Show E GRAND JURY REPORT I Political Pointers for Foreign Consumption Con-sumption i I SHORT RATIONS FOR CONVICTS I The City Fathers Accused of Ex trava auce and Stupidity I I LEOPOLD AND HIS BOOK t The County Officers Pulled Her the Coals L SILT LAKE CIT UTAH Dec 14 IS 59 Honorable C S Zane chief Justice aodjuage of Ze he js j the Third judicial district court territory of Utah L Sm The grand Jury for September ofeMTWrddl3triCtCOut has closed term of saM Th dit cur h co F Its labors and submi herewith its final report port pr have a directed by your charge 1 us at the beginning of the term inquired Into the case of every person imprisoned within the district on a criminal charge and not indicted into the condition and management man-agement of the public prisons within the district and Into th willful corrupt misconduct mis-conduct of public ocr therein so far ate a-te and circumstances would permit lielow is a TABULATED STATEMENT showing the result of one department of our labors towit IeSetmentsoumi I United St1 e Si Indictments f01 territorial meos 8 Total number taHcunents tound 5 nber ises of persons Indicted I United States I nbcr of Ins tot in territorial Q 1 Total cumber persons Indicted 1 Tt nmbr pr te United Stateseaseslgnsred 7 Unte Sttee Ior TerrItorIaicasesInored 3 Total number of cases Ignotd Total number witnesses examined 3 Tim examination of public offices was to some extent and of necessity perfonnedbv committees of the grand Jury supervised andcontroled by the jury a a body and confined to t First The clerk office of the Third judicial district court Se nd The United States penitentiary and the United States marshal office te Third The count court which with the probate court cI ni governing body In county affairs Fourth City government of Sate city ce examined the United States peniten tlary the county and city jails and find them all well keptthe food provided at each I of good quality well prepared and plenty of It Clerk Office Third District Cur We have caused 1 be made a careful examination amination of the ant of the den of the Third district cur a far a such accounts counts pertain t the incumbancy of John prn M Zane and Henry G McMillan and find no evidence of mismanagement Ye have made comparison of receipts on account of mae cmpron costs with deposits of money to the credit of t Unite States In United State depo itorv and find that each of them deposited the fun amount for which te he w liable according 1 law and a shown by tho books in that office The Cnlted StatM Marshal and the I enltentlary Wo have made a careful examination a In which the several United toJJie manner whic te sver Unit States marshals have conducted the pent to the time and tenturj from 1SS2 1 te present tme find that the management h been about the same by the several gentlemen who have h charge of that Institution during the period covered by this report cver The penitentiary is in charge of the marsh Te warden He ha from tan t sh waren him of whom twenty guards under hi one wbm acts a deputy warden at compensation oft act t 5 per month and board pr deputy warden from 142 to ISwas George N Dow appointed by Marshal Ireland Ire-land Mr Dow also served for some months under Marshal Djer From October Oc-tober ly to the close of Mr Dyers administration 15 t te co ministration O L Brown and Arthur Pratt were the deputy wardens Mr Joseph Prtt Jos-eph Amos wer te i the deputy under Marshal Parsons The supplies were furnished for the peel tectlary during all this ttme with few exceptions ex-ceptions bi the following named firms Groceries and provisions Hcmington Johnson b C Groceries and provisions Kahn Urns Fresh beef Martin Lannan Fresh beef Cook tGlanfieW Dry goods and clothing Auerbach Bros Dry goods and dothlng L Goldberg Flour George A Lowe Coal Pleasant alley Coal C Hay D C L Oats and bran Sears v Liddle Potatoes aD milk by the deputy warden war-den above named Ien bve nae THE VOCCHEES Upon examining such vouchers as wo have been able t fnd with a view of as ertaining prices paid for supplies et for ertnlngprc the penitentiary wo ascertained that all vouchTS rendered the government for P intern and milk by Deputy Wardens Dow Brow tt Pratt were not according 1 the facts The potatoes were raised upon the penitentiary reservation by prison te pnitntr from cows owned bv labor the milk was frm cws owne the marshal cared for by prison labor and fed principally from food ether raisedupon tha reservation or paid for by the govern ment the deputy wardens presented the vouchers for such supplies In their respective re-spective names but the money went to the marshals These potatoes cst the govern met from sixty t seventy five cents per bushel and the milk from twenty five to forty cents per gallon From 1S t the present time the gee eminent h paid on account of these milk vouchers between two thousand five hundred and three thousand dollars bundr tr this for the use of one and a per lion of the te two cows t supply milk te for the wares table and guards and occasionally a few quarts for the prison It was also made to that hospital appear tht hospit I w mae 1 appr dung the time Mr Brown was deputy warden not half the milk was furnished which the vouchers called for oo We are unable t elate the amount of money the government paid on these so called potato vouchers but are entirely satisfied that it was In cicess of tbcamount paid for mUk There were confined at the penitentIary dame the fiscal year ending May 31 l9 a daily average of 303 510 prisoners which with the twelve guards and the deputv warden and matron mae a totalof 10510 wae persons t b provided for The total ost of this for the year w as about diTJ deducting de-ducting salaries of guards warden and ga wren a matron the expense was about 027351 to expns for the The expense of keeping prisoners r year ending July sS K including pay and board of guards and the wrens salary b Jas was about 4s cents per dav deducting pay pr o guards and warden s salary it was about 35 cents per day We are of the opinion that many of the supple furnished wer ecshe In quantity quan-tity and extravagant in price In March iS9 there w 11100 pounds Iah of fresh meat used at S cents 0s ham and bacon for same month cost Tot 133 1020 In April 159 they h 11 Iff pounds of fresh beef at S cents per pound t S8j5 din May 19 they had 12C13 pounds of fresh meat at S cents per pound FWO In February I0 they had lOtto pounds of flour at KGO to m per hundred tJCO In April per hundred is 000 pounds of for at In May 1 > > 5 O pounds of flour at rlo per hundred pns fo rElCES FOB SCTPLll During these months there was an average aver-age of abut 20 j prisoners and we a are of a a the opinion that the fresh meat hn and r bacon furnished daring this tune was as to quantity about 15 cent In quatty abut per ct excess ofT of-T hat was necessary and 1 price 2 percent too hgh The paid for flour 10 r To price for per cent I higher for than it might have been purchased forIn In June 1SS9 candles cost th government govern-ment to p forty pound box they could have been bought for H 40 per box For many months the bay e r oats and bran purchased on the penitentiary account for the use of the penitentiary auut te pnlttarr team and cows owned by the warden cost the government from fifty 1 sixty dollars per mouth this in addition t the hay reservation raised by prison labor on the penitentiary rmton For years past the marshal h been paid by one grocery firm the sum of 023 per month for delivering their groceries t < vernl the pcnitentlarj and the gentlemen who have furnished meat t the prison have also paid him f30 per mouth for the delivery of that article There is an account kept and car against the government which Is known agt wagon ant this i made up from lao earnings of a team and Wagon owned by the marshal which is kept at the penitentiary I and fed at the ex Pease of the government it I cared for and drken by Prison tabor between the Penitentiary and the city and other places for ct an ote plc tprton of prisoners and other prsner necesiary buic T team 1 In charge of a trusty convict as driver The m shot receives for the use of It to for each trip prisoners to and from the city with one or more T wagon account for one year from June 1 laSS 1 May 31 ls < 9 Itemized show the following as trips at to per trip jlno 12 months delivery of met 630 per month 3 18 mont delivery of groceries fc3 per month pr 3 Total for the year C3 9GO THE PBE EXT MA15IIAL Parson h the same arrangements a his predecessors i resoet 1 compensa lion for hauling groceries and met > per month for the one and 30 per month pr mot one t pr mont for the biter the government feeding i caring for unit proving er driver for the team and paying the marshal to per trip I between the penitentiary and the city forte for-te use of it Duncg August September and tweet three days In October of this j e it mae sixty four trips at t 320 00 cartage of groceries and meat during said months tlfio 00 total flvxOO For fiOO the government can provide Itself It-self with a span vt horses wagon and harness har-ness to perform this service and 100 additional ditional may purchase two rood cows suf fldent to furnish all tho milk necessary for fct 1 a te nesr the penitentiary and It would seem a though it were economy 1 do s tog marshal h twelve much cows about one hundred bogs and two extra ex-tra horses at the penitentiars The deputy warden Mr Amos keeps two horses and a larze