The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1912-12-28
The New Officials

the school superintendent, will
assume their duties. The school
superintendent does not change
until next August.
In the auditors office A. B.
Sansburn will have as his chief
deputy c. M. Durland, secretary
OF the democratic county COM
mittee, known as one of the very
best accountants in the state, a
man of ability and of considerable
experience in courthouse work.
In former days he was deputy
in the auditors office, and it is
said that he gained weight by
doing the work which is ordinar-
lily done by two clerks. 1t was
limited before election that Dur
land might be the man for this.
deputyship, and certain it is that
Sansburn lost no votes by this
supposition, although it is a fact.
that not one of the newly elected
democrats made deputyship
promise before election. George
M. Walsh will be the second
deputy in the auditors office.
He has lived in the Colville valley
nearly all his life, comes of a good
old democratic family, has been
prominent among the young men
of the party, and has a business
education which especially quail
fies him for this position. He is
a product of the Colville schools,
a graduate of the Spokane busi-
ness college, and has been en-.
gagged in clerical work for some.
time. Miss johnson, at present
an assistant in the auditors office,
will remain in that position for
some time.
A. E. Dodson, assessor, an,
nounces Albert Adams of Waits
Lake as his deputy, a most capable
man, we'll known throughout the
county. Glen Ayars of Rice will
assist in the assessors Office when
needed. He has had some ex-.
perience in this office previously.
L. C. Richardson, county clerk,
will transgress the rules of the
old courthouse ring and not have
a deputy. This may be some
what startling toa long-suffering
public, but Richardson is some
thing of a worker himself, and
instead of having a deputy and
a stenographer in addition to the
services of the courthouse stenog-
rapher, he will have his son Ed
ward, a astenographer, assist when
court is in session and at any time
when assistance in the office be-
comes necessary. This will mean
a saving to the taxpayers, which
might or might not be pleasing
news.
R. B. Thomas, "our Dick"
states that he will not appoint
any deputy till he finds that one
is necessary, and that when that
time comes he will secure some
engineer who can earn his money.
No authoritative announcement
has come from w. l.. Woodard,
sheriff elect.
The public will perhaps recol-
lect that during the campaign the
democratic candidates made a
certain promise of economy and
in county office, should
they be elected. Well, most of
them are elected, and as is the
case with any man whose word is
good, the promise is being kept.
There is likely to be a consider
able clearing of deputies, assis-
tants, stenographers, etc., over
at the county capitol, and it is
the right of the taxpayers now
To see that the county's business
is conducted in an economical and
businesslike manner, just the
same as any individual would
handle his own business.
The new county commissioners,
P. H. Graham and M. G.. Stolp,
are men perfectly capable of con-
Quoting their department, but
they have no direct jurisdiction