Arizona republican., 1898-05-13

received by this office from county li- censes in 1897 to be $13,987.39. Since January 1 of this year there had been collected from this source $4 ,898, all of which except the official commis-
 sion, $24495, had been turned into the
 treasury.
 J. M. Gregory, George B. Loring and T. J. Cartledge were the. committee
 men appointed to investigate the Of
 fee of the probate judge and county
 school superintendent They found the accounts all right and that the public schools were in better financial condition than they had ever been be- fore.
 William Passey, Thomas Boyle and
 Henry Fowler reported fayorably upon the conduct of business in the
 necessarily could not include a gen. eral resume of the business. since it would not be closed until June 1. It
 had been discovered, however, that assessments had been made upon fair
 valuations, that nothing had been overlooked and that the office had shown great energy in the collection of poll tax.
 A committee consisting of Chap ain Winfield Scott, J. M. Gregory, Dr. E. i w. Wilbur, D. H. Burt1s and S. A.
 Dysart had been appointed to the in- vestigation of block 41, whose iniquity
 the report describes as noticeable and notorious. "A necessary evil" name applied to prostitution, is declared by i the committee to be a misnomer. If 1 it cannot be suppressed, as the com
 mittee believes it ought to be, the
 county authorities are urged to assist
 the municipal officers in it's control and regulation. It is especially urged that the women of that district be
 prevented from appearing upon the
 street and in doorWays in a dress cal culated to advertise their immoralit Regarding singing in saloons. not only in the block, but elsewhere in the county, this committee suggested:
 We also believe that the practice of some of the saloons in employing and permitting the presence of women irr these places, either as walters or as nldsicians, or in any ether capacity, is in direct violation of the law and a prolific feeder of block Al and places of its character. We believe that all good citizens should combine to formu- late and encourage 6 public sentiment in our midst that will not permit ths existence and continuance of such i'm moral tendencies"
 Messrs. A. Goldberg, D. Nicholson and A. J. Chandler, who investigated the affairs of the board of supervisors, were pleased with not only the boards manner of transacting business, but With the systematic record of it kept by Clerk Gray. In view of his mani fold and increasing duties they rec ommend the employment of an assist ant They found also that $17,O0O had been proftably spent within the last year in road improvement Regard ing the care of indigents, the commit tee recommended that as soon as prac- ticable those in need of public as sistance be gathered into the county hospital, and that except in extreme eases, no charity be administered to those outside.
 The final report closed with a con- mittee report upon the unsanitary condition of College Place, a cheap lodging house to which The RepubIi- can has had occasion to refer. There is a cesspool on the banks of the canal and another in process Of construc- tion. The impurities of these cess pools will necessarily mingle with the waters of the canal, threatening the health and life of those living be- low. The suppression of these unsan itary arrangements is urgently rec commended.