Show commissioners CONTINUE IN pernicious MEDDLING ENLARGING SCOPE OF THEIR operations TO INCLUDE ALL SCHOOL BOARDS manifest fest intention of the board Is to bring every official of carbon county except themselves into disrepute if such a result can be accomplished by systematic insinuations ell of official neglect on ott saturday last the bo baird of county commissioners passed a rebo resolution lution routing reciting the employment by them of the alleged expert and certified accountant J W edmunds to audit t 4 accounts of carbon county high school and of the various varion school districts of carbon county tl the he rei re oli t on further directed that tin compensation of edmunds should hereafter be a agreed reed upon n edmunds and ana the board of county commissioners but should be paid by carbon county high school and the several steral distri districts tb sa directed to he be audited and further recited that the action of the bo baird ard n the premises was in discharge of the duty made incumbent upon them by subdivisions 3 and 4 of section of compiled laws of utah 1907 and acts amendatory thereof the statutes tat utes in question read as follows SUPERVISE COUNTY OFFICERS ro supervise ise the official cond condi ct of all dounty officers and offic officers erh oi ol 01 all precincts di nets and other subdivisions of the county except municipal corporations see that iier faithfully perform their duties direct prosecutions for delinquent cies and nes necessary essary require them to renew their official bonds make reports and present their books and ac counts for inspection I 1 AUDIT ACCOUNTS to examine ind audit at least every six months the accounts of all offic officers erb having the care management collection or disbar disbursement client of f moneys belonging 0 to alic county or appropriated by law or otherwise othero wi e for its use and benefit now ow as a matter of 0 fact carbon county high school d db it duct act is a sep se pirate and distinct corporation or organized anizel by it lt illative act and having absolutely no connection with the canty government subject to the supervision cf rf the board loard of count commissioners commiSsion erb and the same is true ot 01 the se several cral chool districts existing within the count and there is nothing in the subdivisions of the statute quoted granting any ally power whatsoever to the board of county authorizing them to Sti supervise or audit any accounts hatla except those thol beof of county officers and ot of the of officers fiers oi of the various subdivisions in which the county government i dt div aided it aou d therefore seem that the action of the conin commis iii bitners in the premises is predicated a strained con st ruction of the statute stat tite and 1 is wholly without precedent precede tIt I 1 shortly after tha tb service ot of the tha res rem upon the high school board mr Marcu aeu eu president of the high school re referred ferrea the request to a num her ber ot of disinterested attorneys who made an examination of the stat statute ute advised that the board of county com missioners had absolutely no power or authority to audit or employ audit or to otherwise interfere with or supervise the conduct of the ischook system systems and lie waa was farther advised to refuse the demand of the county commissioners that the records of the high school should he turned aver over to 0 o the alleged expert mr edmunds this unwarranted ai on the part of the board of county corn com carrying with it as an it does nn rn of the integrity ot 0 tuo we various officers charged with the of handling the school t finds of the various school schota districts and of the high school la Is L a direct in alt suit of every school trustee within the couney and particularly arly to the president preal dent and trustees of the high school and Is resented not only by the several gentlemen agalena v whom the insinuations are aimed but also by every s bool hool loving citizen or car bon county who feel that the loyd loy d efforts of the high school board nor gratuitously exerted and which have been in founding at price one of the most creditable high schools within the th state are entitled to better consideration ration it Is a the manifest intention of to tto board to bring every official of carbon county except themselves into ds disrepute repute if such are a result suit can be ac by systematic insinuations of ciff official lel al neglect and ad other 1 aloe is tending to bring euch such officers into dishonor if 11 the bull moose commissioners entertain an idea that such conduct OA a their part meets with public approbation aney are woefully mistaken as the st effort in their part will disco discover eer to them that the tax paying public is weary of their attempt ted persecution and of their constant of dishonesty ance malfeasance and Iton nonfeasance directed against the gentlemen who have assumed and are discharging their dutle duties as servants of the public in carbon county it is well known n that for many years mr air marcusen Marc has labored zeat zeal cisly oisly 01 ly for the up building of a crecita bie hie educational system and the mag ent progress pio grea made by the schools of carbon county are the result of his able und nd painstaking care and the co ott ration of the various school trustees te whom the bull moose commis now intimate should be attabit ed ei and against whom their gaily gally and resolution ie Is directed it doubtless will be asserted in be hilf half of he board of county commie honere that their specially specialty paid legal kritler mr air nelson the former law la partner of dill dili newton of odoriferous farne has so construed tie Us statutes as to authorize and make incumbent neou the commissioners the auditing of the school accounts and fittingly tle the allend expert edmunda edmunds was in a attendance at the session or of the corn com rola loners when the resolution was I 1 opted and immediately after option made aomand roand thai that the public school records be turned brer ryer to hia t aana AI f at latest accounts ida ed has not received any of the records and it la to safe sale bet that the last bull moose will be retired from before this impudent resolution aill receive favorable consideration at the bands hands of any school officer within the county the affairs of the school district are public and are open to public la in during reasonable haur hour and ull sess bessone lons of the oe trustees of the high school are held in public so it vill be difficult for the to make any reasonable explanation of heir their conduct in attempting to engage at it the expense of the tle school districts he the alleged expert employed to ad vise the as to the meatus ot of affairs with ahl h they have no proper connection ind thil are entitled to no particular information in view ot of the policy of the commis to constantly stir up strife and to pose as muckrakers while at the same time shamefully wasting the public fiodi tt rt their disposal for the elti employment of incompetent conneely ors who are financial sympathizers with their endeavor this their latest action la in consistent it will ld la a great relief to the ell cit of carbon county who are interested in maintaining ftp fair name at home hoine and abroad when competent and well balanced men pro elected as coun ty commissioners as a then end only then may we expect such to cease during the past ninety daya days the beard has caused to be inaugurated a number of such enquiries which are generally looked upon as the dastard men man livers of cheap politician politicians who fel foel little or no concern in the wel fare of the which they hive taken oaths to faithfully serve hun dreda of dollare dollars hivo havo been ed at differ different eat mes session for the cm era ment rt rt orney orneys directed to carry on a petty of the personal enemies ol 01 the commisa auers quers nere I 1 who eem seem to consider that the money of the ayere may be lawfully la vf oily used for or such s we would now respectfully suggest til to the commissioners that the public Is about to can call a bait halt on obese ful ful and that neither their ignart Ig nonnce nce of law nor th tha 9 agnor ance of lawyers whom they have pm ein aloyed to te guide them in a euch such mattera matters will le he accepted as a defense ac me tioff tion are arn instituted them lo 10 muke good the public monies so im un lawfully taken from the county trees tress ury frank alger alter of nino nine mile was la in price this week transacting bust nae items 4 |