Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-10
APPARITION IS TAKING FORM
County Ghost Preparing for the Distribution
Of Much 0oin.
WARRANTS READY ABOUT AUGUST FIRST
sheriff Power Comes In for More Than
Five Thousand III aAd
Others Have Large ,
Claims Pendiag. .

With the county assessment and levy de-
termined, the county clerks force finds
itself confronted with work that will oc-
eupy more than two weeks and the
c~ounty's creditors are warned that II will
be useless to apply for warrants before
August l..
At their meeting next Saturday morning
the commissioners probably Will pass APP
preparation sheets Nos. 1 and 2. which are
about ready. but the passing OF them will
be comparatively q small matter 30 far as
time is concerned. No. 1 represents S,l70
warrants and No. 2 represents 300 war
rants. These warrants are stili in tho
hands OF the printer. who could not put
them through the press until the levy was
known. as It is necessary to print the
amount Of the levy on each one. together
with the amount representing the IS per
cent Of the funds on which the board 10
allowed to draw before collection Of taxes
lie made. After the warrants com from
the printer there will have to be written
on each the date, number. to whom issued,
for what, the total of expenditure voted to
that date and the signatures Of the county
clerk. This work, with the verifying, will
occupy at least two weeks, and after that
the good right hand of Chairman Hofeldt
will have to trace on each the letters of his
name.
No Rapid Fire Artist.
The commissioner from Elkhorn is no
rapid-hre Spencerian artist, but writes tho
labored land OF a man who wishes to make.
as well as read, his title clear, and 1t is
anticipated that 1t will take him consid-
erably more than a minute to vac
through the pile of more than 1000 war
rants.
When he is through, however, the cred
itors Of the county can be disposed Of as
fast as they appear. although the warrants
cannot be cashed until next October, when
the tax books are turned over to the county
treasurer for him to make the col. ection Of
the levy.
Appropriation sheet No. / totals $31. 701. 90
and No. 2 totals 8 7,1I6. The first Is for
jury, witness, coroner and justice fees, for
such election expenses as room rent and
booth repairing. for the costs in insanity
cases and for the fees Of attorneys appear
ing to defend INDECENT prisoners. Some Of
these date back to December, 1900, and a
lawyer yesterday remarked that the pris-
oner for defending whom he is yet to be
paid has about served his full sentence In
the penitentiary.
sheriff Gets Large Amount
Sheriff John Power comes In for more than
IS, 900 on this sheet for the board Of prison
ers at the county jail and for transportation
OF criminals and insane persons to Lincoln.
Power is a much pleased man now, for he
says he has had to borrow money from the
banks and pay interest on the same while
carrying Douglas county on his back" He
has, he says, discovered that a sheriff can
neither feed prisoners on prospects nor buy
them food with assurances that he repre-
SCENTS the law OF the land.
The second appropriation sheet covers
bills for stationery. light, county store sup
plies fuel and rent.--One printing company
draws $1,000 and one fuel company a SINH
lar amount.
The warrants on other than the general
fund will not be reached for some time.