number of turkeys and chickens at the same place All these are fe and cared for by prison labor a portion of the food for these animals and fowls is derived from surplus food an I swill from tho prison tables and kitchen the balance is paid for by the marshal and deputy warden From his twelve coxvs the marshal supplies sup-plies milk for the table of tho deputy warden and guards at the expense ot the government and sells from 020 t f0 worth of milk per month to the prisoners or such mk mnt 1 prsner suc of them a have mpney t buy it at the uniform price of twenty five cents per gallon This Industry furnishes a revenue to the marshal of not less than fO per mouth and at the some time has solved a discipline disputed question concerning prison cipline viz ss to whether It is best to furnish healthy penitentiary con t fursh hety pnitnti cn slots with articles of food other it dt atce than the regular prison fare even though it brings profit to the officers in charge I Is but justice t the marshal 1 slate in this connection that when questioned toe in regard t this milk supply ho answered that many of the convicts were mush old men with poor teeth and obliged 1 eat CQAGE or ntACD We find under the management of the several marshals during the pro covered by our investigations 1 That nearly all the vouchers rendered the government by the deputy wardens for potatoes or milk were fraudulent in wool or in part excessive 2 That in the quantity supplies furnished have bn 3 That the prices paid for such supplies have in may instances becnccxtravagant 4Tbt the wagon account is an impo sition upon the government 5 That it Is b policy and worse Judgment Judg-ment 1 permit the marshal or any cm ployees under him 1 keep private property or animals in or about the premises or t permit prisoners to perform nay kind of worker labor for the personal benefit of the marshal C That men serving terms of Imprisonment Imprison-ment for violation of the laws of Congress against polygamy and unlawful cohablta ton have been granted greater liberties and more generous favors than those Imprisoned Impris-oned for other offenses Believing this t be unwise and an unjust discrimination we respectfully suggest that It tx dlscon tinned We are of opinion that tho person who acts as warden of the penitentiary ouch at wren te pltntLy 1 have better rank and pay than a mere guard Ills position is a mostrcspouslbl Il piton mtrpnslble one and calls for a pecuLar order of talent cls oe aD pl orer tent i he is fitted for the position he Is ccr talnly entitled t what is here sufrgestod We believe that such a chance would also conduce 1 the Improvement of prison discipline This ofilcer oucht also to be provided with a horse do light wagon at the expense of the government his duties cl expns citj almost ever y dayand as th penitentiary is four miles distant the use of a conveyance I necessity The Siarshsl Ills Deputies and Compensation We have devoted as much lime teas examination amination of the marshal office proper his books accounts and manner of doIng business a justice our other and current cur-rent business would permit The emolument returns wo did not examine ain but confined our inquiry mainly 1 the matter of charges and fees for the ser sless of criminal rocesses from 1S t the present tr lime Irs that in iS0l2 when actual expense was charged team hire cost 010 per day for a double tem for single horse 01 to fiiO per day a charged dunng this pro for subsistence From ft2 t 5w > this item for loam hire when actual expense was charged Increased In-creased to a high a rate a 15 per day forte for-te and subsistence In some instances the deputies were employ at slated salaries stt s t dute I aries the marshal furnishing his own team and in such cases had a the earnings ot the deputy Other deputies worked on commission getting from 0 to 73 per cent of their earnings in such cases they usually usu-ally owned and used their own teams but a In some instances the teams were owe jointly by the marshal and his deputy jnty find thatfiuring THE AnUIMsTKATIOS OT vn DrEa wherever his dept worked upon commission commis-sion say 0 per cent for Illustration lbs marshal retained 40 per cent of the actual expense for team hire as well as upon other Items of the actual cost that is to say I a deputy charged 4 > for a team and 02 for = subsistence total tlO the marshal retained l a lJor M of that amount notwithstanding both these items were supposed to be actual ex penditnres gp A dispute seeds t have arisen between the marshal office and the first com trolter of It treasury nt respect to thl i class of charges the comptroller holding that 010 per day was an excessive chargi for a team in an actual expense accountam it was thereupon reduced to flO per day It was then represented 1 the comptroller that to was too low and that the deputy marshals would resign rather than apt the reduction Upon that and other rcpre mentations of like purport a compromise price wascstabhshed vI 05 for team and 02 subsistence This r the maximum beyond which no charge for team hire or subsistence would be allowed it being distinctly understood under-stood however that a charges for a toni expense instead of mileage must b epn the actual disbursements s that here a team costs 34 05 or i a the case may 0 a charge In excess of uch amounts were fraudulent and would b disallowed Notwithstanding this it seems that In a large number of cases where actual expense pease was charged it was at THE MrorU RUE of i3 per dUo for the team when In truth It I cost much less than that sum For Instance In-stance Deputy Marshal Armstrong wa working forCO per cent of his earnings he served a subpoena in the case of the Pe sre Taylor in the Second district in N o vember to47 at an expense of f 040 of which was charged a actual expense for tem The deputy owned his own team Mr Dyer had 4U percent of this 540 thais tha-is t say the deputy received 121 whIch represented the actual expense while Mr Di er bad the balance epns There are many othercases of this har actor which might be mae exhibits herein but te foregoing will serve t point out a very common method of doing business in marsbalselllco the marhs office The present marshal also insists that this I a proper way charge actual expense because there are many times when they fail t make service criminal process and In all such they lose money therefore I per day is a proper charge for team no matter what the actual cost may b and a marshal is justified in taking 40 percent commission from his deputy on actual expense charged as It cannot make an pease cr a I cnot mke any difference t the government whether the te gverment te deputy or the marshal gets the money or what the actual cost of the team was so long a the department will allow to i rom our investigations of these mailers we do not believe that the department of jus tire or the accounting officer of the treasury department intend that the marshal shall profit by an actual expense account charged by his deputy This is evidenced bv the fact that thedepartment required thodcpu lies t make oath lhat the items charged for were red actually paid and necessarily incur redIn closing this part of our report we submit sub-mit the following letters as bearing upon the subject WA ni > GTOV LETTERS SALT LAKE CIT Utah Feb 21 ls9 Major Frank Strong general agent department de-partment of Justice Washington D C Mr DEAD SIR JLM > FEIECD In connection connec-tion with my management of the peniten tlary there is just ono thing I Intended t have mentioned t you when I saw you last but it slipped my memory which I this Of course you r aware that m team runs back and forth between SalCLake and the penitentiary every day hauling prisoners and supplies etc to and from the penitentiary The matter which I desire de-sire to speak about Is this Messrs Iteming i = If ton i Jchnson from whom I purchase all my supple for the pen except dry goods pay me f i a month for hauling their supplies sup-plies to the pen If 1 did not haul them pn they would have deliver there but they prefer t pay this amount to have them deUvcreJ Is there any objection to this As you sec bv the vouchers I sent In I have not charged anything since last July for potatoes furnished the pen I havens team do all Blowing out there and au the work around th place but have the government feed them and I will not charge anything for potatoes hereafter except what l may have to buy I raised a pocr lot of potatoes tb fall or rather there were more prisoners last fall than verse ve-rse potatoes to feed and we are now buying but I op this year to h able to raise enough lo do the place lam managing 0J place Just the best I know how economical a possible a If I were doing it for myself and the cost of keeping the prisoners ha been kept down 1 very reasonable figures Last month It was less than 49 cents V > the man per day The expenses of that Institution a higher now than they will be when we are i our new quarters a we a employing at least two or three more guards now than will tr b necessary when i the new quar I Intend 1 ask for a additional appropriation priation 1 build a wrens residence out there and an additional cell building a wall around the prison t get a water right and many other things which a necessary I a getting up a report for this purpose o which I will forward copy to you and one 1 Delegate Cine who h written me on tee subject and he seems t think a appropriation