Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-12-14

it. 1 called MT. Storms attention to
 the fact that cash was S1, GOO short aEd
 he says: "My check is in there with
 the other for it,, and 1 discovered
 that it was. [ discovered the second
 S1, U00 shortage by counting the ca sh
 and found it S1, GOO shy. When I made
 the discovery of the shortage 1 spoke
 to MT. Storm about it and he said he
 was pressed with bills and had put his
 check in with the other for the amount
 and would probably put it back in
 short time. That made s2,000. This second sl, 900 was put away the same as
 the other checks. 1 could not say
 the exact date but it was probably the
 8th, 9th, 10th or 1lth of April, 1903.
 MT. Storm said that was his check ana
 that he had put it in there. Those
 checks were not cashed during the
 second quarter of the year 1903, but
 remained in the county treasurer's
 office. The amount represented by
 those checks was taken care of in the
 settlement for the second quarter of
 1903 by my getting some money from
 A. J. Head, think l got s29O0 from
 him. MT. Storm said he didn't know
 what to do about it and l told him I
 thought 1 could get the money to
 make good his two checks and another
 one that was held there, think it
 was Mir. Heads check which had been
 held there since Decembe 1902. 1 think the amount 1 got was the amount of Mir. Storms two checks and MT. Heads check 1 put the money in the county tTeasurer's office and laid aside the two checks of Mr. Storm. The money was put there and counted by the supervisors instead of the checks. After the money had been used in settlement with the board g, 000 of it was given back to MT. Head and $500 was kept in place of that check. The two checks of Mir. i Storm were then returned to the en- velope where they had been before. 1 These check; were carried over into | the fourth quarter, and were not . counted in the settlement with the ! board. That amount of money was accounted for out of collected taxes 1 not reported in the Septem Der account ing. For the third quarter settlement 1 got g, ,000 from MT. Head as I had done before, and the same use was made of that money as before. MT. Storm knew that got it and what it was used for. After it was returned to Mir. Head. MT. Head brought the money to the office where 1 recieved
 it. These two cheeks of Mir. Storm were carried over in the fourth quar- ter of 1903. They did not enter into he accounting but were laid aside, md in their place money that had been received for unaccounted taxes vas counted.
 MT. Wright was asked to tell the ury just now that was done, so that hey might understand how he ac- counted for the 52,OOO. He said:
 Something over 2,OOJ was collected md unaccounted for and could not be put into the December report and 1 lsed that money to put in the place ,f the amount of these two checks and others to make the account balance. The other checks 1 refer to were: one )f A. J. Head for S105S. 20, that was received for taxes in December, 1903, ,ne of Burke & Hickey's for $500 or ?, ,000. There was only one check of Burke < Hickey's, but there had been ,ne put in there in 1903 for the tax of hat year, part of it was paid and a lew check issued for the balance. The ,heck was originally for S2300 and ome cents. Before the end of the irst quarter they paid some on it and ssue6 a new check for the balance ?, 900 or S1, 800, believe it was 8, )00; then there was check of L. Vol enberg for, believe, S1l0; one of V. W. Ross fer S100; one of A. Blum ,erg for S2OO. The aggregate amount If these checks, including the two of dr. Storm, was something like 5, GOO )r over.
 For the first quarter of this year at { he settlement with the board of SUD- { 'rvisors MT. Storm s salary and mine vas applied in place ot these checks, ( hat was $500, can't say positively, put I believe the Burke & Hickey 1 'heck for g, GOO was counted. These ,ther checks, were made out of public money collected in the office that ' hadn't entered into that quarters re- ( port. Is
 In the settlement for the second : quarter of 1904 the Burke & Hickey ,heck had been reduced to $500 They {