The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-14
NORRIS DOODLE CASE.
COMMISSIONERS CONSIDER IT IN
EXECUTIVE SESSION.
No Conclusion Yet Reached-A Com
plant From the Sheep Owners
Appointment of a Bee Inspector
Routine Business.

Another brief executive session was
held by the county commissioners yes
terday morning to consider the adj
visibility of guaranteeing sufficient
funds to prosecute Joe Morris to con-
viction, if possible, on the old charge
of having corruptly agreed with Mar
tin Hayken in the matter of letting the
contract to A. H. Andrews & Co. for
furnishing the county building Inc
related and dependent matter of sue
cessfully defending against the excess
sum in the repudiated county furniture
warrants over the reasonable value OIL
the furniture, was also under advise
ment. Reliance upon establishing fraud
in connection with the letting of the
contract is actuating the administra-
ton in urging the re-trial of the eX-
selectman if sufficient hope of success
is held out and the probable expense OF
securing the attendance of the pros
ecutions high-priced witness from the
east, is not deemed excessive The
board reached no conclusion in the
matter, or, if reached, no announce
ment was made that VIII appear upon
the minute records.
SHEEP OWNERS COMPLAINT.
At the boards regular afternoon ses-
sion, Chileon l.. Miller and Reuben 2.
Miller appeared to demonstrate the er-
ror of the inference, as published in
last Tuesdays Herald, to the erect
that they, together with others, were
successfully evading the payment of
taxes on their fiocks of sheep. The Mil
lers and also one w. F. Williams eX-
hibited tax receipts from Beaver county
where the sheep are ranged during the
winter months Walter Davidson made
a similar showing from TOoele county.
The matter was published just as 1t
appeared from a communication sent
to the board in reply to the claim of
Utah county for one-half of the taxes
supposed to have been collected in this
county, and had the assessor men
toned the names of those to whom he
referred as having replied to his que
ries, there would have been no COM
plant from the sheep owners, who APP
peared yesterday about alleged tax
lodging.
LEGAL PROPOSITIONS INVOLVED
Reporting upon the petition of num-
Der of bee-keepers for the appointment
of E. S. Lovesy as county bee in
spector, the county attorney advised
that the revised statutes, effective Jan
1, 1898, make it lawful to appoint an
inspector, if the appointment be petit
toned for by majority of the bee
keepers.
The Merchants Protective associa-
! ton, by Jesse Root, attorney, notified
the board that it had been directed tC
say for DR.. r. W. Fisher, that his
claim of S25 against the county for as
sisting in the performance of an au.
topsy, and which the board allowed al
$3.50, must be paid in full. The board
declined to recede from its position.
The petition of Rev. T. G. Tiff, trus.
tee in trust for the Methodist Episco-
pal church, for the refund of $7725, the
amount of tax paid under protest upor
the improvements adjoining the church
on Third South street, was referred t
the county attorney for an opinion.
The board disposed of the usual girls
of uninteresting routine matters, in
Guiding the appropriation of curren
expenses, claims, and adjourned.
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