Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1889-12-16

and said total amount oreered charged TO
NJ z. Cummings, treasurer, as per his re
ceipt Of August 10, ISIS, No. %.
II is further ordered that said bondsmen
be and are hereby released from all liabili-
ties on the bonds OF George Crismon as col
lector for Salt Lake county for the years
1873, 1850, ISL and lss2.
On motion Of Jesse ". Fox, ir., il is or
dered that the sum OF s., 63l- 30. standing
against r ]. Golding, late assessor and
collector for Salt Lake county. be charged
TO relief account and credited TO said K J.
Golding's account, as said account las been
standing against him for several years, and
as said K J. Golding is dead and has no
property 10 realize the amount from.
Minutes were read and approved.
(Signed) Elias \. Smith, probate Judge.
Z. VI. WELLER,
f. HOLMAN.
&C. JESSIE ". Fox, Jr.,
Selectmen.
The foregoing entries in brief, mean
this:
George Crismon as collector from 1876 to
lSS9 owed, S3i. 10. He paid as stated,
9,5J6.56. Charged 70 relief account, which
means a loss TO the county Of 60, 0li.Oi.
His bondsmen were E NJ Weller, 5. b
Young, A. II. Raleigh, II. DinwoOdey, W.
W. Ritter, Bolivar Roberts, L. ). Hills and
r G. Chambers.
Surely these names are good for many
times the balance due from George CrismOn
10 the county, and the failure Of the county
court to enforce the terms Of the bond Is
something beyond the knowledge Of this
grand jury
We lind the defalcation OF ID. Bockholt,
late county clerks TO be Sll, 03S 90.
The county has paid large sums Of
MONET FOR DETECTIVE WORK
Nearly all Of it passed through the hands
of the sheriff and T. Holman, y selectmau-
From April 8, 1855, 10 October 1, 1856, Mr..
Holman received 81. $50 for detective work
How i was expended this Jury cannot say,
as MIR. Holman rendered no vouchers nor
written report Of such expenditures.
On February /, lSSI. the county court
authorized the sheriff 10 employ a regular
detective, to be paid out Of criminal eN-
pense fund For the years iSS7 and lsSS
this detective was paid 500 per month;
since then SO per month.
From this criminal expense fund the
sheriff pays various small bills which nee
essarily attach to the conduct Of his office,
and which we do not doubt are correctly
reported TO the court But, while the
county furnish him a detective, he, at
various times paid money to others for de
tective work. Some OF these 50 employed
were policemen Of Salt Lake city, VINO,
presumably, received their regular sal
aries as such from the city besides a per
diem and expenses from the county. Most
OF these detectives seemed to be employed
on liquor cases. In April, MAY and June
1855, the sheriff paid detectives in liquor
cases 81 $3.50.
We do not know TO whom it was paid, ex-
cepting one item Of 500 TO Carney * VOL
colt.
Some items from report Of December :,
1855, are as follows:
Elliott At Bingham ----------------------- SO %
Beohtol s sands p %
Trying 20 catch Gordon - %
Trying TO catch Hall AZ Bingham, two oc-
Catching Nagee At bingham - %
An ILLUSTRATION OF the autOcratic manner
in which the county court disbursed police
funds is found in the report OF the sheriff
filed with the court August 6, 1857. This
report was duly approved by the court
and cOnains the following items:
On August 3, 1851, \. VI. Clayton, John
Pickett and Hugh Watson each gave re
ceipt 10 Sheriff Burt for SO, ''for services
at Bingham attending election in interest
Of the Peoples party In the same re-
port a +. Hyde and J. NJ Barlow receipt
TO Sheriff Burt for $40 each, ''fOr services
at Bingham on election day"
Another voucher in the same report is as
follows:
Expenses incurred in sending five men
TO Bingham three days TO attend election:
Board and lodging %
Railroad fare II %
OK JoHN PICKErT.~
Sheriff Burt also paid 500 attorneys
fees in May, lsS5, in liquor cases, although
the county was paying its own attorney
500 per year.
