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

NouIlty 10 uTaW WaTFaMtS iOr tue
respective amounts and tender the
same to the respective parties own
ing the said lots and parcels of
land in said block, the total pur'
chase price of said lots being $40
600.00 without certain building
! on Lots 1 and 2, or s10,9O0.00 with
said building, either of which
amounts was greatly in excess of
the real or marketable value of said
lots. That the said resolution was
corruptly and designedly passed
late in the afternoon Immediately
before the end of the session of
said board of county commission
ers then and there being held and
it was the last business performed
by said board before the adjourn
ment on said 1T day of April, AID.
1917.
AND FURTHER we charge that
the said D. G. Thiemens is guilty of
non-feasance in office in that, in
conjunction with said ]. C. White
he did carelessly and negligently
pass said resolution, hereinbefore
referred to, on the 18th day of April
A. D. 1917, he, the said Thiemens
and the said ]. C. White voting for
the same and the other member of
said board not voting therefor,
which said resolution, as herein
before stated, provided for the pur-
chase of said Block II and the pay
ment therefor without any provis-
ion for the examination of the title
to said property or without any pro
vision to ascertain whether said
property was free from liens or
other membranes or the owner
ship thereof, but which resolution
provided for the purchase thereof
recklessly and in violation of all
business principles and without re-
gard for the interest ofthe county
or without any way safeguarding
the interest of the county, and said
resolution did not provide for *any
examination of the conveyancess or
for the delivery of the conveya.sfes es
to the said several parcels Of land
prior to the payment of the war
rants but said Thiemens in con-
junction with the said White pass
ed said resolution and directed the
payment of the large sums of
money provided therein to be paid
without, in any manner, safeguard
ing the interests of the county and
withou giving T. H. Twining, the
other member of the board, an op-
portunity to investigate with them
the various sites for a court house
available in the town of Ephrata
and said resolution was passed by
said Thiemens and White reckless
ly without thorough investigation
of other valuable sites in said town
of Ephrata.
AND FURTHER we charge that
the said D. c. Thiemens upon tax
ing his office as county commits
sion did take and subcribe to an
oath, faithfully to discharge the
duties of a commissioner of Grant
county as provided by law, and we
charge and allege that he has vio-
lated his said oath of office as fol-
lows, to-wit:
First. In passing said resolution
to purchase Block II in conjunc-
ton with said White he acted with
out investigating or giving T. H.
Twining, the other of the board, an
opportunity to investigate the suit
ability of any other location upon
which to locate the court house of
said county or to transact said
business in public manner so that
the county might have had the ad
vantage of the property owners of
Ephrata competing with each other
to furnish a suitable location for
said court house at less price
than would result from the arbi-
trary and secret selection of said
site by said Thiemens and White,
thus failing in his duty as required
by law to reduce the expenditures
of his said office to the lowest prac-
tical sum consistent with law.
Second. In passing said resolu-
ton, in conjunction with said
White, he directed the County Aud
itor of Grant County to violate the
law, in that, the said resolution,
hereinbefore referred to, author
lied the issuance of warrants there
in provided to be issued in less
than ten days from the time the
same were authorized and in dir
ecting said County Auditor to issue
warrants for the several sums of
money authorized to be paid for
said parcels of real estate by said
resolution without requiring war
ranty deeds to be delivered for said
property conveying full title there
tn and without an Investigation nc