The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-21
PEOPLE ROBBED
RIGHT AND LEFT
Lincoln County, Nevada, in Sad FL
naneial Straits.
NO MONEY IN THE TREASURY
DEMAND FOR A GRAND JURY is.
GENERAL.
(speclal 10 % Heraldl


Caliente. New. Sept 20-This county is
all torn I'D over the disclosures in the
treasurer's office 1t was surfnised for
months that something was wrong and
the commissioners took the matter IN
nand BY appointing Expert Prudential,
win an the result that Is already known.
IL Is claimed that the men on the
tveasurer's bond are going to withdraw
ana this information is from a reliable
informant who is next to what is going
on behind the scenes. During the past II
las oeen the policy of those who have
Iiad direction of the affairs of the county
70 cloud up everything that had any of
me ear marks of danger, but the people
would not stand for il IN this deal. They
wanted the facts. They wanted TO know
way Il was that taxes in the county were
so nigh and they have learned.
Others May Be Implicated.
No one knows where the next blow is
G9ing 10 fail, or how many of the officials
Will be implicated when the time comes.
rs II Is now, each one for himself says,
not me, but the other fellow" and there
II Is, up and down the list.
mere IS not one In the county but who
vii admit something is radically wrong.
ana ana not only wrong now, but conditions
nave Deeh such Tor years. 1t is said that
once on a time when county script was
seIHHg Tor Is cents on the dollar, when
any OF the officers made raise. that is,
moro than what was coming for fees, ana
might have in hand into the treasury,
mere would be almost a riot caused by
me other Officers trying TO get TO the
tFeasurers office first TO draw ii out.
II Is further said that since that time
mere has been indifference practiced by
al or the officials and to hear the stories
20 62ia OF how business was done by some
OF the pioneers would make cold SILVER
pass down the spinal column of any tax
payer in the county.
Nc Cash Book Kept.
The treasurer had no account other
than the checks that passed between him
aud the bank and whatever amount was
III bank was the cash balance. A cash
book was something in the treasurer's
oIIlce that would have been a curiosity.
nut they have one now. That report OF
freudenthaps found all OF the boys dane
ing up to the rules and it is the general
opinion that they have been so eager
that they are OVERRIDING IL entirely.
me county commissioners have adver-
Used for bids 10 audit the books, but the
people want the grand jury TO take
charge and Investigate the whole affair.
not from 1895, but as far back as there is
a. record OF any kind. This county boasts
or a court house that cost $4,000 ana
when 1t was built it ought not 10 have
cost over $4,000 at the most
Not Cent Has Been Paid.
The county was bonded to pay for It
some twenty years ago and today, with
accumulated interest, the debt amounts
To over $4,000 and taxes are so high
that people dare not own much on ac-
count OF that extOrtiOnate tax. There
has not cent been paid on the bonded
Indebtedness, either on the principal or
III interest from the day the boys who
were officials then got TO handle the
money. Now, with the money that ought
10 be In The treasury gone those living
outside or Lincoln county can we'll inn
imagine what the people living in the
county think of the situation.
The district court of the Fourth judi
clal district, Hon. George 5. Brown, pre-
seat, Tuesday, October s, al 10 o'clock a.
me. hen Il is thought that the court
VIII sift this condition OF county affairs
10 the core.