| Show Commissioner and County Clerk Stir Up the V County Board Oscar Madson the new member of the board of county commissioners and The Mattson county clerk by moans of sundry communications told by ether methods yesterday managed 11 make things rather disagreeable at the meat Ing of the board of county commission V era The friction developed over the insiSt Of the county clerk V and Commis abner Madson that certain bills be izod and that tIme county attorney fla asked to nasa or the of certain otherS Madson that action on seine of them be deferred for a week to give him time to investigate whether the payment of county money was legal for the and In the manner Pro 4 posed rhe session instead of being held V In the regular board room was started In the private office of Chairman Stan 1 ford at the court house and there were V some rather interesting proceedings be before fore the newspaper men discovered that S the session was supposed to be other than an executive session The reason however for commencing the 51 this place was that Judge Howell might I have the commissioners room for it court courtroom V room County Auditor Matson sent to 7 the board a communication his reasons for refusing o audit a bill for fOt presented b Robert B Wilson for services as fruit tree inspector Mr Mattson taker the position that the ices of a fruit tree Inspector are not at this season unless the kills are so itemized as to shoe clearly amount per performed formed he will not them A pre bill wherein the auditor refused to audIt because it was in part for lees in drafting a horticultural law and endeavoring to have the was allowed notwithstanding the of the auditor and the adverse vote of CommissIoner Madson The former bill was for 51 and the one yesterday was for 60 The county asked for his opinion replied In effect thet f the services were performed the had a right to pay the claim requiring time further itemization of the The teas therefore one Of fact and not of law and attorney had nothing to say about the matter The bill was laid over for another week A bill for 2 from Stanford chair man df the board for committee work traveling expenses etc was laid ever for another week V request of Corn missioner Madson who proposes to see whether a commissioner can draw that amount per month In addition to lax salary Mr Matison stuck another pup In the form of the following corn V I V understand that MP Petterson county superintendent of schools is still under the of the hoard of edu education cation of Ogden City As ne is drawing salary from the county as County school superintendent I would suggest that we get an opinion train the county attorney as to whether Vor not he hould devote his entire services to This matter was referred to Mr Mad to confer with the county attorney and report after the other members of the board had stated that this was the first intimation that they had Of the matter matter that caused consider surprise was brought out when Mr Watts who conducts a barber shop on appeared before the board and stated that on Saturday last one of the inmates of the pest house had broken away come to his shop whore he demanded a and when he was refused proceeded to break up some or orthe the fixtures of the place Mr Watts stated that the sanitary inspector had advised him that the man in question was one of the inmates pf the nest house and he that tile cOUnty pay the expense of repairing the damage done In reply to a question as to whether the V man V was in a delirious condition Mr stated that he appeared to b bUnder Under the influence of liquor The mat matter ter was referred to Chairman Stanford for investigation and report A petition was received from a mini her of citizens of the Roy school dis district praying for the segregation of district from the present school district The petition Was referred to the chair chairman man of the and Superintendent Petterson V |
