Mohave County miner., 1896-01-25

| the average of such cases in the iast
 twenty. The district attorney and clerk
 have had printed dnring the year blanks
 to the amount of l0.4D0 and costing over 5OO$. In fact the offices are filtered with
 badly printed blanks from musty, un'
 used, obsolete forms or the crude pro-
 duction of the courthouse talent. Many
 Of them have to be entirely remodeled
 before it is possible to use them. MT.
 St Charles is populis', but our demo
 cratic CD district attorney and recorder
 have fallen 30 in love with h:m that they
 are willing to confer on hun the title of
 blank bIanker to the county during thelr
 term of ofi;e.
 Like the juzgler, who draws from the spectators hat a baby's wardrobe and
 last years unrecei pted beard bill, we are
 tempted to exclsim, An! What have
 we here? When we look over the bills of oar supervisors, on whose brows the seal of virtue and honesty has been in. dslibly impressed. Mir Grant, at the
 meeting held in July, certified 10 the bill, as itemized in the July account on the first page, and drew his per diem from the treasury for April 5, July l, 2, and 3, total of tour days and milsge. In Oc. tober, you will observe, Mir. Grant again includes his services for Juiy 2, and draws 5$ for the same. But he does not stop there. Hs puts in a oill of 5s per diem and II 4)s niisge for a mithical m seting on Septem Der l8, 1895 We are sorry to state no meeting of the boar1
 was ever held on the uasventful l6 h oi September, 1895 Mir. Grant is the re. chairman. Republicans are supposed to be boodlers on principle. Never will we believe that a populist, s man who comes from out the cloak that covers the rottenness of the old parties, into the purity of new life, would ever take from the poor, overbnrdsned taxpayer an un. Ia aSful dollar. But sad are we 10 confess that we find Mir. Johnson following the example of Mir. Grant (observe the bills of July and O,tober) and duplicates the bill Of July 2 and puts in his bill for the mythical meeting of September 16h. MT. Frost, unlike Mir. Johnson, belongs 10 the party of tariff for revenue, and Jones he pays the freight. William, when bill is presented that don't suit his caliber, get, up on his hind legs and, in the choicest of Cockney dialect, di lates on the extravagance of people in general and the prevailing propensity of people to rob the already overbur tened taxpayer on all occasions. Poor William. He fell into the common error of man. kind and was laying up for himself few scads for the dry days that may come, ~ben the hides of the festive beef steer wrinkle up and the brilliant sunlight chimes through. He lays away his per diem for July 2, 1895. but did not try any hill making until last week, when he tries another shy at old July 2d Not content with bringing that turnsdouble out he takes whack at the milage and stakes out 6 40$ on the turn. Then hay. ing plenty of ink to spare, he sizes up September 18th as another good day for A 5s per diem and 6 40$ mileage. Two other days, when Mir. Frost was hunt. ing the festive long horn, was charged for and, proud of hic chirographic ability, he draws his "douQh" as proudly as though he had earned 1t. The bills of the board show the loose method in vogue and the great and crying necessity of a change. Take, for instance, the important matters of the board of equal. ization: Few if any of the proceedings have been signed up by the chairman, and, in fact, it Is hard to tell what day or year the meetings were held. Ac. 'ions of this kind might possibly raise a question as to the legality of the levy and complicate the revenue supplying machinery of our county government. | We acknowledge, without asking the consent of the board. that they, or it, are very pigheaded, and this selfsams pgheadedness has caused them to refuse to acknowledge any laws for their gov. ernment. Of course, in some instances they have the opinion of the district at. torney that many of the obnoxious laws have been "repesIed." The repeal of the laws exists only in the fertile inagi. nation ot the sforemen toned district