The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-05-23
GOV Err OR s
Fl NDINGS
Counts Preferred Against
Commissioners Wright
and Sibley Sustained.
REMOVAL ORDERED ON ATTOR.
NEY GENERALS RECOMMEND.
Village Presidents and Town
ship Chairmen Will Choose
Successors.

Successors.
The removal of Com missioners
Wright and Sibley by Governor
Johnson yesterday was ordered
by the governor after he had
found the following charges pre-.
ferred, by the public examiner to
be true:
First That during their pres
ent terms of office, commencing
on the first Monday in January,
said F. O. Sibley and Yves Wright
Wrongfully, unlaWfully. a:ad in
violation Of their official duty as
such commissioners, voted for
the allowance and pay of I'M
itemized and improperly item
lied, unauthorized, unlawful, ex
cessive and fraudulent bills and
claims against the said county of
Beltrami.
Second That in awarding the
county printing during the years
of 1903 and 1904, there was a
manifest and utter disregard of
their duties as related to the in
terests Of the taxpayers in the
awarding Of said CONTRACT to the
highest bidder, and in refusing
and officially taking part in re
fusing to award said county
printing to the lowest responsible
bidder, as is by law provided.
Third That in the allowance
of bills for work done under said
contract, there was total disre-
gard Of the interests Of the tax
payers, and an apparently wilful
misrepresentation of public
moneys to private individuals in
the allowance Of bills which were
excessive, which fact must have
been known to these county COM
missioners.
Fourth-That they were vii.
fully negligent in refusing or
neglecting and failing to prose-
cute and collect certain claims
and demands due said county of
Beltrami, Minnesota, especially
in certain claim against the
Merchants bank of Bemidii, or
its assigns or SUCCESSORS : in in
terest.
Fifth-That bills were allowed
or ordered paid to which the in
dividual commissioners we're the
chief parties in interest, and
which were not proper claims
against said county of Beltrami,
and that this was known, and
must have been known to said
county missioners when said
claim was allowed and ordered
paid.
The removal Of the two com.
missioners was made wholly up
on the recon mendation of the at
torney general, into whose hands
a transcriptof the evidence given
at the Investigation conducted in
Bemidji had been placed, and it
is evident that the governor did
not review the evidence further
than at the hearing before him
last Friday.
The selection of men to fill the
caused by the removal
of commissioners Wright and
Sibley rests with the village
presidents and township chair
men of the districts represented
by the commissioners. La Mr..
Wright's district there will be
only three votes those at Mayor
Henderson of -Bemidji, Mayor
of Nymore and Chair man
Rako of Bemidjl township, the
including only one town
ship. In Mr.. Sibley's district,
there will be 13 votes,
there being that number of town
ships in his district. The town
ships are Lakewood, Benville,
Hamre, Alaska, Roosevelt, Maple
Rid sc. Buzzle, Liberty, hammers,
Eckls,s, Jones, Lee and Grant
Valley.
A Creeping Death.
Blood poison creaps up toward
The heart, causing reath. ]. 81.
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