ap-propriation can b h I feel quite a pride In the penitentiary and would Indeed be glad to make it a creditable institution while I am marshal Any suggestions you can make will b kindly received Your respectfully FKAVK H bm United States Marshal DEPARTMENT or JUSTICE 1 Dlt A niiuTov Aug ll IS 1l I FIL city Dyer Utah United States Marshal Salt Lake SmYour letter of the 4t instant I r ceivcdReatlnc 1 the rule of the first comptroller comp-troller by which you r allowed but K per day for biro of teams eve I e-ve taken some pains t find out what yon desired ps know and a Informed that there is little or probabll ity lhat the comptroller will reconsider h decision which applies J believe to other territories as well as to Utah If you i bring before us however a account which shows by its face or by such evl deuce as may accompany Lft that the amount allowed Is I actually less than the real cost or In other words that the o ct wor tt te f perdicmallowod by theaccontlngofficers fails t pay the actual expense involved then we can have something the shape of cold facts t argue on The point seems t be that the per diem allowed is deemed sufficient In a ordinary cases t cover the actual expense and Ice I-ce to be as large or larger than I a I e In other territories Your truly S roed Faux STRONG general agent WASTHGTOV D C July 5 1S 3 Frank IL Dyer United I States Marshal Salt Lake City Utah Sm My attention ha Just been called to an Item in f our account for executing a subTxcna Silver Ref by one of your deputies named James McGarry You charge 32 for traveling 10 miles is a day for your team f subsistence for team and 02 aday for yourself making SM fnr executing one subpoena which could have been executed for the government by sending send-ing the subpoena by mail to Silver Reef t dollar a constable at an expense of less than a I submit therefore that this expense of io2 is extraordinary and unnecessary and r cannot allow It My distinct recollection is that when your accounts were under consideration It was concluded t make u allowance of 010 per day t include pay and subsistence both for yourself and team but you have charged 13 I you are laboring labor-ing under tho Impression that n3 was the per diem agreed upn this letter will remove move it In agreeing 1 the allowance of no per day for our necessary expenses It epe was ofcourse contemplated that service other than mere serving of a subpana was 1 be rendered such a the service of pr cess and the making of arrests in remote and outof theway places The statute certainly was not Intended provide for the payment of such expenses as in the case referred t The payment of a fair and reasonable compensation i intended in-tended but not exorbitant fees or expenses for unnecessary service I suggest that you ore In duty bound to see that each and every service Is performed In the way which will involve the least expense t tbo Lv cry1 respectfully MJ DtTJUAV Comptroller County Affairs CI Al esubmit the following a the result of our investigation of the books and financial affairs of Salt Lake county Our attention his been mainly given to matters dating from Juno 1 ind that beipff the beginning of the fiscal year amour am-our inquiries have embraced a period of about five years subsequent thereto The county cleric placed at our disposal such books and papers as we asked for allowIng allow-Ing Is I a summarized statement of the income In-come from all sources for the five ear referred ferred to fer toREnJ AOCOCTT ISM l172tVJOnu t I02720 Hrtaiesforlt XN3 Ilyunee HT merchants n 1S IUU M llyUqkor 715403 ii safes EoU Rr 1 Ily Sundry items JI MU di 14554 U I < Hy liquor licenses t sos oo By merchants Hceases 227120 IUaemh all so lly taxes for Ini 7150175 lly dednquent tae = 0 S31 lly Oriroon tales llysnndries 110351 WaIW 11 Dr liquor licenses I II TO 0 llr merchants Bcen es 2Bfls Uy Enes an iS Ilgtaxefarl ° 6 71151 11 flysnndrle6 45520 1 se 1011 I Bv Manor rkrncw 1 IIO 01 By merchants Hcen ss GI lly = e for I1 6113 Ilynnes 111105 lly sundries 1I 0372072 1550 ny liquor licenses I 13000 0 By merchants licenses 18130 I By tae lltlll s By real estate 5O St I r ctte By fines 5020 I3ythteee suooo JOy legislative ppipr roa4s1 j IMOm mnr 13 Il This revenue ha been expended In been various ways but the chief beneficiary h ROAD ACCOUNT which has received appropriations a follow For year ending June 1I o M9MM Jane IM StIlt M Jan lN < 4IU3GJ June I IS n IWJim June I IseJ U 18913 O I1I41U43 The records show that there were Te rr tat ter NO BIDS RECEIVED ron Roots WORE In a few cases the county road supervisor super-visor or the county surveyor would approve ap-prove bills presented but these instances a rr The several selectmen rendered numerous numer-ous bills lo the court for services rendered In viewing roads and bridges but the vouchers on which the foregoing largo amounts lave been paid have very seldom the wnttennpproval of any ounty offida who claimed t have personal knowledge that the wcrk charged for was actually te car atuay and properly done borne of the bills give items of material used and labor expended but that does not prove that material w used nor that the work named was actually ns tt ne auay performed We charge that the county court was grossly culpable In Its appropna tons to road account and in support of that charge give copies of some vouchers which it approved and pid On October 1 I S A Gardner of West Jordan writes the county court that he has expnde considerable time In the Interest inter-est ofSalt Lake county on roads etc for which 8trk not received any compensation compensa-tion He asked for 01513 in payment for such services kf was appropriated to him l the same day VOtCHEIl Or WILLIAM X GIUE In Aususta 1For labor and material expanded Big Cottonwood ra ra BOO 0 R r TCRXBOir February I 1551ThIrty nIne days work 05th man and team at SUO 135 > 3 SlayS 1S7Flfty four ansi a ir work with man and lcm IW3 D PROCTOR September I IBsS ForKties 0 Many bills as Indefinite I as toosepiven above have been paidby the county court ViC also find that violation of law E Ilolman was a expensive contractor for roadwork and material while a selectman posE Or ms DILL RENDERED are a follows Jane I lFor tca ntrioer tills st u andlamber labr n r O For age thIrty to days on rd me Jalv 1 ISSFor struurers tics and 0 nails trr 1733 August IsfiFornlesand lumber 3J S3 S September 1BSS For services June t date aftyd rs l 0 FormUeage 0 October I IsSi ror ties ctrlncers W plank SW3J December I loOFor thirty days on road MOD Formileace i i 63 ca December 18S5On mlyroad DCn = TOE ROAD AccorrvT is debited o large appronriatlons t contingent road account which fund i to b expended by some person named i appropriation From October 151I to November 1 1SA these appropriations were placed in the hands of Jesse W Fox 1r then selectman During those twenty five months he s received for disbursement disburse-ment the sum of fl5o At ira Intervals tcrrols ho made reports of expenditures to thecounty court the minutes showing Ihey were duly approved wer apprve Mr Fox a custodian of contingent road = unt seemed 1 usurp the fue r ions of the entire county court approving rn work and paying bills at his pleasure the county court always approving his a Cnt ion We know of no reason why the large lavmentsmadebytlr Fox frets this ao count should not have been passed upon i the entire made cur before payment was actually mae av Following are some COPIES or VOCCTIERS which Mr Fox paid and which the county court aftetvarOt approved In his report of September ls 6 he pays pI F Turnbow as follows tr Station O t 0335 Sugar House ward 71 431 yards excavating at lOe rHU 3 is yards gnnl cement rtSc sm08 ILy work 0705 2211 l yard waffpn ork There were no bids TeN voucher 1 a foilowi 4 tl 03X50 SAT LAKE CIT Dec 191SS5 IZcccIvnd from Jesse W Fox Jr one thousand and thirty nine and fo dollars big amount i full for excavating bridging bridg-ing and mending breaks on the drains i Granger and Brighton precincts t date Signed R F TCRSBOW > OnAugust 4 1553 John Q Cannon seq rOsary of the Jordan and Salt Lake Surplus Sur-plus Canal company on behalf of the officers and stockholders represents to the county court that the canal In question was c commenced t prevent the overflow of the Jordan river t the injury of residents of the county and city He states that the canal Is on assured success though then I a toulh tend aur u unfinished That the company Is fOOO in debt and asks the county court for aid The petition has the following endorsement ment by the county court August 4 IS Filed April 1 1 5 Called up and laid over September 0 1SSO Called up petition having been m < filed Just how the petition w granted we find by inspection of J W Fox jrs report re-port on contingent road account flleJ September Sep-tember 6 l9 6 which says tbr J wh 6 ss March 2 lO pad Jordan and Sat pd LaVeSarpli Canal company 0115 10 ISJfl paid the same company 1400 Jnne 10 rvA paid the same company At the time Mr Fox made these pay met he was n member of the county court which refused 1 make any appr priation but when he made these paymcnU aggregating flW his own authority the court approved it On DccCmbcr G Isrf the county court made a me aADDmOUL ADDmOUL AIMUIRUTIO of L500 1 this canal company conditioned upon Its making a deed to the county and city This Item of 1500 Is the only one r charged the ledger to the Surplus Canal company on December IS ISC this canal