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HEDrORD. ORXOOIT.
Metropolis of Southt-rn orepon and
Northern California, and Urn fastest
Krowlnc city In Orcjron.
Population U. 8. census 1910 8840;
estimated. 191110.000.
Flvo hundred thousand dollar Qrnvlty
Water System completed. Riving finest
supply pure mountain water, and 17.3
miles-of streets paved.
Postnfflcn rKvipt for year endlnp
November 30, 1911, show Increase of 19
per cent.
nanncr fruit city In Oreiton Ttofruo
Tllver Spltzcnncrj: apples won nwcp
stakes prlzo nnd title of
' "Applo Xtns of ths World"
at the National Apple Show. Spokane,
1009, and n car of Nnwtowns won
rirst Prtiir In 1910
at Canadian International Applo Show,
Vancouver. II. C
' ' Tlrrt Prise In 1911
nt Spokano National Apple Show won
by carload of Ncwtowns,
Kogue icivcr pears oroiiRni ninnem
nrlccs In all markets of tho world dur
inir the past sir year
Wrlto Commercial Club. Inclosing
cento for postoRO for tho finest commu
nity pamphlet ever puuiisnca.
JOLTS AND JINGLES
By Ad Brown
Bless 'Is 'cart, o's always 'appy.
Ami 'c always wears a smile,
As 'o works at doln' nothln'
Down at Washington the whllo
Sunny Jim
Chances growln' mighty slim,
Hack to Utlca for him
Sunny. Jim.
With 'Is .funny HtUo whiskers
Comln' half way to 'Is chin,
And a fnce'just Hko a full moon
Ornamented with a grin.
Sunny Jim!
Careful,' man, there'll como a jerk,
And you'll "have to go to work,
Sunny Jim.
C'When a man from Pennsylvania
gets out on tho rear end of a train
and sings 'Sweet Mario' In Mcdford,
it makes mo think tho world Isn't
bo large after all," says A. S. Bllton
sl'act Is 1 feel so strongly tho same
way that next time I go to Philadel
phia I'm going to stand In front of
tho statute of William Pcnn or Home
Itun naker and sing the same tune
back at them.
Among things wo don't dare print
In this littlo flresldo' department 13
Hob 'Flyun's opinion of tho crowd
who sat outside the feuco and
watched tho auto races.
Who country is waiting to learn
what affect recent events liave had
on tho president's game of golf.
Tho Klks have gone to Portland,
And tho town seems mighty queer
Yet by careful observation
Ono can find, perchance, a dear.
TRIAL UNDER W
CHICAGO. July 9. Interest had
bejen increased In the trial of Mrs.
Keno Morrow when the case was
called " for tho second day'B session
by Judge Korston. Thirty women,
friends of MrB. Morrow, wore In court
and It was understood that they
would continue to attend tho BessIonB
of tho trial until final disposition
wAh made of tho charge that Mrs.
Morrow murdered hor husband, Chas.
II. Morrow.
Seated bosldo Mrs. Morrow, when
tho examination of prospective Jurors
was continued today, was Iter sister,
Mra. Frederick Foster of Los Angeles.
Among tho other women who at
tended tho trial today were Mrs.
William N. Welch of Los Angeles,
Mrfi. Nevada Stono of Carson. Nov.,
and a number of Chicago women,
club and fraternity friends of Mrs.
Morrow.
Tho social prominence of Mrs.
Morrow has attracted a crowd of
curious spectators to tho court room.
"When tho testimony Js heard,"
doelarod Mra. Morrow today, "there
Is nothing that can bo dono, oxcopt
to. acquit mo. I am Innocent of this
absurd charge, but 1 am glad tho
trial Is started."
iMpst birds oat' twpv?nn'd6uo-lialf
times tJipr.ow yvefglH oyery day,
MORROW
ira
THE REAL MUNICIPAL PROBLEM.
SOI 13 few score families own most of (ho city of Nev
York. Thoy arc (loseendanls of tJio early settlors, the
Knickerbockers. Property to the value of several billions
of dollars stand in their names, and front it them derive a
constantly increasing revenue, which enables them to lead
lives of idleness useless alike to themselves and the
nation.
The Astor family is a fair representative of this class.
The founder of the familv landed a penniless butcher bow
Tie was a money-making genius and amassed a great, far
tune, which he invested in city property. The growth of
l.lie community did the balance, and in the fifth generation
we Jinn Vincent Astor, a weak-faced vouth of twentv, h.-'ii
to hundreds of millions, and
hundreds or thousands of people. .
