The clerk’s office seems to have been run…

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serving papers at a distance which were really served in the court house. It was for this, and also for his failure to turn the moneys over to the territorial audi- tor monthly that he was indicted. Upon these particular cases we will refrain from comment at the present. The clerk’s office seems to have been run in the most reckless manner. Nothing seems to be right, and everything wrong. The commis- missioners were called before the grand jury, but were apparently unable to explain any- thing and owing to the absence of the clerk, the odium of all the disgusting details shown in the report naturally falls on his shoulders. He has now returned and it is to be hoped will in some manner be able to explain the condition in which his office was found. The report of the committee was far from complete, and yet it unearthed the startling information that the amount of bonds issued is many thousands 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.