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Show "AUDITOR" EDMUNDS I FINDS MARE'S NEST ( I Proposed County School Tax of II Twenty-Three Mills to ' r'm Be Cut Some. f I Carbon county school board met In adjourned session Inst Wednesday with nil member present. The report re-port or J. W. Kdmtind. the auditor emplo)ed tit go over the book or the high school trustee, wa submitted to tho county board In writing, was received re-ceived mid ordered riled. The report claims nn overpayment to J. K. Kck-ert. Kck-ert. contractor for the county high school hillldlng, or $4909.00. Also, to the several trustee or the high school $1110.81 more than the trustees trus-tees nro entitled to under the law. The amount with which the severnl trustee ure charged nre herewith given nnd It is suggested In the report that these minis be paid Intek by the trustee. They nre Nell M MiiiIihmi $IJ0.71 (' It Mnrctisen 131.00 Levi N Harmon 111.70 Hamuel Nnylor 00.00 l:noih llryner 67.06 William Norton 66.70 Itobert Menxle 4 1.00 John It. Doolln 44.00 P T Dennett 38.30 John T. Itovvley 30.00 Andrew Young, Hr 37.30 W. II. McClurg' 31.00 tl. A. IveriMiu 30.05 Hamuel Woodliend 10.00 Cul Criiguu 13.80 It W. Powell 13.60 Uive It. Kvnns 4.00 I'liidlugH nt Auditor IZdiiiund. Prom the list given above It will bo oecn that Nell M. Madsen I charged with $130.71. the largest of tho severnl nmounlM going to make up the $1110.81. Thl I accounted for In tho fart that Trustee Madsen wa it number num-ber or the board rrom It first organization organi-zation und wa nltvny In nttendanre upon It meetings, sacrificing hi tlmo to net upon the committee nnd giving much of It otherwise to the succen of the school nnd everything connected connec-ted therewith. I'dmuud find that the board paid J. i. I'ekrrt. contractor for the high school building, four thousand, nlno hundred nnd nine dollar In excess ex-cess of the general contract when It Mettled with hi creditor for sixty cent nn the dollar with the exception of the claim or the Continental National Na-tional bank nt Halt take City, to which the board paid the full amount of It claim, which wa well known nnd understood by nil It member. Their reason for making such a settlement, settle-ment, a stated by a member of the board ut that time, wa that tho beet Interest of the district und tho lax. payers thereof wa being served. Many suit had been Instituted by Kckert' ciedltor ngulnst the school dlstrlrl and membcr-i of the school Imnrd, To huve employed counsel, subpoenaed wllnessc In large number num-ber und prolonged trial would have consumed In court expense more than tho excess appropriation made to creditoi. Thut tho Continental National Na-tional lisnk's claim wu ttllowed In full, wa because or an assignment made to them by Kckert for rflonoy udvuuced by the bank to go Into the hillldlng, which wa agreed to by nil the creditor mid their legal representative repre-sentative only after the legality or tlie bnnk'H clulin wa considered by ull concerned. t'o.iiic.iMitloii of the Trustee. At one of the early meeting nf the board, Dr. It. K, Dowd of Kenllworth made n motion, which wo carried, that the compensation or board member mem-ber be fixed at four dollar per day, while In actual attendance upon meeting or the board, und mileage or twenty cent per mile one wny to be paid In I Mi or all expenses. Thl wn rollowlng tho Juror Hystem. A literal Interpretation or the language or the motion might bo thnt nn nllow. mice for one day only be made to each member, though nevernl day' time might bo required In getting to the meeting, attending nnd returning home. Thl wn ulso true In regard to the member rrom Winter Quarter, Htofleld, Clear Creek und Hunnyslde. nnd wa often true In regard to the member from Castle dale, Btorrs nnd Hiawatha. In each case like the above per diem ror each day required to attend wa ullowed the member. Thl wa what tho resolution Intended, though a literal Interpretation, which Kd-mund Kd-mund or necessity perhaps must take, might be mo. Again, It often happened that a meeting wa ad-Journed ad-Journed tit the tucceedlng day, when un allowance for that day was made. A trustee salary wu n rixed amount, It wn the hoard' opinion that they should bo paid without vert fled olalm a were tcucher and Jan. Horn. Bitlarle were paid quarterly und at each succeeding meeting the wnrrant drawn were recorded In the minute and read and