New York presents the incongruous spectacle in a na
tion founded as a democracy with equality of opportunity
as a cornei-stone. of four millions of people paying tribute
to a few score win did nothing to create their property
ITow can there be equality of opportunity when millions
are taxed for the right of existence for the benefit of thote
who are stifled and atropied by the burden of unnecessary
inheritance from grasping ancestors?
The spectacle presented bv New York is simply an
exaggerated reproduction of the conditions in our other
cities. "What is it that creates this wealth'? it is the com
munity. Let the inhabitants all move out of New York or
any other city and the property becomes valueless. It
is made valuable solely by the connniunity and increases in
value as the community' increases in size. No effort, no
struggle, no brains are required by the possessor of city
preperty: Just let it alone
munity increases its value.
German cities recognize
like JJusseluort, the property owners must divide the un
earned increment with the municipality. They have
clothed the municipality with extraordinary power, giving
it the right to condemn and seize property at a fair valu
ation. The slum districts have been acquired, the unsani
tary tenements razed, their sites converted into parks, and
their inhabitants moved out into tracts in the suburbs
acquired by the city, upon which model cottages have been
erected and are rented or sold on easy terms at a nominal
profit.
Ownership of water, gas, electric and traction systems
by the municipality, enable the city to lay out its own addi
tions, to offer free factory sites, and provide decent and
up-to-date homes for the employes.
At the head of these German cities is a trained city
manager or mayor, for the administration of municipalities
is as much a recognized profession in Germain- as railroad
management is in Aemriea. Politics and the spolis system
arc eliminated with most beneficial results. Eventually
the system will probably be developed to the point where
all of the property is owned, by the community and the
occupants pays rent or lease a much more equitable state
than exists under present conditions.
. For the foundation of our system of citv government
we must go back to the barbarians of the German forests
whence came the Angle and the Saxon in the fifth century.
A belt of forest or waste separated each village from the
other settlements and within this boundary the township,
so-called from the "tun" or fence surrounding it, formed
a self-governing body, linked to the tribe which sur
rounded it. In the social
aethel, in which resided the
the clan. Around it grouped the dwellings ot the ceorls
or freedmen, all equal in rights. The land in the township
was held in common. Every villager had the rigl-t to turn
his cattle or swine into the pasture land. The meadow
land lay undivided from harvest until spring for common
use. In the spring it was divided between the families.
Permanent division occurred only in the plow land, but it
also was community property and redivided as population
increased.
The government rested solely in the freemen who met
from time to time around the moot lull or sacred tree to
make laws and deal out justice, divide the land shares, or
prepare for war.
From these primitive beginnings have come the law
and order of the ETTglish as well as the German race and in
modified form, allot' our institutions of government. From
it came popular government and representative .govern
ment as we understand it. From it lias evolved our own
inefficient system of city government.
As government is designed and should have for its pur
pose, the greatest good for the greatest number, in process
of time, it seems as if we will eventually complete the
cycle and return to a modified system of common owner
ship of municipal property along Jines originally designed
among our far away barbarian ancestors in the cradle of
the race two thousand years and more ago for what is
the sense of justice in taxing millions to tremendously en
rich and burden a few to their own handicap and the com
munity's Hardship?
COMMUNICATIONS
I
To tlio Editer:
In the Mail Tribune of Juno 'JO, tlio
editor attempts to reply to u commu
nication from the writer wherein the
Miiil editor shows hit conception of
tho ballot by the use of the follewing:
"In other words, a fundamental
wrong become a i'utitliinieiitnl right
wjieu governments endorse it mid re
ject reforms." '
lib, view, evidently, i that voting
is an inherent right and Unit every
country placing any leBtriction upon
H is "rejecting reform." The trou
ble is with the view, us voting is on'y
a means to an end and that end is to
secure the bent government possible,
to do which U N necessary to safe
guard jhe ballot by proper restraints,
abridgements or denials and not n
country or slate on earth wherein the
frunchiso is exorcised fails Jo ' inSo
suBh safeguards 'nfi ficcs adapted to
their pcculiur conditions.
MHRDFORD AfSTTJ TUTBUNTF),
therefore to the earnings of
and the growth ot the com
ibis fact and in some of them.
center was the homestead or
aetheling or oerl, the chief of
What has he to say regarding the
District of Columbia, where there is
350,000 people with no vote what
ever except to the few who have a
residence outside und may go there
to vote?
