Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1898-10-27

Hospital, amounting to 81 $50, and the
bill for the legal services in the bond
case, amounting to 5000.
Seventh-That this association suggest
to our county officers that plAin, rapid
abbreviated work is in the besS ~, and
that ali embossed and fancy penmanship
Is out CT place and cXpensive that no
word should be written where "ditto''
mark will answer Il better purpose, and
that rubber stamps should be used when
practicable, and WOULD suggest the posi-
pility OF using such stamps in all descrip-
tons in our original and duplicate assess
ment rolls, delinquent tax rolls, and tax
bills that indexes while full should not
repeat themselves, but should instead
refer to one head under which the whole
description occurs; that high priced
deputies should not be employed for SER
vice in which only good penmanship and
accurate figures are required, and that 10
assistance should be employed except
such as is needed to do the work our
officers have not time to attend to-
What effect it may be asked, did this
have on the gang, now asking to be rein
stalled by the .eople OF Chehalis county?
Well. it had the effect of very light re-
duction in the salary list. IN examine
ton Of the auditors reports for the year
ending June 80, 1894 and 1885. will show
that there was saved in the latter year,
as compared With the former, he sum OF
1905 81 in the following Offices: Auditor,
S77956; sheriff, $353.5S; treasurer, $5l6.-
49, assessor S22S.S5, which was offset
by an increase OF S390.S7 in the offices OF
attorney, clerk and surveyor making
the net saving in salaries but 81 ,5l4.46.
Let us notice what action was taken
upon the recommendations to the com.
missioners, that they adopted measures
to curtail the extravagant expenditures.
AS to the first, the meagre saving noted
above, was the only recognition it re-
ceived.
Second-Suit was prosecuted, at an ex-
pense OF $l99 to the county, and the at
torneys compelled to disgorge nearly
$500; and one of those same attorneys,
Geo d. Schofeld, is today at the head of
the republican ticket of Chehalis county
asking the people to elect him state
senator
The third was laughed to scorn.
| Fourth-No action whatever was taken
until the fusion attorney took up the
matter that attorneys Schofield and
Bridges had allowed to sleep for political
reasons" and prosecuted it to settle
ment in the present year.
Fifth-The commissioners responded
by INCREASING the estimates for 1894, by
$663.45!
SiXth-The auditors report for that
year shows that the accounts were Eek
amined closely" the sum of $5,197.S3
} being paid for "records, stationery and
printing" 5000 for Counsel fees" in the
bond case and $4,74O.40 for the care of
few paupers
The very fact that the seventh recon-.
mendation was deemed necessary is con-
vincing evidence that the clerical posi-
tons in the court house were either filed
with glorious set OF incompetents who
could not command IS week in a bust
ness establishment, or a gang OF dcliber-
ate robbers OF the taxpayers.
Perhaps the foregoing viii prepare the
reader for the following alarming state
ment OF the vast amount OF the hard
earnings OF the people squandered by the
party now asking to be returned to
power:
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