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Show !TE ROBBED sypiALS uf Montana City's Fi-s Fi-s Finished by flic Busi-s Busi-s Men's Association. :' SENSATIONAL HEPOKT MADE PUBLIC s Cannot State Amount raclcd, as Receipt , ooks Are Missing. Mont.. March CO. In a highly I report made public tills even-Buttc even-Buttc Business Men's assoela-udit assoela-udit of the city's finances dut-for dut-for ten years Is given. Many leb in the accounts of the vari- Is are reported, some of which Icricnl. but in the expressed tlio auditors. Messrs. Poison; i Co., In some Instances "we d that cash tothls amount was itcre make no attempt' to ccn-i ccn-i up the possible . shortages, i connection therewith that lrt books arc missing, polltax d cash books gone. Drlagefi in the eiunes of ror-Treasurers ror-Treasurers B. E. Claklns and rgcr are comparatively small," nieterni of former Treasurer xxlwlii several discrepancies adlng one for $1700." It Is in lion that the auditors express i (hat cash was abstracted. 'Heriagc of J100 In the accounts of at City Treasurer P. IT. McCarthy, isdjtors slate, was made good by a id of that amount by a former dlerk rjtl'jn. I Goodwin "failed to account rersoiml taxes during the ind 190S, together with short -entries In treasurer's memo-Igxcs memo-Igxcs collected," continues the sceipts Are Missing, tost number of missing rears re-ars to be In the polltax dc-uid dc-uid unlll some check can be e It Is difficult to estimate due the city treasury. Eals are scored for their lax-'matter lax-'matter of the city's finances atl that to meet the $400,000 it 1303, maturing In ten years, ras found set aside by the au-of au-of Butte has exceeded its lo-f lo-f Indebtedness, the statutory ilfh Is 3 per cent of tho as-tmtlon as-tmtlon of city property, by the ?um fixing the Unlit he-tti.jghb he-tti.jghb totBl Indebtedness '' rays the roport, "that the it due for delinquent taxes at JO, 1E10. Is ?100.45G.'27 eollec-Imt eollec-Imt !8 due from improvements the amount to t36.37-i.9ri, 50 Jrtilcli will be lost," accord-hirers" accord-hirers" record of these taxes craftd, altered, transferred, Menl." continues the report, e It almost Impossible to ar-tlsfactory ar-tlsfactory list of tho uncol-Jce uncol-Jce sheet of "general funds" c Is due from city officials 'went the sum of SK.'IU.U SlLoT co,mty afch'fcssors lo re cjchislvu or other items obviously been deducted from fines and diverted to one fflciiils of tho police depart- the auditors, "and tho two a8 due from the city subject to the production nunv missing receipt books." Sc administration of Patrick "WW to 1303 the books of n that no moneys from the ; Poolrooms of which there i'rf from which licenses wore ere turned Into the citv. Tees Abstracted. !r ai!lil,,?nl,rat,on of Way SJ?::1J3; ut of Mulllns imv"U 9rloK P. Ncvin. 1J "fchowed that no tele-s tele-s returns were made to the tK cases where re-crcdUcd re-crcdUcd to the wrong X ,s ,lfs:'bI''y fund and Sjlfun,!. For cx-i cx-i m tus :in,d a'nied inlcr-sale inlcr-sale of the 4 per W on.'.i. J;in,,,ary- iyofl' J of i,? J 1 IIl improvement Zffl fro' insurance torn TX?rur" " years iw,,c,.b' stulntc were rc-U rc-U lit? & V,c c'rcdft f h S. y fUniJ' WCro credited fcMlS "n,iIturcs this fund "fitch r Twro", Uo,ms il'krcri I1 .Vf lllc imagination ncnS'-" he nalurts of 'nub-ISrMi2?i 'nub-ISrMi2?i ltcm for $100,000 ls f&uJ ai- Kncdy. city otlobor 3, i-joo. for the SldSSCiY .Wil5 awro-t awro-t of u. unc;J,l, lo mako goo.l nudltorl i u, (C0,Vnc11- "cconl-fan "cconl-fan ' ; I1",1, failure of .Crl cS1'1'11 'o certUled in "ncmciii of the certified |
