Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-11-01

commissioner of this county in
1856 and his record has been
held up as a model for the public
to admire. The truth about the
matter is that the case viii not
bear a close investigation.
In 1884 Samuel H. Eckles, then
treasurer of this county, informed
the board Of county commissioners
that the funds of the Coun-
ty were tied up in the hands
Of the assignee of @. p. Craw-
ford and that he was unable to
produce them. The board of
county commissioners, then con-
sisting of @. s. Welles, M. w.
Bremen, and J. L. Vaughn ORDER
ed the treasurer to give an addi-
tional bond. The Commissioners
record No. l., page 239 has the
following entry: October IL, A.
ID. 1884. The board met pursu-
ant to adjournment. Present, @. s.
Wells, chairman; M. w. Bremen,
com'r; N. Scarritt, Jr. Dep'ty
clerk. The additional bond of
Samuel H. Eckles as treasurer, for
thirty thousand dollars was pre-
scented to the boardand, on motion
of Mr.. Bremen was approved and
filed with the clerk of said board.
Sureties are Angus Campbell and
Isaac N. Cohen"
AT the following election DR..
Wood was elected one of the COM
~missioners and at the February
meeting of the board, about six
weeks after DR.. Wood hadqualiied
as commissioner, the record shows
the following: Meeting of the
board Of county commissioners
held at Silver City in and for
Grant County, on the 18th day of
February A. d. 1886. Present
Hon. Angus Campbell, chairman
Hon. G. N. Wood, comm'r; E.
Stein, clerk" Here follows rec
ord of regular routine work. }
Board then adjourned until next
day at 9 a. m"
"Feb. IA, A. D. 1886. Board
met pursuant to adjournment.
Present all of the officers as OF
yesterday. The clerk was ordered
by the board to instruct the treas
urer to transfer $1,000 from the
railroad bond fund to the general
county fund to be paid out on spe-
cial orders of the board, signed by
the chairman and clerk thereof"
Then follows an order for the
purchase of stationery and then
comes one of the most extraordi-
nary orders ever passed by a board
of county commissioners. 1t il
as follows: 1T was then ordered
adjudged and deoreed by the board
that the sureties on the additions.
treasurer's bond of s. H. Eckles
! Esq, be and they are hereby re.
lieved from any further response
bility as such sureties and said
bond cancelled" 1t will be seer
from the record that only two
commissioners were present anC
that one of them was one of the
, bondsmen of the treasurer. Thu
bond was for $4,000 which wa
ample to secure the county from
, any loss on account of the failurl
of the bank in which the count,
| funds had been deposited by Nh
+ Eckles. The bondsmen we're per
I fectly good but the doctor in thu
goodness Of his heart chose rather
without either precedent or war
: rant Of law, to cancel a bond b,
! which proceeding the county los
/ many thousand dollars, than d
D his duty and save the money
Besides this it will be noticed tina
at this same meeting, the commits
sioners transferred $1,000 fror
the railroad bond fund to the gen
eral fund, which it had no RICH
to do. A page of this paper coul,
be filed up with an account of tn
: official misdeeds of this sam.
d commissioner who is now a candi
date for election. These ar
Q matters of record and cannot b
b denied or disputed. Are the pee
y pie of Grant county going to vot
for a man who voted to reliev
bondsmen from a bond when b
his refusal TO 30 would have save
y the county thousands of dollars
We believe that the tax payers {
elGrant county are opposed to a
advance in the rate of taxatic
and a man who has once relieve