Show HOARD BOARD IS SPLIT IN ITS DEFENSE School Board Members Answer in Rawlins Suit as Individuals RECOGNITION IS DENIED Claim Rawlins Has Been Disqualified Disqualified Disqualified Dis Dis- qualified as Jordan District District District Dis Dis- Member fl That James It R. Rawlins Rt has s not been r. r a resident of the tho Jordan school dlf dis- r. r and has hs not been a n. voter In tho the I Eighth representative pr precinct o of th tho district since July 2 25 1907 Is 15 tho the reason reason rea rca son set net forth by two members of th the board Loard of education for the tho refusal to recognize Rawlins n. n as a. a 0 member of tho the board Charles C. C Crapo and anti C. C I I. 1 Countryman Coun Countryman Coun- Coun Countryman tryman members of the tho board on onIon MontJay Monday Mon Ion da day tJay flied filed an nn answer in the tho Third District Dis- Dis b court to the action brought bj by against the board of education of the Jordan district and Crapo Countryman Countryman Countryman Coun Coun- tryman John Dunn and Q George D. D Gardner members of ot the tho board I Rawlins having asked for a 0 writ of mandate mandato to compel the tho board to permit er h him to serve as 18 a n member Ha alleged that Crapo and Countryman had conspired con- con to get control of the tho affairs or of him from M his the board and to oust from place on the board and arid and said that the they had recognized lieber Heber A A. A Smith as n a member sincO last lost month Crapo and Countryman den deny tha that i their thel been conspiracy on there has bas an any part to get control of or affairs and say that tho the county count commissioners on Ma May 1 12 decided that Rawlins R. was Inell ineligible to servo ser on the he board and named med Heber Hebe A A. A Smith to servo serve In his place since which time Smith has been recognized as ns a member of at the tho board Smith is 51 lil years o of age ge and lives In tho Draper precinct P The answer of Crapo and Countryman Country Country- man sets forth that Dunn and Gardner In the de defense defenso de- de ha have 0 refused to tako take a part and would not appear In the answer an an- to tho the action of ot Rawlins for which reason the answer Is not flied filed na ns that of the board hut but by Crapo and Countryman Countryman Individually Individual It has hRs been said that th the tho members of oC the tho board who have refused to recognize recognize recognize nize Rawlins have hae contended that he heIs heIs heIs Is H a homesteader in tn another county count but hut this Is not brought out In the ac action ac- ac tion |