Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1905-11-24
THE OBSERVER SHOOTS
WIDE OF THE MARK
Makes Reflections Not Suitable
and Only Reflected on
Former City Recorder.

Councilman Cbausse, who Is one OF
the publishers of the Observer, has
put himself in somewhat OF an embar-
rassing position by publishing In his
paper some grave charges Of neglect
Of duty by the city officials. He
specially charges Recorder j. M.
Booth with not turning over license
fees to the city treasurer and with
not making a monthly report to the
council He broadly intimates that
the mayor was direlect in not see
ing that the licenses were collected
by the recorder and the marshal and
properly accounted for. And he i'm
plies that the council has been
equally negligent in not having
monthly report from the recorder and
not properly looking after the well
fare Of the taxpayers.
The proceedings Of the council show
that Councilman Chausse has never
uttered word or even intimated that
the mayor, the recorder and the mar
shall were not properly doing their
duty. A councilman is required by
his oath Of Office and his integrity and
business capacity to guard the inter
ests Of the city and IL he knows OF
the neglect OF duty or the infraction
Of law by a member OF the city
government he should make 1t known
to the council that action may be taken
TO enforce the city ordinance.
Councilman Chausse In his paper
charges that only $40 In license money
has been turned into the city treas.
urer since Recorder q. e. Maybee
went out of Office the first Of last
April. He further claims that dur.
ing 1904 there was collected $l40 for
show licenses and $SS for dray licenses
and in January Of this year $43 OF
licenses that were due in the previous
year and were not collected, making a
total for the year OF $26i According
10 Counoilmen Chausse's statement
Recorder Maybee in the three months
OF 1906 that he was in Office was some
what neglectful as he only turned in
$50 for show licenses, and does not
say whether or not he turned in
other licenses or fines.
As the Observer directly charges
Recorder Booth with either not col
leoting the licenses and fines, or il he
has Of not turning them into the city
treasurer, Mr.. Booth makes state
ment to refute these charges BY
his statement he proves that lao hat
turned into the city treasurer in the
nearly eight months since he has been
In Office $l32 90 for show licenses, $SS
for dray licenses, s37 80 for pound
fees, o. for peddlers licenses, ana s36f
10 fines Making total OF 1878, for
the ~ months The dray licenses
will not all be collected until the
close Of the year There has also
been turned in s103, 20 of road poll tax
collected by the street commissioner.
These reports show that MIR.
Maybee, In the 10 months Of last year
and this year, turned into the city
treasurer, according to the Observer 4
statement, u total Of $29l, while Mir.
Booth shows that in the ~ months
Of his term ~ recorder he has put into
the city troasuror's hands total OF
1913 The Observers attack was for
the purpose OF defeating Mayor Good
for reelection and OF electing MIR,
Maybee, mayor. Just how well
Councilman Chausse's campaign OF
m Misrepresentation will succeed the
election in December will show. II
is quite likely to have the opposite
effect than intended by the negligent
councilman and will elect MIR. Good
by u very large majority.