Williams news., 1904-12-17
LURID GRAND
 JURY REPORT

que Morning Journal, Dec. 4:
 The most sensational grand jury report an Arizona county has had for many years was handed down by the Cochise county grand jury yesterday at the completion of its labors which have engaged it's at tention since last June. AS re- suit two county officials are under arrest charged with manslaughter, one of whom is Dr. Johnson, super intendent of the county hospital, while grave charges of misuse of county funds are made all along the line. The most serious charges are made against the board of county supervisors. which corre- spends to the commissioners in New Mexico counties. The report of the grand jury in so far as it relates to county affairs is brief and pointed. It is as follows:
 To the Hon. Fletcher M. Doan,
 Judge Second Judicial District:
 We, your grand jury, beg leave to submit this, our final report:
 From the report of the expert we find irregularities and wilful viola tions of the law.
 Thousands of dollars of county money has been unlawfully drawn from the county treasury, and we further find that the board of su- pervisors, in letting contracts and in the purchase of county supplies, in accepting contract work. allow ing bills against the county and in the general transaction of county business, have willfully trampled upon the law
 A lawful and properly allowed bill is the exception.
 We are aware that errors will occur, and that no system is per feet, but we fail to find any excuse for the hundreds of omissions with an odious smell that are found.
 In the investigation of the county hospital we found that the food pro- vided was insufficient and of poor quality. The bill of fare consists of heavy white bread, hard boiled brown beans, and occasionally a piece of tough or otherwise poor meat, with boiled potatoes occa. sionally, and cut of unpalatable pie perhaps once a week, few prunes once in awhile, and black coffee; bowl of watery soup for dinner, and a bowl of oatmeal sometimes containing worms, o1 corn meal mush for breakfast. The bedding was found to be in a very filthy condition. Some of the beds have been allowed to go as much as eight or ten days without change; towels the same. Some of the bed ding had been used so long thai washing was impossible, and burn ing is recommended. There arc enough bed bugs in the place tt carry off the institution.
 The steward, a half-breed Mexi can, is considerable of brutal say age in the treatment of the pa tients, and submits them to al kinds of abuse and bodily assaults One patient, in a weak condition was kicked in the back, and pa tient who died in September wal literally eaten up by maggots Nothing was done about it unti another patient called the stewards attention to it. The patients name in this instance was Pancic. An other patient by the name of Black burn, suffering with consumption was allowed to starve to death.
 The grand jury recommends tha the contract for the care of the in digent sick be taken from Dr. John son immediately and given to som' one else as soon as possible. It il a fact that for four or five days at |; time the county physician does no visit the county hospital to see th' patients. One patient was allowed to go for ten or twelve days with