The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-07-25
THE IDAHO SCIMITAR.


sets. Between December of 1905 and December O
1907, Mr. Parkinson had the use of over $1,000 tina
to have been replaced, with the exception o.
$2,3SS, which the committee is willing to take his
note for at six months. 1t is believed by the com
mittee that he also ought to pay the district Of
the money he secured as interest on the districts
capital
Setting forth these and other details in support OF
what would be cassed as ENLIGHTENMENT under the
American way of defining crime, the committee is
disposed to be lenient saying:
There have been many irregularities of methods
exhibitions of avarice and in some instances sharp
practices and disregard of statutory law, but
no evidence has been submitted to us demonstrating
that the funds of this district have been stolen by
such former officers
Another transaction that exceedingly naughty,
but is not called stealing is mentioned by the
mittee in its report:
We find that $27 100 worth of third series district
bonds in the possession of the bank of
Malad as collateral for security the Henderson
notes. These bonds were placed in the possession
of the bank by the action of Messrs. Hart and A.
ID. Henderson. Your committee is advised that such
action was not warranted either in law of by con-
dtions that then existed, and we therefore recon-
mend to the board of directors that immediate steps
be taken to notify the bank that the district never
received any consideration for the delivery of said
bonds and that they must be Immediately returned
to the district We understand that the bank has
Deen nOtf1eQ not TO dispose OF the bonds, but that
they have not been returned as yet, but we re-
commend that in the event of the failure of the
bank to surrender said bonds upon demand an
action be be brought against the bank, and that
Mr.. Hart and Mr.. Henderson be Joined in such
action for the purpose of recovering the bonds
their cash value
Mr. Henderson president of the irrigation
company. He was borrowing money for his per-
sonal and the secretary of the district was
assisting him to put up the paper of the district as
security for his notes.
Under government by the state all the numerous
irregularities and populations detailed in the report
would have been deemed punishable offences. But
under a government by the church, the law pro-
vided for the protection of persons and corporations
against dishonest officials is waived and the in
vestigators declare that no money has been stolen
An ecclesiastical whtewash
The Salt Lake Tribune prints the following con-
densation of the report of the bookkeeping expert
and the committee that investigated the affairs of the
irrigation fcias the transactions being looked upon
scandal of large dimensions in the headquarters
city of the church:
Taken and considered carefully, the report of
Judge H. H. Rolapp chief church auditor, and
others of the committee appointed to look into the
report of Oscar Rummel on the Oneida ditch
1al is terrible arragnment of President George c.
Arthur w. Hart, and President A. c.
Henderson.
The committee attempts to eliminate the criminal
features of the practices of the ditch officers, but
show that they labored much against their natural
The report which printed in We'd
1esday's Tribune, and in the News of the evening
before, is of the most startling documents ever
given to the people of the intermountain country
It the result of examination made by a
special auditor into the criminal transactions of Off
ers of the Oneida Ditch company, of Preston,
IDAHO. The farmers living along the ditch had
een robbed of $4,000 by they trusted, and
lad been victimzed further by extravagances that