Show A CIuni clumsy sy liar and ais i irn is works crab hound or some soine other ill beggars and prid uncommonly clumsy liar devoted almost half of the first page of a scurrilous local sheet last week to an effird to prejudice the au public alic against certain county officials and particularly the county commissioners this tirade will not have much effect except to disgust with those who know the despicable tactics of the crab hound but areSi are a few recent arrivals aman g the taxpayers tax payers of carbon co county and forthe b befit of these the tb news advocate will stoop to answer a few of the charges q made against the commissioners whose shoes bob crockett is not riot fit to lace ace the ch c h complains that the adral finin financial cial statement compiled by county clerk horsley and published in m the news advocate of aug 13 is nt not explicit enough that the sian of is mentioned as general expenses if the county clerk were to explain in detail where every cent went many pages of a newspaper would rould be required to contain tite the report repart 1 I lieu heit the ch c h wound complain urai plain unless it were re published in hil vile sheet that the statement wae was padded to give tome ome pet printer a graft raft if he is afraid lome somebody body besides members of his gang has gotten an illegal dollar from irom the county jet him explain to his borrowed list of subscribers where the money went and show up the graft if he be can stay sober long enough to fild any it complains because in twelve month the commissioners have voted to caring for the poor sich lame and halt of the county chumy what would you do with these poor creatures let them tarv er instead of being criticised criticized me commissioners should be highly commended for looking after the poor and n ed it says further that carbon county is bonded 0 1 the limit this is not fully it also makes the charge charie andthil and this comes nene neair m being true than any other material allegation it hue made that ther q ar T 3 warrants outstanding amounting to grivin kutal pf but t f d ch c h the fairness to stat that this warrant indebtedness wa wap from a former board and that sije sine Janil 1 1913 when the first progressive took office in the court fiche like 20 of those old warrants have been redeemed hy tte officials it seeks to discredit the financial statement blishel pu published shows of these warra warrants nW it also calls attention W to the fact that there are judgments against the county of J but neg acts purposely to state that of this amount is fur adeba contracted by a former administration not progressive its is to the effect that taxes in price will this year be in the neighborhood of seven per percent cent the fact is that hat they will be less ahan han six six per cent to be exact there is an increase of mills over last year three mills of this is due to the fact that the commissioners are ca called led upon to make a levy to pay N S money borrowed i m n 1911 uel before bre the present county commission commissioners or either of them abe h held el doffice office last year the price school district levied mills and the high school district 5 making a total tw tro of milla mills this year the Hevy lIevy is 23 mills A apart part of ibis 23 mill levy is to provide a sinking fund for the high school bonds which the old high school schoot hoard board neglected to do and then the city administration has raised the levy for city purposes one mill over last years ears levy levy yes god knows axes are high but not because the 4 bull roo have squandered or stolen an any Y many maney they are trying to pay payoff boff off debts th they cy did not create an and instead instead of getting credit for their laudable borts they are abused by a bunch of hirelings of the very gang responsible on sible for present depla deplorable dep brable rable condi conditions lions i the old charge that the commissioners are pur purchasing clasing lumber and other supplies at prices higher than others can purchase the same material is again made with as little truth as was contained in the same charges last fal fall when anen it was shown by the news that the city was paying more for lumber than the county barbaglio Bar boglio bank bink at helper holds the county funds upon which it pat pas s no interest t is another malicious lie fie proved to be such by the financial state statement ment published in the aery re issue in n which the lie bassue appeared under the glea heading ding analysis 01 receipts excepts fourteenth li line ne appears this item interest daily balances to ascertain just how much the ch c h had lied red the writer went to 0 o the county treasurers office monday and looked over the records record which disclose dis closs that since june 1 1913 when the treasurer began dg depositing positing fund in the helper state bank batik that institution has paid oar eon bon county interest to the he amount of but bui a small lie for crocket crockett and very clumsy continued on pege to too A CLUM CLUMSY SY LIAR AND HIS WORKS WO R KS f continued from one as poll tax the 1 but it also co complains ni plains became for district court londas d decision lon was much a county was lucky to get that the effect that the tile collection ot handed dmn iri in salt lake lak c county to court most coun the