The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-04-16

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ing the bills travelling, so there was
little chance to get at them. The
total of the bills presented for pay
ment was $23,600.S5 plus few that
came in late and were admitted con-
trary to the rule that says none shall
be filed later than Saturday proceed
ing the meeting. Clerk Holbrook in
sists that unless the rule is observed
it is impossible to classify and handle
the bills in proper manner.
The total Of $23.6O0.85 when class
flied into road and bridge and cur
rent expense shows total of $10,-
134.25 for road and bridge, and $13,-
466.60 for current expense. While
we were examining the bills before
the meeting we made the following
observations:
Bill of B. H. Lyon for boarding
prisoners, $304.26.
J. S. Watson for rent Of house to
Mrs. Jess Hembree, $40.
Helen Morrell for assisting county
superintendent, $45.
Bills Auto company, 1866.
Bills Auto company $304.7O.
Mrs. France for care of INDECENT,
$685..
DR.. Simmons for amputating foot
of F. S. Fackrell, $3.50.
Blackfoot Hospital for F. S. Fack-
rell, $72.75.
! INDECENT at Blackfoot Hospital,
$3.50.
Care of H. e. Pew, INDECENT, $50.
There was some discussion of the
above items while they were being
examined, which threw some light on
the way things come UP to the board.
Relative to the boarding of pris-
oners, this is being done by contract
between the board and the restau-
rant, in accordance with the recon-
mendations made a year ago by RE
ducing the Taxes" The price is II
cents meal and the sheriff does not
receive any profits from it, His sal
airy was increased from $500 a year
to $500 when the "prison graft"
was taken away.
The county superintendent has
been in the habit of hiring some
body to stay in the office to keep it
open to comply with one statute that
says the office shall be kept open
every day. There is another statute
that says she may designate certain
days when the office will be open,
and she shall keep the public inform
ed in some way which days it will
be open for business. This office Sc
cured an opinion from the attorney
general a year ago which said the
way to do with such problem as
that would be to choose which statute
to observe and disregard the other
one. That If the business of the Of
fee is so heavy that it cannot be
handled with fair degree of salts
faction to the public in less than six
days it would be within the discre-
tion Of the superintendent to keep it
open at public expense every day.
If it were kept open merely to COM
ply with the law and not for any
practical and useful purpose such ex-
pense might in the discretion of the
superintendent be dispensed with.
No inquiry has ever been made by
the board to find out what the deputy
has to do when she is keeping the
office open, whether little or much
or nothing.
One of the bills of the Bills Auto
company was for gasoline and repairs
on the old car and the other was for
the difference between the new car
and the old one.
The bill for the care of F. 8. Fack-
rell was for caring for him after he
was shot while acting as deputy
sheriff trying to recapture the prison
ers who escaped. He was wounded
and bleeding and they called the first
surgeon they could find. He hurried
the patient into the hospital, and the
next morning the hospital manage
ment required a guarantee from some
source that charges would be paid.
The patient was destitute, and the
county officers felt that as he was
wounded in the service of the county
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