Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-01-07
oUR COUNTY DADS.
They and the Outsiders Have an
Interesting Meeting.

They and the Outsiders Have an
Interesting Meeting.
Yesterday morning, shortly after IL
o'clock, the full Board Of County Com
missioners, Messrs. N. Smith, VIM. Ar.
rington and L. Z. Trofatter, met in their
shaded, but coy, apartment in the Court
house.
There was o full lobby also.
There had been rumors that something
was up" and there were enough people
interested in this contingency to fill the
lobby. 1t was understood that the Board,
or two of them, a majority, had met pre-
viously, and that they had taken certain
action. 1t was understood, and so re-
ported by the SENTINEL, that the Hunters
bad been instructed to remoye from the
County Hospital by the 18th (Mr. Hunter
reported to us that he had been SO in
structed by one of the members OF the
Board), and that DR.. Thoma had been
elected to take charge Of the county's in
digent sick. 1t was understood, and not
contradicted, that Mr.. Smith at the pre-
vious meeting, from which Mr.. Arlington
was absent, had been made Chairman Of
the Board by vote Of himself and Com
missioner Trofatter.
When the Board met yesterday Mr..
Smith took the chair. The proceedings
started off with a bomb. Mr.. Arlington
entered a protest against the election OF
Mr.. Smith to the Craftsmanship as illegal,
and hence void, and he offered a resolution
to declare said election SO. 1t was speedily
adopted by vote of Messrs. Arlington and
Trofatter in the affirmative, Mr.. Smith
entering an emphatic no. A brand new
election then took place Immediately after
wards, and Mr.. Arlington was elevated to
the Craftsmanship against another no en-
phatically pronounced by Mr.. Smith.
E. r. CARRIER sat with the Board as
their legal adviser.
The fun began when a bill was brought
up in favor of ex-Sheriff Kyle for $40 for
expenses in endeavors to ~recapture two
burglars that had taken flight through the
soft sandstone Of the county coop. This
bill was a tester. Mr.. Arlington
thought the Sheriff's SIS, 900 q year was in
tended to cover any but extraordinary ex-
penses, and he thought this bill was not of
that nature. Mr.. Kyle said it was not in
tended by the law that the Sheriff should
spend his salary to make up for derelic-
ton on the part Of the county. If the Jail
was not a nasty, rotten old hulk and a
disgrace such questions as this would
never come up. He had done his part; he
had put the prisoners in Jail and had exer-
cised due diligence in preventing their
but the doors of the pen are prac-
tically open all the time and he could not
help it. A dozen Grand Juries had said as
much, and the Commissioners had been
repeatedly censured for neglect to repair
the Jail and make it secure. The bill was
killed and a number Of others of a similar
received their death blow in rapid
succession. The aggregate amount Of the
bills rejected is S175.
The next matter that came up for con-
sideration was with regard to the woman
man that should be Matron and
physician of the County Hospital. Propo-
thick and fast were unsealed for
both places. There was q good deal of
talk, mostly from the outside of the rail-
ing, as to whether bids for keeping the
INDECENT sick should be called for monthly
or whether the job should be let by the
month. This was decided and calls for
bids ordered advertised for the ensuing
to-day to Feb. 7, 1884. (Sce
ADVERTISEMENT. This was in regard to
The Matron; so, also, in regard to the ply
'ician. The present Matron was ordered
~ continue IN charge until FEB. Z; and so
the present physician.
The following bills were ordered paid:
George Gavin, S12 80; Leader, SIS; James
Carroll, 500; Charles Fox, S74 90; NJ.
Atwood, SIG; F. A. Parry, S33; J. W.
Smith, S..
1t was ordered that the bonds of G.. Girls
void and W. s. Marchant, as Justice of
the Peace respectively at Mineral Hill and
Palisade, be approved.
The quarterly report of the Auditor and
was ordered published in the
and Leader.
The sum of $50 was transferred from
The General to the Salary Fund.
The present Courthouse %janitor was Or
Tered to continue until Feb. /.
Mr.. Smith protested against the entire
work OF the Board as illegal inasmuch as
his right to be Chairman had been taken
rom him. He said he was the only law
'ul Chairman, and that he would maintain
ais rights by law, and that he would be
de jure and de faoto for the
lext two years.
The Board adjourned subject to the
,all of the Chairman,