What has lie to say of every equal
suffrage state where every fcMinlo ot
tho age of 18 becomes her own guar
dian with full responsibilities, yet cuil
not vote till hlie is 'J1V
What cun ho say of Hungary,
whcie the voting; at;; is plaerd at the
age of 'J(J, or Kinlftnd at the age of
2-1, or of Amorioa at the age of 'Jl, if
voting 'is an inherent right? And
what could he say to every foreign
country placing property qualifiea
tious upon voters?
What can ho say to some placing
educational qualifications upon it if
it is an inherent right?
Ho says "wo ought to have ad
vanced far enough in liberty to ad
ifiit alj oili.us n ballot." ' We an
swer, the hallot does not give liberty,
hut j u I tho opposite, The hallot us-1
MftDFOUP, OH KAON. TUESDAY. JULY 0. 1012
Mimes rcKpoiisihiliiy, oblignlion and
duly, and that is to defend llu bal
lot east, which imposes all of the du
ties of eilixeuship, which imisl cither
lie imposed upon our women or else
l exempt inns relieve them from I his
burden and so eroale a "privileged
class among olors," which is n io
laliou of a neeessiirv fundamental
principal in u representative govern
ment. Again he says, "but In n slaudpat
mind, who thinks the Tuft platform
progressive and to whom established
wrong is sacred right, it is right to
deny his own llesh unit blood tho par
ticipation in government which hb
frcelv bestows unon the ignorant lie
gro, uneducated foreigner nnd alien
Chinese."
We ask his authority for saying we
ftrclv bestow it upon this ignorant
class. ""iJight here is where we cross
swords, lie favors that, we do uol.
We are opposed to tho heathen Chi
nese, ignorant negro, uneducated for
eigner, or the uneducated white
American having anything to do with
the making of governments. We are
suffering today from ignorance on
the part of the lawmakers and if gov
ernments are to ho made and unmade
directly by the people, then 1 stand
for educational qualifications among
voters, the ipiiekcr the better. This
may be too progressive for soine of
mv critics. Hut to give all women
the ballot just hecnusc a mistaku had
been made would be like swallowing
a potato bug and then taking poison
to kill the potato jam.
C. K. WIIISIiKII.
To tho Kdlter: Will you allow
mo to stand up and speak my piece.
Oh but you aro such a Irrepres
sible kicker. Yes I liavo beeu a
kicker and a socialist all down the
same old pike, but wo aro all social
ists as bad as wo understand so
cialism. Socialism Is democracy in Its pur
ity. Socialism Is a government of
all the peoplo by all the people and
for all the people. Well I did not
Intend to write an essay on social
ism, nut we, tho voters, will next
November, glvo the fair daughters
of Oregon tho right to help make
tho laws that control them never
theless Mr. Whistler to tho contrary.
My Intention of this article was
to give a kick In favor of our meat
market men. Would you, could you
for an Instant think It right to rent
a man from Talent or sonic where
clso a stall In our city market build
ing to buck with his low prices
agalust our own city meat men. Ono
morning my wife wished mo to ko
to the city market and get somo mut
ton for dinner, so down I goes to
where thoy sell meat very cheap,
so cheap, Mr. Editor that It almost
makes' a person's head swim. I tells
tho meat man to rIvo me 25 or 30
cents worth of the steak, llo called
out 30 cents. I gave him 30 cents,
placed the meat In tho basket, ran
homo glad with tlw thought that wo
would for once have cheap meat for
dinner. When I unwrapped tho
meat to placo It in tho not Mrs.
Itcames says whoro did you get that
meat? I says I Rot that pieco of
mutton at tho city market houso
whoro they sell meat so very cheap.
Sho says, did you pay 30 cents for
that small pleco of mutton neck? So
t got the scales and wolglind tho
meat, It weighed Just 2 pounds ex
actly. Mr. Kdltor, do you not think
our city dads oiiRbt to cancel Hint
meat man's license It nppearB to bo
an outraRo lo force our meat men
to como down In competition with
pound, especially in tbeso Reed
times when It requires six million
dollars to auctioneer a candidate for
president at Chicago, and nearly tho
samo ammint for tho samo purpose
at Baltimore.
Yours for Justice
D, n. ItBAMKS.
Mcdford, July 8.
COUNTY EXPERT'S REPORT.
Jacksonville, Or.. July 5, 1912.
To tho Houorablo County Court,
Jackson County, Or.egen:
Gentlemen: I havo mndo an exam
ination of tho books, accounts- and
vouchers of the several county offi
cers handling county funds, from
January 1, 1912, to July 1, 1912,
and report as follews:
The County Cleric, W. It. Coleman.
