Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1914-05-08
Would Not Re-
cognize Mayor
Five Gang Aldermen Refuse to
Attend Meeting Of Council
Called by Brinton, But Hold
Meeting Of Their Own Before
Discharged Auditor.
,BRINTON GIVES REASONS
FOR DISCHARCINC OF.
90 FICERS.

to BE held in the mayors office
in the Chronicle! building at 8
o'clock. The call was issued by
the new auditor, Harry Burt, and
was served on each of the alder
men by Chief of Police Smith.
The service was made for the
reason that the hostile council
men had expressed themselves
that they would not attend the
meeting of May 4th, the annual
meeting.
Up to the present time the
city council of Beach have never
designated meeting place.
When Mcclellan was auditor they
met at his office and later met at
the Egan bank when Mr.. Egan
became auditor. There being no
designated place of meeting, and
tie. mayors Office being the most
co,SHenient for the city auditor,
the meeting was called there.
The hostile council, however,
refused to recognize the meeting
and John Jepson, Mark Lowell,
M. Mathison, VIM. Woodruff
and A. E. Kastien called a meet
ing of their own in the office of
the DISCHARGED CITY auditor and
we are informed made an at
tempt to transact business. The
mayor was served with a written
notice, signed by the FIVE hostile
councilmen, demanding his at
tendance at their meeting. but as
he was at the time of receiving
the notice. busily engaged in the
meeting at the mayors Office,
declined to attend their meeting
before Mr.. Egan as auditor.
At the meeting called at the
mayors Office by Brinton, Alder
men Linger was the only alder
man to respond and the follow
ing are the official minutes of
the meeting:
Mayor and City Council me,
this 4th day of May, 1914. at 8
o'clock p. m. Present. Mayo,
Brinton and Alderman Linger.
There being no quorum present,
meeting adjourned to meet May
11Nh, 1914, at 8 o o'clock p. m. a,
the Mayors office.
The following communication
was filed by the Mayor.
To the Honorable City Council
of the City of Beach. N. D.
Gentlemen:
On the 22nd day of April
1874, under authority of Section
2649 of the Revised Codes o1
North Dakota Of 1905, l remov'
ed from Office. M. A. Egan. Cit,
Auditor for negligence in Office
and believing that the best in
terests of the city demanded hi
removal. and for negligence il
keeping the city records. NOR,
specifically set forth as follows
That the Auditors minute bool
of the City Of Beach has no
been properly kept and is not .
true record of the city's business
and that the said minute bool
has not been kept in accordance
with law and that the minutes
have not been recorded ane
made a permanent record befor.
being approved; that insertion
have been made in the record
apparently without authority o
the council and that the recore
has been changed and added t.
without apparent authority o
the council; that a page from tn,
back part Of the minute bool
hak, been detached, namely; pag'
numbered 458 and inserted i,
between pages numbered forty
six and fory-seven. containin,
purported council proceeding
which insertion does not shov
that it was acted upon by tn
Council and is not proper rec
ord; and for the further reaso1
that on page IS that a part o
tho records have been concealed
by the pasting of paper over tn
minutes of the council proceed
ings without apparent authorit.
of the council; and that the cit.
auditor failed to publish a tru
and correct financial statement o
the financial condition and affair
of the City of Beach as required
by law for the year 1914
That OF April 22nd, 191'
under authority of Section 264'
of the Revised Codes of Mort
Dakota for 1905, remove,
from office. Chief of Police M.