But we cannot enter into the details of the…
source date: 1890
availability: public-domain

s of dollars in excess of warrants issued, although some of the warrants were bonded as many as three times, and any number of others were raised from only a few dollars to several hun- dred. It is a bad showing and apparently cannot be explained without criminating someone. But we cannot enter into the details of the report. It shows for itself. It shows that the county is on the verge of bankruptcy. It shows that money raised as a sinking fund has been converted into “special cash” and squandered. Three years ago the sinking fund amounted to $23,583.82, which with the accumulating sink- ing fund has since been “sunk” so deeply that the people will probably never see it again. Immediate action must be taken, civil suits brought for recovery of this money, and the guilty parties punished. EDITOR’S NOTE: Leonard & Sheridan were publishers of the Enterprise at the time of the grand jury investigation and writing of the above editorial. CONSISTENCY THOU ART A JEWEL To the Editors of the Enterprise :