Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-07-19
EXTRACTS FROM
The REPORT OF
GRAND JURY
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evidently secure from prosecution
under the laws in existence their
actions should be condemned.
In conclusion we would urge up
on the next legislature the neces-
sity of passing a law prohibiting
any officer or director of bank
from borrowing money from that
bank.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
We have made a careful investi
gatoon of the various offices and
find results as we have reported
above. The officers are apparent
| ly doing their work conscientiousli
and well.
! We now come to the county COM
missioners. We find that the coun-
4 Y commissioners are the keynote
/ to the whole county government,
and that it is their duty to pro-
( vide sufficient funds to meet all ex-
penses. to disburse these funds
for the most part and to know that
the funds are safely kept.
/ All the county officers report la
them and they are the head Of the
! county government. We find that
the county has suffered irretrieva-
! bly, from tie careless handling Of
! county funds during the term Of
flee OF W. T. Cuddy and S. F..
lindsay. w. T. Cuddy has been
in office for five and a half years
and i; was during his incumbency
.ha- the Logan shortage occurred.
Is +. Lindsay has been a county
commissioner for three and half
ears. and during his administra-
ton. together with w. T. Cuddy.
the county has lost $66,6S9.36 by
the failure of the Nye and Ormsby
county bank and $4,000 by the
failure of the State Bank and also
the loss of some $4,000 by the de-
falcation of Sheriff Owens. The
county stands to lose some 100000
more through notes issued by these
commissioners at a time the coun-
tv should have had plenty of funds
on hand.
We contend that if only ordln-
ary business precaution had peeh
followed that these shortages would
never have occurred.
The county commissioners, after
the failure of the Nye and Ormsby
county bank, authorized the publlt
accountants, Lester Herrick aho
t uerrick. to make detailed report
on the various county offices, ano
particularly the treasurer once
as this office then was, in chaotic
condition.
The accountants made a splendid
and impartial report, and showed
how nearly every office was short
in its accounts and blamed it tC
the poor methods of accounting in
! vogue. They made recommends
lions to better the methods, sc
that a check could be easily OBJ
tanned and shortage would be dis
covered at once.
The commissioners testified thai
they had not even read the repor
and we find that the only Officer
that had read it was the auditor
: his Office refused to audit the bill
> The whole report was practi
i cally ignored, as no one evincet
n the least desire to know how t.
n improve the system, and we ar
4 continuing under practically the
same old system today
Had the recommendations of tn
accountants been carried out tn
shortage in Sheriff owens account
4 would never have occurred.
We have no personal animosit
i or desire to hurt anyone. IN thi
\ investigation, but is our homes
4 opinion that these two commits
d sioners, W. T. Cuddy and 5. I
a Lindsay. have absolutely proven
n themselves unfit to run the count
Il business and that it is dangerou
y to the solvency OF the county 4
4 allow them longer to remain I'm OF
4 fee.
i We have found many instance
Il where the commissioners hay
z sQuandered the public money am
, they seemed to have no bach