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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-04-06
For Sale.

4 4x9 81 lizard TABLE FOR
- sale Inquire Harry sayIot, Ha-
waiian Hotel
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E If y0u want to sell ont
your FURNITURE I'm fts entirety, call
at the I. x. L.
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The ADVERTISER and GAZETTE on
sale at Hilo, }. 4. Martin news agent.
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Notice.
Notice.

nUR'NG MY ABSENCE FROM
~ the Hawaiian Islands, Mir. Waiter
NJ Giffarj will act for me- in all matters
of business, under fulI power OF attorney,
WIN q IRWIN.
Honolulu, III l., April 4, 1895.
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To Let.

t.A A VERY CONVENIENT
ii new Cottage, With ali modern
s{ss improvements. ~ Kinan str 81
one block from the car Ii q. Servant
Room, Rarn and table on PREMISES.
For particulars, apply 10
n. 6. SACHS.
59lS-u $50 Fort Street.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-02
THAT POOR FARM DEAL.
How Property OF the County Was
Sold 10 Officials.

Because criticized by the public
press for illegal acts. in using the in
Urinary team for piling up mileage.
the county selectmen decided they
would show the public trick or two
and make more than the $25 they paid
the treasurer for the use Of the team,
by simply confiscating it to their own
use. White the intent and purpose was
open to suspicion. Messrs. Geddes and
Roberts even went to the extreme of
failing to conform ITO the law which
very especially states just how such a
sale of property belonging to the county
shah be conducted. Instead of adver-
Using the sale of horses, wagons. har-
ness, etc, in any newspaper or public
print they had Deputy Clerk Reese
post a, few notices of sale on four or
five poles in the lower end of the city
Mr.. Reese did This, protesting to them
that they should advertise it legally.
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Republican ticket, it must have re-
quired more than human nerve to have
made that venture with the record
made by him and kept In hiding as
best it could by Geddes.
The fact is still fresh in the public
mind that there was constitutional
convention held. beginning on March 4
and ending Nay s, 1895. Mr.. SqIires
was a member of that honorable body.
to the time he went into the conven-
ton March 4: and when he made the
change he had W. O. Corbis, another
statistician, fill his place in the office,
Corbis was being paid $3.50 per day
for outside work, but when he sue
ceeded Squires he was paid the same
salary-$4 per day. Up to this time
there is nothing strange or unusual in
the proceedings; but for his March
bill, Q. KID by Geddes. he presents 8
days. instead of 4. at $3.50 per day, and
Is days at 81 in order to clean up an
even 800. Now, watch the slide" for
Mr.. Squires In his bill dated April %,
George B. SQuires charges for days
in March. instead of for one day in
month from 1st to 4th was Sunday
days, or S36. This is $24 more than he
was entitled to, as from March to
May he drew his salary from the
constitutional convention. This bill for
March was paid May 1. after its 30
x" by Geddes This was the begin
Ming NOW for the end
Warrant No. 1884, paid for claim No.
400, dated June TO- in favor of W. o.
Corbis, for q days in April at S4-s1OS;
and days in May at 81. or $40. This
bill is all right enough, perhaps 81 long,
but that is nothing, as on the same
date George B. Squires was paid sos
for services as deputy statistician 81
days in May" AS Mr.. Squires was in
the constitutional convention with both
feet and his overcoat until the last act
on May s, he could only have been a
statistician from that date on to the
end of the month, or 10 days, working
days, at most. which, at 81 per day
would figure SIC. This amount is what
properly and legally belonged to him.
Now. SOS less $40 is $50, added to the
S24 taken at the beginning, figures $50
that Mr. Squires has received from
the people, with the sanction and 20.
K" of Mr. Geddes. VIII Mr.. Squires
refund this to the conscience" fund
of the county treasurer? Is this an
item worth the while of the grand
iury noticing?
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"PAUPER" J.C. SANDBERG.
A Deputy Statistican Who Lives on
Charity Orders.

