The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-01
IT WAS CUT AND DRIED.
Pops Have II Their Own Way
In the Board.
THE PRINTING CONTRACT
Awarded to ths Inter Mountain Without
Bids Being Rscsived-County Aud
itor Davies Turned Down
by the Commissioners.

The county commissioner had an
other controversy yesterday in which
the populist majority. as usual. had
things its own way. The question OF
advertising for bids for doing the coun-
" advertising. for maintaining the
| poor house. burying the paupe dead
and providing the poor with medical
attendance came up. The contract of
the Inter Mountain for doing the print
ing expired yesterday and the man.
ager of the publishing company APP
peared before the board and requested
a renewal OF the old contract. Mr..
Clark. chairman of the board. said that
for his part he was in favor of renew
ing the contract on the old basis for
two years longer. Commissioner Fer
rell was opposed to X and said such an
important contract should not be let
without advertising for bids. He said
action ought to be deferred to give
other newspaper and printing Offices an
opportunity to bid for the contract. Mr..
Terrell thought that open competition
would result In lower prices, for the
prices paid at present by the county for
printing were admitted to be EXCEED
ingly high. MIR. Ferrells suggestion
was nOl ICIEltt a III v W SAatA
and he. Commissioner Matthews con-
curing. decided TO take immediate ac-
ton and directed the clerk to call the
roll on the question of awarding the
contract to the Inter Mountain. Clark
and Matthews voted for IL and Fer
rell against the resolution, and the
contract was ordered awarded for a
period OF two years. A bond In the sum
of 5000, which had evidently been pre-
nnraA I'm advance WAS Guhmiffad and
approved.
Tn commissioners yesterday re-
versed another decision made by Conn
ty Auditor Davies. For some time a
Mrs. White and eight children have
been receiving aid from the county.
Mrs. White got on the poor roll because
of a pitiful story she told the auditor.
She said her husband had left her and
her big brood OF children and she was
unable to support them. She claimed
that her husband had wandered away
and she feared he had gone insane.
They had had any trouble and
she could give no reason why he should
have left her. She said she had M idea
where he was. Yesterday one of her
boys called on Mr.. Davies with n note
from his mother asking for a pair Of
| shoes. The boy fished around in he
rags of his Goa and finally produced
a piece of paper which he said con-
tanned the request for the shoes. Mr..
Davies read a portion OF the note.
which wal addressed to MY dear
wife," and was dated at Garrison. The
letter was from Mrs. Whites husband.
and In IL he upbraided her for not an
swering his letters. The auditor asked
the boy IL he had not made a mistake
and given him the wrong note. The
boy fshed around and produced the
right one and then Mr.. Davies ques-
toned the lad and learned that his
father had never been missing at all.
and tha: the only trouble betwee the
father and the mother was that the lat
ter would not live where the head OF
the family wanted her to. On this
statement OF the case the auditor re-
fused to issue any more orders for aid
for the family n the boy carried his
note TO the commissioners and Chair
man Clark promptly gave him an order
for a pair Of shoes.
The commissioners yesterday in
structed the clerk OF the board to adj
vertise for bids for the care of the coun-
ty poor at the DOC house; for bids for
a county undertaken. and bids for
county physician. The bid are to be
in by the 2sth of December.
A number OF complaints OF alleged
taxes were made to the
board yesterday. but no action was ia
ken on them.