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Show TAXPAYERS, MAKE A NOTE OF IT. Off icials Who Draw Their Salaries, and Who Have Cheap Assistants Assist-ants to Io the Work. There is a glaring piece of injustice being daily perpetrated upon the taxpayers taxpay-ers of this city and county at the City Hall, and it should be remedied at once. I. M. Waddell, the county attorney, receives re-ceives a salary of $1,500 per annum, and F. S. Richards, as city attorney, gets $2,500 ; out of this gross amount of $4,000 they pay an assistant $1,200 the former 40, the latter GO per cent. the two worthies wor-thies pocketing the remainder clear and doing next to, if not absolutely nothing. If they cannot attend to the business themselves, as the people had a right to expect when they were elected to their respective positions, they should at least be compelled to employ first-class assistance assist-ance in the prosecution of the great number num-ber of cases continually arising. It is well known that people in possession of facts that would lead to conviction of guilty parties have refrained re-frained from proceeding because of their unwillingness to undergo the loss of time, if not of money, in fruitless prosecutions; prose-cutions; this would be otherwise with recognized ability, and this can only be commanded by a liberal salary. It is a matter requiring attention on the part of our local officers, and tke sooner the better. |