Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-03-31
JUNEAU.


eminent has led to disc tina: must
prove of great interest to the taxpayers.
From the fact that the skeriff's bills last
year, as allowed by the county board
were excessively high and many Of them
believed to be in plain violation of the
law, the commencement was made with
these and they are now in course pub
l!cation in the Dodge County Indepen-
dent. A few samples are here given. In
the matter of summoning the regular
panel of jurors for the circuit court a
charge for travel of 1000 miles is made,
while a careful and liberal estimate shows
that even if each juror was summoned by
separate trip the amount of travel could
not possibly exceed LOO miles, pro
ceediug, however, which the law does not
allow, and expressly says that mileage
shall only be allo we'd for actual and
necessary travel. In the matter of taking
insane persons TO the Northern hospital,
a distance of 102 miles, the charge for
m;leage is invariably 210 miles. ar even
more, for which 10 cents a mile is charg
ed although the law allows only only 5
cents In addition, in each and every
case it has been found necessary to en-
ploy an assistant" for which the same
charge is made, and also in each case an
item of from $40 to SIP for necessary
expenses" although the trip never oc-
Gu pied over twelve hours, and often less.
In the capture of Fred Hempel, charged
with embezzlement, who was brought
back from Southern Dakota, just beyond
Chadron, on the Chicago & Northwestern
railway, charge for mileage of 1900
miles was made, and the same for an
assistant" who, in this case, was the
district attorney of the county, while the
Unnecessary expenses" for the trip, not
exceeding twelve days, were $425.
In the case of one Bogarders, an es-
capped prisoner who was captured at
Winona, charge of mileage for two was
made of $3.50 miles with an expense
account of $175. So it is throug bout the
entire bill, and in the matter OF travel
and expenses it is not believed that there
is one honest charge. 1t should be noted
also that no itemized account of expenses
accompanies the bill. The account is
made in bulk, and the proper committee
of the county board has allowed it, as a
matter of course, without investigating
either the law or the facts
|. And now comes the Fond du Lac Re-
porter and finds fault with the number oil
deputy sheriffs, miles of travel aud sher-
ifs fees charged that county in bill
from this county, in the case of State
VS.. Hughes.
The ladies of the Presbyterian church
will on Thursday evening next give an
entertainment and maple sugar festival
at Congress hall. An attractive pro-
gramme and bill of fare are promised.
John +. Perkins, for several years a
resident of this place and an old resident
of the county, has sold his blacksmith
shop. tools, stock. etc., and intends to
remove from here whenever he can dis
pose of his residence. FL. G. Curtis,
principal of our school, has also sold bis
residence to P. H. Lewis, and at the end
OF tn school year contemplates removal
from here.
So far there is very little excitement in
town politics; the ''ring" has selected its
candidates for nomination next Saturday.
and if there is any opposition at all
among the Democrats it is kept very
quiet.
The monument committee of the G. A.
r. posts Of the county meets here on
Friday next. w.