Tlio county clork baa earned and
collected as fees and deposited in the
treasury as follews:
January I 413.05
Fobrtiary 370.80
March -'!
April 822.35
May 4 75.60
Juno 37.1.10
Total $2265.10
The county clork has also trans
acted business Jn tho offlco from
Which tho county Is entitled to re
ceive: Probato $10.00
Circuit 2G.0P
Total - $35,00
I havo furnished tho clerk with an
itemized statement of tho items mak
ing this amount, to which ho agrees.
Tho hunters' and anglors' llccimes
Issued amount to $2190.00. which
has been transmitted to tho state
treasury as evidenced by receipts No.
16302 for $1321.00 and 18627 for
$871,00, making tho county clork
Hquaro on licenses to July i, 1012.
Tho county clerk's offlco Is ex
ceedingly well conducted. Mr. Cole
man Is in tho offlco practically all
official hours and has all county !" -InesH
pertaining to jils offl'"' a :i in
mind. With the annorlloiiiuciit of
tin, tnv Invlf.u tho 1'Cl-lnt Hit loll Of
voters, tho preparation for cU'cUoubJdow la thoroughly - fam'lUur, uud
and tho exceedingly active circuit
court, I ho county cerk or Jackson
county has his handn mil.
The County Itceonlei", l'ivl Colvlg.
The recorders office took lit dur
ing tho months from January 1 to
July t, I lit 2. u follews:
Mouth - Koch, indemnity,
January $ IH2.0U $;ia.Bt)
Kebruary . . (.18.85 10.00
March ., .. . SOS.75 il.RO
April lino. on
May r.30.70 1(1.00
June f 111.7ft l.r0
Totals
..$;trr.:t,oo
$lli.r0
These fees have been deposited In
tlio treasury regularly each month,
ah earned, excepting the sum of
f 1.00, omitted on account of an er
ror In tho addition ot the May earn.
Iuku.
The recorder's books aie In excel
lent condition, Notwithstanding be
has many very lengthy Instruments
constantly coming to hini for record,
lift keeps the work of tho office up
to date all the time, seldom a day
passing In which his work Is not fin
ished, or prncMcully' so.
The Sheriff, Wilbur A. .loues
Tlio sheriff has collected as fol fel fol
eows: Mileage 71.20
Taxes lis follews:
Advertising delinquent
taxes : 105. IS
I'g. 21 No. 2, 190!) tax
Ledger, Kee. 71 SO to
75t.t
5$ J. 19
Treasurers ledgers 1
and 2 for 1011
Ditto
First half S. P. laud tax..
Redemption certificate
No. 00 ?..
Cert. Delhi. 1S1, ISO,
1S7 '
Tax sale rcdom. cert.
525. 526. 527
1905 receipt 5 ICC, 0170,
5171
1905 and 1900 rec. No.
C5JC
1907 -Uec. 133SI to
133S7
192,397.90
12.S70.30
2I.23C.S5
10.27
37.9S
17.92
0 1.19
71.00
S.Ofl
19 OS Kee,
1909 -Ilea
2 ledger
5901 to 5972
pugs 15, No.
171.51
19.20
S09.03
3292.33
18.00
LSI. 92
2S.SI
101.09
3171.17
111.10
35.93
1910 Ilea
1910 lice.
1910 Itee,
9550 to 9595
9 COO to 9753
9S7, vol. 2.
PU. 10
1911 itcc. 5001 to 5031
1911 Hoc. 5063
1911 Uec. 5050 to 5081
1911 live. 1IC11 to
nou
1911 Uec. 11051 to
11091'. pg. 22, vol. 2 .
1911 Ilec. RS0. 932.
2570, pg. 60. vol. 2.
ledger
Pg. CO, vol. 2. IcdKor.
mi-'-Ilee. S02. 2 161,
13671. 2208. 2250.
115C3 to 11597, 11000
11001 to 11010
1911 Uec. 3002 to 3199
1911 Itee. 1001 to 1721
1911 PR. SO, vol. 2,
Ilec. 2512, 2595 to
2600
1911 Ilec. 11552 to
1I5S0
1911 Ilec. 1801 to IS 13
1911 Uec. 15001 to
1CC07 .'.
1911 Ilec. 002 to 009....
5,991.98
2.350.S0
2,501.22
10.37
2.923.79
130.82
303.S5
1.27!.Slt
016.35
1911 Ilec.
1323S . .
