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F«wTf, wn vtnia lt;k.._.ABim . i* 1 CO*9 J •-PW* W?Wlrt| IHIIMrlf •w wirafRwe .pwfnww™# »w w rwnrme•i*.dfckv-Mihs*.-uVn^W*TtCW«Pttf| wMimn■ •*». itLtofP, iMM« few*ii i..i iiVifi.iai n -i. -i 1.1 '.I,„^„iI-..^.i.,^.i.. ,.—.■■■■...mQ i -[ titifccwwns* * *.*. rt ew tt Mrt.Parker 7 r.M.my foftre. No, IBS*6*y well itKrtth,Sett.1£Ift*..nMvtiw»W »«n“i ^ak n wjw*rta«tiGift'anortkIhiCOned»mi*1*iponJ.TIAW,lilt;th8o1®er k Store ,Blt;nlt;t Heat »pi*te km Idof*wvio mrlog*.«!rtlow*,-A 44TUIW,win ±um*txitx leticeln so when 14l Lxin lyjws,wef tor to BailH Jftudu finingAakoU, lead to !vead«at sact «|] Coltoc-**' newTT^,thOUAtR,0to the public e block attack*erom ih*100c, £55 c, £80 c, £70 c,as 5C£18 c, M0 c, 8@e, £76 .c,MO c, 18 c.The gMrtlett tkcftMnent known In the county fa'tt y%its wwi occasioned by * report eft*ulated list Monday, that Cbfci.ftwfk, the Hte IreasutetCounty,, Is defaulter to the amount ofof nutrty 114,000. And tbo a*eit«fteftt ^ doe* not, in the Icmt degree, abate, now j ^ tbot Inter developtraenti have confirmed j wthe rotoor. Mt, Bergk announced to the | ^ board of supervisors at their Intotension that ho won tot then able to re*port and asked ten days time, they allowed hilt fefttp days which ended Monday last. Last Thursday, he left, for Port Dodge, which place he has left, and has not been seen since. Before tearingthe county, bowetets ho made an assign nsefct of the greater part of his property to the county* . .Mr, Bergk *s balance sheet, as made oot | ** by himself showed a cash balance In ^ ftvot of the cooniy of about 16,400; beside* this there was What had been paid in of the fire per cent railroad tat of 1871 of certain townships, amounting to about |7,too j making the total cash on hand $18,600, for which there is not adollar in the treasury. The property as* signed by Mr. Bergk consists mainly of % one-half interest fa the mill at Dakota, his farm, between eighty and nin tty blocks in Dakota City, together with his horses and cattle. The mill and farm are heartly mortgaged and from the the whole assignment, a forced sale could not probably real ire much more than one-thud of the deficit.The bondsmen are Xeim. Snook, Hunt, Dam fry, Retrain, and Hack.—-Most of them are considered responsi ble lor their share of the default. There is no necessity of the county being at all the loser, but no one can help feeling sympt thy for the men who are the* loscrr by their confidence.The question is freely asked, when did this deficit occnr ? Wo think that there is no legal evidence which can remove the responsibility from the present bonds men. The balance reported two years ago was accepted by the board of supervisors at that time, and the men who then became his security, by that act made themselves responsible for the mon *J which he claimed mt in the treasury.Tt must be remembered that this deficit is the showing of Mr. Bergk balance sheet and may be incorrect and far beneath the actual figures. We areglad to state however, that the present treasurer and his deputy do not know of any reason to doubt the general correctness of hi* report.Let those who are too ready to condemn the unfortunate man remember that be has but done what is done by the majority of treasurers, used public money for private purposes hoping to replace it—and that he has only been less fort-uate than the majority of them'It it no occasion for jubilation by those who assisted in defeating Bergk at the last election, bet only of thankfulness.j The county has done him a great injus-j in* in reelecting him for sixteen year* and must now pay the penalty of theirun rise confidence in so long exposing * man to the temptations of the treasurer** office. We only wonder that the unoont of the defciilt is so smaltMr. Bergk was elected for his first few terms as a republican, but was thrown overboard hj the party right years ago and ha* rim* been riected’on a people’s ticket in opposition to the regular republican candidate, until Ms defeat by Dr. w ®ch (republican 1 W feltIftt
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Humboldt Kosmos
Humboldt, Iowa, US
Wed, Jan 28, 1874
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