Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1905-06-17
GRAND JURY
MAKES REPORT
BOD, OF Representative Citizens
Make Many Excellent
Recommendations.
10 The honorable Peter Breen.

JULES va IL 2 "NNANAE GF
trict Court, TO- Nye County,
State OF Neyaia.
We, the duly drawn and qualified
grand jurors, called for the session
OF the grand jury held on the 7th
day OF June, 1905, do respectfully
submit the following report Of our
findings and recommendations at the
said session:
In the case of the State OF Nevada
VS.. Thomas shipe, we have found the
statement presented to us to be a
true bill.
In the case of the State of Nevada
VS.. Robert Mc-Cuen, we have found
that the bill should be ignored.
The grand jury respectfully sub
mits the following resolution:
Whereas, the Town of Tonopah,
Nye County, Nevada, is without the
proper court house, and without
vaults for the transaction of county
business and the storage of county
records; the said town of Tonopah
being now the county seat, and on ac-
count of the scattered and confused
condition of the county records; some
being o at Belmont and some at
Tonopah;
We, therefore, mos. earnestly re-
commend hat the county eonlrlls-
sioners see that all county records
and books be removed to Tonopah as
quickly as possible so that the same
can be inspected at the next term of
court.
This recommendation is made
after hearing reports from various
committees appointed to inyesti-
gate this subject.
We find, further that the posting
and keeping of county records, has,
so far as we are able to ascertain,
been sadly neglected.
We also find that the Town of
Tonopah, since the advent of the
railroad, has been infested with on
idence men, bunco-steerers and men
9 of questionable character; and we do
i. earnestly recommend that proper
D steps be taken, and support be rend-
cred our officers to rid our town Of
y these persons.
We find upon investigation that
the Sherif's office has Insufficient
help in The way of police protection
in the Town of T~onopan, and We
recommend that the sheriff be pro
vided with at least two additional
salaried deputies.
q Considerable complaint has
VI been made to Thu body in relation tC
IS the high speed Of automobiles il
passing through the tlloroUghfares o
the towns of the cJGuty endangerint
ar both life and property of the in
to habitants thereof. We recommen,
he that the speed OF all automobiles b
i regulated and be not to exceed tire
miles per hour, within the habitabl
:, limits of the towns of Nye County.
We find upon investigation tins
lOnOpdH Is ON6I WltllnlHSiA lhlN~l'
To with worthless dogs and we recon
he mend that the Board of Supervise.
l.a require licenses for all dogs; thu
upon the failure by owners to ma
said license that the officers be en-
- powered and instructed to rid til
community of same at onee.
We recommend hat the propC
officers take steps to enforce the la
a regarding the storing of dynamite an
= other explosives. Statutes, 1905.
Id We recommend that the attentiu
he of the Board of Health be called
lie the shallowness of the closets
in Tonopah, and that a sufficient dept
lot be required of all cesspools within til
he habitable limits of Tonopah. W
Id, find from the report of our commit
III. tee on this matter, that there are
mt number of these c~esspools in an III
tie sanitary condition.
he We further recommend hat IL
health officers of Tonopah motif
at anyone maintaining a nuisance as d.
de fined by the statutes of 1905, to in
.ay mediately abate the same. and if Il
me same is not abated to remove Il
"a nuisance and instruct the district a
i'm torney to sue for the expenses il
at CURED in removing the same.
We also recommend that SherI
Logan appoint Frank p. Smith,
ty. deputy sheriff, for the purpose
.ei. aiding him in carrying out his duti
as health officer and that alone.
=. We recommend that, inasmuch
W the south end of Main Street is nc
!" in an almost impossible condition
'hu and very dangerous for teams al
lat automobiles to pass, On account
III the street being almost complete
the filled up by the Gold Hill dump
DOR one side, and on account of excav