Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-07-12

Wilson Greek, Grant County, State
of Washington; ]. T. Gull, whose
postoffice address is Coulee City,
Grant County, State of Washington
John Erickson, whose postoffice
address is Krupp, Grant County,
State of Washington, and G. ID. Ba-
nkoe whose postoffice address is
Qpincy, Grant County, State of
Washingtn, citizens, taxpayers and
legal voters of Grant County, State
of Washington, constituting a COM
mittee appointed by a mass meeting
of citizens, taxpayers and legal vot-
ers of Grant County, State Of Wash
ington, do hereby demand the re-
call and discharge of d. C. THE
mems, member of the board of
County Commissioners of Grant
County State of Washington, under
the provisions of sections 33 and "a
of Article / of the Constitution of
the State of Washington, and we do
hereby charge and allege hat the
said d. C. Thiemens, as member
of the Board of County Commiss-
toner's, aforesaid, in his official ca
pacity and while in office as afore-
said committed the following acts
specified in the Constitution as
grounds for recall, to-wit:
The said D. C. Thiemens on
the 7th day, of April, A. D. 1917
did, while acting in conjunction
with ]. c. White, also member of
said Board of County Commission
ers of Grant County, State of Wash
ington, commit an act Of misfeas-.
ance in his said Office in this, to-
wit: The said D. C. Thiemens and
the said j. C. White, then and there
being and constituting a majority
of the duly elected, qualified and
acting board of county commiss-
toner's of said county of Grant, at
said date and while acting as such
Board Of County Commissioners of
said county and as a majority there
of and in their official capacity as
said commissioners of said county
and having authority under certain
restrictions and regulations pro-
vided and prescribed by law to ira
nsact the business of said county
of Grant, did then and there pur-
posely, wilfully and unlawfully
pass a resolution as such board of
county commissioners and solely
through the vote and consent of
them, the said d. C.. Thiemens and
]. C. White, to erect, build and con
struct court house for said county
of Grant, State of Washington, on
Block Eleven (1D of the said third
Addition to the town of Ephrata,
Grant County, Washington and to
authorize the purchase of said
Block II for the purpose of there
on erecting said court house. That
said resolution authorized the said
d. C. Thiemens, the chairman of
the Board of County Commission
ers, to purchase the lots constitut
ing said Block II at certain prices
therein sated, among which said
lots being Lots 6, 7, 8, 8, 10, II, IL
and 13 in said Block 11,that by vir-
ture of said resolution said d. C.
Thiemens was authorized and dir
ected to purchase the same for the
sum of Thirty-five Hundred Dollars
($3500.00), that an undivided one
half interest in said lots is in truth
and in fast is now the property of
the said D. C. Thiemens and was at
all times on the said 18th day of
April, A. D. 1917, the property of
the said D. C. Themes; that the re-
cord title of said D. C. Thiemens to
said lots by deed dated January IL,
1917, was conveyed to C. H. THE
mems, brother of said d. c. THE
mems, by the said D. C. Thiemens;
that said deed was not filed with
the auditor of Grant County until
March IL, 1917; that said C. H. THE
mems holds the title to said proper
ty as trustee for he said ID. C. THE
mems, all of which facs at the time
at the time of the passage of said
resolution were we'll known to the
said d. C. Thiemens and said ]. G..
White and SO it is that the said ID.
C. Thiemens has been guilty of mis-
conduct as a public officer in this,
to-wit; That he is beneficially in
terested directly in the sale of said
lots 6, 7, 8, 8, 10 II, II, and 13 of
said block II of the Third Addition
to the Town of Ephrata, to said
Grant County.
That said resolution is the final
act of said board of county commi-
ssioners and said resolution put it
within the power of the said THE
mems for and in behalf of himself
to close said transaction and under
said resolution the Auditor of Grant
County was directed to draw a war