The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-13
JEROME Of WEBER
AFTER STANFORD
Attorney Skeen VIII File Com
plant Against Commits
SiOner Today.
PURPOSE IS TO GUST
STANFORD FROM OFFICE
Charge Is Collecting of Illegal
Fees, and Possibly Crimi-
nal Prosecution.
snecial 10 The Tribune.

Special TO The Tribune.
OGDEN, Oct 12-In his campaign
against graftcrs III public office j. d.
Skeen. who might he called the 'Je-
rome of Weber county, is no respect
er of persons. His latest charge of cor
ruption in Office, and the grating of
public funds, will be filed on Satur-
day in the District court. 1t is directed
against that hoary old ccclesiast, Elder
Joseph Stanford, a. high priest Of the
Mormon church in Weber county.
The complaint against Stanford is in
line with the complaint that was filed
last Monday against County Attorney
Hulanisli. when Mr.. Skeen had him
cited into court TO show cause why
he should not be deprived of his ofhce
for neglect of duty in permitting Jo-
seph Stanford to make false charges
against the county of Weber, and col
lectipp money from the county for SER
vices that had not been rendered, and
giving as exhibits copies of the Identl-
cal vouchers under which stanford
drew this money, the exhibits being
printed In The Tribune of October Z.
The complaint against Stanford Is
changed only in so far as 1T is against
Joseph Stanford, and IL carries all OF
the material allegations, and has the
same exhibits attached as were shown
in the complaint against Hulanlskl,
Mr.. Skceu IS purpose is 10 have stan
ford ousted from his Office for collect
ing illegal fees and possibly to prose
cute him crimlnally.
The first allegation IN the complaint.
after reciting the fact that Weber
county is corporation and that Stan
ford was duly elected County Commls-
sioner and assumed the office on the
first Monday III January, 1903, relates
that .'on January 80, 1905, that Io-
seph Stanford, in his official capacity
as County Commissioner, presented TO
the Board of County Commissioners,
claim for the sum. of $50, copy. or
which is hereto attached and marked
Exhibit l. That afterward he cashed
said voucher and obtained the funds be-
longing to Weber county.
''That the said Joseph Stanford lives
in Ogden City. within one mile of the
courthouse, where the sessions of the
County Commissioners were held, that
his actual and necessary expenses In at
tending the sessions of said board did
not exceed the sum Of 10 cents for each
session. ll0c voucher SHOWS IL tudl -t "
$3.50 for attending sessions OF the
Board of County Commissioners
''Plaintiff is informed and believes,
and therefore alleges the fact that the
charges of said defendant for visits 10
the county infirmary OF $3.50 per visit,
are excessive and untrue, that the de
fendant rode on the Oregon Short Line
railroad to the county intirmary upon
n railroad pass, ate his dinner at the
infrmary. and returned on a pass, and
that his actual travelling expenses were
nothing"
That is the first charge, and there
are some twenty-four others of similar
character, each of them being accom-
panied by the proper exhibits in the
shape of a copy of the vouchers drawn
and paid to Joseph Stanford. Copies
of these vouchers can be found printed
in The Tribune of October Z, when
they Svere published in the expose of
the graft that has been q custom in
Weber county, especially among the
ecclesiasts.