Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-13
EXIT GRAND JURY.
The Grand Jury Brings in a Report
and is Discharged by the
Judge.
Ten Indictments Found-POor Farm,
County Records, Bridges,
Etc, Inspected.
There Being No More Cases on the
Docket the District Court
Adjourns.
The Fast Train on the n. P. Will
Surely be Put on on the
18th.
Proceedings of the Board of Educa-
tion---The Licensed Engineers
of the District.
District Court.
from FRIDAYS Daily

In the district court yesterday morning,
Mr.. Moorhouse again took the stand, that
being his fourth day under examination.
A good part of the morning and nearly all
the afternoon were taken up by listening
to the figures which appear in the plain
titfs account book, in which he enters sales
that are other than for cash. These figures
were taken for the months of June, July
and August, in the years 1888 and 1889.
After these figures had been taken, the
crOss-examination Of the witness was about
to be resumed, when the parties to the &C.
ton came to a settlement, by the defend
ant paying MI. MoorhOuse 5000. The Jury
seemed to be delighted at the assurance
that they would not be compelled to pass
upon the complicated questions at issue.
During the afternoon the grand jury
came in and presented the following re.
port:
BISMARCK, N. D., June s, 1900.
To the Hon. Walter H. Winchester, Judge
Of the Sixth Judicial District, State of
North Dakota:
Slr-Your grand jury of the Sixth dis.
trict has the honor to report:
l. That they have Oun ten indictments
and dismissed twelve complaints for want
OF satisfactory evidence.
2. We have visited the Jail, found il
clean and we'll kept; and the Lamborn
hospital. where we found the county sick
well provided for and in comfortable and
clean quarters.
3. We have visited Apple creek bridge,
near Samuel Lawrence's place, and find
that the bridge is none too high to be pro-
recommend that on the east approach to
the bridge for a distance of 265 feet a fill
of four feet be made in order to have
asloping grade, and the roadway made
eighteen or twenty feet wide; on the west
approach to the bridge your jury would
recommend that the approach be graded
by road work. We are OF the opinion that
1t will take about $500 cubic yards of
earth to make the fill on the east approach.
We think there has been i%nexcusable ex-
t%ravagance in the building OF iron bridges
Throughout the county, namely: At Long
Lake lthe west end Of that bridge having
already fallen because Of poor workman.
Ship and in Mckenzie township, where
there are two bridges that are unneces-
sary.
L. We find the poor farm kept in good
manner, the buildings in good order and
everything about the premises in fair con.
dition. -Four inmates are at present kept
in that institution. The expense of keep
ing the pa9pEers at the poor farm from Jan
GdlLlcu llOlu Guc ISCOluS, was DE,OSl.OH. or
an average of $28S for each pauper kept
there during that time; the above amount
being for the poor farm proper and net
including expenses of needy poor or medi-
cal attendance at the Lamb0rn hospital.
(See table of expenses attached, marked
5. AS regards the custom of abating or
%refunding Of taxes, which has pre-
vailed to some extent, we desire
to enter our protest. There seems
to be no authority for it, and while
it may, or may not be a misdemeanor, the
practice is one which calls for severe criti-
,cism.
g.. The general administration of county
affairs during the year 1889, has received
Jul careful attention, but owing to the
limited time at our disposal, we
ssnn %e &c Gesird into We set ea1i sp ps full! af!
tention of the court to the statement at
tachrd hereto-which shows the entire
amount of county orders issued from Jan
uary l, 1889, to date, see "EXhibit B." also
the financial statement, exhibit C,"which
shows that through the almost criminal
extravaganza of the county commissioners,
the county during the year 1889, exceeded
the four per cent. limit allowed by law to
the amount of $56.042.04. We feel it our
duty to censure severely an administration
that has so shamefully neglected the trust
reposed in them by the people of this
county.
Z. We recommend that the county audi
tors accounts be kept so as to permit an
intelligent examination. We found it al
most impossible, without great trouble, to
ascertain the expense of any one county
department or institution.
8. The jury feels called upon to extend
thanks to County Auditor Avery for the
uniform courtesy and kindness shown us
in the examination of the county records,
the assistance given us in our labors.
9 The grand jury feeling that the people
of the county are deeply interested In the
matters alluded to in the foregoing report
request that it be published in the county
ri = EXHIBIT "A.""
Statement of bills allowed and paid for SUD-
port OF psupers. at poor farm and for aiding
need, poor outside OF poor farm, year 1889. :