Show AFFAIRS OF THE COUNTY Salaries of Officers Fixed For the I Ensuing Year I THEY MADE NO CHANGES TEE OLD SCHEDTJIE IS ALLOWED T STAND All of the Selectmen Together With County Attorney Whltteinore Are Candidates For Reelection So the Task Was n Delicate Oe Miscellaneous Business Transacted Trans-acted The county commissioners had a difficult dif-ficult task to perform yesterday The new county organization act provides that the hoard must fix the salaries of county officials fm their respsctive terms at least three months prior to the general election each year Yesterday I was the last meeting at which the board could take action in the matter under the law although County Attorney Attor-ney Whlttemore thought the statute on that point was not mandatory The fact of course that the commissioners commis-sioners are all three candidates for reelection re-election made the work all the more delicate On the one side was arrayed the taxpayer and on the other prospective I prospec-tive county officials whose influence tve ofcal whoe ulu any member of the board would like to I have Placed thus they probably did the best thing they could under the I circumstances by establishing the schedule for th ensuing two years as I it is at present Roberts made the first move in the I matter by proposing that the schedule be arranged a at present It met I with no second Geddes only shaking his head while a broad hesitating smile flitted across the countenance of the member from Farmers ward as he intimated inti-mated that he wanted some time in which to study the matter Mr Geddes then offered the following schedule Clerk 2200 per year Sheriff Sher-iff 2750 commissioners 1400 auditor audi-tor 1700 surveyor 1200 superintendent I superintend-ent of schools 1450 recorder J1900 I Chris still shook his head Finally he got out his pencil and prepared i schedule I sched-ule the only change from Mr Geddes being in reducing the commissioners to 1350 and the superintendent of schools I to 1400 per year Then followed a pause In the proceedings pro-ceedings during which soma of the ccunty officials Including Mr Whltte more got a chance to impress upon the members of the board the absolute necessity ne-cessity of maintaining the salaries as at present Their present compensation was barely enough to buy shoes for baby to say nothing of the responsibility responsi-bility attached to the various offices Roberts came forward with a compromise com-promise schedule out it did not meet with favor and after some skirmishing around and many whispered consMlta tons Roberts urged his original schedule sched-ule and it carried unanimously Gfddcs in voting said For the sake of harmony har-mony Ill vote aye brie said he wante everything to go ahead peaceably peace-ably and so would vote in the affirmative affirma-tive while Roberts whose name was called last said the proposition had already al-ready carried and his vote would only have the effect of making i unanimous unani-mous The schedule adopted for the year 1S9798 Is as follows Sheriff 3000 Clerk 2400 I Recorder 2000 Auditor 1800 Superintendent t of scnooia 1600 Commissioners 3fOO Surveyor 1200 Among the claims allowed was one of 28 for revistnsr certain records There is an interesting story n connection with this that will Illustrate the manner man-ner in which Charlie Stanton has been conducting his office Mr Stanton appeared ap-peared before the board at a recent meeting and asked that S250 be appropriated appro-priated for the purpose of doing the very same work that Auditor Fisher dId with two men in three and a half days at 4 per clay Tn former years appropriations amounting to hundreds of dollars have been made for such work just in the same manner as Charlie Char-lie wasted It done this year and now the Question is where has the money gone to Mr Stanton appeared before the meeting meet-ing and asked that he be permitted to employ an extra clerk at a salary not to exceed 40 per month from September Septem-ber 1 and this a granted County Collector Spencer was also authorized to engage threa extra clerics to assist him during the busy season The claim of 250 for constructing the Thiede scaffold was temporarily rejected I I re-jected The majority of the members of the bar considered the amount exorbitant ex-orbitant and a the different items were not itemized as they should be the claim was laid over for another week A resolution introduced tV Roberts was passed fixing the precincts for the election of constables and justices of the peace the same a > at present This does away with the belief that uncer the new law the county would have I eightyseven justices and constables The declination of John Eruntcn to serve a registration agnt of precinct I No 81 was accepted and John Butler I appointed to fill the vacancy The contract and bpnd with WilJard I Stewart for the construction of abridge j I a-bridge across Jordan river at Crescent I were approved The contract calls for i the completion of the bridge not later than October 10 The board then took an adjournrment I until tomorrow morning at 9 oclock when the election booth question will be considered No word has yet been I j received from the Buffalo Steel House i company as to whether the contract for 250 booths awarded at the last meeting has been accepted I |