carton cartan county must cease the pat lenc lenor 0 of the people la is well exhausted by the tomfoolery it of thia this board by what right havo have you mr hir sharp and you mr 14 r IL milton ought sought to abolish the or the duly elected county attorney of carbon cc abon county aad and to lipon the taxpayers the burdea dea ot of twenty ke f io dollars per diem tor for a private arly ato attorney to act met as your legal adviser dy by what lloa alm of the statute do you claim to 1 be authorized to impose this burden upon the taxpayers you and arid each ot of you and the attorney an all well may as well take notice now that when ilic attempt Is made to filch thia this allowance from the public treasury the claim and every dollar 0 of it will bs contested contented we defy you ind and defy the alleged attorney to show one line in the of thin this tate which authorizes you to employ at the expense of the public a lawyer to take tho the place at 0 tte elected county attorney you gentlemen may as an well pre pare to got down to the straight I 1 I 1 transaction or of legitimate bustness bu atness and from twe time hence to pay some respect to the laws enacted for our governance the people are groaning under the tax exactions of your predecessors who have assessed a the very limit permitted by law and the highest rate fixed by any board of county commissioners comal in the state of utah and they have it right to dent demand arid of you that the funda funds of which you are made the legal custodians in fact be e expended only for lawful purposes let tho we people sen ser wants ant in elect liu you to office it was not contemplated that you should hae any powers beyond those conferred by law there being no special dispensation in tha th constitution intended to create privileges in behalf of keif self asserted iri ivee ohp constitution still con can to be tho the paramount law though ea e ardly disregarded regarded die by yourselves and your immediate censors in conduct which ha has involve ed our fair county in a disgrace which only failure of memory on the part of the people can eradicate lull moocher commissioners you are before the bar of tho the people the taxpayers and they demand of you an explanation for the unauthorized appropriations and the other illegal acte acts td ted at your trot session I 1 yol YOU ARE YET PEOPLES SERVANT 13 AND AN l TIO timit DEVOLVES UPON YOU mr ll andoli li at the session of the board of county commissioners held last monday commissioner randolph made nn an exhaustive L statement explaining ully fully the anum eme of hta his connection with the highhanded act acts of the we boford it ir the making of nisai ami arki in contracting void obligations and it wait wao apparent to oil all ho heard the earnest preonda tion lade nade by him that he Is la n conder der tous and hont man and anti has at all twined devoted hia his best on dearer to the of the tax mayeri u neton sharp nor hamilton it tt ta toji apted pled any explanation of 0 their in forcing through tho the big lunch of unlawful bills authorized b them thom at their meeting on january ath and eth it it la Is possible for those gentlemen to make nn explanation x consistent with both in ta arid intelligence the dvo cate cat would be glad to give it the fullest publicity 4 on receipt of 0 the opinion of county comity attorney Nich mchenney triney ins ing the bull moodier moocher commission r ra re for official misconduct la in the illegal allowa allo ice of claims the advocate la is advised that the bull mooch era ers decried leera cd it well to tread cautiously tiou sly and accord I 1 egly re repaired to salt lae late cuy city duliere berc the matter waa was in some manner directed to the attention of attorney gemeni barnea barnes who advised sharp |