The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-03-14
SMITHS BOND GOOD.
ne rs RELEASED FRoN CUSTODY
II JUSTICE INsERsoLI-
Preliminary Examination Set Tor
March I--Bemnn and Twiehsb
said to Have Been Before fnc
rDpmfssionerx for Examination
- fo What They knew About the
Road Euad.

Len sunIth. who was arrested In connsc-
zion sFfth the road and bridge f1na sIie&eo
frauds. can now walk the streets free 1Ioih
THE protecting Influence OF Ins Jaw "a
County Commissioner W. n hs3ton' "h"
vas the frat 10 feel the hand % the inses-
tigatIns committee. II not 80 fortunate
sfe still remains IN the county JAN. sat4As
tire food served BY Sheriff Meyer.
smith. accompanied by his attorney. W
II Cav went 10 Justice InZersosFs Office
YESTERDAY afternoon and fled his bond Tor
s. 90 with The following sarsslss. @ul4as
pedsisheirnsT. GloTyIua HsdslSneimer- Il
". Bonnsy. Eanlcs r. Bonnsy. George NJ
Stewart, Kate Stewart. l.. schOsnfeid,
Hauuan schosnfssd. George II Horton. n
L. Powers. X J. Powers, J. VI. T. AKIN
non. I. c. Atkinson and James SBee nan-
Ta~ bond had been submitted 70 Prose-
cutting Attorney McEaroy and Was salts
factory, so JGsrice IngersoH ordered
Smiths release. The preliminary exami-
nation was set for March II az 10 O'Clock
g. the morning.
Smith had been a, liberty since the night
q his arrival 10 the city on the strength
% a s5eso bond slgned by j. w. Bonney.
Julius aedelsnsimsr and George u. Stew
arr Neither Mr.. Smith nor Dir. Gay
would talk about the charge OF forgery.
Prosecuting Attorney McElr0y refused 70
tax yesterday. but IL "a well known that
Hart wsra indignant over tas report that
Smith had been jobbed. and that II had
been given out from the prosecuting sttof-
reys office that Deputy Sheriff Lane and
Smith would not arrive IN the ely Until
Saturday evening.
II Is understood that II Levi Smith had
been ia Seattle. instead OF across the lire
st. British Columbia, he would have been
treated by the county commissioners IN
the same manner that ex-Auditor Nathan
Besnan and Fred Twachell were. These
last two mentioned. Il Is said on good su-
fhority, we're requested TO come before the
board. and they did 80. II is presumed
that they were questioned as TO what
they knew about the Affairs of tire read
snd bridge fund.
tfpoB the new administration taking Of
Zee the method by which the business of
Che Rad districts had been transacted
was taken up II may be safely stated
thai all the county commissioners. Prose-
cutlng Attorney McEiroy and Auditor
Evenaon were present Commissioner
Niekerson stated that II was a very unsat-
jsfactory method.
II allowed q commissioner 10 tell John
Doe that II he should build a bridge at
certain point he would receive $50; Rich
ard Roe. 10 open a new road ia another
part OF his district, would receive $50. Mr.
Jones. 20 gravel 50 many rods OF road.
would receive 800
The bills would come In. be approved by
the commissioner. and the amounts paid
without there being contract with the
fun board or an opportunity for bidding
on the work.
II naturally left the door wide open for
wholesale plumber OF the road and bridge
fund. II the contractor and commissioner
who ordered the work stood together and
divided. a short time ago the commits
.f~
that all work In a sum greater than SO
should be let b. contract By the fun board
after bids had been called for. unless an
emergency existed. An emergency would
be where a bridge Was carried away by
high water.
When Post-inteliigencer reporter
showed TO Prosecuting Attorney McElroy
the above synopsis Of the system ia vogue
for "A long time. be said that 10 was sub
staatially as he understood the matter.