1911 Ilec.
13201
to
'tti
'ti!
tii
15701
11351
12S0i"
15719
1,703.85
1.9S1.5S
1.580.1.1
.1.879.37
5,972.53
681,60
1911 ltcc.
11100 .
1911 Ilec
12850
1911 Ilec. 3101 to 3600
1911 ltcc. 1201 to MOO
1911 ltcc. 12SD (In
part)
Total $671,777.91
Amount remaining In
sheriff's hands Janu
ary 1. 1912 $ 21,095.01
Total $692,872.95
The sheriff has deposited as fol fel fol
eows: January, 1912 $ 3.811.31
February. 1912 6,318.09
March, 1912 98.636.91
April, 1912 218.202.08
May. 1912 122.78.1.65
June, 1912 31,886.86
Total deposits $513,058.16
Ilalanco In sheriff's
hands July 1, 19J2.... 79,211.50
Total $592,872.96
The sheriff has shown me as fol fel fol
eows: On July 2 ho deposited in
tho troasury $13,100.19
Ho has shown mo bank
statements 'written by
tho banks to July 1,
1912. for 03,913.19
Coin and currency and
checks and money or
ders amounting to 2,150.65
Total $80,099.63
And ho has still other money on
hands, but It Is for some Items con
stantly coming In and not yet re
ceipted for,
Tho ten tax rolls for 1911 nnd tho
manner In which tho asHessmentii ap
pear thereon, scattered through the
ten books, is responsible for tho do
lays In making deposits, I havo gone,
over this matter with tho assessor
and have suggested to him tho pro
priety of compiling tho assessment
against each owner, on one stnto.
ment and entering that against him
in ono placo on tho roll, I think ho
will adopt a policy like this.
The shorlff has boon working un
der grout disadvantages. Not only
Is ho handicapped In this ten roll
proposition, which casts nu Immense
burden on him and on his assistants,
but his qunrters are cramped and
there Is Inadequate spaco to turn
around in In his office.
Ho Is compelled during a portion
of the tax collecting pnrlod to havo
a Jlno of tho work performed In his
residence for want of Hpaco In the
offlco.
Too much prnlso for tho very com
plete and careful record ho has made
cannot bo given him.
His collection register, on which
all receipts aro entered and from
which he makes bis deposits or
"turn-overs" to tho troasury, Is a
book to bo proud of.
In tho compilation or this record
there Js not a' pilstuko to he found.
This Is a go.od record U cop Id pot
bo hotter.
During tho collecting period, Mr,
Joips lias had tho asslstnuro of one
(if tho iniHl coiupdcut men about the
court h'oiiso, Mr, it. I), Dow, In ov-
ory department of tho county Mr.
quest hunt which make most persons
stop aitd ponder and look )i law aie
lo li m easily' answered, llo l In
valuable In the sheriff's office during
a tax collecting period.
In tho office force Mr. Jones has
luvd very competent help. , 11 Is dif
ficult lo assemble skilled assistance
for a short period, but ho baa been
fortunate In this rcspeej and Is a
good Judge of competent help. To
this Is largely due much of (he ex
cellent record he has pilt Up.
Not only as tax collector, but as
sherirr, as well, Mr Jones linn made
good, llo has a Jail full of prisoners,
most of the lime, and w(lh an active
circuit court sending out process
constantly ho has till ho ban do,
The Treasurer, .lames M. Croiicmlllcr
ltccolptii.
Halauce on hand January
' I, 1912 t 15,151. la
llecelved from Januilry
1 to July 1 us follews:
Kioin sheriff, taxes $513,658 15
Mifest rent 1,507 70
Deposits . .. . .'. 17.10
1;'. 'Colvlg, error In ad
dition . '.. 0 00
H, T, Harnett, ex-ro-
corder 239.50
Hhorirr; mileage ' '.'. I8U.70
Indemnity, cash order 236.01
Indemnity, leeordor .... 95.50
llefuud warrants 120.11
Clerk 2.25D.IO
Itecorder . 3,553.0(1
llounty 101.00
Kent, houho 32.00
Harmon, refuiul 3.029.08
Sale property 511.01
Klnos aiid cohId J.3l:.0n
Coroner deposits .. . 300.75
l.lquor licenses 133.33
2 per cent Interest on
treasurer's uuluucc.. 513.9 1
Total $573,001.06
Disbursements
The treasurer has paid out as fol.
