| Show 1 r CITY HA HALL L AND ITS AFFAIRS I HARMON CLAIMS NOW Illegal Accounts Against City No Longer In the Street Department RALEIGH VIOLATES LAW LAWI I Interested I In ii Contract Turned Contract T Turned u Down by the Mayor I and Others 1 S There lucre arc uro no imo J I Harmon bills In this department de de- sal said Clerk T. T S. S Atkins of or time till street department Tuesday I Un Under H the time lire of oC criticism the time Harmon bills hills have ha been withdrawn n and aull time tile ell 1 will t not pa pay ISY them because Jake Jakc supervisor of the time street department Interested in them I D. D W. W Harmon W. W M. M Harmon and amid J J. J T T. Raleigh have ha funned formed a H business partnership co-partnership and the time teams and wagons wa WR I gons operated by 11 the time company compan arc are owned ownell conjointly b by the trio Their business I is to haul gravel ra el to lo excavate cellars loo to lo todo todo do o an any ammy kind of or work with teams anti and wagons a There Is plenty of or opportunity for tor that sort son of work olk in Snit Salt I Lake kc and It If It II Is worked properly time the business can cami be made er very profitable The Time bu business lne s flourished Ono One of ot time the reasons for success s was time the proprietorship proprietor ship of the tIme street supervisor He lIe obtained ob oh- tamed t from th time Iho elt city fur for street repairs and bought U Jl most t of the time gravel gra he lie u U cd ell from the time Harmon com cOli P pany At one time he lie asked asle for or an ap- ap of saying aln that of or that amount was already owing The Time council refused to lo make the time appropriation tion lion because e of or an internal Internal- t tight light ht be Le tween Jako Raleigh and some of the time of or the council who had imad broken away t It from an alliance with him I h Major arm Turns HIm Ilium Down Doun But Hut Jake Jakc Raleigh h was resourceful an anho and amid ho o sent tent U 1 requisition to lo th the council for tor 2000 saIn saying that the time mane money was e essen The Time council allowed the time mone money to togo togo too go o through and amid It became available for street treet repair work It wa t was common knowledge UI up and amid down own the elt city sl side l' l of ot the time joint building that thai Raleigh was as Int interested in au any work done b by time the Harmon company campau and that lie he ic was Interested In the payment of ot all any of or their bills About the tIme time that thai the time Hannon aimon bills bill w were re to lo be pal paid Mayor l Thompson c called lIell Jake Raleigh aside and tol told old him among among- ohme oilier s. that the time elt city would not do llo business with the time Harmon company And Amid h he lie told him wh why l The Time city didn't nt the time bills pa pay and they were cre withdrawn from tho time street department depart depart- ment after the thc auditor h had stamped them In the time usual w way showing that the bills ha had been and amid sworn to The Republican ma made e inquiry at that time of or tho the bills that were ready to be put through time the u usual ual channels of or payment say pay ment end Clerk Clerk- Clerk l thc did not nol over OO The statement state state- slate slate-l I ment meat had hall been made malic to th the elt city council coun coun- cil cli cil when the 2000 2000 appropriation was asked for that SOO 0 was ns owing for gravel STa and the time common un understanding was that Harmon was to get bet the S Wont Won't U Use e Moran oran Gra Because of or his t remunerative connection with whim Harmon an and com company pan of II his JiLs loft lofty I position in the time ell city administration Ital- Ital el elgh h tried to create a monopoly ol of or the I gravel el lJ by refusing hl to lo accept an any of or time the gravel bravel taken laken from tram the Iho Streets by 11 Pat Pal Time The elt city hall had agreed to lo topa pa pay Moran for tor hauling gravel Ia el tom from roam the thc streets ho lie is la pa paving to certain of or the time city i streets that require repairing Raleigh i insisted that all nil of or the time gravel ra el used on eil city streets be bo hauled h by time the Harmon Hannon company and that they be paid vald for It Now that the time Harmon bills have b been cn withdrawn rawn and amid nu now that Jak Raleigh's h plans hav been upset tho busy hand of Pat Moran Iolan Is seen en in the un undoing oln atthe of at the lie street supervisor Raleigh played with lire Moran orun wasn't t getting enough h dirt placed on oil time the city cily str streets at so o much mucha a it load and he was Instrumental in gelling get gel et- et ling time thc elt city officials to lo have C nothing whatever cr to do o with Harmon Mayor S Thompson's Thompsons statement to lo Raleigh and amid his well known policy of or favoring ta Moran lend corroboration of that stor story Moran Iolan won out Th The city wont ont hu buy an any more mote gravel cl foal Harmon because because- Jake is Interested interested in In- In iii tho time proceeds and the ell city cily wont won't pay Pal fur for the time gravel ra cl already placed S b by Harmon on the tIlt streets under the time direction S ion Hon of or Raleigh Violated the time l Lit nn CSt City officials promise that thai I till time Raleigh S graft grafl raft has imas been slopped for Cor or all time lime Some of ot the time arn councilmen and some seine I lor of tile heads lenus or of departments who VitO Know knet I of ut of tile the inside workings of or the tire street tr et de de- S I 1 came caine to the time opinion that Raleigh Hal Ral was as too loo raw and amid they hind hall no ito hesitation in ill al airing aIng In their thell views lews A leaning S I low aid dl Mor accentuated their lle desire to undo Raleigh I Supervisor Super Raleigh h had bad not grown rown fa familiar taI ta- ta with the time s 01 or the time street I derailment department when he lie went Into inlo la last t year before ho imp began e all violating the time law At t that time ho lie was us about the only city who ho knew that t a what that whatever limit hat ever affected Harmon Barmon and amid company also affected et 11 Raleigh h. h The he board of or public S wot works leg let lct a contract to D. D W W. and W. W M M. Harmon doing bush business ss as Harmon Hurmon ant antI and antII company It was approved b by the mayor lIar I and the elt city counci council a and amid I II the time ct city ima ha j ha-j I I paid for for the time work t The rime records show that limit the time Harmon company compan filled Parl Parleys Parley's s 's canyon creek where It the Fort ort runs across Douglas Doug mi military l a 1 reservation lon and amid received O This was April 30 Later In time the summer sum sum- mer mN Colonel LockwOod of at the thc post com complained COI- COI that the thc work had imad not riot been 1 done domic S o pI p I ul c b 1 11 tl L LS company v 10 11 more for additional work t S This warrant arrant was waw paid September 22 22 2 19 Al U that time Street Supervisor owned interest In the firm It an Irm I was as about the Iho time that he sl same signed nel-a nel a check cheek for fO 6 In JJ payment for or a hOI o. o S sl signing the time check Harmon and company by br J. J T. T Raleigh He lIe le evidently c the tIme money while hie time the Harmons han handled lell th the dirt dill ht In lit April of this year ear un one of tho time liar Har Harmons lur- lur mons momma and amid a team worked for or tho land I wa water department dil drawing wing a u warrant tarrant warrant war war- S IS rant April 15 1907 for or 51 I. I Later In Iii the thc health department a Harmon was paid paI L 13 3 for team timid and labor Some Sonic of that S went Into inlo Raleigh's hs h's pocket as per eI his mon agreement with t lh D. D W. W V. V and amid W. W M. M l. l lar liar Har 5 S |
