The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-02
SOnE SLIPSHOD AFFAIRS.
Instances of Lose Administration of
County Affairs.

County Affairs.
X. r. Anderson, big property owner in
/ his city, has been employed since the
urst of the year to expert account The
old boards affairs He is paid $50 per
month for the work which he really fin
ished months ago. with the assistance of
his son, Mr.. Fisher and other EXPERT
accountants. but still hangs on and con-
unuously draws the eNorbitant salary. Of
late he has been going over the present
! county boards affairs and 'investigatins''
Z them in order TO put them in some such
/ shape that they can be made head or tail
OF. He fEankly admits that the present
1 administration affairs, on the face of
the business, were in worse condition
than that of the old board. MIR. Ander-
son had pointed out to Geddes and Rob
erts their failure to X bills that Were
paid months before, and which were
"shaky' at the time they We're paid, and
were liable TO be exposed in the public
( press They were allowed TO slide" until
the probability of exposure was past,
and then they forgot to 20. X" them.
OF late Mr.. Geddes ana Mr. Roberts have
ting their 20. h on everything in sight.
In doing this they 20. KID" claims that
they shouldn't have, as they were not
even allowed. But in hurriedly going
through the bundles such little eccentrici-
! ties were not noticed. Mr.. Geddes or Mr..
Roberts would simply write the 20 x"
and then their initials "a. S. c." or &c.
Il. r." as the case might be. Then Mr..
Anderson went over them and wrote sc
lectman' under their initials. This is
what he has been doing for some time
past to earn his salary.
NJ. Christopherson o. KID bill which
showed the extreme sellshness of ne
potism. On March 20 his son distributed
some circulars ito taxpayers" lie made
out his bill for SO which Geddes and
Roberts winked at ann then the father
cut it down 10 IS. then subsequently, to
$3.50. which was finally allowed on April
Il. Henry Buhring was only allowed 81
for distributing these same circulars. But
IN nepotism these is always selfshness.
On February e Mr.. Geddes gave pauper
! order No. 107 to bearer" on the 4. G
II. L. for $ worth of sugar. 1t was
transacted" in department '"F'' of the
T. c. NJ. l., with no endorsement or any
thing TO show who got this sugar who
1t was for. or anything about it VIII
Mr.. Geddes please explain about
this, as s. worth of sugar is at least
worth receiptng for by any pauper in
Zion; in fact Mr.. Geddes himself would
write his name for s., or even less.
The Salt Lake Lithographing company.
rendered bill OH January 3lst, for three
and d half thousand letterheads. S4O.25.
and 1000 marriage certificates, $3.50 The
/ letterheads are worth from 81 10 Sc a.
thousand, no more, the marriage licenses
are exorbltantly paid for.
In the bills for February and March
I rendered by J. ". Farrell &. Co, plumb
ers. they charge 40 cents gallon for
gasoline, and 80 cents pound for solder.
Whatever price, for anything. was freely
countenanced by Mr.. Geddes
During January and February there
was a great clamor amongs the men who
| did political work for Geddes and Rob
! erts, and they were given jobs as night
Waterman in the joint building. James
/ Speer was paid $50 for ten nights, and
John c. Robinson got in four nights at So
( a night At the same time Janitor Rob
] Il - Ncio pau E4Nl- 4OI carpenter WORK.
and 3. r. Haddock was paid 81 . for
damages" while Thomas Holden was
paid S2425 for carpenter work; c. A.
Erickson, landscape gardner" while
waiting for the grass to grow in Janu-
airy, was paid 81 for doing seven days
/ carpenter work. on the county side of the
! building. The public will understand that
most OF this carpenter work was done
I by common street laborers, and that if
/ there had been any carpenter work to do
( in the Joint building it was being done
under contract by carpenters. The three
/ county gardeners" were being paid SEQ
a month for gardening the snow off the
I grounds during the winter months, and II
/ there was no snow they kept warm by
/ taking turns stocking the boilers.
! Fred w. Price was paid S12O for inspect
/ ing fruit trees in February and a few
! days in january. The law prescribes that
I a fruit tree inspector shall be appointed
and start upon his duties before the trees
I begin TO bud, which is in April and June.
! Price started in with an army of deputy
/ inspectors, costing the county almost as
much as the road supervisors expense.
In Lapsley & Stanrord's plumbing bill
/ for February 9th, $3.50 is charged for
putting IN three water taps. They are
worth s1.25 apiece, and 81 for putting
each one in place. or $6.75, or an excess
of S12.75 was charged in this one item.
Another one Of those inexplicable en-
iEmas that Mr.. Geddes is constantly is
suing forth to dumbfound the reason of
man, was pauper orded No. 127, issued
TO Barnes. Hardy & Co. dated "DECENI-
BIER 18th. 1895" which says, PAY to
! bearer. $500. There is no address, and as
it was dated ten months ahead it could
not well come TO light and be ques
toned by a suspecting public. However,
it was paid in March, and on the back
Of the order is this strange endorsement,
paid due bill" Now whose due bill was
/ Il? And why wasn't the benefactor on
this pauper order fair enough to endorse
/ It. as required by law, and as specifically
mentioned in type on the face of the
order2 This looks bad. however insigni-
fcant $500 bill may be as to Mr. Geddes
or a pauper.
There is a specific requirement by law
that all employees of the county shall be
made by appointment al regular sitting