The name of j. c. Sandberg is famil-
iar % Mr.. Geddes. He is one of the
many Pythiases who paralleled Mr.
Geddes' Damon. Sandberg was one of
Geddes' pauper ward heelers when the
selectman took hold of the big fund
which he so literally split with the
poor. But just why he should be paid
a big salary as a deputy statistician
and warmed by pauper coal Mr.. Ged-
des can better explain than The Her
aid. and Sandberg won't tell. so here
the story, and shown by the records:
On February and IS Mr. Geddes
gave j. c. Sandberg pauper orders for
so worth of merchandise from Barnes,
Hardy & Co.
]. c. Sandberg drew $3.50 salary as
deputy statistician for the month of
March.
On bill dated May 10. voucher No.
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full bill would have been $3.50. or $s3S.12
less. His total bill for the 2S days of
the month of June was s491.63-
When Ferguson gave Roberts his
July bill for s6S2.62 there were no ques-
tions asked by the selectman. Out Of
this bill John Ferguson drew the fol-
lowing amounts: John Ferguson, or
bearer" one warrant for $3.50. This no
doubt was someone's share. For John
Ferguson, $685." Leroy Ferguson.
$780," "B. f. Ferguson, or bearer. S..
and plain ''B. F.. Ferguson, $1,000" To-
tai for the Ferguson family, S1S0.S7. As
will be observed, Mr.. Ferguson exer-
cised the right of Nepotism practiced
by Roberts. His boys carried water
and did chores. for which they drew
$3.50. Yet Mr.. Geddes and Mr.. Roberts
had Dog Catcher Sam Galleazzi work
ing the same day and a quarter gag all
through July and for 6 days in August.
Galleazzi was paid $3.50.
Ferguson's Other TransactiOnsJ
When Ferguson pulled up stakes at
Mill Creek to attend to the sale of the
inf1rmary horses for Roberts. he sold
the county selectman an old cook stove
for S. and was allowed J. Pearts' gro
Gerry bill for $3.50 at the "quartzite
camp" Why, and what for?
On Sept. 2S Ferguson was paid $217 rs
"for fixing ratings around cuIverts on
State street"
John Ferguson was also paid SIS for
a, tent. This tent. it is said, was or
dered by Geddes by telephone from
Henry Ripe on June 10, and was de-
livered to Sandberg and Ferguson at
the shale beds. In August it is said
the tent was bought once more, the
premium being about ST.
Road Supervisor r. ID. MaxfeId.
Road Supervisor R. D. Maxfield Is
another favorite, who has district No
3S in Big Cottonwood He is an apt
pupil and charges $2.25 per day when
his rate should be 81; he also charges
81 for imam and team which is an
advance of rs cents per day, which
may be living expenses. In his May
bill he charges IA days at s225. or
$780," when it should be s31.5O. an adj
vance of 81. Then '19 days for c. E
Taylor, or $685. or total of S69.5O; then
plus Z days with team at 50 extra. or
$3.50, or a total grab of $11.75. His
April bill is $3.75 in excess. These bills
are o. KID by Geddes. and paid
Road Supervisor Merari North in
May charges 50 a, day for labor and
so for man and team" which is ac-
cording to law where legally employed
but he gets 81 per day because he only
has himself and team, and the only
work he did was hauling the super
visors over the road" in Casper Hol-
low" all of which was strictly illegal
and the selectmen charged up mileage
on top of this bill.
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TaE SALT LAKE HERALD wEDNEsDAY. OCTOBER 2 1895

