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

close Sdlu ITdllSdCtlOH Without Iur-
ther action of said board and MAX
ing the same completed transact
ion as far as said board was con-
cerned.
|, That the said D. C. Thiemens did
commit further act of misfeas-
ance in his said office is this, to-
wit; That said d. C. Thiemens and
said ]. C. White, then and there be-
ing qualified and being acting me-
|mbers of the Board of County CO.
mmissioners of Grant County, Wa
shington, did between the 18th day
of January, A. d. 1917, and the 18th
day of April, A. D. 1917, wilfully,
knowingly, Intentionally and un-
lawfully conspire together and mu-
tually entered into an unlawful and
corrupt understanding and agree
ment to cast their several votes in
favor of certain resolution au-
thorizing the purchase of all the
lots in Block II of the Third Add
ition to the Town of Ephrata, Gra-
mt County, Washington, for the pur
pose of thereon erecting a court
house, the said Thiemens and said
White at all times knowing that the
said Thiemens was the real owner
and had the beneficial interest of
an undivided one-half interest in
lots 6, 7, 8, 8, 10, II, ~, and 13 in
said Block II and with the intent
and purpose of selling said lots to
Grant County for the sum of $685.
OO.0O, an amount largely in excess
of the true value of the said lots; ii
was also part of the said agree
ment and conspiracy and mutually
understood and agreed between the
said Thiemens and the said White
that the intention of the said THE
mems and he said White, as a ma
jority of said board to purchase
said lots should be kept secret from
the other member of the said board
to-wit; I. H. Twining, until the
same was sprung upon him at the
moment that it became the inten-
ton of said Thiemens and White
o pass said resolution and the saia
1'hiemens and said White further
mutually agreed and conspired to-
gether and with each other to pass
said resolution in such a way as to.
enable the said ThiemenS to close
said transaction before the taxpey-
ers of said county would have kno-
wledge thereof or an opportunity
to prevent the, carrying into effect
of the said agreement and expend-
itures of large sums of money un-
der and in virue of it and with this
end in view the said Thiemens and
the said White also agreed and con-
spired together to said resolution
in manner which directed the Co.
unity Auditor to, forthwith, issue
warrans for he purchase of said
lots in violation of the statutes of
this state which provides tha coun-
ty warrants shall not be issued un-
til ten (10) days have expired after
the date of allowance of such war
rant, and authorizin g and direct
ing the Auditor to issue said war;
rants without the diret allowance
thereof by the county commission
erS.
That in pursuance of said unlaw-
full, fraudulent and corrupt agree
ment the said D. C. Thiemens and
]. C. White, sitting as members of
tthe board of county commission
ers of Grant County, Washington,
and constituting part of said board
at said time did on the 18th day of
April, A. D. 1917, at a session of
said board, produce resolution
having he effect aforesaid, and said
Thiemens did then and there state
to said White at said meeting and
in the presence of said Twining,
"We might as we'll spring the white
elephant on Tommy" referring to
said T. H. Twining, the other men,
Der of the board; that then and
there the said resolution was i'm
mediately passed by said THE
mems and said White, members of
said board without the said Twin
ing having an opportunity to con-
slider the question or discuss it or
view the property or ascertain its
or to, in anyway, become advised
in the premises or to in any way
ascertain whether property of
equal suitability could be obtained
for less money or more advantage
ously to the interest of he county;
that said resolution fixed the value
of each parcel of said property and
particularly fixed the value of Lots
6, 7, s, 9, 10, II, IL and 13 in said
Block II in the sum of $3500.00 that
said resolution authorized the said
Thiemens, the chairman of the
Board of County Commissioners, to
purchase the said property at the