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Show COUNTY COMMISSIONERS SUED. It is Claimed They Paid Republicans Money Contrary to Law. Salt Lake, April 21. County Attorney Attor-ney Job P. Lyon, in behalf of Salt Lake county, brought suit against the county commissioners and their bondsmen in the Third district court Tuesday to recover to the county tho $5,727.50 paid the Intermountain Re puollcan without warrant by the com-' missioners on January' 8, 1909, for printing tho 1908 delinquent tax list. James E. Clinton heads the list of defendants, John C. Mackay Is second sec-ond and Walter J. Burton, the new commissioner, third, with the bondsmen bonds-men next, Lewis S. Hills and William L. Elleibeck for Clinton, Daniel Mackay Mac-kay and E. H. Calllster for Mackay, anl John R. Smith and Heber S.'Cut-ler S.'Cut-ler Xor Burton. Bondsman Mackay is a brother of Commissioner Mackay, and Calllster is vice president of the paper that profited by the transaction complained of in the suit. The complaint does not allege that the amount paid the Republican was excessive, but that the payment was without warrant of law, under section 529 of the compiled laws of Utah which require the solicitation of bids for the printing, the county attorney contends. |