The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-04
en- the Lost Chance claim for all the

( records show.
In relation to that $50 paid for {
wagon for poor family. Admitting
for the sake Of argument, that The
/ venice was bought, had Mr.. Gedde.
aone anything of this kind in his pri
waite business with Barton & Co., haC
any money passed between him anC
outside parties, there would have beer
receipt given. But in this
case Geddes gives a, SIS wagon anc
there is not a scrap of paper in ex
change; nothing to show that it was
q wagon, or q four-horse coach, or {
Fullman car, except the statement by
Geddes that he bought them wagon
/ MI. GeddeS talks of honesty in relation
/ to reporters; says that any question
! asked him concerning this check woult
have been cheerfully answered, and al
that. After q transaction of the char
/ acter mentioned has been concluded
| and the bill paid by the county, there
| should be no need of questions; the
record should show all the facts and
! no one knows this better than Geddes
for he has read The Herald Otter
| enough TO know the law.
! Mr.. Geddes dilates upon that check
/ Issued to II. Featherstone for "a sick
! German" and thinks it awful that
anyone should question his actions Is
! SAASl z d SCidp VI pd per TO snow ILdL 4
! SICK German, or a sick Irishman, or a
sick Senegam bian, ever got the money ?
1t IS not charging Geddes with pilfer-
ing this paper is doing, but with loose
and careless methods. Suppose Geddes
! had a mind to be dishonest and wanted
| to fitch a few dollars from the treas
ury every month, how easy it would
De TO find a Featherstone and a sick
German. See the point, Mr.. Geddes
Now as to that coal business. Mr..
Geddes charges that this paper cannot
prove that pound of coal was ever
delivered wrongfully The Herald did
not claim that, but it throws back the
challenge. Mr.. Geddes cannot show
where all of it was delivered: where
the major portion Of it was delivered,
by the papers on file. At this point
the reading of the statute quoted in
yesterdays issue is recommended for
the edifcation of the selectman men
toned.
1t is a bold challenge Mr.. Geddes
makes in behalf of himself and his
fellow members that The Herald can
not prove that he and his confreres
have travelled a mile further than
was necessary. OF course, this paper
had no cyclometer to measure the rev.
olutions of the wheels of the poor farm
wagon, before it was sold, or the mile
age road on the cars. But several days
ago resolution was introduced by
Martin Christopherson at a meeting of
the county court, dividing the county
into two road districts and placing
Roberts in charge of one and Chris
tophersOn in charge of the other. leav-
Ing Geddes out in the cold Before
and after the session the member in
Producing it said he was ashamed to
charge so much mileage; that he had
declined to go on several trips with
the others. Does this look as though
The Herald was wrong, Mr.. Geddes :?
Ask Christopherson if he did not make
that statement, and he will reply in
the affirmative
Mr. Geddes states that The Herald
does not tote fair when it recited the
z. c. NJ. l. bill at the infirmary. Mr..
Geddes, is the itemized statement of
the firm mentioned on file with the
county clerk, as provided by law? 1t
was not yesterday; it was not when
the assertions were made. 1t is pos
sible that when the reporter for this
1t may be found there. Why, Mr.. Ged-
des, was there not a voucher for money
expended on file with the dill rendered?
The statement that The Herald is
"driveE to extremity" is puerile and
without foundation. The very letter
that Geddes endorses is proof of that
fact. Why. Mr.. Geddes, do you not
say something about the poor farm
sale? Why do you omit the Squires
matter? Why do you refrain from
saying anything%about the check which
you gave ]. n. Scott for might work.
and which in another handwriting and
another inE and with another pen is
endorsed on the stub and associ-
ates?"
Mr.. Geddes makes grand stand
bluff at the finale of his dictated eff
fusion about asking the grand jury to
take The Herald staff in hand. This
paper is VAady to have its staff investi-
gated. That is all.
The article in The Herald is fully
borne out by the facts in the case and
The Herald stands by what it has as
serted-that the business of the county
Is being conducted in a manner care
less and negligent. In relation to in
vestigation, The Herald demands one,
and further demands that the county
attorney be required to step down and
out while some competent and disin-
terested man attends to the business.
Now as to that letter which Mr.
Geddes pretends to have written to
The Herald. When the entire effusion
reached this office it was found that
It had been written in duplicate, and
no mistake was made on our part
when 1T was concluded that the letter
had really been written for the Tri-
bune and addressed to The Herald
for effect. The result showed this to
be the fact
1t Refutes Nothing.
The letter refutes absolutely moth |
ng that was charged against the Sc
ectmen, and this paper announced its |
to publish it provided Mr.. !
Geddes would eliminate the abuse and |
with which it teens. The !
work of eliminating was left to Expert |
Auditor Anderson, and before reaching !
t The Herald will call attention to |
}ne fact
Geddes' Big Mistake.
Witch a flourish of trumpets. Mr.
Ieddes says: 1.-THE Herald article was
ulI of Measurements and inaccur-
md I now propose to prove it. In
very instance where disbursements
lave been made by me to paupers, you
eferred to the check and number and
say that nothing is dis
.losed by the check as TO the purpose
or which it was drawn, and pur-
,osely avoid THE statement, which was
veil known to the reporter who made
I'D this article. that invariably the
heck stub which was on file and was
by the reporter, gives in de-
all the purpose for which the check
vas made"
While this stub book was filed, it
vas not there when the reporter
asked for it. but as 81 matter of
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