The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-10-22

as they relaUe W lIle oouhby'
General election, one week
oyt Tuesday. One question to
mitted is, shall the board Of
commissioners issue warrants !
pytent of forty thousand dol
the erection of a court house?
> matter which affects the
and is pulely question for
taxpayers as to whether the
en- afford this Indebtedness.
The Recorder the other two
ions to be submitted appear to
equal Importance: and a ques-
N which the integrity and hon
pf the people is concerned Com
ties should be like indi, idualS-
der an obligation binding under
md all circumstances. There is
basun why a county or commu-
should evade just debt upon
nicaity any more than an indi-
AL
addition to the court house ques-
the other financial problem is
divided into two questions,
ely as "A matter Of convenience.
question number ''2'' on the
ot is whether the county can
te an Indebtedness in favor OF
bters. ParsOn and Boomer in the
of Sl4,44J 90. The construction
be road was contracted for by the
pty with this firm in 1894. The
Atract calls for the building OF a
ce of road frolu California Bar,
i the other side Of Leesburg, to
Irney. The road was built at a
he when there 'were $50 men work
at Yellow Jacket and was one OF
e hest camps in the county at that
me.
THE third proposition will give the
bter an opportunity to say whether
De county shall create an indebted
esS of 81 $4,000 to pay for warrants
bw held by David McNutt. These
tarrantS nov unpaid are about hall
y the contract price for building a
)ece of road from the Neiman place
|n Boyle creek along The Salmon
liver to Fourth OF July creek
1t is not in the province Of a news
paper to tell the people what to dc
10 regard to this matter, but it Is the
DUTY of newspaper TO lay the facts
Is they exist before the people, anc
then they can act upon their best
Judgment. Regardless of what Others
may do when they enter the booth OF
election day the writer will vote fo
both OF these questions favorably be
cause it is legitimate and homes
debt.
Both of these roads were built ant
the warrants were issued therefor he
fore the writer was resident OF TIN
county. Since it has been determlu
ed that the question OF the paymcu
Of these warrants was to be left L
the people The Recorder has made
special effort to become inf0tme
upon the question, and give the read
erS the benefit of the info rmatlon.
The contract price for building III
road to Forney WAS Sl4,I54.O0. Ate
the road was built board OF viewer
were appointed aud the work accep'
ed, aud has been in use by the peopI
ever since Some attorney ascertain
ed that there was defect in III
manner ia which the warrants wei
issued. The case was carried to Il
courts and Judge Beattie declare
the warrants were not legal oecau'
II Gid not state on the lace OF II
warrants for what issued ana u
length OF time in which they were
be redeemed.
While the court has decided IN
these warrants, in themselves, We
not legal, yet there has never been
question raised as To the perfurmau
% the work or that 1t was not COZ
ieted according t0 contract. we
sumo this is true. because a board
reviewers accepted tile wors. "a
thus declared that the county was
neoted TO the firm for the amount
ahich these warrants covered.
place the matter squarely before I
people it will look to many ihat I
county is evading the p3yWeai @
Iust debt purely upon teouhiciii
This dceS not relieve the county
Tie moral obligation TO pay the de
In the case of the McNut' &"
rants, David McNatt IS au Innt@'
purchaser. The cuntrac' price
building this str, teh OF Salmon ID
road vas Tor someN Nbere near -
thousand dollars. TIE nara
~ere sold To bank at Dillon
county paying at least halini tne "
rant Indebtedness OF at 'east pof'
o, them. When the warrants pa
into the hands IL David McNuit
s4me defect sas discuyeIeJ IN u
promises to pay a. there vas dls'
cred In the Winters, Parsou
Boomer warrants. The paicbasf
these warrants bought ihem IN
faith. believing that ibsy "oaia
paii xithout ogfislirg