company Dmbr 13 ISS ca Cmpy makes deed of Its entire property right of way etc t Salt Lake county and city In th4t deed it Is recited tat the cost of the canal was 19300 and that the county and = i city had each advanced o400 or 1200 jointly Tne only condition of the deed I that tho present owners s keep the canal open and In goodrepalr for the term of leu years from dale of the deed The Inhabitants In-habitants along the line of the canal have the benefit of the waters Sowing through it wlnle the city and county keep i in repair The county clerk Informs us that the county owns no interest in any othcrcanal corr or cocvir COCBT RECORD Session of March 9 Sb3 Present E M Weller F Armstrong S ISennlon selectmen Vhereas It has been made to appear Vnat there Is due and owinc Salt Lake county for work done on the South Joan crnal the sum of 2262330 and MVboreas The South Jordan Canal ccfflpaoy 1 now the recipient said lab r in the use of that portion of sId canal con atructed by said labor therefore belt Raolrtd That the clerk of this court b and ho is hereby authorized and directed t demand of said South Jordan Canal company the said amount of J2G2230 and boltrfnrther RMOlrcd That the clerk o this court b and ho is hereby authorized and directed subscribe for in the of Lake t subb name Sat Lko county and receive 1500 shires of the cap ital stock of said company at 1450 cp share and balance to remain t the credit of Salt Lake county 1 apply as assess meats on said subscription a they maybe come duo from time t te ACOCST Sm IS At this meeting of the county court it was w wasflwoJrcd That we proceed 1 effect a settlement with said company In relation to work done on the canal by the county SErTESIBEB 2tST 15 Selectmen ellcr and Armstrong are appointed I committee t meet trustees of said canal company 1 arrange for settlement cna cpny ang tte ment of claim NOVEMBER 6TI1 Sj3 Cam against South Jordan Canal company com-pany called up discussed and continued NOVEMBER 13m IS1 The claim of Salt Lake county against the South Jordan Canal company a and Selectman Ilolman called ad Setn Holmn appointee a committee t confer with the ocr of said Uemi company nt in relation t a basis of st NOVEXBER20 1SSJ Selectman Ilolman reported that he bail visited C D Haun president of the South Jordan Irrigating company In robs ton t the cam of bait Lake county against said company that a meeting the directors of said company would b heM soon for the purpose of cnva Into In-to mailer and report rtUKCAKTp 1S < 4 E Ilolman was appointed a committee of one t make prcliminar arrangement towards a settlement of the matters of difference between Salt Lake county and the South Jordan Irrigating company MARCH S ISm > 4 E Ilolman committee of one appointed I February 15 Iss4 reported ho had visited the ocr of the South Jordan Irrigating company who called a meeting of the directors Cp ce metnj te rectors of said company at which It was dodo taut they did not owe Salt Lake county anything and Ignored any claim of said county ArBH31551 3 ISo IS-o cleric w authorized 1 open an arceunt with South Jordan Canal company sWcf account and charge It nllbSOO shares of stock now on hand at 01420 per share acd credit ofd amount to appropriation account JCIEI Si4 The clerk ordered t charge South Jordan Canal company and credit appropriation appro-priation account j000 as per report bee County Record D folio X in full settle met of said account of f G ± 30 against sold company py The county received from some source the VM shares of flock alluded to above Aprils IS 4rained at250 after payIng pay-Ing assessments to the amount of 079l73 they sold the stock font I costs and assess mints added However the county clerk told your committee that he did not abso lately know it was rive on account of tie M2 < SiSO which the Canal company was owing the county It would seem that the county court did not Intend to credit the Canal company with those 304 hanson hans-on April 3 Its the time the entry was made became afterwards on June 41 4 they declare that they accept to WO in full settlement Of said account of 2ET135 minst said company Hut I it b true that these MO shares were delivered by the South Jordan Canal company their a run wit tho county would stand as ro Account of their Indebtedness as per report of March V ls43ssr03Us Credit ctn U j JU tJiarcn ot ntoc101 ISIS1234320 I lly Item of June 4 ls4 since pald O1J10 I TotaL ii2Mio Learlnc a loss to the county ticJjveo I terert O tlOjr 3X TBO aoulb Jordan Canal company and South Jordan Irrigating company are the e On August 171 5j EliastA Smith probate bate Judge and Jesse W Fox jr selectman select-man a committee appointed oy thccouuty court filed n report declaring that the cur rpr Utah and bait Lake Canal company ha been paid for excavating exclusive of amount paid 1 engineers the sum of l 919 tomcat Ul The court thereupon asked for set The next reference t this matter Is found in the following order of Fcbruar 3rd lv < > 4 3NTe clerk I instructed 1 notify the Utah 1 Salt Lake Canal C that a settlement settle-ment must be made at an early data of the account duo Salt Lake county We find tXQ further reference t this matter In any of tbo books iThe Itosciaf 33 W J 94 is not o the ledger and Is mentioned men-tioned only 1 the court minutes as shown above It Is of course a total loss th county We copy the following from County court proceedings of Aug IthlSSS The following report wasTWCtved SALT Lien CITT August 14 1 < S5 To the lion The County Court of Salt Lake County Ulah tur GENTLEMEN The undersigned would r spcclf ully report that IUnc with the agreement entered Into with the bondsmen bonds-men of George Crismon late collector Salt Lake County on the 6th day of June lsl5 uappcars on the records of the County Court I have received from said bondsmen f following property towit Cash 2000 w of E M eilcrto W V Jilter and IL Dinwoodey which has since been pd 3000 stock i the Homo Cool company which has been sold 1 cir nhad for which I received the sum of 02320 also a order on O O VThlttemore 1 turn over to Salt Lake county all moneys eel lectcd from the delinquent taxes to George Crmon late collector a per the agree met entered t between said bondsmen and Whltlemorc Tlje said bittcmore has paid mein cash the sum of 1 400 they also gave me a order on N V one 1 turn vera moneys i his possession collected on taxes for the years 1 < 3 1 1S mom sire I aD be has turned over t me the u of fiJJ G making a total In cash of aSoeVSO received from said bondsmen and their agents which amount has been paid Into the county treasury a will appear by the herewith receipt of the treasurer I < o M filed Di would further report that Mr C O Whltcmore has some more money In his hands which be will turn over t me In a short time You will therefore perceive that the tht w teror pre te bondsmen have complied with the agree sent above referred to and hare turned over a property mentioned therein I would farther recommend that you mea me-a canceling of the balance standing 1 the debit of George Crismon collector of Salt Lake concty Respectfully Rpuy Signed ELIAS A SMITH Probate Judge Onmotion of E Homan the foregoing report is accepted and it is hereby ordered hat the sum of F3V3 II standing against t George Crismon assessor and collector of Salt Lake county for the year ird 0 credited his account and cltt hs auntad charged t n list account ce And I I hereby ordered that the sum ot 7CD34 standing against George Crismon assessor and collector for the year 1S7 b credited Ref account to his account and charged t r And It I hereby ordered that the sum of 533371 standing against George Crismon assessor and collector for the year lS b credited lief 1 h aocounUand charged t r And It I hereby ordered that the sum oft of-t 2 2 standing against the account of George Crismon t collector for the year 1S9 be credited M bis account and charged toreBef account And It I hereby ordered that the sum of 0eelSi standing against George Crismon a collector for Salt Lake county for the year IwO b credited to his account and charged relief account And It I hereby ordered that the sum oft of-t SI standing against George Crimes as collector of Salt Lake county for the year ISM h credited t his account and charged t relief account And it I hereby ordered that the mm of U < 2 standing against George Crismon a collector of bait Lake county for tee > te-e Itii b credited 1 his account and charge t relief account ToW r41 And It I ordered that the sum of 0353L2G divided and credited to George Crismon collector for the following years 19 f 4AVOO 11 4UUQ1 1SSS 1 CM wG and said total amount oreered charged t M E Cummings treasurer a per his receipt ceipt of August 10 SinS ol It is further ordered that said bondsmen bd and a hereby released from a liabill ties on th bonds of George Crismon a collector col-lector fo Salt Lake county for the years ISn ISsO lt and 152 On motion of Jesse V Fox Jr it Is order or-der that the sum of fGSL standing against It J Gelding late assessor and collector for Salt Lake county bo charged to relief aunt and credited 1 said It J Goldlng a account said account las been standing against him for several years and a said It J Goldlng Is dead and has BO property t realize the amount fr Minutes were read and approved Signed Elba A Smith probate judg 27 M WEILER E HOLUAN JcsMctt Fox Jr Selectmen this The foregoing entries In brief mean ths thisGeorge Crismon as