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Show THE SilOOT CASE. Veritas" Takes Issue "With tha Salt Lake Tribune's Unfair Report of It and Sets Forth Some Facts. Provo, Utah, April 12 Correspondence Correspond-ence Dispatch. J I take notice in today's to-day's Salt Lake Tribune what purports to be a synoptical report of the case tried jesterday, Utah territory ys. A. O. Smoot Jr., et al, which is so very un-lair un-lair that it is a matter of doubt whether it is not libelous. It is so full of misstatements mis-statements that it is impossible to gather the truth Irom it. If the case, as the Tribune saya, had been so planted by the territory that Mr. smoot's :credits could have been allowed al-lowed during toe whole period cf his collectoreliip, it would have been found that instead of him being short at the tune of his resignation in 1887 he had paid not only upwards of a thousand dollars more than he collected but that he had paid more than could legally have been charged against him. But he was only permitted to show the auditor's omissions to credit him in the year 1887. Had the auditor's books been examined for previous years the result would have been that there was no cause of action against Mr. Smoot. A comparison of tha books kept by the clerk of Utah county with him with those of the auditor will establish this fact conclusively. But this is like everything else in Utah, in some people's peo-ple's estimation, there is nothing good outside of Salt Lake. The county court of Utah count; is all right as an agent to get funds for the territory, but it is all wrong when it gives just credits to anybody who doesn't live in Salt Lake city, Veritas. |