Eastern Utah advocate. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1895-1915, 1913-01-30

and Hamilton, and thereby projected
those officers, and possibly innocent
purchasers OF the void warrants 30
ordered issued. against losses which
would have resulted Go them from
their flotation. However. Il Is I'M
derstood that a number OF such
warrants were already certified, and
in some instances we're honored be-
fore the county attorneys opinion
was sought and given.
The Incompetent Edmunds.
Among the vast aggregate OF in
valid warrants are the warrants IL
sued IN favor OF the alleged expert,
Auditor Edmunds, agEregating two
thousand five hundred dollars, and
covering his services in auditing nc
counts Of the commissioners. clerk
aud treasurer. whose terms Of Of
flee expired With the year 1919.
ono OF the most egotistic docu-
ments ever written by anyone, other
than Theodore Roosevelt, Is the re-
port " this same Edmunds. on page
five OF this report Edmunds shows
an actual oyerissuc Of warrants be-
yond the debt limit OF s9SOO.0O. Tho
utter incompetence OF Edmunds 20
earn twenty-five hundred dollars or
twenty-five hundred cents as an
auditor IL apparent when Il IL OBJ
served that In order to minimize TO
approximately ten thousand dollars
the extent OF outstanding void war
rants. he has assumed that tho on
tire debt wac bonded. when his re-
port shows conclusiyciy that he
know the bonds TO consist OF but
seventy thousand dollars. 40 he
must have known. n he knew any
thing at All upon the subject. that
the actual amount OF void warrants
az the time he prepared his state
mont was On reality In excess OF
twenty-five thousand dollars. why
ala Edmunda make this blundcrg
Was A. with n view OF whitewash-
lag the very obvious frauds that
had been attempted upon the tax
payers. and pcrpcirated upon war
rant hoidora. and for the purpose OF
directing the natural censurc OF the
public which might be expected 10
follow disclosure solely againnt
Clerk Gwiiym Jones and "a. W.
snyder. treasurer, neither ~ whom
had anything Whatsoever so DO with
the contracting OF the void obllga-
Hons or the ordering Of che issu.
anoc OF warrants beyond The lawful
deb, limit Of che countys
Entirely Void aud Invalid.
Again. Edmnnds we'll knowing. as
hla report conclunlyely shows. that
warrants issued 10 himself would
be- cntiroly invalid and void. per-
mhs tho county auditor 30 certify
his warrants az being within the
debt limit. and those warrants have
passed Into the hands OF innocent
purchasers. although they are rot
ten, Worthless and void. aud the IN
noccnt purchasers OF these warrants
viii be- required TO make refund 20
tho county treasurer. IN eases whore
they have boon caahod by the coun-
~. or M eases where they have not
been cashed TO lose every dollar 81
the money advanced In their pur-
chase from Edmunds, II Edmunds
knew the warrants Co DO void. and
he must have known such TO be the
fact. because his statement contain
90 figures complied by himself
showing the debt limit 90 have ex-
ccoded s9s00.OO on July 81, 1919,
We say that he should be brought
back TO Carbon county and COMPEL
cd Go face the charge of obtaining
money under false pretenses. IN pre-
Eenting for payment what he knew
TO BE- void warrant. Edmunds, OF
all men. knew that he was perpe-
lrating a fraud when he rccelyed
money ON such warrants issued 90
himself after the debt limit OF the
county for the year l9i2 had be-
come exhausted. This action should
be instituted against him az once.
In order that he may fcae trial for
this fraud at the same time that
Jones and Snyder are tried.
This new light thrown upon the
character Of Edmunds warrants a
vsy close scrutiny OF his report,
the accuracy OF which should be
tested by competent and honest men
before Il Is used 10 condemn either
OF the ex-oOunty officials u 80
strongly condemns and holds up 20
scorn and rldicule. ONE THING is