Show county officers take up duties old officers step down and out making way for new men who were elected at the last election commiss boners fennell manguson and whitmore were present at the meeting of the board on monday morning of 0 this week and these gen tiemen spent pent the entire forenoon in cleaning up old business and in get ting the affairs of the county ready for transfer to the new officials at noon the old board of commissioners adjourned sine die after the bonds of all of the new county officials official shad had been approved practically all of the new officials gave surety bonds for the faithful per armance of their duties the only one to file a personal bond being alonzo ingram the ne v superintendent of schools the treas frers s bond costs in the neighbor hood of 30 a year and this is paid by the county in the old days when the county treasurer treas got one of the banks to furnish h s bond the bank al rayshad ays had the handling of the county money and paid the county no inter est for the large sum that was on deposit during the greater part of the year but no now that the treasurer is bonded in a surety company the county a money is drawing interest and this interest is more than euf suf focient to pay for the pram premium on the bond when the new county commiss 0 on I 1 1 ers met at noon on monday P J I 1 ennell who is the holdover hold over mem her ber was selected as chairman the new board transacted a small amount of routine business and then ad journea until january when the regular monthly meeting will beheld be held batore adjourning the board con firmed the appointment of miss aliss anna coleman as deputy in the office of county clerk pat bonner and W A C bryan as deputy in the office of or county treasurer parkes no other deputies have been appointed the new officials who were in stalled into their offices on monda w were ere pat bonner county clerk T 11 G parkes county treasurer an gus mcdonnell sheriff V E ekloff surveyor john W whitmore and perry B fuller county commission ers era hay ne aton ab sessor william 1 U hoyt county recorder alonzo in gram superintendent of schools J II 11 Ble mcknight knight county attorney re el acted various precinct officers al so qualified by filing their bonda bonds when it came time for gus J lun nod rod to turn over the affairs of the sheriff a office to his suc successor cesor angus mcdonnell mr henriod stated he understood that there wast wag some ques tion as to mr air Mc Bonnell Donnells s citizen ship and that tb tho county attorney at y bad had advised him to retain the koyi of hii his office the following day f continued on last page a county officers take up duties continued from first page i however he turned the keys over to mi mcdonnell DonneIl Mc who since has been looking after the duties of the of f fice ice the point raised by the county it torney was that mr air Ar Mc DonneIl cDonnell a father who is now a resident of col cot orado had never taken out his second papers and consequently the new sheriff was mas not a citizen this ques tion has not yet been settled to the satisfaction of all concerned mr air Al cDonnell states that when he be be came of age he hp was living in colo rado and that be was then informed that his father had been properly naturalized and that ohp tion papers of the father made him the son a citizen he ile has been ex excising his rights as a citizen ever since that time and was very much surprised when the point was raised a short time ago he ile fully believes that hp is a naturalized citizen and also has hia father fathers s word for it but in order to make sure he has seni sent for his fathers papers wh ali ch should be here with n the next few days it if it is feind that the elder mr air mcdon nell has only taken out his first pap ers which bich in the state of colorado is chent to entitle a man to vote the new sheriff will undoubtedly ten der his respiration res agnation and it will then be up to the county commissioners to fill the vacancy |