collector from 17C to I5i2 owed 3IbOU He paid as 1J f35oGM Charged t relief account whIch means a loss t the county of t 2204 04 His bondsmen were E M Wesler S D oung A II Raleigh II Dinwoodey W J DE j v lItter liolivar Roberts L S Hills and It C Chambers Surely these names a good for many times the balance due from OeonmCnsmon t the county and the failure of the county court to enforce the terms of the bond i something beyond the knowledge of this jur grand I e find the defalcation of D Bockholt late county clerks t b fI0So The county ha paid largo sums of MONET rot DETECTIVE WORK Nearly all of It passed through the hands of the sheriff and L Holman a selectman rm Apr 3 Ibsj t October 156 Mr Ilolman received I3M for detective ork How It was expended this jut cannot say as Mr Holmu rendered no vouchers nor written report of such expenditures On F bra 1 1ed the county court authorized the sheriff t employ a regular autore rr dette t b paid out of criminal e pense fund For the years Iss and IbsS this detective was fRo per month since then i per month From this criminal expense fund the sheriff pays various small bills which necessarily nec-essarily attach to tho conduct of his o and which wo ilo not doubt are correctly reported to the court Hut while the county furnish him ur detective he at various times paid money t others for detective de-tective work Some cf tnes < s employed were policemen of bait Lake city who presumably received I their regular sal = aria as such from the city besides a per diem and expenses from the county Most of these detectives seemed to b employed on liijuor cases In pr May and June cases lSv toe 135SO sheriff paid detectives In liquor W edo not know t whom It wa i paid excl ex-cl > ling one Item of fKO t Larne I tot colt borne Hems from report of December 7 l Mi are as follows Elliott at Ifioghas03511 ItacKtol band > ra > c o Trying t catch Cordon 130 Tn Trylne casiona to catch Hall at ngham two o o Catching Magve at lllngham 3U An alluslration of the autocratic manner In which the county court disbursed police funds Is found in the report of the sheriff filed wit the court August O 1SS7 This I report was duly approved by the court and conains the following items On August 3 IVs A M Clayton John Pickctt and cinch Watson each gave a r I rciptto Sheriff Hurt for JIO for services at liinghun attending election In Interest of the People party In the same report re-port A L Hyde and J M llarlow receipt Sheriff liarS for flO each for sri I at ngham on election day Another voucher in the same report I a follows Expenses incurred in sending five men to Uicgham three days to attend election loa and lodging ins 00 KaUroadfare 11 W Incidental expen M li a lO K Jon licKcrr Sheriff Hurt also paid los attorneys fees In Ia Ins > In liquor case although the county was paying its o Tn attorney r UH per year pr Jcr January 4 155 the county court paid 1230 attorneys fees in what was called the andcrcook Habeas Corpus Case They were not only paying their I own attorney 2 000 per year al that timubut the record nowhere show that the county was a party Jy t the suit THE nrDRACLIC CANAL COMPACT The following petition was filed In the county court September Z SALT LAKE CIT Aug 31 1533 Tot cul honorable tho couaty court of Salt Lake Gentlemen The undersigned your petl toner respectfully represent that a number num-ber of citizens including the undersigned are actively engaged In forming a corpora lion under the laws of the territory of ton te tertr Utah t be boo m as the Hydraulic Canal company for the purpose of taking out of cmpany Ito present channel a portion of the waters of th Jordan ncr at or near the dam In said river and near the southern boundar lessor culinary and agricultural purposes That the said company propose t raise the said waters t an elevation of one hundred and fifteen fet more or less above the surfaceof the walcrln the dam and convey the same by means of a canal in north cri d rection at or near Ihn north line of county the West Jordan precinct In bait Lake petitioners therefore pray In b half of said company that the said hydraulic hy-draulic carol bo granted by your honorable body the exclusive right and control of one sixth Interest in the said described dam and also In the waters of the Jordan river The same to b used operated and perpetually controlled for the purposes hereinbefore specified a dry erP petitioners petition-ers in duty bound will over pray Slimed A Gardner George Itomney Joshua Mid Icy Orson F Whitney W S linrton John Nicholson Charles D Iiaun Jee shah Gal Jesse iV Fox Hyrnm Goff E I Richards We copy from the minutes of tho county court session of Sept 22 1515 the date cur of the filing of the foregoing petition Petition of Gardner George Itomney and ten others filed and read asking the county t deed t the Hydraulic canal com panT the right to use a one sixth Interest tv hJ In the Jordan river flowing through Jordan damsad waters ho used through a canal to bo dug by the Hydraahc canal foe cut luary and irrigating purposes I Is ordered by the court that on th incorporation of the said company Salt Lake county deed said one sixth Interest In the waters of the Jordan river and In the dam a askcil for to said Hydraulic canal t sd Hydrnlc cna company About August 1515 the following petition peti-tion was e with the county court SLT LUKE CITT Aug 2 ts To the llonoral the County Court of Salt Lake County GrvnEMtx The undersigned your p Utioncrs respectfully represent that in the year lis w in concoction with others started and put In operation tha forming of corporation under the laws euthe tend tory of Uth t be known a tho HjMram lie canal and petitioned your honorable body to deed to them the onesixth Interest owned by said Salt Lake county in the dam located In the narrows at the point of the mountain at or near the south boon dary line of Salt Lake county and also a one sixth interest In the waters of the Jordan river oran rve That on the 22d day of September A D 1 s your honorable holy made a order granting said petition which will appear app by reference 1 the records of the county of said date That Court sd dt Ta your petitioners barn failed t fully comply with the cons lions of said order that they have never fully organized or incorporated your poll toner would further represent that they have In consultation with a committee of the city council of Salt Lake city agreed t discontinue their project of organizing said Hydraulic Canal company ai a ru your petitioners pray that your honorable body make a deed of the said one sixth interest In said dam and said waters of said Jordan river 1 Salt Lake City corporation and as in dut bound your petitioners will ever pray Signed George Itornncy John R Winder Charles D Haun Jesse U Fox W b linrton A Gardner per Itnebcn Gardner John Nlchol son Joshua Mldgley Orson F Whitney court We again quote from tho records of the AUOCTT 2 1M Petition of George Romney and eight others asking Salt Lake county t transfer the onealxth Interest of the waters of the Jordan river heretofore to wit on September Sep-tember 22 1555 granted to the Hydraulic Canal company t Salt Lake City corporation corpora-tion fle It Is hereby ordered that inconsideration in-consideration of said petitioners being the same persons who petitioned the county court for said onesixth Interest In the waters theJordan river 1 b dee t Ihe Hydraulic Canal company who now p tURn for said onesixth Interest in the waters Jordan riser t ba deeded toSalt l Lake City corporation It I hereby order or-der hat Salt Lake county deed said cue sit Interest In the waters of the Jordan river and In the da t said Salt Lake Ct corporation a naked fa i said pelt Minutes signed ELIAS A Surra Probate Judge FRAXCH ARMSTRONG SAMUEL UEXCIOX LM WEILER Selectmen In this connection the Jury desire to state that after a very thorough Invcstlga tea of this water question and an examInation Ination of a the evidence before as con corning It we do not believe that the crng it tt to county ever bad the slightest shadow of ale a-le titio t any of the waters of tha Jordan Jor-dan river The only legal appropriation or diversion of water from that stream was made by individuals for their sole use and benefit and that was done t such an ex ten that the whole volume of the river tt tt to rer was meet 15 such Individual appropriators appropri-ators long prior t the big of the s called county dm During may years post the county court has made tad probate Judge Superintend eat of County Affairs This Is an office unknown t the law and one which we are advised the county court h no legal power t create The statutes provide that the compensation of the probate judiro shall b N per day and mileage for his attendance at-tendance at sexon of the county court t ao te cunt cur and In probate matters he shall receive a Perdiemof f In each case previously set and the ordinary fees for papers Issued The record shows that the probate judge has not only received such per diem and fees a the law allows but that he w voted addtional money bj the county cur a follows Marcb9iyo titro March 1111 IV a1910 iau ilarch 1 7 fI0I Since the lattcrdato unti October 1 1S > 9 they have voted him annually 02220 amounting In all t WUO every dollar of which was paid I violation of law and In by addition the statute to all compensation alloarcd him From August 1544 t May lM we find that the firm of Taylor Romney S Armstrong strong furnished