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Show WOMEN AIDED BY WEBER , COUNTY There may be impostor anions lhose who seek aid from the county commissioners, but. in the opinion of K 1 1 F-'olkmari rust od a n of I DS count y court house, there are few For the Mst number of years Mr. Polknian has practically attended to i t he poor of the county w ho applied for assistance and he states that he doen i not recall an instance wliere he waa (misled by the applicant. In mom jtases poor people are slow to a.k for assistance and he points to an In i stance of this kind thai came undr his obseration onlv a few days ago A lad with an infant child was furnished transportation by her hus band as far as Ogden on the v. ;i . to where hf was working in Arizona, the understanding being that at Ogdn ! mouev would le waiting for her to continue the journey. Instead of receiving re-ceiving monev here she received i letter felling hr that her husbanl had been injured, and thai the mony could not be sent until a later date. When the woman arrived in the I 11 I she had barely enough to pay for a 'room oer night She went to a room-i room-i tng house and lived there two or thre j days w ithout a thing to eat. before she would ask for help, and not until the cries of her starvms babe were J heard and the landlady inquired the cauBe was it known that the woman was In destitute circumstances. The jttenlion of the commissions- i called to the case It ts needless to sny that the woman and her .hl!d were fed Speaking of Mrs Clara Jones, who recently received aid from the commissioners com-missioners to take herself and two children to Los Angeles Mr. Folk-man Folk-man states thai he was called to thc-( thc-( lty Jail to investigate the case and determine whether the woman was in need He said that he found the Woman Wom-an in a delicate condition and with out money, so far as he could learn She desired to return to Imi--where shf said her husband, who was suing for divorce, lived. Or. she said she would like to go to the Crltten-ton Crltten-ton home for care, saying that she would give away her bah The hoard of commissioners took the matter under advisement, finally telling Mrs Jones that the board would pny her wa to Los Angeles, where she claimed she h-d friends whom she declared would help he:-out he:-out of her difficulty She accepted rnd a ticket for herself and children was purchased at a cost of 17,65, 6he was taken immediately to the de pot In the patrol wcgon and she left on a westbound train a few minutes after arriving. Reports hav e since her n receive J by the police department thai tbe woman had money to paj her way and that h- i as Imposing on the charity of the county commissioners Mr Folkman says it mav be true thai she was an impostor, but he discov ercd nothing to Indicate it |