January 4, 1856, the county court paid
$50 attorneys fees in what was called the
.sVandercOok Habeas Corpus Case They
were not only paying their own attorney
5000 per year at that time, but the records
nowhere show that the county was party
to the suit
The HYDRAULIC CANAL COMPANY.
The following petition was filed in the
county court September y, lSS5-
SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 81. ISIS.
othe honorable, the couaty court Of Salt Lake
county.
Gentlemen: The undersigned, your petit
TONERS, respectfully represent that a num-
Der Of citizens, including the undersigned
are actively engaged in forming a corpora
ton under the laws Of the territory of
Utah. TO be knO vn as the Hydraulic Canal
company, for the purpose Of taking out OF
It's present channel portion OF the waters
Of the Jordan river at or near the dam in
said river and near the southern bOundar-
les for culinary and agricultural purposes
That the said company propose TO raise the
said waters 10 an elevation Of one hundred
surface Of the waterin the dam and convey
the same by means Of a canal in a north
erly direction at or near the north line Of
the West Jordan precinct in Salt Lake
county.
Your petitioners therefore pray in be
half Of said company that the said ny
draulic canal be granted BY your honorable
body the exclusive right and control OF
one sixth interest in the said described
dam and also in the waters Of the Jordan
river The same TO be used, operated and
perpetually controlled for the purposes
hereinbefore specified, and your petition
ers in duty bound will ever pray. (Signed)
A. Gardner, George Romney, Joshua Midg-
ley, OrsOn F. Whitney, w. $. Burton,
John Nicholson. Charles ID. Haun, Jede-
diah Goff, Jesse W. Fox, Hyrum Coz, Z.
II. Richards.
We COPY from the minutes Of the county
court, session Of Sept. -, ISIS, the date
of the filing Of the foregoing petition.
petition OF a Gardner, George ROmney
and ten others filed and read asking the
county to deed TO the Hydraulic canal com
pany the right to use a ones sixth interest
In the Jordan river flowing through Jordan
dam said waters TO be used through a canal
TO be dug by the Hydraulic canal for cul-
iIIary and irricatiug purposes. II Is ordered
by the court that on the incorporation OF
the said company Salt Lake county deed
said one sixth interest in the waters Of
the Jordan river and in the dam as asked
for to said Hydraulic canal company.
About August ., ISIS, the following petit
ton was filed with the county court:
SALT LAKE CIR, Aug. ., ISIS.
To the Honorable the County Court OF salt
Lake County;
GESTLENEN:-The undersigned, your pc
titioners respectfully represent that in the
year 1855, we, in connection with others,
started and put in operation the forming Of
a corporation under the laws OF the terri
tory Of Utah, TO be known as the Hydrau-
lie canal, and petitiOned your honorable
body to deed to them the one-sixth interest
owned By said Salt Lake county in the
dam located in the narrOws at the point OF
the mountain at or near the south bOun-
Diary line Of Salt Lake county, and also a
one sixth interest in the waters Of the
Jordan river
That on the 22d day Of September, A. d.
1855, your honorable body made an order
granting said petition, which will appear
by reference to the records Of the county
court of said date. That your petitioners
have failed 70 fully comply with the coudi-
tons Of said order: that they have never
fully organized or incorporated; your peti-
TONERS would further represent that they
have in consultation with committee Of
the city council OF Salt Lake city, agreed
70 discontinue their project Of organizing
said Hydraulic Canal company.
Wherefore, your petitioners pray that
your honorable body make a deed OF the
said one sixth interest in said dam and said
waters Of said Jordan river to Salt Lake
City corporation, and as in duty bound,
your petitioners viii ever pray. (Signed)
George Romney. John X. Winder, Charles
ID. Haun, Jesse W. Fox, W. 5. Burton, A
Gardner per Rueben Gardner, John Nichol-