The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1903-12-12
COMMISSIONERS PROCEEDINGS.
Dr. W. +. Burnett Reappointed
county Physician = Petition from
Pallsade for New Road to Beowawe
The Scarlet Fever Situat;op

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The Scarlet Fever Situation.
The regular monthly meeting of the
the Board of County Commissioners
was held Monday, December 2.
Present-Commissioners Fraser, Pa.
ROM and McNaughton; also the Clerk
and District Attorney.
The Commissioners aud Auditor
counted the money in the Treasury and
found the same correct.
A list of the bills allowed will be
found in another column.
The Board ordered the Auditor to
draw his warrant for $40 in favor of
L. Q. Coleman, to enable him to reach
his friends in Washington.
Commissioner McNaughton presented
the following:
"WHEREAs. The term for which DR..
w. +. Burnett was appointed County
Physician for Eureka County will ex-
pire on the first Monday in January,
1904; and,
WHEREAS, The said physician has
In all things complied with his con-
tract with the county, and has given
eminent satisfaction in the discharge of
OF his onerous duties, as evidenced by
his highly successful Management of
our County Hospital and the inmates
therein, as well as those INDECENT sick
people outside the hospital who have
come under his care; and,
WHEREAS, 1t is of great Importance
to the people of the county i'll general
that this amiable and skillful physician
and surgeon may continue to remain i'll
u midst, to the end that the people
have proper and skillful care and SER
vice when the misfortune of sickness is
among them; and also that the County
be not threatened once more with un.
reasonable, not to say extortionate,
charges for the care of its indigents and
INDECENT sick people, as was the case
before the employment by the Board of
said DIR. W. f. Burnett; 1, therefore,
"Move the following. to-wit: That
from the first Monday in January, 1904,
to the first Monday in July, 1904, DIR.
W. +. Burnett be, and he is hereby re-
appointed County Physician of Eureka
County, Nevada, subject to the same
terms and conditions as those on which
the position of County Physician of
this county is now held by the said DIR.
w. f. Burnett"
The above motion was seconded by
Commissioners Paroni and Fraser, and
upon being put to a vote by Chairman
Fraser was unanimously carried.
The Board further ordered that the
Clerk notify said DR.. Burnett of the
above action and request him to answer
in writing at his earliest convenience
his acceptance Oh rejection of the posi-
ton of County Physician.
The following petition, signed by
thirty-nine citizens of Palisade, was
received:
1--WE, the undersigned petitioners of
Eureka County, request of you to order
a county road to be opened and estab-
lished from Palisade through the can
yon to connect with a road running
from Beowawe via Griffith's ranch to
the mouth of the canyon. The road is
q necessity because of the amoun of
travel that is steadily increasing through
canyon. II arrangements could be
made with the Central Pacific Railroad
for the use of their old road-bed, a large
part of the road will require but little
labor.
'The iron mines at Gerald, seven miles
below here; the Stafford mines near the
same place; the mines being worked at
the Sand Gut, all necessitate a daily
over a poorly constructed road,
or by railroad, with the chances of be-
ing carried beyond their stopping places.
''For the above reasons we would
most respectfully request your Honor
able body to take action on this, our
petition"
The Board discussed the above petit
ton at length and decided to appoint a
representative to view the proposed
road and ascertain the estimated cost of
building it. 1t is understood that the
company has turned over to
County for its use a section
Of the old road. bed which it recently
in that county, and the Eu-
reka Commissioners will ask a similar
concession ON behalf of the people of
the north end of this county.
It'll a well-known fact to all who
have journeyed by wagon from Palisade
to Beowawe that a new and shorter
road is badly needed in that section.
The distance by rail between the two
is nineteen miles, while the
wagon road takes a circuitous route OF
miles.
School Trustees Laird and Cronant
and County Physician Burnett came be-