The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1873-09-11

81 - = @dOO4lA0l l111s
$4,000 WORTH d SWEARING.
A Sank Centre MIL Swallows : st.
Cloud Bankl F$a
WHAT BnUAME OF THAT ol,aoo
Waito d AcClurs's MOTTO. "rax the
Poor Feopls-ws swear or
As stated in last weeks paper, M, Il.
G: Waite appeared bsfors the hoard Of
County aEqualisstlsl. and made applioa-
ton, by affidavit. 70 have re 1000 Cd
ded TO his personal property assessment II
his city taken %, and thai the Board laid
his application On the table. Il wAs, the
next day, taken from the table and reject
I'd. Afterwards, when acting upon the ~
turns for the town Of Wakefield Gold
Spring., in which is located Mr.. Waits's
large stone grist mill, The Board found
that Mr.. Waite had returned but $4ss, ,ss
follows: 8 horses, $3.50; 8 mules, $50,
and under section 9, for wagons, slsighs
and carts in use about tho mill, and for
grain Of oil kinds, &c., only SIS The
boldness Of this attempt to sw,ndle the
honest taxpayers Of the county, by max
ing return Of this kind, struck the Board
at once. It WAS known that Mr.. Waits had
at his mill from 80 to rs hogs, though he
stated, xsder oath, that he had not single
hog. It was known that he had wagons
to be used with tho six horses and mules;
that he had . cooper shop at which his
-four barrels we're made, and that he was
and had been buying wheat by the thous-
ands of bushels to be stored or msnufac'
tured into -four for shipment to the East
or for filing eontracts-and yet to cover
all these values he made the pitiful return
Of seventy;fve dollars! The Board there
upon added to section the further sum Of
81 500. We understand that Mr.. Waite
declares he will not pay this. We have no
doubt he would demur to paying tho tax
ON his own farcioal return for 1t il . mo-
toriousT faot that this II the fret year in
which he has ever made any ret.w~ at all
for his personal property ct Cold Spring
He seems to think that the world owes him
living, and that one part Of the duty Of
tho people about him IL to pay his taxes.
The Board seemed to think differently.
And nov comes Mr.. r. G, Mcclure, who
stssss 70 the}Board that q nsst distressing |
mistske hos been made in the returns Of
his personal property at Sank Centre:
M,. Mcclure has large grist mill 1t that
place (aad,, ~ The way, lint rem Ark
able how little money il required to RIM :
gr,st mill and buy tho grain necessary to
manufacture from Is to 100 barrels Of
flour per day y which is in charge Of Mr..
o. E. Carver. Mr. Carver returned 81
hogs, SIS no horses or mules; for wag-
ons, sleighs, carts; grain Of all kinds,
lumber, &C., $40; moneys, credits and 90
counts (seo. 12). 81 900; "gola and silver
coin and bank notes in actual possession"
(seo. l4), $1,000. Mr.. Mcclure states to
tho Board that the last two items are
wholly incorrect that he did not have any
moneys or notes in Sank Centre in Mr..
Carver's hands, except such as were in
Guided in his return for this city. Refer
ring to Mr.. MoClure's statement Of .'mon-
eys, credits and accounts" in his 81. Cloud !
return, including his moneys, credits, &c.,
ss banker, his salarya as Receiver Of the
Land Office, and his total personal funds,
We find it to be just one thousand dollars, Or
precisely the amount sUo,n to by Mr.. Car
ver - being the assessable amount in his
hands at Sank Centre. Ot"sgold and al
yer soin and bank notes in astnal possss-
sion," Mr.. Mcclure s,ossrs he has none
Whatever at st. Cloud, Sank Csntre Or any 4
place else while Mr.. Carver svsers that,
under th;s section, no has, In his hands,
for the use Of the Sank Centre business
alone, funds assessable at $1,000. Or, IN
other words, Mr.. Carver swsars that he
has, in his possession at Sank Centre,
81, 200 more in ''moneys and bank notes"
belonging to T. G. Mcclure than Mr. Mo.
Clure ss0ears h. has all altogether. Mr..
Carver is no new hand in the business.
He has been in Mr.. MoClure's employ for
some time, and understands tho require.
ments of his position too to we'll return ~
taxable what he did not have or more than
he had. But Mr.. Carver was too honest to
swear that he was buying grain and con-
Quoting large milling business without
any money at oil, and WAS, it appears, too
exact to meet the wishes Of his employer.
What now, in q few words, is the plain
state Of this CASE Just thls-thst MIR.
Mcclure states under oath (for he falls
back on his original return in this city as
including everything charged) that he had,
on the first Monday IN June last, but ST.
600 in'moneys, bank notes, etc., at both
st. Cloud and Sank Centre while Mr..
Carver, his bookkeeper and agent At Sank
Centre, states Under oath that, at tho same
time, he had. at Sank Centre Alone ST.
200 in moneys and bank notes-or 81, 200
more than Mr.. Mcclure sseears he WAS in
any way possessed ofat the tune. II Mr..
Carver WAS wrong, how could hs be 50
srossly mistakenf But II hs Was wrong
and the money no returned was in st.
Cloud. what became Of the extra $1,000
tout Of the s., 2o0 t-snd, orsditing tho
$1,000 70 Sank Centre, what bssones Of
NJ. AsClufs's baaki II Mr.. Carver ID
right, - very spParsatly' 10 =, NJ. Nc.
Glare il guilty Of adopting means, IN Or
der 70 ssosps paying his fir shars Of The
taxes Of the county, such % would make,
any honest man shudder. And W cannot
but think that tho Board, in granting the
abatement Of $4,000, made grave mis-.
take, and threw ON to the shoulders Of poor
people the burden Of Mr.. McClure's tsxes.
In the foregoing We have given the facts
and figures as they appear in the official
records Of the county, which arc open TO-
the examination Of ell. The taxpayers Of
stearns county can ponder on these facts,
and form, in their own minds, some kind
Of IN Idea Of tho moral makeup of men
Who, while making = fortune every year,