The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1908-10-23
REPORT OF COMMITTEE
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splrdcy oI lew oVer-entn uSiaStlc adVO-
Gates of the removal Of the county seat
to Occur d Alene, and that Judge
Woods is wholly innocent of the indis-
erection charged to him. While this
fact might seem to warrant your com
mittee, without further action, asking
to be discharged it is deemed best and
in the interest of the public welfare to
make more or less comprehensive re
port as to the real facts surrounding the
courthouse, Jail and other county insti-
buttons located at the county seat. The
public has a right to know the facts
and they are here accurately set forth.
To avoid misapprehension or misstate
ment in this report your committee met
and, after organizing, visited the court
house. With the exception of the sher-
if, the keeper of the poor farm, and the
corner, all the county officials have their
respective Offices in the courthouse. Be
sides these various offices are the dis
trict court rooms, consisting of series
of apartments neatly kept and well
furnished. In addition to the court
room proper, a large and well venti-
lated room, there is a jury room, a
comfortable apartments for the judge s
private use. On this same floor are
the rooms of the prosecuting attorney
and county surveyor. Two more rooms
are for the private use of the commits
sionors, and still another room on the
same floor for the use of the clerk of
the court. Four or five Of these rooms
have telephone connections and all are
supplied with suitable arrangements for
the safe and orderly care of books and
papers pertaining to official business.
Your committee nowhere found on
this floor the slightest Inconvenience or
confusion because of IA lack of room or
space for the safe and proper custody
of documents. Everywhere the most
scrupuous neatness prevailed, and all
books, records and papers were in places
customary, in all public buildings, to be
set apart for them. These articles were
handy for the officials and equally so for
the public. No official occupying Offices
on this floor so far as your committee
could ascertain, has ever complained
because the offices or rooms occupied by
him were too small or unsafe and no
ground could be seen for any such com
plant. The county commissioners,
whose duty it would be to act in such a
ease were never officially or individual,
~ appealed to for any change or i'm
provement No additional vault room
for records or documents was ever re
questcd by any official, the fact being
vault space is at their disposal ample
for the present time and for many years
,, to come.
} On the first floor of the courthouse
building are the offices of the county au
ditor and clerk of court, the county
urer, the superintendent of schools, and
the court room of the probate judge.
In all the Offices on this floor youl
committee found the rule to be absolute
neatness and regularity. Numerous
clerks are employed in these Offices and
they, with their principals, had ample
room for the comfortable and competent
dispatch of their duties. This is thu
case with each of the offices enumer
ated. There was no crowding and per
feet ventilation and light for all thu
occupants. 1t was the general con
clusion of your committee that moro
orderly or more suitably appointed SET
of public offices had never before come
under their observation in county of
the size and valuation Of this one. In
stead of humiliation these Offices, their
management and order, should give
pride to every citizen of the county
Through the courtesy of the county
auditor your committee was permitted
to make minute inspection of the fire
proof safety vault Your committee is
pleased to be able to report that the
vault is very superior structure of
steel, stone and cement, is fire and
burglar proof. 1t is in perfect condi
ton. 1t was erected at large expense
by the county, in which to safely store
records which if lost could only be re
stored after much care and expense, but
the vault is ample for records and books
generally. The vault is used by all the
officials for such documents and records
as are here referred to. Your committee
found many such neatly and carefully
put away and room enough for as many
more. Space inside the vault, still un-
occupied and wholly unused, for several
hundred records and innumerable docu-