The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-02

this matter is specifically denominated IL
legal, and any money paid to any such
Illegally appointed employee is subject to
return to the county treasurer. The Sc
iectmen have made several such illegal
appointments, in fact no appointment,
but have several of their intimate friends
at work. drawing salary regularly, con-
trary to law. One of these is C. F. EN-
cry. whom Mr.. Geddes put into his Of
nee in April, and for which month he
was paid $685.. Since that time he has
been drawing SIS a month for doing what
Mr.. GeddeS charges for doing every day
himself-looking after paupers and an
swering their questions when they come
to his office This is an outrage. There are
two janitors, one Roberts son, who are
also drawing S65 a month, who were
never legally appointed.
On March S1st, when Mr.. Geddes was
making good use of the infirmary team,
with which he and Roberts had made
many dollars, and by the way, they sub
sequently paid into the county treasury
SO after being exposed by The Herald,
found 1t necessary" to go and look at
: a sewer and canal" The county surrey
was not good enough for this, so he hires
I a al 44dSsp 1OI WI1ICu ne O.A. u "a Dill LOT
50. The same bill was filed May 18th and
not paid until June 18th, showing one
Of those gentle slides" to not cause
comment.
Just before the bond election there was
some great wire pulling, especially on
team hire" Time forbade The Herald
to go into these bills as they should
have been. but they will answer for fur
Their developments. Suffice it to say here
that there bills footed up a prodigous
amount, and were allowed on their faces
for some time, when an expose was
made. which called the selectmen down.
and from that ime on, many were g-
rored and thrown out entirely, some
were allowed in full. many amounting to
as high as SO each. They will merit a
grand jury investigation.
H. P. Dwyer was paid $12 for instruct
Ing the janitors about the wires"
On March 18th, P. W. Madsen was paid
&1,05 for a plush curtain" Where was
the curtain used? What use has the pau
per for plush curtains?
Mr. Geddes paid one coal firm $780, 3
for slack for the joint building for the
first fifteen days in March.
Mr.. Geddes even takes a comfortable
pull out of bridge ties" or at least he
plays some very strong favorites. To
NJ. T. Ellison and James McGhie he pays
70 cents apiece for 145 ties, and subse-
quent bills show he buys numbers at.
! the same price. To Andrew W. Thompson
he only paid 60 cents a piece. and H. H
Smoot furnished them at 451a cents a
I piece. These ties are simply red pine
sticks of dimension timber that are
worth in the opinion of those who know,
possibly 20 to p cents.
Prominent among Mr.. Geddes' many
liberal donations to paupers, stands his
act of July 22nd, when he paid Philip
Jones $50 for Jones taking care of his
sister Jemima Jones.
On September 23rd, Mr.. Geddes 80. K.'d"
bill for $500 carriage hire used for
sick woman. Mrs Ada Perry. Where
was the poor farm team, Echo answers
Bingham"
Thomas H. Walker, sick pauper, sold
his cow to get money to pay his ex-
penses. Mr.. Geddes bought him a new
COW for $50, and now he has sued the
county for $4,000 damages for broken
leg, as he claims he fell through one
Of Geddes g1lt-edged-bridges, which have
each cost cooperative fortune.
| The disposal by an unlawful ''sale" of
the horses and wagons, carts and har-
ness. belonging to the county infirmary.
in all close to $1,000 worth of property.
for s23S. of which Mr. Roberts took tbe
ma 0rff fe. IL
outrageous transactions in the select
mems questionable career, and the pro-
perty should either be returned or the
selectmen's bondsmen made pay for it,
Mr.. Geddes makes an artesian well con-
tract that will bear liberal investigation.
He pays part of the expense out of the
pauper fund, and makes no restitution.
Mr.. Geddes buys stamps out of the
pauper fund for tree inspectors and for
! other purposes. pays expressage and
freight on the furniture dear' and
otherwise appropriates money from that
| fund illegally for many purposes not pre-
scribed by law. Mr.. Geddes hires cabs
carriages and express wagons to haul
paupers and sick people, paying as high
as $500 a trip.
Every cent of mileage charged by the
selectmen. made over the street car lines
and railroads, was made on passes and
free TRANSFORMATION held by them.
Up to the first day of October, which
is today. the selectmen have appropriated
and used almost $4,000 or the exact fig
ures last Saturday, without the appro-
priations of yesterday, were $50, 121. SO. Al
this rate it is reasonable to suppose that
the total for the year will be about Sl27.-
6S2.31. and this without any big expenses
for improvements.
Let US hear what the people of Bing-
ham have to say about Roberts and the
work of Supervisor Lee and Roberts.
Poor Fellow!