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Show ASKS THE COUNTY ! TO PUT UP $3,000 '; Rev. P. A. SimpkLns and Fred J. Kiesel Request Weber's Gommiftjv I sioners to .Send Money to Salt Lake to Entertain & '" I the Crowds dommissioners Rebel. f -fii&V 1 1 ' Some time lst 'spring the county commissioners from over the state were called to the banquet board in the Commercial club rooms of Salt Lake and talked to regarding certain things that Salt Lake had in mind for the year, among them the entertaining entertain-ing of the people who would assemblo in ZIon for tho Irrigation Congress and for the Trans-Mississippi congress. con-gress. It was said to the commissioners then that these were big affairs and that the state, through the city of Zion, should do great things and make a big showing. The suggestion sugges-tion was made that tho counties of the state, through their boards of commissioners . should send some monev to the coffers of the Salt Lake steering committee of which former Governor Heber M. Wells Is chairman chair-man and. some one, arbitrarily, and without authorltv of law lovled assessments as-sessments on the various counties, Weber county's sharo being fixed at $3,000. Later Governor William Spry, in a communication to tho local commissioners commis-sioners stated that the appropriations should be made, so that the fair state of Utah might shine before the guests of tho capital city. Tho governor did not disenss the question of law regarding re-garding such appropriations, but merely suggested that It would be well for the counties to show their loyalty by sending the money Some of the boards of commissioners In the down-stato districts havo made the appropriations and tho secretary of the steering committee at Salt Lake is assurod that the money will be forthcoming. Today beforo the board of county commissioners of Weber county, appeared ap-peared the Rev. P. A Slmpklns of Salt Lake and Fred J. Kiesel of Ogden, Og-den, to importune tho board to appropriate ap-propriate the $3,000 The commissioners commis-sioners took the matter under advisement advise-ment until tomorrow morning, but. judging from expressions given by Commissioners Mooro and Madsen to- day, there is little chanos'ior'tnoSalf I Lakers to get the money "nj5 m Speaking of the matter this morn- $ff 1 j. ing, tho two commissioners stated , JkW that Wober county had troubles of k her own and that if there should be B any funds on hand that could be used ft for public purposes, other than the I J Tegular expenditures in maintaining T the county government, they would . 8 surely hand them over to home peo- a i pie or spend a little more in building djw roads. fljflp "Besides," said Commissioner Mad- III son, "there is no authority under tho W law for such an appropriation and it lr US stretching things considerably for 111 tho governor or any one else to ask 1 m tho boards of commissioners to at- W tempt suoh a thing." ft Tho Cache county commissioners 1 fi turned the proposition down and also I S gave the Salt Lake contingent a If roasting. f m |