approved, making mak-ing a complete record. Though some, payment were made without verl. fled claims, each wn recorded In the K , U minute book by consecutive number 9 jt nnd passed upon by nil of the board I H without exception. I- ' ?M CiniNirlou A tn Salaries. K ,?'H No fair minded clllten or taxpayer J I M would desire thnt member or the H board, who had to spend three day Hr -vbV time nt Price, be Rlvctf one day' nl- i 9R ," ItH nry. when the ) early Milan' would np- W IH proximate hut forty-eight dollar. iJrfl Knell school district wn paying It 1 H school trustre rrom one hundred to Br . J,'vH three hundred dollar annually, where B -'H the meeting were held about quar. terly. nnd nt home. The nmount paid m 'JfH the high school trustee wn Inslg. ; K vfl nlflcnnt. when the pay nnd work of f 'jBfl each I compared. 9k. -flBj C. It. Mnreuseii. u chairman nf the K , board, made dally visits to the"tilgh J4 school Jiulldliig while the same wa r under construction. Ill careful nt- B KSI tenllon during a period or eight B '' 'BB month had much to do with the lax- Wp mB m)er getting value received nt the H BB completion or the Carbon rounty high Hr Hfl school hillldlng, n structure second tit BB none of the kind In Utah, nnd of B flH which ever) litlxen of tho county I BL BB Justly proud. In the selection of HL BBJ teachers trip were made mid many BB s BB committee meeting were held. When t MK BB he wn elerted to the superintendence ' r . BB thnhlgh Hchoot law wn not enncted. Bf H lie wn made ex. officio member or the BK. BB board, honored with II chairmanship. BD BB burdened with II excess cure nnd BsKiflVJ ror which he was voted by the hoard BJrBBl come sixty dollar ror supeniston of pK aBJ tho building, mid some sixty dollar , BK BB additional ror meellug covering , Bb, .BB period or four years. ij . vXBJ Now Hint the high school ivudlt I Bf BB rinlshed, IMmiind I to give hi at H tentlon to the hook or the severnl ' ? -'BbI district or the county In existence BT 'BB prevlou to the consolidation or nil. . B BB Thl I to go on nt twenty dollar a ' i ' B?n BbI day nnd vxpenre. This I the charge J K H ror the high school school audit nlao. . J B BB DIsciumIoii of tin Tax tatry. ' '' B BJ W. N. Ileatty. tux agent of the Den I R H ver and Itlo (Irnnde. appeared before J, ' , B BBJ Hie board and gave It a hi opinion B BB Hint the levy of twenty-three milt I ' m HB In excess or Hie statutory limit nllow- '' m BB ed. After it free nnd full discussion or i lr the matter It wn decided that the ' f Imard of county commissioner be f I BB naked to reduce the school levy to I .BB eighteen mills, which will be done. ) .; .BB When here Inst week Tax Agent Heat- , ! J BB ty staled to The Hun that attorneys ' f i BB for the railroad and other corpora. '.I H tlons operating In CarlKin county had ),. ' . BJ thoroughly looked Into the school tax iUf ' ' , v BB levy and were convinced that sixteen Iff 1 ''BB und one-hnlf mill I nil tho vohool MtV Bh board can legally hold out ror. How. .iai . -BB ever, It wa not the desire or hi com. tiT,, ''BB puny and other with whom the mat. V'i ' '-''BBJ ter had been taken up to be nt logger 5 l vt "Bfl bends with tho school board, und that V' , 't'BB any reasonable reduction rrom the 'l ' hA BB twenty-three mill proposed would be H )!: '. H met In n spirit of fulrnea ruther thati 'iMln i go to the courta. It appear that 1l9 SB Ileatty' argument with the ohool l&Y ;. r' BBJ hoard hn borne fruit. il, ' F BB deorge A. Murphy of Kenllwortlt. 1 wfll lepresentlng the Independent Coal jtl: L BB and Coke company, orrereiV,to sell the V . , f , H building used as a Bohool house at Jm , H Kenllworth ror twenty-rivo hundred INS i , BB dollar, thl to Include n ninety-nine . fliHi BBJ leur lease cm the ground upon which tttlj BB tho building stand. The offer hold- III ' BB good until Mnrch 1. 1910. He pro. f " J . BB posed n rentul or rorty dollar, n i5 ' ' l BB month, which wa accepted. J ' t h' H J. A. Korsythe wn given the fe'J f "' plumbing contrnct on the new school f ', ' BB building nt Hunnyslde, hi work to B i I' BJ cost u hundred mid fifty-four dollar. E L -4BJ William Hvan wa appointed Janitor If if f BB at Cuitle (lato nt thirty dollar a I ' f BB month. Cameron Coal company I l I ' r BB allowed ten dollar a month rental 1 i , y BBJ for a school building there. '.lit ET -BB The board adjourned to September 571 r IBB 7th. .. U) BB |