Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-12-09
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SKINNED milk and only once q week TO
butter
w rs not important 10 rhe public
dat supt Jones made fraudulent crr-
thcatlon TO vouchers 80, l0i32. lO,lY5,
lOIlG and 1850 10 Is not important
either. that the superintendent certified
thpt tho services called f0r 40 the
employees vouchers and the voucher
by which he relieved the county of
SlS.o for his own use, We're never per-
formed lr whole or IN part
'His salary rs drawn with remarkable
regularity Yet he sWears TO ou ue-
count for Ave days service IN lieu OF
10 days vacation and mulCts the coun-
ty OF SlN,8J. Commissioner Wilson per-
mttcd the eHtortion by sending the
voucher in as a legal claim
- tf Jones knew when he aWore 10
this and 20 similar claims that he ien-
der9d nu services for the amount.
"put Supt Jones presumes ,hdt he
has the right to crowd $40 tlys INTO
g0j and mako the county pay &lS5j for
BE-. lle swcars that he performed i've
day service during his vacation
period
"The question IS what ala he do?
H0v was II possible for him TO make
AFFIDAVIT that he worked these nVe
days. DO not his duties require Of
him his entire services 10 'he inlirm-
uryc he was paid for 10 days leave
of absence. lie got the money for q
fun month. But he rung I'm little oid
IS.3i extra and on his oath sW)re
chat The amount thereof rs legally
due. ana neither the whole or any part
thereof has been paid
an other words, he collected FOR a
fun months pay and Ave days that ne
rendered no possible service for Ana
he sworc mat his claim was legally
due!
~ add TO the offending, he certified
that four Of the inhrmary employees
did the same kind Of service and mat
the amounts they collected were also
lcRolly due
This Is an old game. II is the Kind
py VhlCh The tax payers OF the county
are mulcted out Of hundreds OF dollars
each scar
In regard to this article the usual
charge Is made that 1t Is false and libel
ous, specifically in the assertion that
"he wung a little old 1885 extra on his
oath swore that the amount thereof
was legally due, and neither the whole
nor any part thereof had been paid"
More damages, expressed In the sum OF
an additional $4,000 is asked I'm COM
pensatloh,
LAST CAUSE,
The fifth and last cause Of action
deals with an article in the Tribune OF
the 18th day Of November, 1904. as fol-
lows
theodore Roosevelt carried Salt Lake
county for the Smoother ticket through
the occult influences brought to bear
on his candidacy but this does not altar
the fact that Apostle Peurose's sou-in-
law, Biz Jones, perjured himself for
$685. and purchased rotten mutton for
the unfortunates IN the innrmary.
ut may be we'll TO add that II the
president had Jones 10 deal with II
would not be long until he is being
boarded az state expense, Instead Of at
the expense Of Salt Lake county, aud
he would not last as superintendent an
other hour
PLENTY OF PROOF AGAINST
JONES.
rs It a baseless fabrication TO say
that on Sept. g. 1904. William r. Jones.
Jr., son-in-iaw to Charles w, Penrose,
editor OF the Deseret News, and Apos-
lie I'm the Mormon Church, made an
affidavit to an Illegal and false claim
for services by which he extracted from
the treasury OF Salt Lake county 1885,
and 10 Il not true that Jones padded
the inhrmary payolls the same month?
Let the taxpayers OF salt Lake county
20 20 the auditors office and examine
voucher No. l0i8l m the September
files. The News says
"'The charge is bascless' the records
belle the Daseret News. The records
prove that Superintendent William r.
Jones. Jr., not only padded the infirm-
airy payrolls but that for 1885 he per-
jured himself
yet he goes scott free Why2
"Win County Attorney Whitaker an
swer?
This IS but one Of the number OF
Superintendent Jones offenses. Why Ia
he permitted to go unscathed2'
For this last alleged libelous article
the plaintiff prays for the last $4,000
needed 10 make up the total Of $4,000
asked in the suit
The case was filed by Judge H. s.
Tanner as attorney for supt. W. r.
Jones,
OTHERS TO FOLLOW.
It Is understood that the flng Of this
suit is only the first step in the direc-
ton Of taking UP and forcing the Trl-
bune to account for It's assertions
spread broadcast at all kinds and sorts
Of people and officials during the re-
cent national and state campaign,