The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-27

/ rowed the money" she said. "and they
came TO me every day for that money
/ and i cannot pay them back Some
weeks only got 10 or Is cents worth
/ OF meat. The man said he would take
my house IL / did not pay him. Be
was at my house to-day and said he
would take IL. / am a poor woman and
try to do what is right, but / can't
make enough to feed us. II 1 wanted
to be bad / could get money, but / am
a woman that fears God and 1 will not
do wrong. II you don't help me. God
knows what 1 will do. will starve be-
fore / will do wrong" Mrs. Peterson
left the Office crying.
Mrs. A. Pollard said she had a mar
ried daughter, but had very little for
herself. She said she would try to get
along without county aid, bat did not
believe she could do So
Mrs. Clarisse, an old woman, who was
alleged by the commissioners to have
been unworthy of aid. testified that all
she got from the county was rent for
part of a month and a little wood, and
said she had no house 10 live in and
sometimes slept on two boxes and also
slept in jail for IL days. She is IS years
old and unable to work. Under Sheriff
Young testified about Mrs. Clarisse
sleeping in Jail because she had no 9TH
er place to go.
Another batch of testimony was That
OF the owners of houses rented to the
county by the firm of w. ii. Winters
a. Co. and the testimony of several
real estate men as to rental value of
the property. In reference to the tes-
timony of one of the witnesses Mr.
Winters made the following notation
on his report: THE testimony of
Charles S. Passmore will be noticed as
that of the gentleman who misrepre-
scented the affairs of the auditor to the
board of county commissioners. 1t will
be noticed that Mr.. PASSWORDS testi-
mony is contradicted by every other
property owner and real estate man
sworn. 1t is particularly contradicted
by the testimony of Mr.. Campana
which Is contained on page 33 of this
report. In fact, the testimony of Mr..
Passmore contradicts itself"
Among the witnesses who testified
were NJ. Gensberger j. r. Silver and
]. II. Dickson, who said they received
the amount Mr. Winters collected from
their houses. =. A. Gamer and Hayes
Cannon testified as to the rental value
of the houses rented by Winters e. Co.
to county charges, and said in effect
that they were worth what was charg-
ed for them.
j. ID. Slemons said county tenants
were not a good class of tenants, as
there was trouble in collecting the
rents and more trouble and annoyance
in getting possession of the premises
again.
c. S. Passrnore testified that he
thought he had stated to one of the
county commissioners that Auditor
Winters had informed certain mer-
chants that IL they would give his
agency their insurance he would in
crease their county orders.
Q. What reason did you have, Mr..
Passmore, for making that statement?
A Because a party told me so.
Q. who told you so. A. Mr.. Cam
pana.
Q. Mr.. Campana told you that I |
informed him that IL he would give me !
insurance l would increase his county !
orders? A. Yes, sir
Mr.. Passmore thought that a four |
room house in South Butte was worth |
about $40 a month and a three-room |
house about $3.50. other agents, how |
ever thought such houses would be |
worth from SIS to 500 a month.
Mr. Passmore said he had no such |
houses to rent Cor the rental he men |
toned, and he did not think a county |
charge was a desirable tenant.
The testimony of the witnesses was
taken in shorthand by s. w. Shire and
w w. Johnston and they certified to
the correctness of the transcript