McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-11-12
TREANOR ENTERS
MUNICIPAL PROBE
FINANCE COMMISSIONER WANTS
TO HOLD UP PAYMENT FOR
PAVING.
CUSTER TRIAL is BEGUN
Oeposed City Officials Declare Law 10
demonstrations and Ask For
Trial by Jury.--Newa From
the Capital City.

Paul w. Treanor, city commissioner
|of finance, lights and market house,
has filed a petition in chancery court
asking that he be made party to the
|city probe case as complainant, seek
Ing an injunction to prevent himself
from paying two of the defending paw
Ing concerns in the suit, and declaring
that Commissioners j. o. Tankard.
George W. Stainback and George J.
Tompkins had promised James Came
ron, who is auditing the city's books,
that they would not give out estimates
until Mr.. Comeron's engineers had fin
|ished their work. Immediate action on
|h!s petition was denied, but it was al
lowed to be filed.
Nashville Custer 1ria, on.
Judge Thomas E. Matthews Of the
first circuit court has begun hear
ing arguments or the preliminary
motions in the custer suit against May
Tor Hillary e. Howse and Robert FL
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street cleaning and workhouse. In the
bill in which Messrs. Howse and FL
lott were named as defendants, ]. M.
Wilkerson, commissioner of streets,
sidewalks and finance, lights and mar
ket house, and Treasurer Charles My
|ers were also named as defendants.
However, as the terms of office Of An
drews and Myers have expired and as
Mr. Wilkerson has resigned, 1t is ex-
|pected that the suit so far as these
defendants are concerned will not be
prosecuted.
Custer proceedings are also pending
against George w. Sta'nback, present
commissioner of streets, sidewalks and
sewers, and ]. d. Alexander, who re-
signed as commissioner of fire, sprin-
king and building inspection the day
the proceedings were instituted. The
suit against Stainback and Alexander
has not yet been set for trial.
The two most important questions
Ito be decided prior to the trial of the,
suit is whether or not the custer law
under which the proceedings were in
|stiuted is constitutional and whether
Tor not the defendants, should the law
be held valid, are entitled to a trial by
Jury.
Board of Charities to Meet.
The Tennessee board Of state chart.
ties will meet in quarterly session at
the capitol In Nashville, November
|13-14-15. This board has supervision
|of all the state, city and county, as
we'll as private charitable and correc-
tional institutions throughout the state.
as well as authority to Investigate all
the prisons and asylums, and has also
supervision of private charities.
The board will be in executive ses.
sion for several days, during which
time 1t will visit the state institutions,
located at Nashville. 1t will also re-
ceive the report OF the secretary, who
has been visiting many of the COUNT
and state institutions as we'll as private
charitable institutions. This report, 1t
lis understood, promises to be rather
sensational in its nature with reference
to some conditions discovered in GER
tain institutions throughout the state.
The report will deal at length with gen.
aral conditions existing in county jails
warehouses; and poorhouses.
Asronlane Corps For Militia.
Augustus Post, former secretary of
he Aero Club of America, Is in the city
the interest of forming aero squad
ons In the Tennessee guard. At
meeting of the members of the guard
n Nashville, which Mr.. Post addressed,
ways and means Of securing a flying
,orps for the state were discussed. A
raining camp similar to the camp at
'lattsburg, N. Y. is contemplated for
Tennessee next year.
Members of the state guard who have
'lready applied for the instruction to
Q afforded at the government aviation
raining school at Fort Still, Oklahoma,
re as follows: Lieuts. M. D. Hartman
nd c. A. Daniels, Sergt. Keith Tatum
Il Company H, Sergt. B. Riley of Com.
'any c, and others. A meeting for the
'urpose of furthering the plans will be
ield once each week at the armory.
inspect State Asylum.
John s. Denton, chairman, and w.
v. Baird, member Of the state board
I control, are making an inspection
the building improvements made
'ecently at the Western Hospital for
the Insane at Bolivar.