Williams news., 1906-10-27

heCoTCeT, tnaC you TeceiNeu PAoO from the Anita Mining Co for ONE abstract; and isn't it also a fact that you received hundreds more for other comprehensive ab- slracts?
 We care not what "extra" com pensation the companies paid you The fees just quoted are not "extra" but Statutory, and for these only do we demand an accounting and T re payment. We are not con cerned with what you received from Hoxworth or Devine. You may have done Hoxworth's work, but Devine, as he informs us, could and did, from a minutes exa imitation of the Back Tax Book, make his own certificate Why do you say you made 1t?
 Now. as to his "depulie>": He had no legal deputies during the years 1903 Ot05 until the Com promise of Sept. 2Olh, 1905. He is aware that the compensation for deputies is subject to the approval of the Supervisors; but in this. as in other important matters. he was a law unto himself, and repudiated the authority of Geo Rabbit. Chairman of the Board. to whom he now tries to tie himself by re- f-rring to George as Ca truthful man." Can he now produce cer- tificate of good character from that truthful man" endorsing his part in the infa nous Compromise?
 He sweats through half d column, emerging with a gain of 60 cents to the Cnunty on each abstract-not an actual gain, but loss which his system" prevented. His salary is $2OOO per annum; the highest salary allowed hy law to deputy Recorder is $75 per month. The aggregate time spent by his deputies" who were employed only at odd times, when he wished to curry favor with the railroad and other corporations by expedit ing their transfers. and getting their lands off the assessment rolls, would not equal the employment of one legal deputy for six months; and still, with the thousands of dollars he has received. but of which he is careful to make no mention in his tabulated statement, he has the effroDtery to say thai each abstract cost him $19O and that the county would he 60 cents in the hole were it not for his heroic hold up.
 What limitless nerve he musters up, knowing the facts, to assert that the County was impotent to get its just dues in these fee matters, thereby necessitating his interven- tion and his extra official devotion and why, if he could at all times show that he was saving money to the County, did he storm and rage, and threaten the former Board and it's Clerk with physical vengeance, when it dared to do its duty in ask Ing him to make proper reports?
 His plea that the county "got their recording done and the fees thereon for nothing" is false, abso- lutely false. What is he paid a salary for? Does he also question the county's right to these fees? As we'll argue that the proprietor of a the owner of a bank, to whom money is paid by salaried employees gets it for nothing. That is a fair sample of his ''convincing" argu- ments.
 He gives his services as Clerk of the Board as a free-will offering. Secure for two years in a job that has netted him for six years far more than his salary; with other party men, more loyal than he, seeking the Clerkship, he steps in wishing to be in closer touch with Cameron and Poison, and under the guise of gratuitous service, keeps the others out, strides the cor ridOr in a dual oapocitv mo Lipr