Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1908-12-25
CLEAR CASE OF GRAFT.

Dispatch had bills before that body One included the
printing of the great register and other tems amounting o
$72o7o This bill reduced to the tune of 1884, which
very mild handling of the claim and careful regard for the
tender feelings we'll the financial affairs of the claimant
The other bill for $4o So for advertising and other print
ing allowed in full by the board without protest. and
APPARENTLY without any effort to ascertain whether
according the adopted schedule of Now after
examination of the various items contained therein,
have hesitation in asserting that proportion the
of the claim this smaller bill by all odds the
rankest instance Of graft that has within knowledge
long time This bill includes the following charges for
advertising:
Oct. 81, Notice to taxpayers, IS So 25c $3.50
Nov. Notice to taxpayers, Is sqs times, 1900
Making total of $22.5o for this notice from the
collectors Office nearly onehaf the total of the
BILL Now the writer had noticed the extraordinary manner
in which this particular advertisement appeared in the
columns of democratic coemporary-a method which no
practical printer newspaper man, with honest Intentions
would dream adopting unless his sole object to-
initiate his columns and give away space Believing that there
was "a nigger in the woodpile curious enough to
watch the outcome and whether the claim would pass
with the officials whose duty it is protect the
payers against INSCRIPTIONS, fraudulent methods If these
officials did know the grating of the BILL it was
their business find That what they elected
and paid for Ignorance Had they taken the
trouble look back they would have found that two years
ago bill for similar advertisement presented by the
Ledger Office 1t contained twice the of reading that
this Dispatch notice contains measured less than half
the quantity of squares,-by printers eight
the county charged 81 for each insertion
1t matter Of history that this particular bill watched
very closely by certain democratic officials Because the in
coming democratic sheriff had ordered the continuance
notice which inserted by the retiring republican
official the supervisors rejected the claim although the work
had been done and the time limit stated in the notice had
expired
Now concerning this Dispatch BILL may say that is
in plea typea twice large nonpare the standard
type legal notices. 1t is spaced thirteen inches of
space There line of type in less than plea in size
If in nonparel might about 1900 ems, six
squares without unreasonable padding In plea the advertise
men notwithstanding its great length 81 lines of
plea, making 1858 ems less than ~ squares. The
schedule price would therefore average per each
insertion instead of $4 So The claimant stated deliberate
faehood when he says IS squares By rule
of the printing business such claim be defended. In
drawing that from the treasury for each insertion he has
defrauded people of Amador county the of $34o
for time the advertisement has been printed This action
par with brickayer who takes to lay the
regulation brick much per thousand When he comes
to charging he puts bill for four thousand brick for
every thousand actually laid That is what the Dispatch
has done in this advertisement He has charged for nonpar
type instead of ca and the guardians of the taxpayers have
let the fraud pass BY the process cotempoay
by using three four line plea the body of the advertise
ment might have made the notice occupy times much
space and measuring the nonparel the bill would
have run up hundreds of dollars Once admitted per-
missabe there stopping place in this method of fraud
Using poster type of large SIZE the notice would have
CURED string paper reaching clear the county and
the bill would have into the thousands of dollars for each
issue if such sheet could be denomnated advertising
medium This matter respectfully called to the attention
the prosecuting attorney of this county, and the grand jury