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Show HI THAT CCUNTY PRINTING. Hit County Commissioner Mackay and his associ- Hfj ates have taken no chances this time in letting HI the printing of the county's delinquent tax list. HI They ask for bids with alacrity and get them HI ( The bid of the "Mouth" is about three times as HI high as the bids submitted by the two other po- H I pers who entered the competition, but as the law H governing the awarding of the work contains a H provis'on that the commissioners may consider H the circulation and .standard of a newspaper in H , letting the contract, there is, of course, but one H outcome, the "Mouth" will land the contract. H The fact that the commissioners asked for bids H this time, however, is pretty thoroughly indica- H . tlve of the effect of County Attorney Job Lyon's suit against the commissioners for the -return of the fivo or six thousand dollars they grabbed from the county a year and a half ago, and gave to the "Mouth." Mackay and his associates gave the tax list to the "Mouth" at the time without asking for bids and. paid the paper several thousand dollars for work that had formerly cost less than one thousand dollars. And in connection with Mr. Lyon's suit against them for the return of this money, if there is anything more of a joke about the commissions s than themselves it is the answer an-swer they filed in the case through their attorney, Kinky Booth, who, by the way, is president of the crowd that owns the "Mouth." There is modesty for you. And if Attorney Lycn keeps on as he has started start-ed in pushing the suit against the commission, you'll not hear quite such a howl from the West Temple street sheet about that official doing his duty, regardless, etc. |
