The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1921-05-06

! that time the county board con
vened. Still Mr.. Larsen refused
to turn things over until his dep
uty, ]. L. Christman, received Liz
salary for the month Of April.
The reason Mr.. Christman was
not receiving his salary check f3l
the month of April was because ',e
owed the county several hundred
dollars for seed grain that was fur
nished, him five years ago.. He had
been on the; county payroll for fonl
years, but never at any time made
any pretense Of applying, any. part
Of his salary on what he owed the
county County Auditor MelDy
had been paying him his salary
each month in spite Of the seed
lien. and I'VE presume that Auditor
Kopriva would have done the same
ehiltg had it. not been for the fac,
that the county board at meeting
held on April 10 allowed bill 81
| s98.0O. to L. Guiles of BattlevieW
for operating a road graGer in Cole.
willie township, and told. Mr. ISo-
priva not to send Mr.. Guiles a war
rant for the reason that he owed
the county for seed grain, but i'll
stead TO give this warrant to- the
county treasurer, get. a receipt to
apply on the seed lien, and mail
him such receipt. This Mr.. Is Ko-
priya did. ,s.
Rs, When the first Of May came Mr..
Kopriva issued salary warrants 20
all the county officials, deputies
and clerks with the exception of
himself and Mr.. Christman. Mr..
Kopriva also owed the county a
balance on a seed Hens SO took his
warrant to the treasurer and ask
ed for receipt to apply on the, seed
lien, the same as he had been in
structed2 to do in the Guiles case.
Mr.. Christman issued the seed lien
receipt to Mr.. Kopriva, and then
asked for his own warrant, and
this Mr.. Kopriva refused; but told
him he would give him the same
kind Of deal as he was instructed
to give Guiles, and the same as he
did in his own case. Mr.. Christ
man indicated that he was not
ready to pay anything on the; seed
| lien! yet. but needed cash and would
see to it that he got it. S's
::' :3t$ AS j Mr.. Larsen agreed to turn
thingga over after his deputy was.
paid Tuesday a fternoon. Mr.. X o.
priva agreed to issue this warrant
to Mr.. Christina ii IL an opinion
could be secured from States Attor5
ney Hanson to the effect that such!
was a. legal procedure. WIS
then near the closing hour, but Mr.
Hanson agreed tO'.write such an
opinion the following morning.
An opinion. to the effect that Mr..
KopriVa could issue the warrant to
Mr.. Christman lsif the county board
did not instruct him to do other
wise. as in the Guiles case, was
written BY Mr.. Hansen. and given
to. Mr. Kopriva. This was ton
Wednesday noon. and Mr., as Larsen
still held the offics, although the
state laws provide LEI that; his term of
Office expired when mis- Successor
was elected and qualified. Mr..
Jensen had done both, the first.
thing Monday morning but still
nothing had been y, t1urned over y to
him.
N Immediatel at ter dinner Wed 4
snesday the coun tyt board did d s not
object @ 81 NJ ;TSI0 0prtYa' q paving
Christman shis Apris ssara IL, &, and, he
rot This settle,s Larsen g secsSs
:ond excuse forr not turning things
over, D was by no means the.
last. He \ had 5n lumber of Hcertiti719
Gates ofs deposi hich he wanted
to- turn over as cash to M Jensen
and of course Jensen refused
to accept theM except on condi dition
that they bes paidi iimnls dat ely He
explained that he consdn,t ,t see any
way: of ]. paying count warrants
with certif cates aof5 5ade ID sit q Ons banks,
that were probabl nnabl pay
such scegti fcates even hon they
,beca ame#dl and mOst ednesss
day fternoonnI was & spent irl disepss+
ing these CERT Gates ss2i5
he rem mbered last tall
and winter hen the people of the
count were Il paytng their taxed
County easurar Larsen womb sacss
cspt nnly check sons "a I'm banks
dllsApa aymaIt so& suGhs n tax 6xpla
lnksthats h1 q hadl tos pay Walrrants
cas soEa ,ii isai ien end Nd
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