Show t NELS FORSBERG f I IS fROZEN OUT Auditor Au Can Find No Legal Way to Pay Him for Straight Straightening Straightening Straightening ening Pauper Accounts H COUNTY AFFAIRS TANGLED COMMISSIONERS RUN AFFAIRS ON COMIC OPERA BASIS Frank Hank J county auditor turned down Nets Forsberg rg yr i r lay l 1 hn the latter wanted to draw compensation 1 for work performed at the request reque t a of Of the county count commissioners n p r i am m did this thiB t following an opinion which i he e asked from Job P Lyon county count attori i to the effect that there was no legal i r T w in which Forsberg could be he paid Fo r was waa engaged In December to straighten out the accounts and books of oft I t f 1 pauper fund which were far behind as ast t the r result of the multiplicity of duties of Lundberg the pauper clerk lie He f AnIOn Anton com has Jas performed his his work wo well the com commissioners comI I missioners say eay 9 but there seems no way Is y Ii which he can collect the due him himi t i Though Forsberg was waa as turned down Lundberg has b been Illegally drawing i f month mon th for some so time back bark a Th The Incident Is a part of the tangle Into i winch which the county affairs seem to have drifted The commissioners excuse the 11 il ilI j i I legal Ital al payment of of a a pauper Cl clerk erk by saying 1 that It H has s been l en done for ten or fifteen that ands J 5 ears and that they were following cus tom tomI i 1 I 1 James 3 Sabine took hold of the pauper work yesterday He Is to have the post 1 t fon on held by b Lundberg but will be com comI I to work without salary salar until the legislature 1 legalizes the appointment and provides for such an office with com compensation pen tation A bill will be presented to do this at once Aa matters stand now the machinery of th the law can n be put In motion against the tho I Int aunty nt commissioners who have held of office flee fice ever eer since a these Illegal payments be ber I ear r 11 r and he they can n be held h ld personally lia liable bit ble Suit may ma be brought against every lofter since the position of pauper 1 clerk derk was wea thus illegally created and he or they the may be compelled to repay the money to the county treasurer The county attorney has been asked to straighten out the justices of the peace and ami compel each of them to make proper reports ports Willard Villard Hanson gave no atten attention attention tion lion whatever to this Tle Justices have hae reported or Of not as they saw fit and some of them have never seen fit Parley P Pi j Christensen compelled complete returns i from every ery Justice In the county count up to the time of his retirement from the office With s a few exceptions they tiny stopped i there Not Sot one report has been received of or the lines fines In Bingham Junction for In Instance Int stance Manes and for two U years year there have been t no ToO r receipts from fines In the Bingham court Ourt Parley P Christensen also made mule reports himself Bach Fach month the county count commis commissioners commissioners received r ed a statement of the bust busi business ness flees of the th county attorneys office offie i These TheW reports also stopped with the re retirement retirement retirement of Parley P None were made by b his liis predecessor proNCe Or for tor any month and none were ere made at the tM close el ef of Hansons term i of or office There The is fe nothing on record to show that Hanson was ever county attorney attorney ney ne beyond his oath of ot office and his sig signature signature signature nature to warrants on which he has drown drawn his hi salary An al round and thorough houseclean housecleanIng Ins Ing In is I due in th county administrative I Offices |