tile appeal I 1 to supreme pending 11 tar t was illegal court p poll 0 ceased to collect poll tax the supreme ties including ig carbon came too late to pern permit it reversed versed the dec decision ision but the tile opinion later rc must be m made ado prior to the tile levy levy levying 1 I ng a poll tax ti as ah the tile st itu itutti te at I 1 the tl h first 1 day of april the crab hound says of A bing then just to keep in practice I 1 thousand sand of the tile thirty one eggleston NI mathew ithel NN who ho are to 9 get let most barbon county t of the roads in for better betterment nien dollars now being spent wholesalers plies from other supplies and arid bupt supt are shipping in all their groceries colo and elsewhere grand junction at the just to show that this ih u as big a lie as the others enumerated and found around to town n monday made short trip a news nenn ad advocate acate ocate during firm has spent that tois was better th in a lie as the arac grading ailing the last three months the tile folio following ing amounts in price eastern Cominis bion ut utah ill whole Who lenie 1 coni company any carbon county price Commis commission ilon COMI company any price coop co O op company Sl armour co a t toul otal of st 25 1 here are other price which have hane sold supplies alej to to this firm but the five in alices enumerated will pro prove e the point that crockett cah t tell the truth if he tries and no nobody body ha has ever accused him of trying Contil continuing laing the ch c h calls attention to the fact that was spent for bookstand books book sand and stationery during the year ending June SOth 1915 it doesn doean t say so but it ica leaves Ls the inference that the carbon county news got all of this sum As a d matter of fact the tile news received 1022 20 considerably less than half the patronage pi given out and of this amount a large part was for printing ordinances delinquent tax list etc it says the news is charging the county more than its services are N worth orth the nen news s manager mikes makes it a point to charge a profit of 20 per cent on e every cry job done in the office whether for the county or a private individual can the ch c h do business on a smaller margin in 1909 the eastern utah advocate took out of the county treas ury 00 in 1910 1735 40 and in 1911 it got the file news neus has not yet reached the lowest lonest amount the tile advocate received for a full year s business who has been most fa dav ored by the county duria the VT year 31 ending figuly fi july 1 1910 when crockett pulled i for and stationery the total receipts 40 out of the tile count printing of the county were 30 while the year just closing june jun 30 10 1915 NN when hen the tile news got but the receipts v were ere 93 nearly more than during ear got more than the news ever got in one ear either the news s not getting its share now or crockett got more than his share in m 4 in 1910 when crockett did so well printing for the tile county the fees taken in by the clerk recorder and sheriff were but during the y ar nr just just closed they were nere 37 almost three times ns as large but the bill for books and stationery wis was not nearly as great the court cases filed give gie a pretty prett good indication of of how the tile business and work of the county has grown in the ear when crockett waxed fat to the tune of there were ere but 46 cases in district court dui ing the ear just closed there were cases all this increased bu business biness required more printing and stationery but the news nes got considerably less than crockett got when there were ere but 46 cases in view of the above shon showing ing it would appear that crockett must have been cither either drunk or crazy probably pio bably both when nhen he opened u up P a controversy endeavoring to show that the news has been grafting off the county verily fools rush in where here angels fear to tread trend in the fall of 1912 carbon count county alid the eastern utah aavo 1 cate then owned and operated by bob crockett for election si supplies for 13 precincts last fall the supplies liLS ant were re furnished by b an outside concern for 30 for the same number of districts g here the county made a biving of by NOT patronizing the tile trustee ho is now howling about the tile graft of the news in 1912 1 the eastern utah ad advocate acate ocate charged the county for publish publishing inA a list of nominations the tile carbon county ne publish ed the same list at the same time for here flere again the news charged less than this saintly trustee whose heart bleeds whenever he lie sees anybody except himself and members of his unholy gana of bloodsuckers get a cent from the county crockett says carbon county is deorse dk worse orse than broke which is a damnable lie and will do more to keep people from locating here than anything that could be he said in some communities comm uniti e s a knocker of this kind would not be tolerated verily the people of old carbon are a patient lul lut wit n the above array of lies lit laid at his door the crab bourn bound should hive a fine time making anybody believe anything that appears in in his scurrilous blackmailing sheet since the above was written the members eMbers in of the school board have reduced the school levy 5 mills bunging tho hotd down iman to 37 70 |