Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-01-11

The communication Of District Attorney McCarran to the County
Commissioners. published in another column. is one If interest to all the
taxpayers of Nye county. 1t is direct and forcible, and goes into mat
ters which IRE of the utmost moment to the community.
In the two banks which have been closed o long, one of which
opened a week ago, there is more than fifty thousand dollars of the peo-
pies money. MI. McCarran asks for authority to proceed against the
banks with a view of restoring the money to its proper custodian, the
Treasurer OF the county. He asks that he be permitted to proceed against
the banks either cviHy OF criminally is his judgment may dictate.
Mr. McCarran has evidently been working on the proposition of the
banks, and has made a close study of the situation before throwing
his bombshelL The contention he makes that the money was placed IN
the banks a a trust fund, carries with it the implication that nobody had
any business to touch the money but the Treasurer, and that if either OF
the banks cannot account for the county funds, somebody has been guilty
OF the Misrepresentation of these funds.
The County Commissioners owe it to the community to extend to
District Attorney McCarran all the aid in their power upon all the propo-
stons that he has put up to them. One of the banks has resumed
business, but has placed the county o N the same footing with the rest
of its depostors, and has told the county that the people cannot have
trust puts another phase o n the matter, and the banks must produce the
coin. The other bank holding the funds of the county has not yet open
ed up and Mr.. Hickey has declared that it will not do so until all the
depostors have signed. 1t cannot be possible that any official of the
has, it is hardly possible that the law will uphold such a course.
Mr. Mccarran has also suggested that adequate police protection
be given to Tonopah in the way of more policemen being appointed, and
given beats which they must patrol during their shift This is what the
Bonanza has been demanding, and possibly the County Commission, when
urged to act in the matter by their legal adviser, will do as has been re-
quested. There was an ugly hodup in Goldfeld on Tuesday night, in
which a woman was robbed in her home. There a a robbery on the
same night in the residence portion of Mt odde in this town. The thieves
but the circumstance is sufficient warning to the town that the hordes
from Goded has begun the march .oward us.
District Attorney McCarran has gone into the matters pertaining to
The city with no uncertain step, and Tonopah may we'll feel proud of
her legal officer, who knows his duty and has the courage to perform
it. Mr.. McCarran will undoubtedly have the County Commission be-
hind him in his work: he has the entire community at his back, Should
the Commission hesitate to give him the authority he asks. he will take
up these matters with the Grand Jury, which is shortly to be impanelled.
and he will 60 down the line without fear OF favor.
ronOpah is to be congratulated in having in the office OF District At
torney such a man as Pat McCarran.