lews:
Special school orders $100,310.70
Special road orders 39,831.66
Special city orders 100,260.70
IIIrIi school orders 0.618. II
Ashland armory 6,113.28
State treasurer's flues .... 326.00
One-half state tax for
1912 52,065.50
Indigent soldiers 90.00
Kxperlmeut station, poor
farm 1.287.60
Iload fund 100.63
County warrants redeem
ed 90.90S.ll
Interest thereon 9.062.15
School superintendent n
orders 30.3 10.36
Howards to Informers 101.00
Paid from treasurer's
deposits 235.65
Total payments $155,5 15.88
Halauce In treasury July
1, 1912 11S.HS.77
Total . . .. $573.60 1 66
The treasurer has shown me his
hank books, balanced by the several
bnnks to July I, 1912. which show
to his credit In banks within Jackson
county, after deducting the amounts
of outstanding checks:
On Juno 30. 1912 $115,138.75
He has shown me and I
havo counted cash anil
ciirrcnrv amounting to 3,010.98
On Juno 30, 1912.
Total $118,119.73
The gain Is due to making change.
The county treasurer has received
from three Mcdford bnnks 2 per cent
Interest on dally balances, aggregat
Iiir tho sum of $513.91, which
amount ho has deposited In the
treasury for several months past.
The law does not require a fiduci
ary agent of a munlc'pal corporation
to exact Interest for money In his
hands. The policy of tho law Is dis
tinctly ngalnst this practice. Tho
practice, should It become general,
would probably deteriorate Into mnny
abuses of a private nature, and with
teas to tho public treasury In tho long
run.
The Portland Trust company. I am
Informed, allows 2 per cent on tho
dally balauccs of all depositors,
which Includes the treasurer of Mult
nomah county. So far as I am In
formed this Is the only Inslnnco out
side of Jackson counly where the
county treasurer receives Interest on
bank balances publicly.
In stale treasury finances several
stnto treasurers became notorious,
and are said to linvo accumulated
largo fortunes by privately loaning
tho state funds remaining In their
haui)s. This Is ono of tho abuses to
which the practice leads, and tho pol.
Icy of tho law dlMcourages this prac
tice. Thoro HComB at tho first glance no
good reason why a treasurer should
not receive such Intorest. Jlut this
proposition will not stand scrutiny.
If the public money Is. to bo loaned
out at 2 per cent and county war
rants aro outstanding at 6 per cent,
It docs not require much calculation
to seo where tho county would event
ually find lis finances. ..,.
When tho treasurer receives $1600
In tho general fund, not otherwise
appropriated, It Is his duty under tho
law to Issuo a call for outstanding
warrants, and Mr. Cronomlller has
beeu doing this. ' ,
I know of ono county treasurer In
Oregon who habitually calls warrantH
In excesH of his general funds on
hand for redemption, In order to savo
his county Intorest on county orders
Which aro slow in coming to Jiliu for
payment; but this Is a bad practice.
Tor tho reason that ho might find all
his called warrnuts coming In at onco.
Tho treasurer has plenty of utlvls
ors who contend that ho only has to
account for cash received, exclusive
of lnturest. This Is corroct. Hut
thoy go further und claim thut ho is
entitled personally to nil ho can make
nut qr tho Idle money In his hands,
In tho way of Inlorest.
I do not bollovo It Ih a good nor a
safo practlco for any tronsurer, un
less especially authorized by statute,
to Jean any county funds, or to re
ceive any Intorest thoreon,
To Illustrate a form or tho abuse
th)s practlco would load to, J will way
that Mr. Cronoinlljor has boon ap
proached with n proposition to place
all tho county funds In a single bank
Which would pay hliu $100 a month
In addition to bis salary for this fa
vor. As county balances aro ordi
narily qulto largo, It Js oasy to boo
how a bank holding all tho funds,
knowing that thoy would bo reason
ably Inactive, as lo a largo part of
thiiin.' and gelling 8 per cent out of
Ibepi, ('.oulil very wol . nuiko IIiIh
kind or a proposition. Mr. Crouoinll
ler promptly dcclluod this proposl.
tlon,
ojuKuwom)!
Tho counly ruiulii'of Jaokmin coun
ty ate mifldy deposited III leu dflfer
cut bunks' wllhln Jackson county,
K I wero to inakv n tpiggehtlnn
along thin line, It undid he fur h
treasurer to exact u gunrnuleo bond
rroni each bauK In wliloh bo dun led
county fluids, Mnny..county treanur
els do Ibid, The banks tlinnlMolvcH
ordinarily propose H and rurnlHh tho
bonds. H In a gcnci'iil eiudoiu,
Iteiqiectrully submitted,
J II. WI).flOS.
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