Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-11
Mayor Proposes to Force County
to Pay Him For Trying Its
Cases
MAKES CLAIM OF $500
Board Of Supervisors Communication
to City Council Stirs the Mayor to
observation-disclosures Force of Agree
ment-Supervisors Say There Was
One But They Can Not Find 1t.

| Stirred to wrath by the conmunlca-
| ton of inquiry prepared by the poaru
of supervisors, which wanted to know
WHY the mayor did not try all OF the
county's criminal cases which came 10
Il him. Mayor O. L. ngledue proposes u
retaIiate for what he terms "a lot OF
round heads meddling with his busi-
ness"
| The MAYOR intends to collect from
the county his fees as a justice OIL lhe
peace, and the fees of his policemen as
peace officers for the TWO and one half
wears he has been in office. With this
end in view he has instructed city So
licitor f. +, Northup to prepare bill
and claim. for what the mayor eSti-
mates as $500. for presentation to
the board If ii is not paid, as it I'M
questionably will not be, the mayor
proposes to sue for II.
What the exact amount will be can
not be foretold until the claim Is com
piled, but whatever the amount Mayor
Ingledue declares he will collect ana
turn it into the city funds
Is Result of Old Soreness.
The mayors action, prompted by
what might be termed the pertinent in
curry of the board of supervisors, Is
the climax of a series of unpleasant
wranglings which have put the council
and Mayor Inglcdue at swords polnts
with the supervisors. Various acts
have kept alive and aggravated this
feeling.
Is There a Contract?
The claim Of the board is that Mayor
Ingledue should try all of It's cases
which come into his court at no ex-
pense to the county. The board alleges
this is based on contract, which 1t
claims is in existence and In force.
When asked to see the contract, Chair
man W. II. Jones, of the board, said
there was one, but they couldn't find
it.
Jones said that, as he remembered
it, the contract was entered into by
the judiciary committee of the coun-
ell and the board of supervisors, and
that 1t remained in force until either
party to it refused to be bound longer
by 1t, after giving six months notice In
advance.
The claim of the board, based on
this contract, is that the mayor should
try all of the county's state cases
without charge, and in return the
county agreed to board the city's
prisoners without charge.
Says Contract Violated.
Mayor Ingledue will not admit that
there is an agreement in force and his
efforts to see it or secure a copy of
it have failed. If there was one, he
says, the board of supervisors has dis
regarded it repeatedly. He claims the
board of supervisors agreed to furnish
a man to guard the prisoners while
they worked on the stone pile, and dug
dandelions from the city's lawns. This
guard was taken off duty last spring
by the supervisors and has never been
there is nothing to do with the petty
criminals but send them to Jail to be
fed. The adjustment Of the stone pile
he claims, has caused the number OF
tramps, hoboes and Migrants to have
increased in the city. In addition he
says the supervisors refused to pay
the county's share of the cost Of the
maintenance of the detention hospital
! at times when there We're no quaran-
| tines, which added one more thorn in
the mayors flesh.
The mayor promises a merry war to
| the finish.