The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-05
= Butte Meas
JOBS FOR THE BOYS
County Priscntrs Will Be Thrown
Into the StOckade.
THEY WILL REPAIR ROADS
IL Is Expected That This Order VIII
Prevent Hoboes From Break
Ing Into jail - Other
County Business.

The county commissioners yesterday
concluded finally to put the county
prisoners to work on the rock pile, and
operations will begin in about ten days.
Mayor Thompson was before the board
and the subject was discussed. The
county and city prisoners will be work
ed together in the city stockade and
the mayor said the city was ready to
begin work whenever the county was
ready. The commissioners were not
prepared to handle the prisoners prop
erly. and an order has been sent in for
a lot of irons and handouts. 1t is the
intention of the commissioners to work
from 80 to 40 prisoners a day in shifts
of 10 hours, and the county is expected
to reap double benefit from II, by i'm
proving the county roads with the
broken rock and by discouraging men
from breaking into Jail under the i'm
preston that all they will have to do is
to eat and grow fat.
Alderman Heilig was also before the
board yesterday relative to the powder
magazine question and about making
a report to the city council concerning
the sites examined by the commission
ers and the council committee recently.
The commissioners said they would op-
pose any of the three sites examined,
but were rather inclined to favor the
canyon back of the county poor house.
as that would be preferable for safety
and convenience. 1t was also stated
that the Northern Pacific had express
ed Willingness to build a spur road
to any new location that might be de-
cided upon, but no answer has yet been
received to the proposition from the
Great Northern and Montana Union.
Assessor Warfield complained to the
hoard that the 1ax fx,an
much new work on his office that he
could not do 1t with the force of depu-
ties allowed him by the law, and said
he needed two additional assistants
Among the new duties imposed on him
by the codes is that he must make up
a military roll of all able-bodied male
inhabitants between the ages of IS and
As years in the county and also to col
lect taxes on personal property where
the owner has not sufficient real estate
to secure the collection of taxes
on his personal property. With his
regular force. said the assessor IL
would simply be impossible to do the
thorized him to appoint two additional
deputies.
The board completed the work of ex-
aiming the books of county and town.
ship officers and found the bonds of
the following officers to be insufficient:
John Marsland, justice of the peace;
Thomas Coombs, constable; w. A Ellis
worth, constable; G. ]. Lazzarri con-
stable, and ]. E. Doud, justice of the
peace. The clerk was instructed to no.
tify the officers named to file new bonds
at once.
A. w. Barnard, one OF the sureties on
the bond of County Clerk Johnson, no.
titled that official that he was about to
take trip abroad, and for that reason
desired to withdraw from the bond AS
Mr.. Johnson's bond is given for double
the sum required by law. the commits
sioners simply instructed him to notify
the other sureties and obtain their con-
sent to Mr.. Barnard's withdrawal