Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1867-07-06

lshed in the IDAHO WORLD OF y Wy oU' - L,,ai
ndersipned IS no longer authorized TO act as onsl
S gent or collector for the WORLD TINS is 70 give
dne notice to all concerned that the Undersigned IL
full member of the firm off, H. Bowman q 20, OWL owl
~; ono 1ndivided third of the WORLD establishment
and that James O'Meara does not own dollar IN It,
anu '-''N A. P. TURNER.
Idaho City, July Sd, 1867. 1t
MAP. Turner has rushed into print, and
dragged before the public business matter
which belonged only to the parties directly In
terested. Having obtruded his side of the case
upon the public, he cannot complain at our pre-
senting statement Of facts, and he must sub
NIT to the consequences of his ownimprudence
and wrong in the matter.
When Mr.. O'Meara came into the WORLD
Office, Oct /, 1866, by due purchase OF flVe-
twelfths interest in the entire establishment
Mr.. A. P. Turner was the carrier and general
business agent of the concern. He was then
presumed to be an honest and a competent man
for the place he filled, and the new business
firm of |. H. Bowman & Co., had no DISPOSE
ton to appoint another in his stead. He rolled
for the pressman, carried the paper, collected
the accounts, and kept the ledger OF the firm.
One or two rather crooked transactions DIS
covered during the winter. committed by Mr..
Turner, and his neglect, after repeated calls by
both Mr.. Bowman and Mr.. O'Medra, to furnish
a statement of the business affairs of the office,
from the books, as he kept them, at last aroused
the suspicious that there was something wrong
in his conduct. Finally, transaction OF his
was discovered, June 18TH which no longer
left any doubt of his dishonesty. On that day
he stated to Mr.. O'Meara that the WORLD
Office was indebted to Wells, Fargo q Co.,
that Mr.. w. A. Alice, the Agent OF that Elk
press in Boise City, was indebted tothe WORLD
Office, and that he had returned unpaid Dill
which he CTurner) had early in the week for
warded to him, for advertising his Lemhl stage
line. with demand that the bill made out IN
full - be sent to him instead; that said amend
ed bill had been sent to Mr.. Atlee by stage OF
the preceding day, June 14th, and the money
was due by the stage to arrive the same even
inc of this conversation, Saturday, June 10Th.
Mr.. O'Meara Immediately went to Wells, Far
90 q Co.'s Office, and inquired OF the Agent,
Mr.. Smith, if the WORLD Office was indebted
to that Express office. Mr.. Smith thereupon
gave statement, which showed that on Ihurs-
day evening, June 18th, he, Mr.. Smith. had re-
ceiyed from Mr.. Atlee the full amount due the
WORLD Office for that gentleman's advertise
LoI a+ hot inns
the accounts of the WORLD Office and Wells,
Fargo & Co. to date, and paid to Mr.. Turner
a balance of $40 coin at that complete settle
ment. On presenting these facts at once TO
Mr. Bowman, he informed Mr.. O'Meara that,
on the Thursday evening before, and subse-
ouent to the arrival of the stage from Boise
CITY, Mr.. Turner had informed him that Mr.
Atlee's account was unpaid, and that he had
asked for his " full BILL" Having discovered
Mr.. A. p. Turner in deliberate lie In this
transaction, or rather in an involution OF lies,
and for his manifest dishonesty, |. Il. Bowman
&, Co. concluded to dismiss him from their
employ
The following week Mr.. O'Meara visited
Boise City He there ascertained, from Mr..
Harry Ellsworth, of the Overland House, that
the bill due by Griffin & Co., for advertising
that hotel, and for subscription for one year,
to the World, had been paid to Mr.. Turner.
Yet Mr.. Turner's book showed no such credit,
and he had given Mr.. O'Meara to understand
before he went to Boise City, that the Overland
Hotel was still indebted to the WORLD office.
The ledger kept solely by Mr.. Turner, and
which he always retained in his own house, is
now in our possession. 1t exhibits manifold
and transparent evidences, not only Of his IN
competency as book-keeper, but OF absolute
fraud For instance, since June 18th he has
interlined the personal account of Mr.. Bowman
with charges of cash assumed to have been
paid to him by Turner, during the months OF
January, February and March, amounting to a
material sum; he has duplicated, in Mr. Bow
mans personal account, cash sums which APP
peared in the personal account of Mr.. O'Me4-
"a and he has interlined the accounts of the
WORLD establishment, and of the employees,
to aggregate large amount-palpably to meet
heavy deficit in his own cash account. He
has given no satisfactory account Of moneys
handed to him by Mr.. Bowman at certain
times, to pay both personal and company debts
he has collected and receipted for moneys for
the Office, of which no accounts or credits ap-
y 4 L. L