The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-15

| ties on the bonds of George Crismon as col
lector for Salt Lake county for the years
| 1879, $780, 1881 and 1882.
On motion of Jesse w. Fox, jr., it is or
dered that the sum of 1881 80, standing
against r. J. Golding, late assessor and
| collector for Salt Lake county, be charged
to relief account and credited to said r. J.
Golding's account, as said account has been
standing against him for several years, and
as said R. j. Golding is dead and has no
property to realize the amount from.
Minutes were read and approved.
(Signed) Elias A. Smith, probate Judge.
E. M. WELLER,
E. HOLMAN,
JESSIE w. Fox, Jr.,
Selectmen.
The foregoing entries in brief, mean
this:
George Crismon as collector from 1876 to
1882 owed, S31, 5000. He paid as stated,
50, $685.. Charged to relief account, which
means loss to the county of so, O24.O4.
His bondsmen were E. M. Weller S. B.
Young, A. II. Raleigh, H. Dinwoodey, w.
w. Ritter, Bolivar Roberts, L. S. Hills and
r. G. Chambers.
Surely these names are good for many
times the balance due from George Crismon
to 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 find the defalcation of D. Bockholt,
late county clerks to be 81, 03S.60
The county has paid large sums of
MONEY FOR DETECTIVE WORK.
Nearly all of it passed through the hands
of the sheriff and E. Holman, a selectmau.
From April 3, 1885, to October 4, 1886, Mr..
Holman received 81 $50 for detective work.
How It was expended this jury cannot say,
as Mr.. Holman rendered no vouchers nor
written report of such expenditures.
On February 1, 1887, the county court
authorized the sheriff to employ a regular
detective, to be paid out of criminal ex-.
pense fund. For the years 1887 and 1883
this detective was paid 800 per month;
since then $50 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 detective, he, at
various times paid money to others for de-
tective work. Some of these so employed
were policemen of Salt Lake city, who,
presumably, received their regular sal
aries as such from the city besides per
diem and expenses from the county. Most
of these detectives seemed to be employed
on liquor cases. In April, May and June
1885, the sheriff paid detectives in liquor
cases 81 $3.50.
We do not know to whom it was paid, ex-
cepting one item of 1920 to Carney & VOL
colt.
Some items from report of December Z,
1886, are as follows:
Elliott at Bingham $50 90
Bechtol s. Sands case 80 90
Trying to catch Gordon 13 90
Trying to catch Hall at Bingham, two &C.
caslonS ------------------ % 0O
Catching Magee at Bingham 80 90
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, 1887. This
report was duly approved by the court
and conains the following items
On August 3, 1887, A. M. Clayton, John
Pickett and Hugh Watson each gave re-
ceipt to Sheriff Burt for $40, ''for services
at Bingham attending election in interest
of the Peoples party" In the same re-
port A E. Hyde and j. M. 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 90
railroad fare II 40
Incidental expenses ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Is 70
OK JOHN PICKETT
Sheriff Burt also paid $500 attorneys
fees in May, 1885, in liquor cases, although
the county was paying its own attorney
$1,000 per year.
January 4, 1886, the county court paid
$3.50 attorneys fees in what was called the
''Vandercook Habeas Corpus Case.u They
were not only paying their own attorney
$4,000 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 %, 1885.
SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 81, 1885.
To the honorable, the county court of Salt Lake
county.
Gentlemen: The undersigned, your petit
TONERS, respectfully represent that 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 known as the Hydraulic Canal
company, for the purpose of taking out of
its 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 to an elevation of one hundred
surface of the water in the dam and convey
the same by means of 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 n.y.
draulic canal be granted by your honorable
body the exclusive right and control OF
one sixth interest in the said described
dom oO6 a1GO in the Jyotarc Of tha 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. S. Burton,
John Nicholson, Charles d. Haun, Jede-
diah Golf, Jesse w. Fox, Hyrum Golf, E.
H. Richards.
We copy from the minutes of the county
court session of Sept %, 1885, 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 one sixth interest
in the Jordan river flowing through Jordan
dam, said waters to be used through canal
to be dug by the Hydraulic canal for cul-
mary and irrigating purposes. 1t 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 2, 1888, the following petit
ton was filed with the county court:
SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 2, 1888.
To the Honorable, the County Court Of Salt
Lake County;
WGENTLEM THE undersigned, your pc
| titioners respectfully represent that in the
year 1885, 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-