The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1911-01-05
OUR NEW COUNTY OFFICIALS
Officers Sworn In and New
Board Transacts Large
Amount of Business.

1t is doubtful if a county's admins
tration ever started off more auspicious-
ly than does Churchill's for the two
year period, commencing with last
Monday, at which time the newly
elected and appointed officers took
their oaths of office and assumed their
respective duties. For two years at
least, the tai payers of the county will
find C. l.. Noble, assisted by Deputy J.
7. Collins, in the clerks office; F. F.
FRANKIE, assisted by Mrs. Belle Wick
land, in the auditor and recorders
office; w. S. Wall will attend to the
county's legal affairs and advise its
officers; J. C. Coniff will administer
the affairs of the sheriff's Office, as
sisted by Albert ]. johnson, whom he
selected as his deputy, choice that is
uniformly satisfactory; j. w. Sitton
will make the county's assessments for
at least two seasons, having been
switched by the voting public from the
county clerks office; of course, j. w.
Richards, "Jim," as he is usually
called, will handle the county's money
for another term-who besides Jim
could do the trick?
The county's executive board, COM
posed of E. P. McLane, hold-over long
term commissioner, c. P. Cirac, long
term commissioner and j. <. Danieson,
short term commissioner, will transact
the business for the county's taxpayers
for two years, Mr.. McLane having
been selected as chairman of the board
for this period by the two new men,
bers. That this board will be essential
ly taxpayers board" goes without
saying. The members are all level
headed, fair, impartial business men
who have no axes to grind and their
every official action will be in con-
formity to their best judgment.
In looking over the official roster, the
wisdom of the choices of the voters of
the county is apparent in each instance
and the selection of deputies has
been made with view to obtaining
efficiency in each instance. 1t would
certainly seem that the knell has been
sounded to political favoritism".
The new board entered into its duties
Monday in businesslike manner.
The following is part of the business
transacted to date:
Official bonds of C. L. Noble as coun-
ty clerk, in the sum of $40, 900; F. F.
FRANKIE, county auditor, $1,000; W. S.
Wall, district attorney, $1,000; ]. C.
Coniff, sheriff, $40, 900; ]. w. Richards,
county treasurer, 500, 200; j. w. Sit
ton, assessor, $1,000; approved. Also
the bonds of the following precinct
officials in the sum of $1,000 each: C.
G. Swingle, Hazen justice; T. A. Jones,
Fallon justice; G. w. Sharkey, Hazen
constable; r. j. dollhouse, Fallon con.
stable and John Burt, Wonder constable.
The contract for the care of the coun.
ty telephone office at Hazen for the
ensuing year was awarded to Fred 7.
Abbey for $25 per month";.
The contract for the court house
janitor was awarded to Charley Spoon
over the same period for $45 per month.
E. R. Ruprecht was continued as
county telephone manager for another
year at the former salary of $3.50 per
month. The board requires a bond of
$1,000 in this instance.
Bids were opened for county physician
as follows: Drs. G. M. Gardner and V.
P. Smith, $35, per month, DR.. ]. E.
Worden. $4l.50 per month, Drs. Has
call & Hascall, $50 per month. The
first named bid being the lowest, the
award was made accordingly.
Bids for county printing were opened
as follows: Churchill County Standard,
by W. C. Black, manager. $50 per
month for the year 1911, Churchill Coun-
ty Eagle, by its manager, D. E. Will
liams, s72 per month and the Wonder
Mining News, by w. w. Ellis, $50 per
month. The Churchill County Standard,
being the lowest bidder, was given
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