| Show LINCOLN COUNTY I REELS REEL UNDER DEBT It Owes f fOr i a Court WinCh Which Cost About OFF OFFICIALS ARE AE INDICTED 1 I TROUBLES OF PEOPLE OF THE C COMMUNITY Lincoln county Nov the largest county count In area in the United States J is staggering under a debt of for u a acourt court COUlt house bunt built In This edi edifice e It lit is cald could be e no for fot fors s alt at the outside A 4 recent wave of If reform whIch swept over ovel the county resulted in the Indict Indictment indictment ment of 0 a former COlmer county trea treasurer lUrer for nt and or of one of o his 1115 deputies th ties for Calcifying time the records The They wU will be tried at t the January term of court at Phoebe the ent Yo v H Henry nry n it Salt Luke Lake eXP t accountant lies just returned from where he pent six weeks 0 ec the b books of ef the county which he found In fearful Among other things his hll caused the Indictment or of the two nu maca n lie He Ol led a nw set et of for fol the county anti and the have determined that things elicit be con conducted ducted on a business basIc hereafter Fired the County Treasurer H G C Goodrich wimp h has haa been In indicted took office last January said aid Mr 11 Moore lust last night Along about August Uw the County be became became came satisfied d that he was short In his accounts They removed him and put his son in Later I was sent for tor anti and found that Mr was ia 1543 short in his accounts 8 as county count troas treas treasurer and that he had tailed to account for about 2 20 O fees which h he h bad d col coll collected l as county clerk He held both Mr rl Goodli hs defense is hi that he get et the money but that It was taken b lila his deputy whose name is So Sawyer er and who Is Ii also aliO under Indict Indictment ment mentI I Investigated the books of the county for ton yours back and found that Mr lr cossor JA 3 A Nesbitt was short 1788 The da r made my report IlC came in inand anti and paid vald the county th lie He said n a deputy had falsified his books and that when he went mt out of office h lie I had turned over OVal all the funds which I the tha books was due front from him 1 think he told the tho truth ITo IIo was not in indicted indicted Relic of doom Days which is ii the old man of the tho sea soo to t th taxpayers of Lincoln county count is a relIc of the boom oom days dRYs of the tho Os when had a population ot of several thousand people and when the whole county count was on th bo boom ln The Tue Raymond to Ely Elv mine at which produced and the thA Meadow VaHe Valley were at time the flood tide of Its prosperity then Although Mr Moore sa sara 1 it would oat coat phout to build and furnish the courthouse the of whom are no dead dood or lul have left the In iii bonds for that bonds been drawing interest at t 10 poi per cent Per an annum annun nun num ever since The Bond com coni company puny pany of San eo owns most of them aSo ao th company obtained It a jud judgment ment agaInst the county for fort the amount of the pl and Int interest reft or of th the bond bolf amid that judg judgment meat ment it has baa kept renewed and itt In f fee ree county Is Growing Again Lincoln county count despite its immense areas area had dwindled to a point where It had only in 1890 In 1901 1900 It had crawled rawle back to tn Time The latter year had 54 population Mr rr Moore says a s that when he went to Pioche six weeks ago It had apparently about people but d ru the tho time he was there lie he says about as ninny more people came In and the I Is growing rapidly It looks as though the on days of the al are coming back ln I The TitO S Sill 11 Pedro Los A I a Salt Lake road has been built through the county for a dIstance of bout about miles and the Immediata r result of oC Its building was practically to the assessed valuation of the fhe Increase be ng represented of course coursel 1 l the railroad property Tile The rate of taxation has not been Increased d 1 Will Pay the JUdgment I Mr Ir Moore sa says s It is apparently the intention o the present plesent officials of Lincoln CoUnty counti to do something towa toward 11 paying oft off the bl bi debt or I at l least st to a stArt toward pa payIng inG I i it off Some interest was paid aid a few I I years ao ago At 1 the request ot of the Mm coin I Mi 1 Moore out the I amount now flOw due and as sta d ho he placed it at approximately I IA A sur iste ba b buIlt b by the Salt Lake t I trOAd rOAd from fromn Cali Caliente into Pioche n a die dial I tance of 30 3 inline and the Los Y Vegas 8 I cutoff will also run through r the county for tor a considerable distance I |