material t the county valued at 16 During nearly all of this time Francis Armstrong a member of the firm was a selctman and therefore prohibited hibited by law from being a party 1 any business dealings with the county About 12000 of the amount named a for material mate-rial used In building the county infirmary and during the whole of the time in which Infr material was furnished Mr Arm strong was a selectman The records do not show that In building the county Infirmary In-firmary any bids were received either for material or labor Ordinary prisoners confined In the county jail are fed at a expense t the count of L > cents per day each but in the case of convict li Y Hampton who was convicted in the Third District court December 2 ISbj for the crime of conspiracy In jelling up and maintainIng houses of ill fane in this city t b resorted t for the purposes of prostitution and lewdness and t entrap therein the UnltSlt omrad other prominent Gentiles In this territory ibo county court appropriated I per day for his maintenance and support while in the county Jail serving out a sentence of twelvemonths twelve-months offense imprisonment for the above named In the case of convict Frank J Cannon Imprisoned for a assault aa battery upon W I Dickson United Stales attorney the county also paid Cl for his durIng dur-Ing the time of his imprisonment under tenco for that offense SOME SAMPLES Or APFKOrnlATlONS mado by the county court are as follows December lot IS < E W TullU r for lllstory Sat Lake county II ono 0 September t luG A Dar looting after hotness In bait Lake count j MOl November 1st l5d palntlns portrait I of the late Reuben Miller 10 0 Alt at 152 lunch May 1611 l t date for renal coon 57 OJ Aufrastbth tot for dinner Eve poll taffplacea p O March 3 Ivvi for luc for county court to date si tu From ls74 t the close of 1554 the county was continuously in debt and paying In tcrest on borrowed money part of the time at tho rte of 2 per cent pr pr month The rate was gradually reduced until some later lon were obtained for S per cent per annum From 154 t 1sJ the average amount on which the county was paying Interest was fosOOO The Indebtedness then decreased until December 2 > lw when the county paid It last outstanding notes amounting to mo DCKINO THE FIFTEEN TEAKS ending with lw the counly has paid in Interest l22Ok > lM a sum more than twice a great a the original debt and we have tried t ascertain why the county contracted con-tracted this Interest bearing debt and what benefit It received for the money paid I paidUeglnnlng with tob > largo appropria gm npJi C lions were made to canal and ditch account ac-count The amount so appropriated annually an-nually from June 1 153 to Juno I liff was a follows t < 3 sar 3 lil 310 I 351043 lc6 14 r 1 13 E E8 Total ft73i 8 These appropriations with other large sums of money diverted from the road account count were advances made to various cnt av De vaos canal enterprises owned and controlled by private nl Individuals among whom and the chief acton in which were members of the county court including the probate Judge and I t cerk County officers were stockholders and officers In these canal companies As such county officers they misappropriated and diverted the county funds to the building of the canals upon the pretense that It scla a bencUtU tho county They charged upon the county books these large sums of money against the cal companies as advances ad-vances and loans and after a while when the statute of limitations had run against the debt a officers and stockholders of the anal companies backed by the legs opinion of their creature the county attorney at-torney they refused payment The only canal company that ha returned turned to the county any portion of the mone s advanced was the South Jordan Canal company which appears t have repaid paid the sum of I2A 1 0 on an Indebtedness of22S22J On October I 1559 the county treasurer h hand ua H rcportVcosh on hand3l7103 O The assessment roll for ly > 9 is 119339 02 City Aan We have examined the city records and ant 0 far a opportunity would permit per-mit and submit the following pr Balance l treasury December IISTC 5310 I ItMi received SUKO M Tot 022l33l lool dburmU 10 Baac IS receipts 255450 15 Total 02035041 1547 dlsborsensats 2335m so IS dlt 0 Halance During December IVT d bnned tO4G Ol br During December INT received re-ceived 1030 si lisa 2 OlaIaore ac t re WJ ° ions Tot IS dburmtn 120 50 Balance In treasury Janaary I lAX 520S 43 l-AX ITEMIZED STATEMENT showing the sources from which this revenue reve-nue was derived and for what expended Is I hereto attached marked exhibit A Refer enc t that statement will show that after deducting amounts borrowed and amounts paid on all loans bonds et that there clpt for IM exceed disbursements d2365 and in l sf 91i3M liutlnls aflermakingsuch deductions the disbursements exceed the receipts In the sum of 0503170 notwithstanding the t f t te fact that during tat year the income from licenses exceeded that of liyG In the sum of lc ece tt 03rft43 and from city taxes f33122s and water rates 955173 making a total of wtr rlc r6517 ming tt fIIn looking Into the cause of this we find a l portion of it consists of the follow pton ing its towit Parley creek canal Inclosing per ehae of mill p rIlej coon osu forh = lorcbaoeol J canal Amounting t 23X 11 The fact that almost sixty five thousand dollars h been expended on new water supplies In ItS and that the water supply of the city during IsiS was less than durIng dur-Ing any time for years past caused ns to wonder what results bad been accomplished by this unusual outlay of city funds In this Investigation we find the city owned a canal which a supposed t conduct con-duct to the city onesixth of the water of the Jordan river a supi ly which I the title was good was of great value to the city ci ctyor reasons best known to themselves a majority of the city council favored a exchange chl of this water supply with the farm ers One their Interest in Parley k with the understanding that they the city council would guarantee the farmers a mUd wtr fur their use a they were then obtaining from Parley erk the measure of the water In said Parley creek t b taken on a certain day In the spring and then This the council exchange was consummated XADE A DISCOVERT r that 1 Jennings Bishop Smoot and others owned tw mill properties oter owne m prprie on Parley creek with which they claimed certain water rights and In order tbat the city might rivet rive-t water for which n ba traded It became necessary t pay the mill owners about 40000 for their claims This being done the water was measured new canal was dug from Parley con to the city and the aumof UCO thereon ad t sum I13G3351 expended thern then the council made another discovery via that a the water In the canal they had traded off together with a they obtained ob-tained from Parley creek would not In the summer season when it was needed amount to as much as they had guaranteed to the farmers estimated by the measurements measure-ments taken net spring em So u the caaa tO city once oWe whIch conveyed con-veyed onesixth of the water of the River Jordan and fti 3vr cash ttj city i the happy possessor of a dry ditch on East Bench and two mill properties which are hardly worth the powdernecessary t blow h wr te hem np with pcncs Such a transaction by a body of men whoso first duty should b to protect the dty s Interests and promote Its welfare admits t no reasonable explanation = Joe poor judgment misappropriation of city funels rut betrayal of trusts ru-t transaction cannot b surpassed nn less it b by the Purchase ot Hydraulic Canal Rights an account of which appears elsewhere in this report We her desire t state that owing t the fact that the city auditors ledger w not posted t a later data than October ls4 our duties were rendered very duo du-o but through the courtesy of Mr H M Well recorder who was always ready and wlliIniltA render ny away r ed we think the examination h been a thorough a cad be made with the limited time given ns We attach hereto marked tme Exhibit H a statement of the entire cost to June 30 l > j9 of the water supply of the city Including Parleys creek canal and the Hydraulic canal purchases the aggregate amount being s > str797 also costs of sewers Including mains and laterals later-als to October 11S0 020S74 Bi Vo also call your attention to exhibit C showing the amount paid by the city to Taylor Itomney A Armstrong for LIMBER 530 oas from pr 1534 t October lv > 9 showing a total of 31 W210 the prices paid being tt p from 10 to Is per cent in excess of the market price Mayor Armstrong when questioned o this matter said that he had no connection with this firm other than as a partner that he owns about onethird of the entire stock of that company He also states that wk tbt cmpy le aoo tte tat he knows nothing about what prices were charged for lumber whether wholesale or retail that he never ordered lumber from this firm himself but that th beads of the different departments ordered It and that he did not object to their doinp It for the reason that he had no objection t the city dealing with any firm of which h th mayor of the city was a member T matter of city officers dealing directly or Indirectly with themselves seems to be 0 common and favorite practice aad we think cannot b too strongly censured nor prohibited any too soon It Is in open violation vio-lation of law that they be