Mohave County miner., 1884-04-27

@ if the warrants should happen to run tAre T years before payment, will cost more th |. S $SOOO.
 3 w t regard to our relying on rumo
 when We could have got at the facts, " st te that Supervisors Henkle has openl asserted that the jail would cost the count
 S0JUO. He certainly was ill a position t,
 know as he took great interest in opposin!
 the expenditure of so much money anC
 fought the proposition to build the new
 jail W ta al his might, both in and out O
 the Board, h the same manner that ht 1 fights anything that originates with Supe- visor Hardy.
 With regard to the grand jury, we pro-
 pose to do all in our power to have them ex-
 anime into this and other acts of our pres ent Board of Supervisors, notably the way
 III which lot of worthless vagabonds, men who have openly and notoriously made their living Ill this community for years by sell ing whisky te Indians, have been cared for and boarded at the Palace Hotel at the ex- pense of the county. under the able man. agement of Supervisor Henkle, who always looks out for his friends.
 With regard to the costly litigat tion about which the members of the Board are anx- ious to know something we refer to the case of the Territory of Arizona vs. Chas. Gross and Joaquin Acosta and the two cases which grew out of it, that of Concepcion Gross against Sheriff Steen and ConcepcU1, Gross against Melton & Grounds. In these three cases the county paid out as follows: OIeTh S IeeS- -....-.............. $I4 OU Shel1tfs fees. ...................... 320 50 Advertising g........... 400 Attorneys fees. S....................J 158 56 witness fees. .................... OU
 S601 O6
 In return for this the county recovered on execution the sum of $4O0.50, the tax payers getting left to the extent of ovel two hundred dollars, withoat counting the ez- pense of the three tri l. which took up the | time of the District Court for about a week. | To wind up the whole business the Board | had to have special meeting in which t effect an i;;nominious compromise in these | three suits at an expense of another $28 to | tue county in per diem for themselves and | printing. If that is not costly and useless | we don't know the meaning of the | words.
 We desire to call particular atten tion to | the following sentence which appears in the | abovs card: "* as it creates dissat l faction and materially injures our fnan- cial staEding abroad.'' This little se1- tenoe contains the gist of the whole matter md shows the animus of at least one mem Der of the Board towards us. The ab ;ard, as we have been given to understand, | 1manated from Supervisor Hardy. whC, | liter writing it, induced the other member 70 sign it. We believe thus to be so, but | not having seen the original. cannot sty who wrote it, but We do know that the clerk furnished us with a copy end said tn t Hardy had asked him to copy it and get us 5o insert 1t. The truth hurts no one in if. but we also know that HardN s interested to so great an extent i'll coun- .ull truth known as to the expenditures made by the county, for the reason thet it ends to depreciate the price of county war ,ants in Prescott, where he gets the money 70 deal in them. Warrants have not de- here in two years past, they have llways been worth 90 cents on the dollar. md from present appe tranoes will never be worth less. Hardy himself is always will n9 tO give that much for them, but he js Lfraid that if the Bank of Arizona should lnow that the county has spsnt S10,OO0 on ke Court House and jail during the Inst 'oar or so, ti,at he would not be able tohy Dothecate his warrants for mor9 than that mount, as he undoubtedly has done, and his is the animus of the whole matter.