444, warrant No. 1858. claim of j. C.
Sandberg for s3S for eleven days work
as deputy statistician in May; the
same is "OK'd by Geddes an0 drawn
by him on May II. and Geddes signs
the stub of the warrant book. Sub
sequently, on the back of the claim,
is written Il hereby assign to A. G..
Geddes the within claim in payment
of amount allowed me on pauper ac-
count, and order on Barnes, Hardy &
Co. for SIS. CSigned) j. C. Sandberg."
The warrant is receipted for by Ged-
des on May %, showing that Geddes
must have first taken the claim with
out written agreement of Sandberg, as
required by law. and further, the rec
ords do not show that Sandberg owed
thisi amount for pauper orders, and
still further. Mr.. Geddes never refund
ed this money to the treasury, al
though perhaps he did.
For right here let it be understood
that the only pauper refunds ever
made by Geddes to the treasury is
shown on the records to have been
on April II, May % and June 81. dur
ing his period of Office. These re-
funds were for IS, SIS and IS respec-
lively. Hence Mr.. Sandberg's $3S, or
at least $40 of it. as shown by the re-
fund of SIS on May 25, if that were the
Sandberg money. Now with this ap-
preparation from the general fund,
and the fact that they We're paid by
pauper orders also, shows that these
claims were paid double. But this is
not all, for on June 8 Mr. Sandberg
gets in a double deal by presenting a
bill for twenty-five days services as
statistician in April at $3.50 per day,
or $3.50, which is "OKd" by Geddes
and paid. On July he presented his
bill for June, which is plain plank
affair for hours, which he figures out
into twenty-six days "a only $3.50 per
day, or sos. He don't specify what the
hours We're for, where they We're put in
or what at, but ne does, in this bill,
pull his salary down a dollar a day,
and then he assigns the account to
Geddes, which is OKd by Roberts.
Now, whit for? This bill may be all
right, but it looks suspicious. First,
why the bill? second, what for: third,
why assigned to Geddes? and then,
when done. what did Geddes do with
tbs money?
The next bill of sandberg's is for
$3.50 for nineteen days work In the
shale beds, which is at $3.50 per day
Alma Timpson was paid only 81 a
day for the same work, but Of course
Sandberg was friend Of Geddes and
Roberts, and the latter OK'd this bill
But Sandberg must have felt bad to
go to the shaie beds at 50 80 day as
a common lanorer. when he was pull
ing $50 month aId coal out as a
pauper deputy statistitian.
Taken altogether. the s3S md ST.. or
S1O3 which Alr. Sandberg gave 10 Gcd-
des by assignment was for some rur-
pose Other than specified, and where,
o where, is that money. Mr. 1eddeso
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-02
COUNTY rlEAT INSPECTOR.
A Legally Fitted Man Fired For "a
ShaIe Bed Hand.

Perhaps the saddest and darkest
day that could come into the severely
sweet lives of Geddes and Roberts,
would be the one when they knew
they could not hire a. gardener or
janitor. Every able-bodied pauper
friend of the two has been on the
salary list of the county's janitors or
gardeners since January LIST. A ma
jority have only worked at odd times
but there has been regular army
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WINDOWS. at the same time allowing
the Water TO run down over the var
naIhe& siIls of the window casing on
tsi&pwn over the plastering and on to
thSoor. In two hours they cleaned
twoSwindows and left the water, one
eighth of an inch deep on the sills.
They next went into the private room
occupied by r. r. Anderson at $3.50 a
month, drove him cut, shut the door
and laid down on the desks and
smoked cigarettes. They thus reclined
and smoked for one hour and thirty
minutes by the clock, looking out on
the glorious landscape of the lawn be-
low, and told stories to each other.
Finally LORD Scott came and told
them that Mr. Anderson would like
TO get into his room before night, and
they then finished the windows at 2:25
O'clock thus putting in from early
morning until that time in cleaning
four OF i've windows When they
came out of Anderson's room Clerk
Stanton begged of them to wipe the
water off MS window stills. as the var
nish was all softened off by the sun
and water, and the board looked like
one seen on a barn floor. Instead of
drying it off. Giles got a big wet
sponge and simply spread it out
more and made 1T worse than ever.
This is considerable space to devote
to such an item. about such worthless
people, but it is given in absolute
truth, which can be verified by the
xwo lady clerks, Judge Mentally, Clerk
Stanton and Mr.. Reese. The fact is
that This same disgraceful conduct is
carried on in all the offices, and every
.55t of woodwork and some furniture
M being ruined by these 'janitors,
b have all been taken off the roads
go out of quarmes and put into their
present positions. The books in the
clerks office have not been busted this
year. Their condition is simply fright
full, and they cannot be handled with
out soiling the hands so that a
thorough wash is absolutely necessary
after each book is touched, and the
leaves of the books are beginning to
look as though they had been 'leafed"
by school children for a. decade. and
by the end of the year some of the
records will be obliterafed by filth.
Clerk Stanton, Mr.. Reese and Judge
NcNally state that they are at the
mercy of these fellows, thrust on them
by the present system of nepotism.
This young Roberts, it is said, is
boarder ait the house of ]. n. Scott
WHICH may have writing to do with
thA 500 for .eS1 RAJ work
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WILL. MR.. SoUIREs EXPLAIN.
tie Gets in Double-Bitted Deal
With Geddes' Sanction.

