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Show with which he made good the lofs and took over as partial reimbursement the realty and other property relinquished relin-quished by the delinquent official an! his wife. , DEPOSITS CHECK AND ' RETURNS TO COUNTY JAIL The former stato treasurer of Utah, James Christiansen, yesterday placed in tho hands of his successor a check for $70.G2S'j4 and returned ta,a cell in the county jail to await the action of the law. Although Christiansen has admitted the defalcation of this largo sum, told of Its expenditure In saving Nevada mining enterprises .from wreck, confessed to a cluniHy falsification falsifica-tion of the records of his former office and voluntarily returned from Nevada to suffer the consequences of his crime. Justice is slow to act. No complaint had been filed by tho county attorney at a late hour last night and the officials were unable to say when tho prosecution of the caso would actually begin. Most of the day was devoted to the adjustment of tho deficit in the state funds. Mr. Christiansen's Chris-tiansen's bondsmen raised the money |
