The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-03
BY THE LABOR UNION
A Communication to the Board of
County Commissioners.
THE POOR HOUSE INMATES
Figures Of the Appraisers and the
Duties Of the Assessor-In Re-
gard to the Taxes OF the
ST. James Hospital.

| The county commissioners were in
session yesterday and received a COM
munication from the secretary of the
Trades and Labor assembly making in
| quiries as to the truth of the report
that certain county official spatronized
Cinnamon and that the county gave
pauper orders on a firm on which a
boycott has been placed by the labor
union. The letter was referred to the
clerk. with instructions to answer It.
The facts are that county paupers get
their orders cashed wherever they
see fit.
The monthly report of County Pbv-
stefan Alvord was received, showing
that during the month of February IL
patients were admitted to the poor
house and Is were discharged, leaving
go inmates at the end of the month.
There was a slight decrease in the num-
Der OF outside patients. and there were
no deaths among the county patients
either inside or outside the poor house,
and no contagious or infectious
diseases were reported. DIR. Alvord
called the boards attention to the need
OF an ambulance to remove patients to
the county hospital.
An application was received from
Evan Herbert to be appointed deputy
sheriff or guard for the prisoners whom
II is proposed to work on the rock pile.
No action, however. has yet been taken
on the matter.
A warrant was ordered drawn on the
general fund in favor of the city for
$500. in payment of a Judgment OBJ
tanned against the city.
q. j. Mcconnell was before the board
with petition from the owners of the
Nellie lode. asking permission to with
draw certain plated lots which are be-
ing used for mining purposes only. 1t
taf nd 20 he feel<& -
the board of appraisers had completed
their work and adjourned, and that,
therefore. the only thing the commits
sioners could do would be to approve
the request and refer IT to the board of
equalization when 1t meets. which was
ordered done.
The assessor began at noon yesterday
to make the assessments for the year.
The figures placed on real estate by the
appraisers vary little from the figures
of last year. The assessor will have to
accept the assessments made by the |
appraisers on real estate. but he will |
fix the values on improvements and |
property. He has until the LIST |
of July to make up his assessment roll. |
The appraisers were in session IL days. |
Under the new law the county clerk is |
to furnish the assessor with an |
abstract of all mortgages and other evil
dences of Indebtedness on file in his Of
nee, lOT the puTpOSc VI dSSC6SlnCnb
Clerk Johnson was in doubt as to the |
scope of his duties, under the law, and
the matter to County Attorney
Wines yesterday. The law on the ques-
ton reads: |
ITO assist the assessor In the per-
Torrance OF his duties, the county
clerk must annually transmit TO the |
assessor, on or before the first Mon
day in March, complete abstract OF
all mortgages, deeds of trust, con-
tracts and other obligations by which
any debt Is secured, remaining unsatis-
fed on the records of his 'ffice rot
barred by the statutes of Limitation, at
~ o'clock meridian on the first Mon
day in March of said year. Such alb
stract must be written under appro-
pirate headings, to embrace all infor-
nation requisite for the assessor, in a
book or books to be furnished by the
board of county commissioners upon
the requisition of the assessor. II any
such list be found to contain any in
strument relating to lands situated on
more than one county it is the duty of
the assessor to transmit to the state
board of equalization all information
relating thereto
Mr.. Wines said that under this sec
ton of the statute II was evident that
the clerk would have to go back for
six years, as far as the statute of limi-
tation runs, and make up a complete
OF real estate and chattel
mortgages as well as all other evidence
IF Indebtedness. Mr.. Wines also stat
I'd to the board of commissioners that
ne intended soon to begin actions
against the Anaconda company. to col
ect the taxes on the net profit of the
mines, and the cash In j. A. Murrays
bank which had been raised by the as
SCISSOR against their protest. The |
question OF the St. James hospital as
'essment also came up again and Mr.
Wines stated that the case had not
ret been set for trial, but gave IL as
lis opinion that If 1t could be shown
It the trial that the hospital sent
'rofits to the parent institution in Kan
las there would be no question that
he assessor would be sustained in tax
ng the hospital.