The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1914-04-17

deputies for the assessors depart
ment, it may be done. (See sec.
2119, twelfth session..
Provided: that any of the officers
to this section requir-
ing the services of one or more
deputies, or requiring clerical assist
ance, shall, for period of at least
thirty days, before any regular meet
ing of the board of county commits
published notice in some
at the county seat, of his
intention to apply to the board of
county commissioners for a deputy or
deputies, or for clerical assistance,
and no deputy shall be appointed
or clerical assistance allowed by said
board until due proof of the publica-
ton of said notice shall have been
furnished said board, and the neces-
sity for said assistance is satisfac-
torly shown, and any tax payer in the
county shall have right to appear
before said board, and protest against
said appointment and show cause why
said assistance should not be allowed.
Approved March 18th, 1918.
I charge that no notice was given
to the public, that such appointments
would be applied for and the con-
sequent expense entailed upon the tax
payers.
County Attorneys Expenses
The county attorney is entitled
to his expenses for trips to Boise on
county bushes, but he is not entitled
to take othere people along with him
on county expense. The bill objected
to in this instance calls for the ex-
penses of two persons for the round
trip.
Signed BYRD TREGO.
After the reading of the protest,
Mr.. Kennedy suggested throwing it
into the waste basket, saying there
was nothing in it worth considering.
Mr.. Fackrell and Mr.. Christensen re-
garded it as a part of their offic al
business, and it was placed in the
hands of the county attorney who re-
turned it next day recommending that
the protest be denied.
State Sanitary Inspector James H.
Wallis addressed the board Wednes-
day morning on the subject of the
care of the building and jail. He
said he had visited the jail on the
29th of March, 1914, and in company
with Sheriff Jones and the jailer had
made thorough examination of it.,
and found it to be in horrible con-
dition-as bad as any he had found
in the state. He had mailed them a
written report of his findings and rec
concentrations which they would find
on file with the clerk. A copy had
been sent to the sheriff, and he had
returned to confer with them person
ally to make sure that everything was
understood. Among other things he
said:
"You should not lose sight of the
fact that prisoners are human, and
the men you have in confinement at
times are incarcerated for their first
offense, for a simple mistake which
they may never make again, and it
Is wrong to treat them harshly or
Keep them in degrading environments
The law requires that the man who
is simply being held on suspicion OF
for trial and is not proven guilty is
entitled to be kept apart from con-
demned persons, and this has not
been observed in the Bingham county
Jail. 1t has come to my attent on
that an innocent man was confined in
this Jail for some weeks and was
tried and acquitted. Such a case
occurred in Latah county and the man
has brought suit for such illegal con-
finement with criminals, and will
probably obtain judgment for his
wrongs.
/ found this prison in "a filthy
condition, and without any rules for
its government or any provision for
having the necessary work done by
the prisoners to even make up the
beds or air them or do any of the
things that constitute the daily rou.
tine. 1t is the duty of the sheriff
to do all these things but he is under
the direction of the board, and it is
the duty of the board to visit the
prison quarterly at least, and to give
it such attention as will insure hav-
ing a knowledge of the needs of the
inmates.
I found the bedding in filthy con-
dition, exposed to all the dirt of the
floor and with no means of cleansing
1t or keeping it clean. l found bed
ding spattered with vomit and reek-
ing with spots of human feces dis
charged from the bowels of prisoners.