The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-02
Reports as TO the Number of
Deputies Employed.
FORCE CANNOT BE REDUCED
THAT is WHAT THE VARIOUS OF.
FICIALS SAY.
No Action Taken By the Board nj
Yesterdays Session, But the Mat
ter VIII Probably Come Up at the
Meeting This Morning.

The county commissioners held
meeting yesterday and received reports
from the various county officers rela-
tive to the number of deputies en-
ployed and their salaries. The order
was made al the last meeting of the
board to fix the salaries of all depu-
ties and clerks In this the commits
sioners feel they have more than their
hands full, for the recommendations
for each officer were supplemented by
oral statements each one seeking TO
impress upon the commissioners the
absolute necessity of getting Just what
they ask for.
The reports are given below and the
public can draw its own conclusions
as to the justice OF their demands.
No action was taken in the matter,
but will probably come UP at today's
meeting.
COUNTY CLERK.
Concerning the force now employed
in the county clerks office, Mr.. Stanton
reported as follows:
A. c. Reese, chief deputy and book
keeper, salary $1i5 per month; Aida
Reedall, chief deputy, $50 per month;
Lena Adams. stenographer, $50 per
month; Georgia Mcklmmins, clerk, $45
per month.
In the office of the clerk of the dis
trict court six people are employed as
follows:
George D. LOOMS, chief deputy and
bookkeeper, S175 per month; j. III.
Sprague, deputy, 500 per month; NJ. V.
Cox, deputy. $50 per month; Margaret
Liggan, stenographer, so per rnoIsah;
Mabel Anderson and Maud Patterson,
clerks, $40 per month each.
THE salaries as outlined above were
fixed by myself says Mr. Stanton in
his report, and have been paid to the
clerks on the last day of each month
and l regard them eminently fair and
reasonable. Concerning the salaries of
S175 per month to Mr. Reese and Mr..
LOOMS, L desire to say that it en-
braces two items, one Of deputy for
which 1 have fixed their salaries at
81, 500 each, and that of bookkeepers,
for the county and district courts re-
spectively, which L have fixed at $500
a year each, thus making the aggre-
gate $175 per month. / desire further
to say that this additional work of
bookkeeping is done by these officers
outside of Office hours and is absolute
ly extra time and labor
Recorder Crismon in his report says:
lie present &LllOuul Oh DuSiISSS L All
ing TO this Office requires, besides my
own services, the services of oae chief
deputy, two assistant deputies and
three copyists and proof readers. AS
the amount of work varies, it is some
times necessary to have an extra as
sistant as copyist; therefore it is i'm
possible for me to give the exact
amount of work to be done in the Of
flee, but at present it keeps the force
ing ~ rod oil he
from 9 a. m. to p. m.
L submit herewith a statement of
the compensation which 1 deem just
and fair for me employees of this
department, and respectfully ask your
honorable body to appropriate for
them the following amounts;
R. H. McKaig, chief deputy, January
to May l, at $111.n per month,
$444.44; H. NJ. Mack, assistant deputy,
$444.44; w. G.. Nebeker, assistant dep
uty, January to April II, '96 inc, at
SILL per month. S359.10; S. Seth Stone,
clerk, January 4 to May 1, at 500 per
month, $500; Alice Crismon, copyist SIS
per month $500; Florence Roundy,
copyist, $500; Alice Ebel copyist, April
% to May 1, at SIS per month, $40; to-
tai, 50, $685.
"I would also ask that, beginning
May 1, the compensation of my help
be fixed, as follows:
R. H. McKaig, chief deputy, SILL;
H. NJ. Mack, assistant deputy, SILL;
S. Seth Stone. assistant deputy, 800;
Alice Crismon, copyist. s75; Florence
Roundy, copyist, SIS; Alice Ebel, copy
ist, SIS; total, $574.22
II would call your attention to the
fact that w. G.. Nebeker quit my SER
vice on April II, 1896, and that L have
appointed S Seth Stone as second as
sistant deputy, as it requires three
deputies to properly conduct the bust
ness of this office.
SHERIFF'S OFFICE.
Sheriff Hardy reported the following
ramed persons engaged in his Office at
the following salaries per month:
G. S. Clark, chief deputy and
bookkeeper ........ ..............S $50
John G. Montgomery, jr., deputy. 100
A. H. Steele, deputy. .............. 100
D. P. Thomas, deputy ........... 100
George w. Gibbs, deputy ........ 100
Ralph Guthrie, deputy ........... 100
j. p. Mahan, court bailiff. ....... IS
j. H. Miller, court bailif ........ 20
w. P. Rowe, court bailiff ........ IS
W. B. Booth, court bailiff ....... 70
w. T. Nelly, day jailer ......... 100
J. H. Johnston, night jailer. 80
Sadie w. Bartlett, stenographer ;. SO