Mohave County miner., 1893-12-23
l334.10-l396 So


By careful addition Of the above bill
it will be seen that the total error IL
favor Of DIR. Lappeus is $62.45. The bill
being a large one, called for the closes
scrutiny Of the board and clerk. but thi,
IL did not receive. In the hospital bill
fuel and lights we're charged Tor, when i
should have been apparent that the
months we're the hottest In the year and
that the use Of fire would have been q
cruelty in place Of necessity. Light
was seldom used in the hospital The
bill shows l271a days nursing to have
been done in the quarter, when it is al
legged that ut no time was there more
than one patient in need OF nursing, and
the fact Is there has always been at
least one patient in the hospital who
could have waited on the others in the
day time as required by the contract.
All admissions to the hospital require
the filing Of an affidavit with the Board
OF Supervisors certifying that the party
demanding admission is an in 1igent
sick person, &C., but in few cases has
this been done and in the White Hills
the law has never been complied with.
In fact. in the latter place, few OF the
men who have been cared for and buried
by the county we're INDECENT. We are
told on reliable authority that five or six
men who died at the Hills and were
buried at county expen had over a
months pay due them from the White
Hills Company. Two other men who
died at White Hill, John Kelly and
William Haywood, and were buried at
the expe lse Of the county, are nov hav.
ing their estates administered on by A.
Yer Mehr. This does not look as though
these men were INDECENT.
The bills sent in from the Hills are
not itemized and the parties making the
bills certainly knew at the time that the
county could not be held for the debts.
The Board OF Supervisors seemed TO
think that because the bills were sworn
to they must Of necessity be correct.
The bill Of s. j. Bsgley, who pur-
ported to be physician at White Hills,
WAS allowed for the care of Z. j. Edmls.
ton, when the bill had already been paid
by Geo. Barnett
This man Bagley has on numerous
occasions been allowed pay for medical
attendance on INDECENT sick when the 80
called INDECENT sick were not properly
county charge, and when the county was
already paying county physician for
the work
Another improper charge paid by the
county was that to DIR. Ealy for ex-
amining an insane person before the pro-
bate court. The contract with the county
physician specifies that he is TO receive
q certain amount for medical attendance,
ETC., until the total OF his bill reached
the sum of 500 for the year, and among
other items he was to make examinations
Of insane for which an allowance CT so
should be made. At the time OF the ex.
animation referred to above, the full
500 had been drawn. DR.. Lsppeus was
called but refused to attend and the
judge ordered DR.. Ealy to appear and
make the examination, which he did and
the board allowed him the sum OF $40.
For this no deduction was made in the
bill Of DIR. Lappeus. OF course DR.. Ealy
could collect pay for his services but it
was clearly the duty Of the board OF su.
pervisors to reimburse the county by
Withholding the amount from the &C.
count Of DR.. Lappeus.
Very lew bills have been properly
filed or sworn to according to law, and
in fact the law is q secondary consider.
alton with the board, as is evidenced
by the act Of one Of the members at the
October meeting. Super visor Grant was
absent and Samuel Crozier and w II
Taggart constituted the board. The bills
Of the Taggart Mercantile Company, of
which Supervisor Taggart is treasurer,
were taken up and allowed, Supervisor
Taggart voting in the affirmative. The
law very plainly says that no supervisor
shall act on any bill in which he is di
rectly or indirectly interested.
Take the whole matter OF allowances
by the board and it will strike the or
dinary observer as being very peculiar
TO say the least. The board has even
refused to have their acts made public
through the press, claiming that this ia