Show MONEY PAID IN FOR WALKS r City Administration Must Answer Answer Answer An An- to Taxpayers for Absence of Coin J CANNOT MEET THE REFUND Inquiry Shows That of Has' Has Disappeared The Tho city will have to answer to the tho of Ninth properly owners living south South Routh and null east cost of oC State street on l' l extension lOS IDS for Cor the dissipation linn tion of or a 1 part of the tho special run fund cro- cro h by the establishment oC or that dis Iq- Iq triet U tt the of or the thC city council Monday nl night ht an ordinance was parsed repealing the tho levy lOvy of an assessment for this thia work which Includes about 50 miles of or sidewalks The contract was let lot two years ago aJo to Johnson and Beacom flea Bea- com corn and would have e amounted to about OOOo The work was never ne started Yet Tot It Is found Cound that the tho property owners affected by th the thA Improvement t paid Into tho tim city treasury n nto to Lo j plY ay for or their share of or the tho cost of I improvement m cat It II Is still further found that there Is now In that fund only II The elt city has spent for hot air It Il Is related b by tho the city officials In defense of their un a unwarranted rr aC a- a C cy that the 1 i Sl was spent for advertising and nd engineering cn on the work worle S What actually t became of this money no one seems to J know now and neither can canan an any of ot tho the city officials give Aho an nn adequate ado ade quate explanation as ns to now flOW the account account account ac ac- ac- ac count should bo handled from hero here out Onner PaT for or An n attempt was ma made e yesterday ester b by byThe byThe The n Republican to ascertain If lC the elt city officials familiar with public Improvements Improve improve- ments and meats and that Includes only a C select se-lect Cew ew expect the the property owners to pay tho cost of en engineering and ad advertising advertising all all- I when they certainly cannot get el a n. single le hIt bit of benefit from front the expenditure Xo No o Gity oC official seemed d' d to know just what to do Under the law v It is provided that thai nit all 11 of or the money paid in must be reI returned re- re I turned If It the work is not done don it bong heing bo he- in ing ng thereby understood that the property prop- prop I erty owner derived no benefit from the till expense to which he lie was put nut ut The Thc advertising bill for fot or this proposition has fattened the coffers of or the tho Kearns Cearns organs orJans and the thc en engineering has gone a lon long wa way toward up a learns Kearns machine In the Ute city ity government o Now ow the tho property owners who have ha been een deprived ed of oC the use of or their thom money moner for or two years will have havo to sit h by and whistle until th the oit city can figure out slIn some ome scheme whereby it can cnn he be paid back ack |