Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-12-27
SLOT MACHINES PAYING COIN
 MUST PAY A TAX.
(From Wednesdays Daily.)

making an examination of the officers of Yavapai county, has shaken up the dry bones in the courthouse. He left last night for Phoenix, where he will present report to Governor Kibbey that in some respects will be of sensa-
 ional character.
 From an authentic source, the Jour- nal-Miner learns that MT. Foster will recommend that the county officials be instructed to close down the money paying slot machines, none of which are paying a license; that a radical change should be made in the record r's office in the matter of providing a proper index book for certain records; that the supervisors have expressly vio- lated the law by appropriating $50 to a theatrical programme and have been derelict in their duties in not enforcing the law against the gambling slot ma chimes. As soon as the Governor re- ceives this report it is expected that it will be put into the hands of District Attorney Ellinwood with instructions to act in the premises.
 Otherwise Commendable.
 MT. Fosters report, it is understood, Is not one entirely of criticism. He says that Yavapai county from an official standpoint, is in excellent shape, and he found the many offices conducted with high regard of con- 4deration by those who were entrusted to the duties of administering them, 90 far as the responsibility of the ac- counts were to be considered along with the system in vogue of caring for the records. His duties were closed with an examination of the supervisors affce, and an immense volume of data was handled by him there, all of which Re approved of, and handsomely en- dorsed the clerk thereof, J. H. Robin .on, as an efficient and capable ac- eouDtant.
 Change Needed in Recorders Office.
 One of his recommendations will, it Is said, be made for change in the recorders office in one respect, viz, that the system of the county providing index books should be abolished from the method now prevailing. In this respect, he says, there are as many in dex books as there are books contain ing the original records, and that the public finds it very much of nuisance h endeavoring to find from the horde df index books what they desire. as they do from the record book that is desired. He would recommend there fore, that there be but one index book for each department handled, instead of the many index books for the one de- partment.
 Hits the Slot Machines.
 While it is true that MT. Foster gives an excellent resume of his off eial work as carried out in this long and tiresome examination, and that he eommends the official body as a whole, q is a well founded fact, nevertheless, that there is a sensation in store for this section when his report reaches of heial headquarters, and he will report on material transactions as viewed by n nrn ohnnna1C
 This report has gained circulation during the day. and while it is in no way official. and does not come from him, a prevailing abuse cited for is that of the slot machine. There are said to be twenty-three of these de- | rices in operation in the city of Pres .Ott alone today, and not a dollar in license tax is paid by them.
 The particular type of this contri- tance that it is desired to eliminate | the one that has a money considera- don back of it in playing. Those shat are played for a merchandise can remain, but the money making machine, that gives mo- hing in return except the possibility of [ game of chance, must come under the Ian of license tax, and be paid for s other games of like nature are au- horized and are paid for.
 Tn other sections of Arizona this is he rule prevailing, and it is obeyed to he letter of the law.
 What Supervisor Smith Says.
 Tn conjunction with the rumor that dr. Foster would endeavOr to right his evil, a representative of this paper ate- last night interviewed Supervisor B. H. Smith, and asked him why it vas that the board of which he is a member had not taken this subject up md enforced the law. Mir. Smith hen gave his version of the question, laying that while it was true that he Palace, of which he was a co-part- ,er, was one public resort that long lgo had discarded these machines, and