allowed thus to deal with themselves t the exculo of other firms and we believe In a cases without contract t sos the least a very loose manner of conducting business and cannot but result in great wasto of city funds There seems to b no a < where bids to furnish these supplies which amount to many thousands of SEe annually have ben advertised for as they should b If those having char of these matters bad the best Interests of the taxpayers payer at heart In the examination of the department of CIT UARiOAL AND fOLICC wo find very loose methods In conducting the business relating thereto There are two mter t which we wish t call particular par-ticular attention First The supply of h et to to prisoners item For illustration we copy one AP rk lost Il 6psirstegesbees I Pd KtITUS 401 M 17 M beaches > 10 Total n nn 0700 We find Invoices of a similar nature to the abe from Solomon llros I God of to which 1n City Marshal Solomon Is a member in amounts from 15 t 30 per month covering various descriptions of merchandise all apparently without any agreement as to price articles furnished i It I a matter worthy of note tat although Mayor Armstrong and Chief of Police Solomon cam not to have ordered any uppli themselves that the bulk of up plies furnished to the several departments under their management are Invariably obtained from firms of which they are members As before staled this method of city officers dealing with cannot can-not tfno our opinion bo too strongly censured cen-sured Such supplies should furnished by contract by the lowest responsible bid der and no contract should be let until notice for bids had been given s publication publica-tion in at let two of th long papers of the city That TUB rCKCUASE SCITLIES necessary t carry on tie city business should bo managed in a manner wholly foreign for-eign t the rules followed In con tncting private enterprises or public business elsewhere else-where than In Uth is to say the least not calculated t Inspire confidence In tb sin eerily of loose governing a centreline Salt Lake city Second inhibit D constitutes a list of vouchers for Detective Services given from March 1th l > < s to May 30tb l > a period of three years amounting to S3 715M of this amount 3 K3are Ufred Solomon Individual receipts These vouchers as a rule read for Detective ServIces with nothing lo show who performed per-formed the services or what was done We were at first Informed by Major Armstrong Arm-strong and Chief of Police Solomon that they considered It the best plan not to keep a record of any kin 1 as to who performed such work nor of what work was done and that that no record had been kept In this department of the city government That Mr Salomon after consultation with Ibo mayor employed such detectives as bethought be-thought proper That usually the party so employed again employed such person or persons as he wished an 1 who were not known to Mr Solomon In connection with the matter The first employee reported re-ported to Mr Solomon and rave him a receipt for the money he claimed to have expended that upon this voucher Mr Solomon Sol-omon paid out the city funds At the end of the quarter Mr Solomon turned In with bis quarter report his own Individual vouchers for the amount so expended and that the original vouchers were seen by noose but himself and the mayor and that unseen as his quarter report was approved ap-proved the mayor all such original TQCCHEES went IIEJTHOIBU Upon further investigation however we found this state of facts That the principal portion of the fS 1b SO paid out for detective seviees dur ring the threojears covered by exibit D was between the months of February and October this year that in February last the city marshal in connection with the mayor hired party by the name of A Coltrin to spot liquor dealers houses of ill fame and street walkers Coltnn to have 40 lo jo per cent of the fines Imposed in each ease the money lo be paid out of the marshal contingent fund on the marshal personal voucher the voucher of the Sootier never being presented to any one but the marshal and the mayor hereinbefore stated UN I proper to speak here that the police Justice was not made aware of the arrangement he ihd not know that the witnesses upon whose lesti mony he was entering np fines and costs was a part In Interest In having these fines made as sure and as high as possible and we believe him to bo free from any contact con-tact with this pernicious business In the month of April Coltrin refused to continue to run In the bouses of ill fame and their occupanls teeS per cent dividend divi-dend basis for the reason as statedthat it cost a good deal of money to procure the necessary evidence in this class of cases Thereupon the marshal and the mayor held a conference upon Ibo subject and agreed that If llrother Coltnn would continue IB the house of 111 fame business they would pay him TIlE WHOLE AXOtTTT Or flXS4 Imposed in such cases The amounts paid by the city marshal to Coltrin as near as we can ascertain were as follows Februarys 144 fK JlirchR 15S 7S Mare lIIs9 wo MareS IS 159 20 March 23 lyO ii Slareb3115Q fit prHI f9 9 Aprils lu j 10 ApU 10 IM 50 SptiIlOI9 500 APeII50leO 20 prll K IcS Ii 051 1 pico Up to this date Coltrin bad SO per rest of the fines in prosti ution cases but thereafter there-after Including the following dates and payments he had all of ascot fines M y3aii o is Jsse3lW9 5 Jssel5l03 to July a 159 10 Jaly O ivs Joly 9 10 20 J16ylt5ln9s 5 JalySfle9 II Auraat I 10 a Aogtutl 1VO 50 Attirast It l0O 50 Asgnit St 1W0 16 Ase55l33 l551 ISO AngeRS 35 led SI AsOUstSI lSQ 20 AninsOle 1504 a Ascsst3I 100 August 31 IsO 35 September 2 IWO 33 Sentemtoer 3 50 Soplecsluo7 loO I September lZ September 12 1151 September SI 10 21 Ss embsr2tl9 Tel October I LO 10 October II 155 114 October IVIW 33 ItMeme me Total R3 paid to this man Coltnn for this dais of work All these transactions appear to tho Jury to be illegal and demoralizing to public administration and seem closely akin to active partnership with crime on the part of the city marshal and mayor We thInk thIs method 0 conducting the business of this department needs no com menu from this Jury it will appear at once to the minds of those who hear or see this statement that he whose duty It is to guard the public funds with every possible care and U account for their expenditure with a most zealous scrupulousness has by advising and sanctioning such a course thrown wale the gates and torn down even barrier which should rest rain those In whose hands the hard earned taxes of thousands are placed from a wasteful and villainous disbursement of the public funds Vio also submit for your consideration tea following or LIST or VOUCHEES for money paid for meals for regular and special police and detectives June II Solomon Brothers A GoM ton suppers serred at hU for regular and rpecial police t73rn Jury 1 botomon Brothers CoU for Deals J Moore detective Toacneris T 43 Aug Solomon Brothers A Gold meals J Moore So a 320 cirSSoloinon limners A CoM meals for policemen July I 3U July Solonion Brothers CoM meals at ball a dinner and sapper tor poee SQ to Nor Solomon Brothers A Cola meals for J Moore voucher No 106 am l0O April John GaUacher seven meals voucher 2 J 3 July Solomon Brother 1 Coed meals for pottce and specials 3ft too July 31 Solomon Brothers Jt Gold meals for police and special vooeter 130 1000 July 31 Solomon Brothers i Cold re tresbminu Toother I3o 11M July 31 John Gattacher refreshments for poB < voucher 141 = II CO Total TT 1141 os VOCC1IEK4 roll sam lNS Jnlyl S L Brewing company three duo beerTouehertl5533 Ass I ILWaoer two den beer for Julys 330 Avc 11L Wagner onehalt keg beer for Julys 300 OIl 75 Above docs not Include several purchases of beer for Christmas and New Years dinners for prisoners The jury was unable to gain any explanation expla-nation of the above except that IWo ate to treat the boys pretty well We also call jour attention to the follow log copy of two voucher which attracted oar notice GENERAL EXrEXSB TOCCBEK CO 3 December II IN Iteeeipt of Pacific Express company for Ho charges on two boxes of seventy fire books valued at J3CO Marked Hon John T Caine M a Washington Wash-ington D C Signed II O ocxo Agent July 1 1547 F Armstrong mayor debtor to C Iv Savage bill for books 61 Expense voucher No 20 Notation books were for Prince Leopold of Germany Bill Is correct II M iS Why should the city be required to pay express charges on books to JofanT Caine or furnishbooks to the amount of to for Prince Leopold f These payments should have been made by Individuals if mode at all There Is no reason why city funds should bo used for any such purpose THE niDKAULIC CAVIL COMPAM As has been elsewhere pointed out In this point the socalled Hydraulic canal company desiring to obtain control of what they considered a valuable water privilege amounting to onesixth of the waters of the Jordan river represented to the county court in August 1s33 that they were about to construct a canal for certain purposes set out in their petition which appear in full In our reference to county affairs Nothing was ever done so far as we have been able to ascertain In respect re-spect to the construction of that canal ex ccpt to get estimates of the probable cost of the work That being ascertained it was found that to purchase machinery and construct the canal would cot more than the projectors were able to pay and the whole business was