The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-07-29
DIR. TANNER

into an important railroad town.
DR. TANNER
Whether DR.. Tanner completes the
full forty days fast or not, is now of no
consequence. lie has done enough to
establish his claim, to confound the doc
tors and make fools of the pompous and
epotistical Hammond, Beard and other
':experts,"' who, according to their own
claims, are the only six or seven men
In the country capable Of passing judy
ment upon all such cases of fasting,
etc., as Mollie Fancher's, DIR. Tanners
aud others. Hammond, we believe,
predicted that Tanner would be- dead
In fifteen days. Perhaps even such STU
pid cyclists as Beard and Hammond
will yet conclude that there are more
things in heaven and earth than are
dreamed of in their philosophy, and
one may say to the other, There are
more fools, Hammond, among the reg
vlars than we dream of in our vanity"
"LOOSENESS."
Elsewhere we publish the report of
Examiner Knox in full. lie shows that
Ex-Auditor James Walker overdrew
his salary to the amount of $253.lS.
Part of this, S163.3l, is due to the fact
that Walker based his salary on the val
uation for the current year instead of
the preceding year, just as his predeces-
s0r Bear had done. $S9.S7 of the a.
mount is due to warrants having been
drawn in favor OF Walker and not ell
tered on the ledger account. Mr.. Knox
says Of this: The whole matter has
suspicious appearance and should be
looked into" We: however, are willing
to let Mr.. Walker off with our old
charge OF ''looseness," until lie explains
the matter, if he can do SO.
AS to the deposit of the County funds,
Mr.. Knox comes up beautifully to the
support and vindication of the positions
taken in the ADVANCE 1T the time. We
knew at the tine and said so, that the
whole scheme was ore to put the coun-
ty deposits into the Mobiles County
Bank at low rate Of interest and to
cut out other bids. The Commission
ers readily fell into the trap and the
funds were voted to the Mobiles County
Bank for $75 for all aggregate amount,
or SIS for the lump. The other banks
made legal bids, that is, such per
cent on monthly balances, which
would have brought the county proba-
bly, 5000 to $500 instead OF $75 as inter-
est on the deposits. Now comes the
State Examiner and says it is very
doubtful whether, ~ the county is Sc
cured by the bond Of the bank; (2) wheth-
or the treasurer is released from respons-
Utility; (3whether the largest amount
of interest WAS secured which could be
secured under the law. We can tell
Mr.. Knox that there is no doubt about
the latter proposition. The largest a.
mount was not secured. 1t was piece
of favoriteism and the law was violated
to favor the Mobiles County Bank. Mr..
Knox hits the whole proceeding square
ly when he says:
While purporting to be based upon
the statute, neither the preliminary
proceedings nor the bond itself con-
forms thereto.
We understand that the amount of
money received by Treasurer Shepard
up to June LIST, was about S11, 600 and
+hok oJ,ouf nD0 1,,uo loor rooa;x,oI
since. Of course all of this was not de-
posted but it is enough to indicate that
if a certain per cent had been paid on
monthly balances the interest which
the county would have received for the
present year would have been nearer
$500 than SIS.
We suppose that Mr.. Knox, in thus
agreeing so exactly with the ADVANCE
is animated by "maliciousness." When
the ADVANCE said just what Mr.. Knox
says, the Journal called it all ''mali-
cious attack All our criticisms and
intimations Of ''looseness" were mali
cious," no matter what the facts said
about it. The facts are with the AD-
VANCE, the State Examiner is with the
ADVANCE and the people are with the
ADVANCE, but they are all malicious"
facts, Examiner, people and all.
THE NEW RAILROAD.
We alluded last weel to the Toledo
L Northwestern road which is bearing