A very sensational phase of the meth
DDS countenanced by the county board
viii shock a great many political
friends of George B. Squires. if the re-
citaI even does not surprise the general
public While it is generally known
that MIR. Squires and Selectman Rob
erts owe the county a big license bill
for conducting a dramshop business at
Bingham. which has never been paid
for political reasons only. and because
MrkRoberts. as charge d'affa." of
the' whisky business. does not recog-
nize that he has to do anything beyond
MS supreme will and pleasure.
as Mr.. Squires presumed to
oe a candidate for the nomination for
the office of secretary of state on the
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Furthermore under M circum
stances can any property belonging it,
the county be sold at any place othe.
than at the front door of the county
court house. This specific legal re-
Quirement was ignored by NIessrs. Ged-
des and Roberts. and almost $1,000
worth of valuable property belonging
TO the taxpayers was taken by an lille
gal process Of sale by the very IN
select officials. for 1888. Instead of the
sale being conducted at the front door
of the county court house it was held
at the poor farm, and as pre-
arranged there were present only the
county official, a few of their friends
and one other man who accidentally
heard of the sale and went there more
out of curiosity than anything else.
but when he saw what shake
down. scheme 1t was he. like any
other business man, bought one of the
articles of sale, a wagon, because it
was cheaper than stealing it," Under
the circumstances there was nothing
else left for the county selectmen to
do but to have a second, and legal
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the public press, but they refused TO
do anything of the kind, preferring to
bulldoze TO the end their Illegal acts.
In speaking Of the matter Deputy
County Clerk Al Reese said;
1t Was Roberts Scheme.
cit was at Mr.. Roberts suggestion
that the sale was carried on at the
Poor Farm, instead of at the legal
place of holding it. but as it was none
of my affair. and he insisted that he
was running the matters to suit him
self, [ considered it none of my affairs.
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STSuSOH are flODeIIS IOtdI
and are the only two men on the long
list who really compare favorably with
the selectmen as uncompromising foes
of economy. These two friends of this
now Murray mileage monomaniac''
have figured with him in nearly all of
his deals Geddes and Roberts coun-
tenance and 80. X. anything Lee or
Ferguson will do, and on the vernacu-
lar of the selectmen "F'erg and Lee are
birds" For example:
George E. Lee, road supervisor of
district No. 10, which is Bingham.
hands in a report and bill dated Febru-
airy IS for that month. In it he re-
ports himself and nine different men,
and a team, were at work from one ito
seven days, himself eleven and one-half
days including eight men who are said
TO have worked on Washington's BIRTH
day, February %. o. Roberts, son of
the selectman, is credited up ON this
bill as having worked six days at
$3.50 per day" and 40. Roberts team
six days at $3.50 per day. or S21.' Now,
before going into this matter too far
the reader is here given the law as
provided for all supervisors, and sec
ton I, pertaining to the issue, is here
given:
Seventh-Wages will be as follows
until further notice: Supervisors, 81
per day of eight hours; laborers. $1.75
per day of eight hours; team and man,
$3.50 per day of eight hours.
But this little slip sent out or given
to all supervisors, was only a surface
Indication of truth and equality MI
Roberts arranged by different
scheme, illegal though it was, by an &C
ton of an old county board by which
has team, working in Bingham cam
yon, could be better paid. On February
3 1891, action was taken to this end,
and on March IS, 1891, 1T went into
effect that men and teams working in
the canyons should be paid so cents
more "a day than those working else
where 1t was under this head that
fine Italian hand, not only for the IL
legal raise, but for plenty of surplus
as will be seen by this first bill from
Bingham CANYON.
AS noted in the February bill, Mr..
Lee takes good care of 20. Roberts
and team which even at the raised
rate of $S.75 per day, which for six
days, would amout Ito $3.50; but at
Sc the amount is $50, or $3.50 advance
