Bisbee daily review., 1906-12-16
JUSTICE COURTS ARE ENORMOUS
 EXPENSE
Cost This County In One Year S37255.17 For Justice and Constable Fees, Three Times As Much As District Court,
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
 IS lARGST ITEM

| TOMBSTONE, Dec. I3.-A reyjew of the annual report of the clerk of me board of supervisors for 1ess; shows that as compared with expendi- tures for 1905 there has been a general reduction in most of the items of the report The item of the expense of the Justice courts for the past year was $3I ,255.11, and for the year end ing January l, 1906 was $26.OO0. The amount for this year does not contain
 the items of expense of the constables and justices of the Bisbee precinct for ] three quarters, as the amounts are still held up in the courts as well as that of Constable Shropshire of Dong
 ias so that with these items included. the cost of running the precinct or justices courts in the county would
 De increased from s37,25517 10 a it- tle over s50,000. The justices courts cost the county more than any other expense except that of the public schools and cost nearly three times
 what IL costs to run the district court. It Is very evident that the tax payers Of the county should see to it that some remedy Is made by the coming legislature. The expense of these courts has been increasing at the rate lof about $10,000 to $15, 900 per rear.
 As compared with last year tha ex- pensa Of running the sherif's office and Jail for the past year shows a de- crease of about 5000 over that of the
 year 1905. for 1905 1t was $26,s7S. and
 for this year $21,17S.
 The cost of maintaining the public
 schools of Coehise county is the largest item Of expense that the tax 1H increasing at the rate of about s2O. 900 per year. In 1905, s60,521.S4 was ex- pended for that purpose. and the new report shows that $S0,S50S2 was ex- pended for this year, while the esti- mated expense for the coming year. as nled by Superintendent of Schools Rockefellow, shows that 1t will be close 10 Sl00,000. The number of school children in the county Is in creasing rapidly, and as a conseauence the number of teachers has to be like wise increased. The item of expense does not include the money that has been expended in the different school districts for the erection of new school houses for which the respective dis. tricts have been bonded, which dis tricts alone are responsible for the debt.
 The total amount of expenditures for the year 1905 was outside of the payments on the outstanding bonds. s232, ,610.55, while the report for this year shows 1t to be $227, .S5, which. as has been stated, does not include the fee bills that have been held up subject to litigation. so that outside of the expense of the justice courts and the public schools there has been material reduction in the running expenses Of the county, which is a credit to the board of supervisors.
 The bonded indebtedness of the county has been reduced during the past two years from s90.000 to s70,000. During the year 1905, Sl1, GOO of bonds Were redeemed. and during the year 1906. 5000 more were redeemed. The statement of the clerk of the board of supervisors as regard to the bond cd indebtedness and which Is made part Of the report is as follows:
 Bond Statement: