The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-07
THEY MUST REPEAT
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS THOUGHT
THEY WE'RE HOLDING AN
RUAL MEETING
WILL HOLD ANOTHER TODAY
Legal Steps Are to he Taken to Re-
cover Money Lost Through
Ex-Beputy Auditor
BOurne.

The members Of the board OF county
commissioners thought they held their
annual meeting yesterday, but along
about the time all the annual business
had been transacted, it was discovered
that it was not the annual meeting at all,
and that another one will have to be
held today in order to comply with the
law. When the fact daWned upon the
commissioners they all looked tired, but
as there is only one piece of business
that must come up in the annual meet
ing, the session today will be brief. The
contract for the printing of the delin-
quent tax list will be let this morning.
The liability of the county officials and
their bondsmen in the case of Walter b.
Bourne, the eX-deputy county auditor,
who is now under fifteen-year sentence,
was brought up yesterday. The COM
missioners passed a resolution authoriz-
ing the county attorney to take the steps
he found necessary to bring legal ac-
ton against the county officials and their
bondsmen to recover the money that was
lost to the county through the transac-
tons of Bourne. The county attorney is to
receive the assistance of the committee
on ways and means in this work.
SherifT's Annual Report.
Sheriff Philip Justus was the first coun-
ty official to comply with the law re-
quiring the filing of an annual Geport
with the county commissioners. The re-
port showed that $15, 662. 20 had been re-
ceived from the county, Of which sum
$12,225.10 was expended, leaving a bal
ance in this fund of Sc, 437 10; the re-
ceipts from the probate court were 3d.
2O5.40, the expenditures $1,S55. 40 leaving
balance Of 1872; the receipts from the
state were $500. so, the expenditures 1929 10,
leaving a balance of $210.50. The total
balance in the sheriff's Office is $4,019 go.
The bill fer IS for a head light for one
Of the morgues wagons, which was the
cause for some discussion at the last
meeting, slipped through yesterday with
out word being said against it,
The commissioners voted in favor Of
having the window guards in the jail
changed from angle to square, provided
that it should be performed without cost
to the county. The plan to change the
steel floor Of the cells was rejected. Mr..
Webster was in favor of this latter
change, but the remainder of the county
commissioners present could not see it
that way. Mr.. Webster could not under
stand any good reason for having I'M
riveted soft steel plates under heavy
stone tagging and on a bed of cement
a foot thick
The case of Hazel Rowan, white
child, whose mother is married to a
negro, was considered by the board At
torney McGhee objected to the former
petition to have the child sent to the
state training school, and it was changed
to suit his views. Hazel Rowan, or
Sherry, as she is variously known, is one
Of two white children.
The county commissioners refused to
send Victor Berg to the state training
school on the grounds that there is no
reason, why he should be. dependent on
the state. Mrs. Berg, his mother, has
separated from her husband, who is now
living in La Crosse. At the time of
separation she received 81, 800 from her
husband, and has a good portion of this
sum out at interest. She is at present
living with her brother, G. D. Sackett,
629 Ottawa avenue. Sometime ago the OF
6cials agreed to take the boy to the state
orphan asylum, provided his mother
would pay for his care. This she refused
to do, and the only reason she had to
offer for her desire to be rid of him was
that she wanted to be able to work.
4 a.. Extend Ditch Into Lake.
County Surveyor j. B. Irvine asked the
board to be allowed to extend the Mars
den ditch 200 feet into the lake. He ex-
poets by this that the water will flush
out the ditch to a considerable extent.
At present the ice in the lake has sunk
below ditch level. Contractor Larsen
presented a bill for $33 for extra work.
He claims that the ditch keeps falling
in on him, and he is Obliged to ex-
cavate more dirt than the contract calls
for.
The Society for the Prevention Of
Cruelty received it's annual appropriation
OF $500 from the county. County Super
intendent of Schools Thomas Montgomery
was ordered paido his salary of $780,
The county surveyor was instructed bv
the board to provide an indexed book of
all the county roads that have been open
ed by the commissioners since the forma-
ton of Ramsey county 1t is expected
that this viii save a great deal of work
IN the county auditors office, and will
serve to settle all disputes as to what
class different roads belong, and whether
they were ever opened.
Ike county commissioners will meet this
morning at 10 o'clock