Show BOARD OF EDUCATION citizens bank allowed some five I 1 hundred dollars the matters under discussion at alie special meeting ol 01 the board of education held last night were exclusively of financial nature and included the baim daim of the citizens bank which lias been before tho board spring last night alie matter was settled forever and the bank will get its money thus forcing the board to lose the amount allowed on account of the defalcation of treasurer helfrich when president called tho meeting to order all members were present and the matter of alie claim of the bank ana at once taken up the claim lias been under consideration so many times that the public is undoubtedly familiar with all of its details alio trouble arose through the operations of helfrich who at the time of his defalcation was treasurer of alie board all money held by as treasurer of ogden city and the board of education was deposited in the citizens bank and on many occasions the bank acted as the defaulters agent when he was absent and cashed warrants as treasurer of either the city or the board as alie case might be just before the defalcation was discovered made a report to the board allowing eliat there was a s 1 healthy balance in hia handa to tho credit of the board about una kiino the bank cashed seventeen warrants in amount and then hie discovery was made eliat there were 1 no funds in the bank to the credit of the board and as haltrich Hel dropped everything and got out the bank had no recourse except upon the board claiming that helfrich had taken tho money which should havo been in the general fund and devoted it to ilia own use alie warrants were not presented to the board fur nearly seven month however and when alicy a collel was made by members 0 tho old loard hanstord Kan stord smith jakini the t active part who claimed eliat as the bank hid cashed thu warrants agent fur gehrich it and not tho baird wad n gieir liro tin payment as an t against helfrich with whom tho board had exclusive dealings nilita nil were devoted to a hearing hea bedoe examined under catli and the matter wan allowed to TO over until last ipek when it was called ap or consideration but again laid over until last night judge dee took the same stand aa alio of the old board of winch lie was one and contended eliat the board did not know the citizens bank in any of its transactions with alio treasurer and if the bank had cashed the warrants and then discovered that helfrich biad taken the money should have been in the general fund the aggregate amount of the warrants stood as an overdraft against helfrich anil was a matter of settlement between him and the bank emerson introduced the following resolution as a settler lle solved that ao much of the claims of the citizens bank as Is in the seventeen warrants held by said bank and not surrendered amounting to the sun of be and the same Is hereby allowed and the clerk of the board of education is hereby authorized to pay said bank eaid eum of by regular warrant out of the funds of the board and be it further resolved that the balance of the claim of the citizens bank against the board of education edn cation amounting to the sum kofl be and the same Is hereby disallowed and payment thereof refused on roll and hart voted in the negative and emerson harcombe and patterson Patter soa in the affirmative the resolution was declared adopted and its provisions carried out emerson and dee were appointed a committee to negotiate the eale of tho city warrant received by the board from the city on account of sales of property for taxes the board then adjourned until friday night |