abandoned Some of the parties In Interest who had located desert lands alone the line of the proposed pro-posed canal sought out and purchased other water rights to enable them to prove up on the lands so located Others unable to procure or purchase water for such purpose pur-pose abandoned their locations charging up their first payment of twenty five cents per acre to profit and loss This was the condition of affairs in August idthree year after the first petition was filed in the county court b the Hydraulic company when said company com-pany filed their second petition in that court selling forth In substance the fact that they had never onraniied the company com-pany bad abandoned the project and requested re-quested the court to deed the water to Salt Lake city following this comes a report of a com miltee of the city council recommcndinc purchase by inertly of Out oneMi Interest of the Hydraulic company in the Jordan river granted by the county to that coupon and the cost of that purchase is stated to be the sum of WHOU and is submitted in the form of a detailed bill of costs ac eompanyinfr the committee report to the council mode up of items of expense Incurred In-curred bj tIc protectors of the Hydraulic company in entering land purchase of water rights labor material etc etc Said cost bill and lira committees report Is as follows biLT LAKE CITT U T Oct9 1S4 Honorable the Major and City Council or Salt Lake City GENTLEMEN iour special committee appointed for the purpose of negotiating for onesixth of the Jordan river m ad dition to the onesixth to which the city is already entitled through the Jordan and Salt Lake CIty canal respectfully report that we have performed the labor assigned us and herewith submit the cost of the purchase of said onesixth Interest in the Jordan dam and the waters of said river and ask speedy action hereon Very respectfully re-spectfully JAMES femur JOHN CLAkK HOIIVIK KOBERTS Special Committee EXITWE 01IIVTMUDUC CAt IL LArM On west half of nonbeut aad northwest quarter of mlwa w and east bait of Dorthraat quarter Mcltoo 20 in township 3 couth range I wcatX acres 9 00 On south Half of northweot quarter and southwest quarter wcllea 4 and east half of soultrabtt quarter and sooth vest quarter of noutheoM quarter m tIns i ant nut bait of northeast qoar ter and nonhweot quarter of northeast north-east qoarter tettoa 0 aai northwest quarter section 0 latowahlp3M th axes I weat6 aem 21M 23 On north half of unuthwnt quarter aad tooth halt of Mathext quarter section sec-tion 33 townnhlp s south nave t west aad tots 1 aad section i town chip 3 south raatre t west5 and SSlulzere 1751 II On wcttonJH tow whip 3 SOB th range 1 west Sa acm I tat tK On section au lownhlp 3 math range 1 sect6IO acrw 306 00 UabiIIIlessf hydraulIc easel eepaay Oeoslse 51 labsedose snipes pobl foe 5975 fiseelced payssl Os4sbee 145555 Rules S Waue agest Iasd 5350 Attoesey One 1011 e 00 STATmMlHT or EXPEX E OX Kmlh half of asniasot qnartor and south wwt qaarter seetloB 4 aid eaM half of southeast south-east qwt r awl sstbssot qoarter southeast quarter wettan 2 towarWp 3 MMUkraBge 1 west CMficnRi and eaM hail of oorth att quarter nod oorthwet qttan so Bortheaiit qtiarter section f and northwect quarter Mctloa y pan Jan IX To United Stair load ones errtioeate of flIlagI ISO I Bird A Lowe atiorMT fees 10 JWT May II Alma IlattwSrid et aU four twenty etgklto ot isIssoham creek C 500 hay 10 A teasuIsee I Sue llse and race 135544 3see 7 Tailor I6aaep Aeeicoag 50 Isber Ier5se 3 75 me II USItOdSI5e6 Iasdeeecer tSIeaien00olpenal 5505 5nsa 01 lOssOsler aid Bfd A law IOU Gardeec 505 5511gwator salamI 1011 dely 14 Js lae Inillaglosobee for llama I 5 Oct 10 Promo 3loeIdI rIght sO 552 SleSoierblelsod 2001 Oct II lsoeesuShetCafoelceOs 5 J Sn Fan surSe5IiS lae4isg hue of bydrasile maul sad I 9551 1310 G sehes = Gsas 30 cusses ressedlng demOs 75 Alonrese 50 Isp ag pa tout IbesigS at wsaamme 33 U Sla t 30050 liters seed at IIe 7043 Frt0a lasso 10 farm I Ui Sept 12 li wn > f frmMig Burowing ItOOQ UIMKIrtw rtowlsg0lsoeat05L 100 CO 1ild 14 ITIee Dsehlag SO 00 PoM K 1rtce liar I Team hire 08th > frm 20 TctegroatePrln Jt 1312020 EXFEXSC 01 031055555 cstsr Land 00021 Water rlAt 5050 IMsesiag SliUl AttemoTs few sun Laa > berfora > HM at n llvwlng 10 acres at 0Ir nun ImLit siLl or EXPEXSC On dwert entry on section 5 township south ruura I we tbalt Lain erMiailenterrd by 328 Barbs January ISO to atwnwy fees mJdng pap n i 1000 Janaary Ivo to anxparmntoa entry leacn to witMM Me 31W IaMi > r aial week IWUU Iakl tor 4 sfiarer water bosgfet Crane et L TOCO July 1 1 Final paymeat per acre WOO PaMhll taiiB aBdrT expenses 38S5 1iMJLoweiBakUwr Bui papers IOIU a AttoeneOleesatWaeSlMesOn 5150 51310525 RepecUnllysnbmltted W S Scams Feb 14 ToBrstpaTn Bt is Dec SI To l > BOJrtBteBpowlBg tM llafch9 To uaBrliit B wtat wheat 4353 MiySITobiJ nc JW Fox OtTO 50a > Ang4To tUB5wbal 410 is To haellugwh4at 10rn ° ° Aprilli nowtwanas wiB hKrn seed udassesomeat JslyOLlaceforwaterollieS SopS 19 Irrigating aadtBresateg la llaeliag wheat W J a Cutler water rIght Nor 7 Page waterui 75150 1555 Feby II J C Cutler teal proof 11 50 Men i J C Cutler liniloacc July 7 Lucern teed 250 Paeo for putting in lucen 250M Oll 50 t 15511 Aug22 nyl33 bU5hels wheatJ PO 1 7 c Aug 23 Bj in basiels wheat 133 0 U I 331 r Foronequarter r3 For section III IIZIIIIIIIIIIII 3485 a Hydraulic Canal company To Jesse W Foi jr Dr 15 < Jan 9 To one day tthmaodthreis hands and team I IS 73 10 To one day at dam and three hal1d8 and teuD IS It Tooneclayon1ocatlellorcanal and fOllr hnd8 and teuD 183 tS To ODe day on 1ooaUOll or canal and foar hands and tm IS 5 13 To olle day per oeIf on land clolm SOn SO-n To olle day for throe hmd8 and 15i 21 To one c1ay for throe hands and 100 = 15i Da Toonedayforthroeband5and Dan IS IG 31 Tococ do at Gadoer fgg gi3 = Feb 7 To ooe doi ot Godoer 200 10 To 00 day at Gardnerm m 10011 11 To one day Dt Canlner JO 0 12 To one day and throe band5 000000 1foe IS Q I Mch 10 To ODe c1ay and throe hmd8 DOdte3O IS II To one day and foar handO and 2000 IS 22 To one thy and are hmd8 and te = n 13 Toone day and Ire hmd8 and n Q 00020 Ii To one day and live boDdo and teaII1 0 Maya To one day and Dor00000 and 00020 18 To Toooe day aod 0orhoods od teall1 IS 5 ioooaeofornhod byGood er 1 0 S Total t 3U Z J W For for enDtheDiflC at head for lame aDd ater l fO Total S 3W25 The longoine a correct copy Witness my hand as recorder of Salt Lake etty and the corporate cor-porate seal tola ISthdaror NorembiT AD 1SS SEAL UIIIEB M WELLS CIty Recorder The city paid this sum of i9fSff fby city treasurer chock on Deseret Nation iefiu I bank to the order of Kulon S Wells who had theretofore been appointed by the Hydraulic company as their agent to receive re-ceive the money from the city The deed received by the city is not from 1 the Hydraulic company it had absolute nothing to selL The county made the dee to the city and those connected with the canal company had the money the count pets nothing and in our view of the mat ncr was not entitled to anything for treason t-reason that it had nothing to convey This 9 079 91 was as clear a stool ai was ever perpetrated upon ary public and tho Iranaction though apo pearfaK upon its face as in torn respects fair and that the money was paid to men who had a rightful claim to it the facts as presented to us warrant the statement state-ment we now make vie that the bulk of that fund found its way into the pockets of city and county o21cials and the Mormon church and that the vhole scheme wa devised and carried through by these men with the deliberate purpose of robbing the city It remains to be seen whether such purpose will ulumateli prevail It will IW be seen by this report that the mayor and city council of Salt Lake city have for some years past entered Into C I numerous contracts with a trading firm of which tho mayor was and now is a member c mem-ber This firm has supplied the city with large quantities of lumber and material used upon the public works These contracts r con-tracts involve as has been shown the paj xnent by the city of large sums of money for such lumber and material at extrav r pant prices They were made without ad d vertismp for bids or taking an other precaution pre-caution for the protection of the public interests in-terests TALrABLE rBANCHIsES have also been granted by the city to the mayor and others associated with him in violation of the plainest principles of pub i li = iih rl tic policy To permit the mayor or any member of the city council to enter into contracts with the city whereby he or they may reap a profit is not only contrary to the public interests but ought not to be permitted and is not tolerated elsewhere in this land outside of Utah It exposes public servants to temptations which always al-ways lead to gross abuses and there are excellent reasons for the belief thai the present mayor of Salt Lake city is not ex crept from the frailties that beset ordinary humanity in this respect Theo dealings by city and count officials with themselves them-selves are pointed illustrations of the wisdom wis-dom of the rule recognized and enforced wherever a well regulate system of Jans prudence prevails viz that he who is entrusted en-trusted with the business of others cannot be permitted to make such business an object ob-ject of pecuniary profit to himself ncsjioufully submitted by the grand Jurj Joa T LTNCH Foreman J F JACK Clerk |