Show TALK ABOUT SOFT SNAPS overworked over worked employed Emp loyes put in almost 7 hours per day doing three hours work the recorders office just the place for people who want to draw salaries without a just return A standard reporter writes more words daily than the recorders whole force some interesting te resting facts we are In formel that mr devoto as sistena recorder of h has much inch to eay say of the unfairness of tui STAND ARD I 1 s disclosures of the fee business of weber county coti mr devoto does not claim that TUB THE STANDARD STANDARDS figures are wrong but he seems to think that th the employee in the itic office are worked eo so bard that it ie is impossible to make a redaction reduction ot of expenses in that office in view of the fact that mr devoto is so loud and anti mem me in in hie his of THE tim STANDARD we will take up the recorders odice first and show that af mr r devoto and the others in the recorders office really have a toft soft first of all the employee of the he ro corders office go to work about 9 in the morning morn inc take an hour for dinner and quit work at 6 5 iu lu the after afternoon while hile devoto the prince of the recorders office often quite much earlier and frequently finds time to pipe off 11 the district court for a few hours thie this alone would suggest that the recorders are not overworked to any great extent but then tim deals la in fact and we will take the rl reu c orila of the recorders office for them the recorders cordere re records how show that GO documents were recorded and cert fled copies issued for which 70 1 in tees fees wae was actually collected during lost last month there are two men and a lady in the recorders office it will be le seen that dividing the 69 60 documents among the three employed emp loyes that each person bad 23 documents to write up or legs less than one a day each that does not appear to be any great amount of work dues does it but let au analyze the total work the recorder says that the charges are 20 cents for recording cordice re each wolds words taking the total tees fees collected it will be been seen that words were written in the recorders cordere re office tor for last month divided between betwee a the th three ree ead employed emp loyes would gi give ve each words to write during the month dividing that again by twenty biz six working days would show bat that each employed ot of the record recorders erps office write writes about 1125 worde worda per day or about as much as one column in THE tim STANDARD the people can form an in idea how bard hard these there recorders work when the reporters on TUB vic enst go out on the streets each day and bunt hunt up news items and write them up and tornish from three to tfx ark daily in other words each STANDARD reporter report erg after hunting up P the news dews writes dally daily from three to six times as much as does each employed in the recorders office ors or to be still more explicit one ons reporter does more work than then all gill the employee ol 01 the re cordere office combined this proves conclusively that tun people are not slow whatever may be their other fault faults in the face of this prince cavoto W will ill mak inake scarcely any particular claims for or efficiency unless he ile Is to nars jureine inix his job sow now then the people can cart look at this matter as they elesee to 60 can the county com commissioned re tait doea does its full duly duty when it calls the attention of the tile public 0 9 thing is certain and that ia is tbt that THE STANDARD ehtor will gladly take the contract to do all the work in the tile rf cor cordera derla office tor for the tees fees allowed by law the toce foce debould be reduced in the recorders calice at once it Is plain on the face ot of the records that three em aloyes can not be kept buy buoy even te neveu veu hone boure gerday day let us have economy in the Re recorder cordera office and sad that bet at once onze JOHN SEAMAN TALKS sli his proxy sam sain T meyers eyers find finds that the standard was in error on one item of 1770 but does not touch on other matters and hence practically confesses the other irregularities yesterday sam T meyers and john seaman were seen frequently snickering to toe ether zelber and sad it wae was supposed that they bad had fold told each other sonae some new love lov estOry bat but the following fol lowine communication seems to have been the result ogden utah dec HOT or TUB tur DAILY As A you have elated stated your desire to be fair I 1 la a your critic tara ot public officers ot ticer you will doubtless take pleasure in correcting an error in n your 0 ur 1 editorial in DAILY standard wt ofte b is moraine morning under the beading john seaman beaman you say mat tuat the meanest thine thing th tt records of 1897 1891 show ia is the payment to john bv by bima elf tut of the county treasury of tie a expenses mr seaman incurred against weber county before ha be was installed in the office ottice of comity county coin mis ioner mr seaman beaman won the suit against the county and when ha he got rot into office be he road the county pay hie his expense expenses which be he incurred of bis his own free willand will and a the wishes of the old commissioners Vlon sio ners ers 11 it is true that the uit unit wan brought against the wishes of the old commissioners sio ners afaf it Is aleo also true ns its the decision declare declares they were about to perform an illegal act which could 0 only aly be prevented by an sia order of court A further fact Is also of record that a large number of tax tox payers protested in tain vain aga inist the act were about to perform the facts about the 70 are these theve the claim was filed dec al ti by david evans the attorney at as s ie Is ns al each cases the county was on the transaction except for stenographers e foe of 00 ur seaman 6 paid to the e clerk lerk and sheriff cash in advance 1370 hatour won the bult suit he was entitled as all Ittle ants are to nave his hi masonry oner back this be got and nothing more you any the bill was illegal leeal il please explain a w what bit wv way the bill was illegal I 1 you re refer fer to a bill of lor for a notice concerning the same uit juit if you ou ever published any reference to the an suit fl t was it not a as an itera item of news in to the regular 1 way fr for which no charpes conid could be madea galust weber county perhaps you refer to a notice the old had hai you b asking for bids to perform this ilits FI flips I 1 L act which wae was by the court enjoined if eo SO in what leeal legal way did the county become 11 for anything connected with the theil illegal leal proceeding if the old told employed employed qu you to forward their purpose a should ou d yoa you not look to them for your you pay 0 truly BAU sam T if gam am T myers acting proxy and chief factotum for john seaman tell the truth then STANDARD hae has in indeed leed erred in one of the many charge charges of made against john beg man tite wae was noder under the impre a elon sion and alit till 1 ie is that it t seaman wae was en cited to any cosi cost in the tile caso referred to that be avd been oid paid by E W wede wade john C childs and W G kilsoo and not by the county but aa as thie this 1770 17 ia only one out of the thirteen charges TUB STANDARD makes against AM mr r Sear seaman nans we cheerfully withdraw this one cb charie arie how about the other twelve charges cb argee why does john seaman or hie his apologist iam ayere all fall to aty a about them ate twelve item afre i gating over POO 0 of emall importance nce when placed at the side con como 10 tal STANDARD would tike like Kentl etoen ahot about it how legal te toe 0 have hays Y you ou tell fell all t to fiobo in that tite STANDARD have illegally nally the commissioners chang charges 3 drawn will 5 3 ou do is it now about that 14 bill mr seaman rouval t to alow allow abe con county nty commiso commie ordered a 1104 ahie to be 1 published baking asking for bid bids the ive iwa tract price was wes 44 4 why doe does john seaman beaman eay say that bill we was illegal illet fal can he be show by law that the county commissioner bad no right to advertise adver lite tite for or bida if it the bida bids themselves theme elvee were ere illegal does that make the contract for or publishing the notice illegal hae his not the notice been published according cordine nc to contract and law why ie Is john seaman BO so anxious to call ani STANDARD STANDARDS honest bonen bill of ft 4 illegal when he tens ilia his fellow commissioners and lie 1 NY takes over from iba county tam barn meyers pretends pret ende to show bis his smartness emart smart Depe nees when he is asks it charges clia reea are made for newe news items TUB Tim STANDARD allows him to answer that question himself |