for six days. This is the condition of
the bill as 20. K.'d'' and ready to pass,
but scare was set up and Roberts,
for fear of consequences, deducted 50
from the bill for team leaving only
$3.50 actual grab This was modest
for starter. but he made up for it
later on.
In his March bin Mr. Lee gives him
self credit for % days labor at SO per
day, which should be only $3.50 per
day, or a rake off of $3.50 in this one
item. John Ferguson shows up on this
payroll for two days work, just to
break him in for his PROFESSIONAL du-
ties later on. Mr.. Lee gives the select
mans son, 20. Roberts, and team"
credit for eleven days work ait $3.50
per day, or $3.50. If honestly paid at
81 this item would be $44, thus show
ing an advance of $3.50. But the next
month shows that Roberts is getting
right down to business.
In his May bin Mr.. Lee throws the
bars down. He credits himself with
having worked 90 days in May, the
18th and 26th were two Sundays that
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he apparently forgot to check up. The
other Sundays, he says, by his bill,
that he worked, although the citizens
of Bingham declare he didn't. How
ever. he Us Mr.. Roberts friend, and
whether he worked or didn't can cut no
figure as long as he is paid for it.
There fore, his bill is $S7. Then comes
20. Roberts and team. including. one
Sunday, the 5th of May" u days,
$3.50, which is not to be "sneezed at
by even o. Roberts With four other
men who worked a little during the
month the bill in total was SPLITS,
which was 80. KID" by Geddes, not
by Roberts, at whose former home the
work was done The bill was paid on
June 10. This was Coming so easy"
for Lee and Roberts that they conclu-
ded that they would absorb the whole
business for April, which they rem
| dered late in order possibly to throw
off all suspicion. In the language of
Roberts the bill is bird. Mr.. Lee
puts the bi1l in this time with his
name connected with the team. 10
! days with team, $45;" then George E.
Lee % days labor at So per day, $75;"
total, s12O for George E. Lee. This
bill was probably 10 days at $3.50 or
$3.50, and 10 days at 81 for team and
man (himself, $40, or $77.50. This
shows an apparent advance of $3.50 in
this item alone. This bill was filed
July and paid the same day-this was
the April bill.
| Things were working splendidly and
Mr.. Lee grows stronger in the faith
for the June bill. He simply Jumps"
the affair at George E. Lee, 26 days
at SO, $40; and "a days with team. $3.50;
total. $780," This bill should be SOL,
or SIT excess.
For July Lee again got in a big bill.
The bill was for $3411O. OF this
amount he gives 60 Roberts and
team Sill" This left Lee 1924 to di-
vide with a few poor devils who got
in a few days at $1.75 per day.
For August Lees bill called for $267.-
So of which 20. Roberts and team got
s12150 This amount was split" as
stated. for doing general road re-
pairs"
And this is the scheme worked by
Selectman Roberts at his former home,
and the taxpayers have such rotten
doses showed down their necks and
not protest is heard SO much for
| Bingham, now for Maxfield and Fer
guson, with whom Mr.. Roberts makes
even richer hauls.
Road Supervisor Ferguson.
The boldest job concocted by some
one and carried out by John Fergu-
son was developed on his claim for
work in Mill Creek canyon. The law
prescribes a days work of eight hours,
| yet every name on Fergusons list is
credited with working a day and a
quarter each day. and not only that,
but every day, Sundays and all, COM
mencing on the Sth of the month Thus
| the bill shows that Ferguson worked
36A days in 23 days, and r. Ferguson
! 2SA days in the % days time. For
this bill of extra time charged
Mr.. Ferguson hopes to excite no sus-
! picion and at the same time get as
good a pull as Lee. His bill, there
fore, for the % days Sundays and alb
for which he charged 36A days, was
at $3.50 per day, the legal per diem al
lowed, which figured S9O.62. Had he
charged the legal price for what he
actually worked (23 days. his right
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-02
SUPERVISORS HARvEsTs.
Some of the Most Daring Grabs in
the Long Lists.

There is no doubt about the favor
ite' road supervisor being one of the
juciest jobs of all. To Roberts especi-
ally there is unbounded satisfaction in
the manner he has his favorites
trained TO pile up" the bills in true
mileage order. George Z. Lee and John