Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-08
WHERE COUNTY MONEY GOES
County Auditor lines About Completes
Table Of Expenditures.
INSANE AND POOR ARE LARGE ITEMS
Members of the Board of supervisors
Draw More Money Than Had
Generally Been Sup
posed.
INSANE AND POOR ARE LARGE ITEMS

The hrst annual statement of the ex-
penditure of the funds of Pottawattamie
county under the new law, which County
Auditor lines has nearly completed, will
prove Of considerable interest TO the tax
payers, as It will for the first time show
in detailed form what 1t costs to main
tain the several departments of the county
! machinery. Among other things 1t will
show that the five members OF the county
board receive in an aggregate upward OF
$500 annually for their services. which
is an average of over $500 each. The gen.
eral Impression has been that the super
visors only received about $500 per annum,
but the statement now nearing completion
shows otherwise. For the year 1902 the
members Of the board received 83,566.6s as
follows:
b. G.. Aud Cresigned April /, 1902
! From county fund, per diem and mileage,
$40. 10; from bridge fund. committee work
and mileage, 1872; total, $S1.7o.
w. F. Baker-From county fund, per diem
and mileage, 1886; from county fund, COM
mittee work and mileage, $685. 30; from road
fund, committee work and mileage, SAC .95;
from bridge fund, committee work and
mileage, S22s.40; total, S75s.O5.
H. c., Brandes-From county fund, per
diem and mileage, 1886; from county fund,
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road fund, committee work and mileage,
SIPS. 10; from bridge fund, committee work
and mileage, $2S7.4 40; from poor fund, com
mittee work and mileage, SS2.20; total,
1882. 80.
Allen Bulls (appointed TO fill vacancy
April 1, 1~902)-From county fund, per diem
and mileage, $231.80; from road fund, COM
mittee work and mileage, $61.15; from
bridge fund, committee work and mileage,
S209.63; from poor fund, committee work
and mileage, 81; total, $5O9.5s.
d. F. ~Dryden-From county fund, per
diem and mileage, $19s; from county fund,
committee work and mileage, S56.55; from
road fund, committee work and mileage,
S153. So; from bridge fund, committee work
and mileage, S169.45; from poor fund, COM
mittee work and mileage, $3.50; total,
$5S5.15.
Perry Kerney-From count fund, per
diem and mileage. $219. 80; from county
fund. committee work and mileage, $3.50;
from road fund. committee work and mile
age. s112. 80; from bridge fund, committee
work and mileage. $S34.S5; from poor fund
committee work and mileage, 5000 total,
3749.4O.
The supervisors are allowed 81 a day
while attending meetings Of the board and
mileage one way Of 10 cents a mile. For
committee work they are allowed $3.50 a
day and the same mileage.
4 Cost of Roads.
During 1902 the sum Of S12, 297.11 was
expended out Of the county road fund for
the Improvement OF the roads. The amounts
expended by the different supervisors was
as follows: Brandes, S1,771.16; Bulls.
81, 3s6.93; Dryden, 81, 26S.08; Kerney,
$1,576.01; Baker, $4,54S.19; this included
$1,000 turned over to the city of Council
Bluffs as compromise for its share of the
road fund collected within the city. FoT
machinery. ETC., $685. was expended.
But few new bridges were built during
/ 1902. so the expenditures from this fund
l only amounted to $14, 2Ss. 32. Repairs cost
: $e,Ss6.sS and IS. 6O3.7O was expended on new
/ bridges.
The care Of inssu ne patients from Potta-
wattamie county costs the taxpayers
5 nearly $780, 900 a year. as shown by the dis
bursements Of this account for 1902. Tit
t commissioners of insanity in Council Bluffs
received for their services as follows: DR..
Barstow, $252.50; A. T.. Flickinger, $21S
F. L. Reed. clerk. $685. At Avoca the
two commissioners DR.. Spaulding and F
0 A.. Turner. each received $12. The cost to
the county OF the insane patients at St
e Bernardo hospital was SO, $780, 8. The cost
e of county patients at the state asylum al
n Clarinda was about $4,000, but this is paid
I out OF the state insane fund. Sheriff's feet
d and expenses in connection with insane
e cases amounted to 81, 400. The total dis.
b~ursements from the county insane fund
for 1902 amounted to S12. 102. 81.
! Poor Fund Expenditures.
The cost of caring for the paupers of the
e county during 1902 amounted to $22, 615. "a
From the Soldiers relief fund $3,251.07 wal
expended in caring for the veterans OF thu
civil war and their families. OF thii
amount $2.945.12 was spent in Council
BLUFFS, $14.05 in Carson and s191 in Avoca
> The maintenance Of the county coroner
z ONCE cost S594.5O, Of which amount tn,
coroners fees amounted to $261. 10 for tn,
II year.
Exclusive OF the maintenance OF tn,
d courts and judicial machinery the dis
bursements during 1902 from the genera
y fund amounted to $67.751l7. The expens,
n connected with smallpox cases amounte,
Il to 81, S5S.0S. The sum of $1S, 1000 wa.
transferred from the general fund to tn
poor fund, the latter having become ex
hausted. The cost OF publishing the pro
c~eedings OF the board in certain news
papers was 2.213.37. The cost OF MAXIM
the assessment Of personal property las
~ year throughout the county was SO, 776. OF
This year this expense will be doubled, a